“Grand Theft Auto V” has become the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, selling $1 billion worth of units within its first three days.
The popular game features a character named Franklin, voiced by Shawn Fonteno. As a recent interview with TMZ, it turns out that Fonteno has ties with Hip Hop history. Fonteno used to go by the emcee name “Solo,” a rapper hailing from the Los Angeles area.
In the Beef 2 DVD, it was revealed that Solo was in the middle of a “business feud” with Ice Cube in during the time when Cube was embroiled in a beef with Cypress Hill. In the video, it was alleged that Ice Cube started a fight at a traffic light with Solo. “Knocked him down, knocked him out,” said Solo in the video (beginning at 9:55 below). “Woke him back up. Whooped on his ass. Somehow his chain fell in my hand. I don’t know how it got in my hand, but, it fell in my hand. Then, all of the sudden, his Rolex start jumping off and coming into my hand. I dunno how that happened,” said the rapper, smirking.
In the interview with TMZ, the connection was made between Fonteno and the long-over Hip Hop feud. “That’s my dude, homie. We both hustlers, homie,” said Fonteno of the altercation. “So it is what it is. He from South Central, I’m from South Central. That shit’s over with. And Cube, holla at yo boy, man. You know what it is. We gonna do some big things.”
Asked whether he had won the fight with Cube, Fonteno simply replied, “Man, I can’t say that. Ask the public. Ask everybody that know about it. The streets’ll tell you.”
Watch the interview below:
Interestingly, the “GTA V” soundtrack includes Ice Cube’s “You Know How We Do It,” a 1994 track from the album Lethal Injection, where Cube shouts out Solo: “Kam and Solo, they got nuts,” he rhymes.
Fonteno has also acted in The Wash, a 2001 film starring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, with features from DJ Pooh, Kurupt, Ludacris, Xzibit, Eminem, and more.
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Man, who didn’t have beef with Ice Cube-
NWA
Common
Kam
Cypress Hill
who I am missing?
he and mack 10 had a falling out but it was never on wax so i guess it doesnt count
11.32 MARK. THE EZAYS DO NOT RUN L.A .. THEY RULE IN #’S BUT THEY DO NOT RUN THE STREETS OUT IN LOS ANGELES. BACK THEN BLACKS WERE ALREADY SPLIT WITH THE MEXICANS. SO THAT BEEF DID NOT ESCALATE NOTHING THAT WAS ALREADY HAPPENING. I REMEMBER THIS SHIT VERY WELL. I COULDN’T BELIEVE KAM AND SOLO GOT MIX UP WITH THIS AND TOOK THERE SIDE. THAT KAM TRAC WAS HARD AS FUC THO.. STILL CANT FUC W CUBE BUT I BUMP THAT SHIT LOL..SOLO NEVER WAS SHIT .. HE IS NOT FAMOUS DUE TO GTA BUT THATS IT.
Raza runs LA! We supply the work!
Drake would out sing all these fools
His rap ain’t even real no more like u use to call me on my cellphone dawg drake is whack has no history of any sort of beef with anyone and plus he is Canadian ???????????? his ass would get shot in the hood instantly
old beef but on the street thing cube got beat down word up
Didn’t Ice Cube also get knocked out by Above The Law (on more than one occasion)? I seem to remember that from Jerry Heller’s book, or from an interview with Big Hutch. He also got beaten up by King Sun, or some other rapper with a similar name from his early days as a solo artist. Seems like he picked a lot of fights and lost pretty much every one of them.
^^ I thought it was West Coast Kam who beat Cube down at the stoplight. He had a spot on another DVD talking about it. Said he blocked Cube at the light and whooped him right outside their cars.
You get into fights, you might lose. Better to get knocked out than be a pussy, I can respect a guy who got knocked out, it happens, but most pussies out there are too scared to get into a fucking fist fight…
“U JUS SAID MY NAME CUZ” “WAT IS U DESTINYS CHILD, AINT NOBODY SAID YO NAME”
they shuda put big guwop in the gamne. Big guwop would kill the whole gta world the general of real niggas
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shit that beef video was crazy
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