DX News Bits: Lupe Fiasco, Ice-T

    In a recent interview with NBC San Diego, Lupe Fiasco revealed that we will be taking his “Steppin Laser Tour” overseas.

    “It actually started in Australia,” said Lupe of the tour. “The US was the second leg, so there’s like a third and fourth and fifth leg…to complete the world tour.”

    Lupe expressed hopes that his upcoming album, Lasers, would be out soon, though he wasn’t sure when it would be released. He did say, however, that he turned the album in months ago.

    Below is a video of the brief interview:

    In honor of his apperance in the documentary Pimps Up, Ho’s Down, NPR.org invited Ice-T to play a quiz game called “Pimps Up, Pantyhose Down,” which tested the rapper’s knowledge regarding differend kinds of pantyhose.

    But prior to the quiz, during which Ice-T was able to answer two of three pantyhose-related questions, the rap veteran detailed the days when he was just starting out.

    “Well, you know, I mean we started hardcore Hip Hop back – you know, I started rapping in 1982. You know, it scared the hell out of America,” said the rapper of his influential music. “I mean, we went on to do a lot of different other things that really shook up America. I mean I was – how many people in your audience will ever have the honor of having the president of the United States say their name in anger?”

    Ice-T also spoke on his early days of crime. “You know, I was out on the streets doing everything. I mean, I robbed banks. I did all kinds of things. And, you know, the music business, the rap music business was just starting. And I would go to clubs and yet, after I would go out and do whatever I was doing. I would go in the clubs and I would rhyme just to get attention. And I started to kind of mix in some of the facts of the life that I was living with the music and we created a genre which they called gangster rap.”

    Other topics broached in the interview included his role on Law and Order, as well as Vanilla Ice, whom Ice-T described as “actually a really cool dude.”

    12 thoughts on “DX News Bits: Lupe Fiasco, Ice-T

    1. LUPE IS NICE BUT ICE FUCK THAT NIGGA HE GARB NO ONE CARES BOUT THAT NIGGA FOR REAL! FOR LUPE CAM OR WEEZY CAN HURT EM. BUT I STILL FEEL DA NIGGA HE AINT NONTHIN SPECIAL THOUGH..

    2. ice-t needs to stop lying u old ass nigga,u’ve invented something similar to rap but it’s not a rap even if it’s a rap or hiphop don’t trip by saying im the father of this gangsta shit..we all know who’s the one who invented gangsta rap it was in 2000s by lil wayne! what the fuck were u doing in 82 how the fuck u knew about it…lil wayne! should just make a track and but ice-t 6 feets deep…

      lil wayne! is da greatest of all da time fuck haters

      1. wtf is this last nigga talking bout saying lil waynye invented gangsta rap,nigga you are the dumbest,most ignorant NIGGA alive,didnt no lil wayne invent shit! krs-1 was the first to put out a “gangsta rap” song only thing lil wayne did was to sucessfully rap about nothing in every bar and dumb niggas like you buy that shit!LEARN YOUR RAP HISTORY YOUNG BUCK!

    3. *put ice-t 6 feets deep*..god damn these niggaz make ppl nervous by lying to the public..how the fuck they live with themselves..

    4. give props to ice-t. my dude was one of the originals to gangster rap. whoever thinks lil wayne started that shit needs to get off his nutz and read up on some krs-one and n.w.a. and shit. BUT.. ice-t really wasnt no gangster ass dude in my eyes. he aint no crip no blood, dont rep no block.

    5. aye where da gucci news be at
      i aint seen nothin bout my nigga gucci on this site in a week
      man you know gucci up in somethin
      report on some real news nigga
      i wanna know what GUCCI doin
      ITSGUCCI

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