Ice-T recently stopped by Drink Champs for a lengthy, sprawling interview, and talked about a myriad of things — from how Rakim inspired him lyrically to his legend status. He also talked about his relationship with 2Pac, and how Digital Underground's Shock G once pleaded with him to sit down for a talk with Pac.
“I had a story where Shock G came to my house,” Ice-T remembered around the 3:54 mark. “I lived in the Hollywood Hills, Shock came to my door. I said, ‘Why the fuck you knocking on my door?’ He said, ‘I was up in the Hills, I asked does any Black people live up here.’ They said, ‘Ice lives right over there.’ So Shock knocked on my door. We sat down and he was like, ‘Ice, talk to ‘Pac, man. They feeding ‘Pac gunpowder. ‘Pac is not listening to me.'”
He then got emotional and paused the interview. “See the thing is, when you working with a rapper, you have to get a rapper in a state of mind,” he said. “Death Row was training ‘Pac to be a killer, which you heard in the music. But I did a thing for Mike Tyson which is like, you train a man to be a pitbull then you get mad when he eats the furniture. You see what I mean? So that energy bled into the streets, to his demise.”
HipHopDX pointed out that Ice-T previously talked about his relationship on the show, saying that he wasn't feeling it when 2Pac recorded his infamous diss track, "Hit Em Up."
“He was at my house with The Outlawz, a couple of The Outlawz, and he played me ‘Hit ‘Em Up.’ And I didn’t like it,” Ice said. “I was like, ‘You gon’ start some shit.’ I didn’t like him starting the beef. I said, ‘You going in on dude’s wife and all that.’ Then at that time, he thought B.I.G. had shot him. You ain’t supposed to be handling that with a record. Really, are you? So, we kinda was on bad terms with that because he wanted me to ride with him, but I was like, ‘I couldn’t.’”
Beyond his recent interview, earlier this year, Ice-T announced that he's working on new music. He says The Legend of ICE-T “Crime Stories” Vol 1 & 2 will highlight his storytelling skills the "6 'N The Morning."
Watch his Drink Champs interview below.
