"yo Ice how do you stay relevant to the kids from the hood nowadays?"
so of course I had to throw my two cents in by saying
"yeah Ice playin a NYC cop is something all tha gangstas from the hood can relate to, I'm so sherrr".
His answer to me "They can relate to 200K a week"
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After that Ice T former "gangsta rapper" blocked me from following his tweets.
I was really genuinely surprised. I wasn't trying to imply that he had sold out by going from anti-establishment to conformist. I was just pointing out that some who looked up to him might see playing a detective could be seen as being a sell out.
I am an actor, I know what it's like to play all different personalities.
But Ice-T's persona as a rapper in the 90s and during the height of the controversy surrounding his recording "COP KILLER" had most certainly been of the non-conformist outlaw. Now to play a New York City detective is inarguably a total about face to his previous image.
Worse though, to imply that anyone who is not show biz can relate in any way to earning two-hundred thousand dollars a week is INSULTING.
Obviously Tracy Morrow aka Ice-T knew that.So all I can assume is that I, a lowly peon and non-celebrity touched a nerve resulting in my being kicked off Final Level's pontifications, most of which discuss the smell of dog farts or how hot his wife is.
No problemo. I realize now that I was wrong in confusing the image with the actual man behind it.
HUSTLER, indeed
