Chuck D Blown Away By Ice-T’s Tour Stamina At 66 Years Outdated

Ice-T and Physique Rely are presently abroad melting folks’s faces off with their heavy metallic anthems. At 66 years previous, Hip-Hop’s “Authentic Gangster” hasn’t slowed down and, as a substitute, continues so as to add chapters to his colourful story.

Fellow rap pioneer Chuck D—who himself is 63 and nonetheless rocking phases like he’s 33—praised Ice-T for his unrelenting stamina. On Saturday (June 8), the Legislation & Order star shared a few photographs from his exhibits in Germany on Twitter (X) and wrote, “2 Down in Germany thus far! Hamburg and Nuremberg… Destroyed. Due to ALL in attendance! MERCILESS.”

2 Down in Germany 🇩🇪 thus far! Hamburg and Nuremberg… 💥Destroyed💥 Due to ALL in attendance! MERCILESS @BodyCountBand pic.twitter.com/QaHamfsP8L

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) June 9, 2024

Chuck D retweeted the put up and added, “Rattling . 66 years of ICE is a blizzard and a rattling glacier coming at you in 2024. no excuses for [youthier] acts to not exude this
@FINALLEVEL of energy and Vitality.”

Ice-T replied hours later with mutual admiration and some phrases of knowledge, writing, “@MrChuckD has ALWAYS been my Brother on this WAR in opposition to Sucka s###…. He as soon as stated “These that aren’t within the Warfare, shouldn’t touch upon the Battles”. That caught with me.. RESPECT.”

💥@MrChuckD has ALWAYS been my Brother on this WAR in opposition to Sucka s###…. He as soon as stated “These that aren’t within the Warfare, shouldn’t touch upon the Battles”. That caught with me.. ✊🏽 RESPECT ✊🏽 https://t.co/EdxbprFk4O

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) June 9, 2024

Ice-T has earned heaps of reward from his friends through the years. He’s usually credited with popularizing gangsta rap on the West Coast. In 1983, the identical 12 months Los Angeles electro-Hip-Hop legend Egyptian Lover and Uncle Jamm’s Military launched “Dial-A-Freak,” Ice-T dropped the electro-flavored “The Coldest Rap (Half 1)” and “The Coldest Rap (Half 2)” by way of Saturn Data.

In an April interview with AllHipHop, Egyptian Lover talked about his impression.

“When Ice-T got here on the scene, man, there was solely a handful of individuals doing avenue rap, which they now name gangsta rap,” he says. “So the primary one I heard was Combine Grasp S####. After which I had a file in highschool, and me and Combine Grasp S#### switched tapes. I heard his rap and he heard mine. However then I didn’t need to maintain doing avenue rap, I wished to do extra of a celebration rap. I bought out of it and simply did all social gathering rap, no extra avenue rap.

“Then I heard Ice-T do it. After which there was a number of others across the neighborhood that was doing it. So that they have been taking the fashion of like ‘Rappers Delight’ however solely doing it in a gangster fashion, avenue fashion, and I assumed that was sensible for what it was, however I couldn’t see myself enjoying that at a celebration. Once I noticed Ice-T bought signed, it was unbelievable. I hustled my a## off for a file deal. He talked his approach into that file deal and it labored out.”