Ice Dice Discusses Movie star Endorsements and Politics

Ice Dice has expressed his ideas about celebrities endorsing Donald Trump and his presidential re-election bid amid a number of ongoing trials in courtroom.

The West Coast Hip-Hop legend and entrepreneur made the feedback throughout a current interview with Fox Enterprise. Along with describing the transfer as a non-public choice, Dice additionally appeared to query the validity of superstar endorsements all collectively in his remarks.

“I believe it’s a private choice,” Dice stated. “I don’t know in the event that they care if any rappers or entertainers stand up there and say something. It’s actually a private choice.”

Ice Dice went on to focus on not solely main events and the candidates but additionally their voters for basically blindly following political leaders throughout election cycles.

“Individuals know who Trump is,” he stated partly. “Individuals know who Biden is. They’re going to make their choice regardless of who will get up there and pushes no matter agenda they need.”

Together with Ice Dice, Jeff Kwatinetz, president of the Big3 league, additionally weighed in, saying, “I believe that individuals have realized that neither occasion actually speaks for minorities, perhaps for the Black viewers, and it comes all the way down to who they suppose will actually assist them on the problems that they care about.”

A number of rappers have just lately been linked to Trump as he continues to pursue a second time period in workplace. Together with earlier endorsements from artists similar to Kodak Black and Wocka Flocka, Lil Pump reaffirmed his assist for Trump again In January by getting a tattoo in his honor. Trump additionally rolled out the pink carpet to MAGA rapper Forgiatto Blow throughout a marketing campaign rally final March.

Nevertheless, not all artists within the rap area are ingesting the Kool-Help in the case of Trump—and Griselda rapper Benny The Butcher is one in every of them. In February, Benny The Butcher tweeted, “Turned down a gathering with 45 final week.”

One other Twitter (X) consumer requested Benny why he declined the potential dialog with Donald Trump, to which the All people Can’t Go album creator responded, “For 1, I’m not a politician, I’m a rapper. For two, individuals [are] dumb as s### and gained’t perceive. For 3, it’s not that essential to me.”

Along with election politics, Ice Dice spoke about current modifications to his skilled sports activities league following the Big3 securing a $10 million take care of its first franchise sale.

“It’s a league that we form of began from scratch in 2017,” he stated. “We’ve been, for eight years, rising this league, and, and it’s not been straightforward. We needed to undergo COVID.”