Chuck D Blown Away By Ice-T’s Tour Stamina At 66 Years Outdated

Ice-T and Physique Depend are at present abroad melting folks’s faces off with their heavy steel anthems. At 66 years outdated, Hip-Hop’s “Unique Gangster” hasn’t slowed down and, as an alternative, continues so as to add chapters to his colourful story.

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

2 Down in Germany 🇩🇪 up to now! 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 mentioned “These that aren’t within the Battle, 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 mentioned “These that aren’t within the Battle, 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 over time. He’s typically 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 road rap, which they now name gangsta rap,” he says. “So the primary one I heard was Combine Grasp S####. After which I had a report 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 preserve doing road rap, I needed to do extra of a celebration rap. I obtained out of it and simply did all get together rap, no extra road rap.

“Then I heard Ice-T do it. After which there was a number of others across the neighborhood that was doing it. In order that they have been taking the model of like ‘Rappers Delight’ however solely doing it in a gangster model, road model, and I assumed that was good for what it was, however I couldn’t see myself taking part in that at a celebration. After I noticed Ice-T obtained signed, it was unbelievable. I hustled my a## off for a report deal. He talked his method into that report deal and it labored out.”