Hip-Hop legends Ice Cube and Bun B recently spoke to HipHopSince1987 about the issue of the rap game being a young man’s game.
Cube, 44, thinks it’s “crazy” to expect a rapper to retire at a young age. “I think any young man thinkin’ about, talkin’ about like they want to reture, and they not playing sports, then they crazy. What the fuck we gonna do? Go fishin’? This is what we do, and it is no shelf life for an emcee if he’s committed to his fans.”
Cube also admitted that pressure does exist for established emcees to “bow out gracefully.”...
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Cube, 44, thinks it’s “crazy” to expect a rapper to retire at a young age. “I think any young man thinkin’ about, talkin’ about like they want to reture, and they not playing sports, then they crazy. What the fuck we gonna do? Go fishin’? This is what we do, and it is no shelf life for an emcee if he’s committed to his fans.”
Cube also admitted that pressure does exist for established emcees to “bow out gracefully.”...
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