Saturday, 4 July 2020

The Ice Is Right

"Yo, how did he go out?
HE WENT OUT LIKE A BITCH!
So ladies, we just ain't talkin' 'bout you
'Cause some of y'all n*ggas is bitches 2"

Ice-T - Bitches 2
(From O.G. Original Gangster album/VHS tape; 1991)


All factoid, zero tabloid: there has never been a better example of "you made it a hot line, I made it a hot song" than Ice-T's Bitches 2. A random Bushwill Bill lyric from Size Ain't Shit expanded into a full fledged life lesson consisting of 4 different flesh & bone examples of 4 different full steezy fellas. People sleep on Ice-T's songwriting but that man was penning Rap gospel between 1986 and 1991.
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16 comments:

  1. hotbox4 July 2020 at 15:29

    but this has 4 verses not 3! This dropped towards the end of the 4-verse era

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  2. Kelvin Mack10zie4 July 2020 at 16:15

    **Cam'Ron Voice** You right, you right.

    Edited it.

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  3. Yohan4 July 2020 at 16:43

    Ice-T is a top 3 west coast rapper and I will not hear any arguments to the contrary.

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  4. GGGGGG4 July 2020 at 18:20

    Classic.

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  5. hotbox5 July 2020 at 12:31

    Yohan: no argument from me

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  6. Kelvin Mack10zie5 July 2020 at 12:44

    Me either.

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  7. Anonymous6 July 2020 at 00:56

    Who are the other two? Cube & Snoop? Quik is just outside IMO

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  8. Kelvin Mack10zie6 July 2020 at 08:55

    Cube and Mac Dre.

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  9. Yohan6 July 2020 at 11:13

    ^ My exact thoughts.

    For me, in order, it's Cube, T, then Mac Dre.

    I think the discussion outside of these three is more interesting. You have Snoop, 40, Suga Free, Too $hort, Jacka, and Quick. Can't categorize these as neat as the top 3, imo.

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  10. Kelvin Mack10zie6 July 2020 at 11:43

    There's also the thorny issue of 2Pac. I don't think of him as a west coast rapper meself, although I'm not quite sure which region he belongs to.

    When Biz said "I'm from everywhere!" he coulda been talking about 2Pac.

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  11. Yohan6 July 2020 at 14:32

    Didn't mention him on purpose, partly because his lineage is all over the map, but also because he might be the only rapper whose fans genuinely ruined him for me, the same way Kendrick's fans currently push my buttons. There's 5-10 songs of his I really like though.

    But hey, some of my favourite rappers claim him as their no. 1 influence, so I'm not too mad.

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  12. D6 July 2020 at 15:51

    It's not even like he's a transplant like kurupt or xzibit, he's switched turfs mid career! Declan rice shit

    Fav case of this is waka flocka flames brother never losing his heavy noo yawk accent

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  13. Kelvin Mack10zie6 July 2020 at 16:07

    Declan Rice 😂

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  14. Anonymous7 July 2020 at 22:19

    Happy to report that A Wax has finally gotten off of ATL’s jock on his new album

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  15. Kelvin Mack10zie7 July 2020 at 22:27

    Really? The couple of recent singles I've heard have been ZZZZZ.

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  16. landettillstan24 July 2020 at 14:12

    For me it's The Jacka first, and then
    E-40, 2pac, Ice-T, Mac Dre... tied!


    Short, Cube, Snoop right under...

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