Check the Technique by Brian Coleman

Author:Brian Coleman [Coleman, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49442-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

RADIO SUCKERS

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Ice-T: Yeah, with Chuck D on the hook! The first time I saw Public Enemy I didn’t actually meet Chuck. I saw them at the L.A. Sports Arena on some tour. I saw Griff and all these mo’fuckas with guns and I was like, “Oh, this shit is dope.” I knew of them also through Glen Friedman, since he took pictures for both of us. Me and PE clicked on intensity, we clicked on battle scars, and we also understood each other’s position. Chuck was a Nationalist position. He was trying to get all black people to understand the problems of the world. I was a ’hood politician. I wanted people to understand what was going on in the city. He rapped about the president, I rapped about the police. My politics never reached past city limits. I rapped in a smaller room. I was rapping about the guy who says he’s gonna kill you tomorrow. That song was basically just saying, “Fuck radio,” and I still say it to this day. Fuck ’em! Basically I was able to sell platinum records without ever being on the radio. I would never go to radio and kiss their ass, because if I do, the next day that person is fired and I have to go back and kiss somebody else’s ass. If you’re playing my records, I’ll come in and kiss your ass. One time I asked somebody at a station why I never got play and they told me, “Well, Ice, it’s because you’re too real.” Some radio station in Texas. They’ll listen to another rapper say they’ll shoot somebody, and I guess it seems corny. But with the tone of my voice I guess it sounded too real? So if I made myself corny, they would play my records? I’ve never gotten radio play and they can all eat a bowl of dicks. You’ll never find an Ice-T clean album. N.W.A. did entire clean albums, but I thought that was selling out. C’mon, they can bleep that shit. N.W.A. made more money because of it, but I had my integrity.

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