One of the original gangsters with 11 albums, a grammy, numerous lecture tours, a book, four Hollywood movies and two TV series ICE-T has become the face of LA Hip Hop.
Finally after 10 years he is returning to Norwich with his European SMG Tour. Working with Smoothe tha Hustler, Trigger, Sean e Sean, Evil E, Coco and Duce; Ice has put together 15 new hardcore street wise raps to take Europe by storm, don't believe us check out www.ICET.com
I saw him last year when he came to Norwich, it was a pretty good show. Lots of old skool tracks and the dj was scratching with his trainers on his hands "its all about the adidas high tops"!
Norwich actually has more of a link with gangster rap than most people realise. Dr Dre is originally from Sprowston, and NWA was originally 'From Norwich, With Attitude'.
Of course, this made made for the not so snappy acronym 'FN,WA'. Dre, being a well known stickler for accuracy in punctuation, couldn't abide the absence of the comma and claimed the group's name would be 'rendered almost entirely grammatically incoherent by the exclusion of the comma'. The record label bosses eventually forced the change to the more media friendly 'Niggaz With Attitude'.
Despite being pacified at the time, Dre would later in his career revisit themes of improper use of punctuation through his lyrics to massive Dre hit 'Improper Fucking Pronoun'.
Dre was also keen to emphasise his East Anglian Heritage, and was at pains to be seen to be giving something back to the tough streets of Norwich suburbia that had forged him. In one high profile charitable act, which some cynics noted could easily have been conceived as a publicity stunt to coincide with, and raise the profile of the first release of his protege Eminem (himself a Peterborough man) Dre bought a big blue bus that everyone in Sprowston could ride to the shops so that they could buy their biccies.
Your posts never fail to make me laugh "Benson". That story has all my favorite things in, grammatical errors, gangsta rap, and East Anglia (reprAZENT!") .
Here's a picture of a monkey with a gun for your efforts:
Damn...my identity has been revealled!
This was actually me going out for a posh meal...
hence the super-swish clothing.
(at least my date wasn't subject to your tramp cam...
or maybe she was?)
I think it was Carcass, but I can't remember either. I did see BoltThrower at the Jacquard though - any bidders for an autographed Grindcrusher LP anybody?
Anybody??
(mum wouldn't let me go to BDP at the Arts Centre though, even if she did buy me By Any Means Necessary for xmas)
