Ice Cube is considered one of the early leaders of the so-called “Gangsta Rap” phenomenon, so any opinion he offers on the subject is valid. Recently, Candace Owens posited a theory that the Hip-Hop music offshoot was created by the “Feds” but Ice Cube swiftly corrected the conservative pundit.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Candace Owens had this to say about Gangsta Rap:
Gangster rap was never black culture. It was created by the Feds, who proferred deals to homosexual black men in prison and then turned them into artificial celebrities. The goal was to create false idols to destroy black American values.
I will never change my mind on this.
When someone tossed a question in the direction of Ice Cube regarding Owens’ comments, the former N.W.A. band member offered a history lesson from a vantage point he actually experienced in the late 1980s.
“We called it Reality Rap the industry coined it Gangsta Rap. The fans wanted gangsta rap and that’s what they got. The Feds didn’t write none of my sh*t. I’m a real MC,” Cube said to the Twitter user in this quoted reply.
On X, another user shared an excellent quote from N.W.A. member MC Ren about how the term Gangsta Rap grew legs and that it was not by the design of the rappers who performed the music. The thread can be found here.
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