Ice T Says 50 Cent & Bobby Shmurda Were The Last Gangster Rappers

Ice T Says Real Gangster Rappers Have To Scare You

Ice T is doubling down on his 2009 comments on gangster rappers. At the time, he said during an interview that, “I opened the door for gangsta rap and 50 Cent closed it.”

In a new interview with ‘Unique Access’  that rappers are no longer as threatening or scary as they used to be, thus making the gangsta rap scene almost invisible.

“To me, the last gangster rapper was 50 Cent, because to me, he embodied that image. You know, that ‘I don’t give a f*ck,'” said Ice-T. “50 Cent had you really believe you didn’t wanna f*ck with him,” he said.

 

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“I heard 50 Cent when he was beefing with Fat Joe and he was like, ‘Fat Joe, I’m right down the street. It’s real hard to find a n*gga when you know he got a gun, ain’t it.'” The rapper laughed at the remark. “I’m like, ‘Okay!'”

Ice-T clarified that he named Fif as the last real gangsta rapper because 50 Cent is the last one he believed. “I think now, the new trap rappers, you know, they convince me they can get high, they convinced me maybe that they can sell a little drugs, but they don’t scare me,” he said. “I think if you a gangsta rapper, you scare me a little bit. I don’t think there’s no new people that do it.”

Ice T then named Bobby Shmurda as the last gangster rapper after 50 Cent. “You know who the last gangsta rapper was? Bobby Shmurda,” he said of the incarcerated rapper. “But that’s when keeping it real goes wrong… They were bar for bar snitching on themselves.”