Fear of a Black Hat (1993)

Rusty Cundieff: Ice Cold

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• Nina Blackburn : What, if any, is the difference between a ho and a bitch?

  Tone Def : A ho fucks EVERYBODY.

  Ice Cold : Right, but a bitch fucks everybody BUT YOU.

• Nina Blackburn : So, guys, what's the deal with the hats?

  Ice Cold : That's what NWH is all about. We got a whole hat philosophy, you know what I'm saying? I mean, see, back in the days when there was slaves and stuff, they would work in the hot sun all day, you know, with the sun beating down them. Hatless. I mean, not even a babushka.

  Tone Def : Word. Heads totally exposed to the sun.

  Ice Cold : You know, so by the time they got back to the plantation from being in all the heat, they was too tired to rebel against their masters, right? So what we saying with Niggaz With Hats is, "Yo, we got some hats now, muh-fuckers."

  Tasty Taste : And we ain't too tired to bust a cap in yo ass.

• Ice Cold : Right, but see actually that shit was supposed to be NWH: "Fear of a Black Hat," then subtitled "Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites."

  Nina Blackburn : Of their eyes?

  Ice Cold : Whose eyes?

  Nina Blackburn : Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.

  Ice Cold : Nah, don't shoot until you see the whites, period. That's it, end of story.

• Ice Cold : "P", Political, "U", Unrest, "S", Stabilize, another "S", Society, "Y", Yeah.

• Ice Cold : Over here we got some perpetrators - a bunch of Ice Wannabes. See, Ice Cold, I'm the man, but we got Ice Tray, Ice Coffee, Ice Water, Iceberg, Ice Cup, Icebox. I mean it gets real ridiculous when people tryin' to bite your style, you know what I'm sayin'? But, hey, that's the way it is, it's the rap world.

• Tone Def : Yeah. Because when you take the bus... you GET there.

  Geoffrey Lennox : [pauses]  THAT'S deep.

  Ice Cold : Wait, you mean you actually understand what he's saying?

  Geoffrey Lennox : Oh, yeah.

• Ice Cold : Look, my man, class of '87. See? Bow tie, checkered pants. He was on the glee club. My man was on the year book staff. He was the year book editor! How you gonna be a hardcore OG gangsta editin' the year book?

• Nina Blackburn : So guys, what's the deal with the hats?

  Ice Cold : That's what N.W.H. is all about. We gotta whole hat philosophy. You know what I'm sayin'? I mean, see, back in the days when there were slaves and stuff, they would work in the hot sun all day, you know, with the sun beatin' down on 'em. Hatless! I mean, not even a babushka.

  Tone Def : Word. Heads totally exposed to the sun.

  Ice Cold : You know, and so by the time they got back to the plantation from bein' in all the heat, they was too tired to rebel against they're masters. Right. So what we're sayin' with Niggaz With Hats is: Yo! We got some hats now, muh-fuckas.

• Ice Cold : I'll show you my new book I'm working on. "FYM" by Ice.

  Nina Blackburn : "FYM?"

  Ice Cold : Yeah. "Fuck Y'all Motherfuckers."

• Nina Blackburn : Are you planning a follow-up to this book?

  Ice Cold : For certain, because I got a lot more to say. I think it's going to be called, "ASMD." "And Suck My Dick." I was going to call it "ASMBD," "And Suck My Black Dick." But I'm more of a mocha-colored motherfucker, so that didn't really work.

• Nina Blackburn : On your song, "Booty Juice", what's the political significance?

  Ice Cold : The butt is like society, which we want to see as being openness and expansion, you understand? But the white man wants to clog it up and keep it closed, and we trying to get a foot up in that motherfucker. You know what I mean? So the easiest way to get your foot in there is if it's all greased up and ready. The butt, that is, a.k.a. society, right? So what we're saying with "Booty Juice" is, when is yo butt at it's most juiciest? When you dancin', when you doin' the nasty and stuff like that. I mean, you know -- can't speak for your butt personally, but I got some suspicions about it. But anyhow, the thing is, you want that sucker nice and greased for you to slide on in there. And that, on the political tip, all we saying is, we gonna get that ass.

• Ice Cold : He gonna knock Kriss Kross out the box 'cuz he's gonna be upside down.

• Nina Blackburn : So where are you guys from? Compton? The sewer?

  Tone Def : Nah, that shit is for punks.

  Ice Cold : Yeah, we don't like to say where we from.

  Nina Blackburn : I thought all rappers like telling people where they're from.

  Tone Def : That's like a muh-fucka saying he got a big dick and can fuck for hours.

• Ice Cold : We here to tell you youngsters that we know there's a lot of evils and ills out there in the world we want you to stay clear of. You gotta understand, when we was y'all's age, right, we was already knockin' off liquor stores.

• Nina Blackburn : I've heard that your last five managers were killed, all by gunfire.

  Tasty Taste : Yeah, but they was all accidents.

  Ice Cold : I mean , you know, except for Whitey DeLuca.

  Tasty Taste : Yeah, we don't know what happened to him.

  Tone Def : Yeah we do.

  Tasty Taste : Yo, Tone!

  Tone Def : Oh yeah, I forgot. We don't know.

• Ice Cold : What we're saying is, we don't front. We perform in this motherfucker.

• Ice Cold : That's one of the first things that I dropped, right, "My Peanuts". I had to get that pressed myself, then I sold it out the trunk of my car. Right here on this very street.

• Ice Cold : [rapping]  My peanuts come alive, When you open that sack, Smoother than Jif, And fresher than Planters, My peanuts exceed all standards, They're def enough, To knock you to your knees, Even Planters ain't got no nuts like these, My peanuts!

• Nina Blackburn : How about when you're making love?

  Tasty Taste , Ice Cold , Tone Def : Nah!

  Tasty Taste : See,, if you smile, then a woman thinks she got you.

  Tone Def : The next thing you know, she askin' you for money and shit.

  Ice Cold : Exactly. I mean, you know, the best thing, if you think you're the kind of motherfucker that's predisposed to be smilin' and shit, you best to kick that shit doggie-style.

  Tasty Taste : Pow!

  Ice Cold : You know, then you can go in from behind, right? And you don't have to worry about her seein' you and shit.

  Tone Def : Right.

  Ice Cold : You can make all kind of faces.

  Tone Def : Make sure you ain't got no mirrors and nothin' around.

• Ice Cold : [rapping]  Some of them punks just want to feel it, When they see me grip with both hands, It's a black thing they don't understand, It's true they want to take it all, So before they rip you ball for ball, Cup your hand, Cover up, N.W.H. say grab your stuff, Grab it!

• Ice Cold : [rapping]  A black man gets no justice, 'Cause the kangaroo court don't trust us, Wasn't the first and won't be the last, Brothers got to move to get that ass...

• John Liggert : Don't you think this song is a little extreme?

  Ice Cold : Nah, man, that's my experience from jail. I mean, that's the black man's experience, man.

  John Liggert : Well, it's my experience that this type of song causes problems. I mean, the lyrics here. I mean, "See me jack you in the valley, See me ice you in the alley." I mean, that's a bit too much. And what about this concept, you know, of a video that has you guys killing police officers? I mean, can't you guys just dance around like Hammer?

• Ice Cold : [rapping]  Booty juice comes right from the source, What's the source? An ass, of course, The kind that spreads out extra wide, The kind that's nice when you come inside, It's fresh and ain't all pasteurized, But I always rise when I tap the thighs, 'Cause I like 'em big, I like 'em greasy, I like 'em round, And I like 'em easy, I like it when the girls step on the floor, Shakin' them booties just like a ho, I like it when it shakes in the pants so loose, But I love it when it's drippin', That booty juice

• Nina Blackburn : So is it true that N.W.H. is thinking about putting a love song on the new album?

  Ice Cold : Oh, yeah. Tasty got that, he's hookin' that up.

  Tasty Taste : Yeah, check this out: I want to make you mine, Slap your fat behind, Tie you down and make you whine, I want you to scratch my itch, And be my *bitch*, Because I love you, girl

  Ice Cold : I think that just shows his whole vulnerability.

  Tone Def : The black man was the first sensitive man, long before Alan Alda.

• Ice Cold : Shit. See, that's the way they try to do you, man. They always want to take a black man's hat, but that ain't happenin' no more. I got this camera crew, y'all, and I got all these people here. You see, we learned from that Rodney King stuff. It ain't happenin' again. I even got a brother over here drawin' the stuff, like they do in that courtroom-style. You know what I'm saying?

• Ice Cold : We let people know we ain't with the violence, by putting out our music in our videos. Like we got one called, "A Gangsta's Life Ain't Fun".

  [rapping] 

  Ice Cold : I'm a G-A-N-G-S-T-E-R, Like Scarface, bitch, I'm a superstar, Revered by all though I am the villain, Gainin' more juice by the others I'm killin', Profilin' and stylin', Drive a fly ride and the hos just pile in, I make gangsta money 'cause I'm gangsta bold, Fuck gangsta bitches wearin' gangsta clothes, And I kill by will with skillful thrills, Another way to pay the bills, I'm the boy wonder, God of thunder, Make a move and I'll put you under, I'm notorious, I live glorious, I'm the fly gangsta that remains victorious, Get up in your top-shelf clothes, Cold fuckin' top-shelf hos, And I'm the man they call number one, Don't try this shit at home, A gangsta's life ain't fun...

• Ice Cold : She's lickin' your ass like a fuckin' lollipop in this motherfucka!

• Cheryl C. : T is tired of y'all doggin' him.

  Marty Rabinow : Dogging him?

  Cheryl C. : And quite frankly, so am I.

  Ice Cold : Who the fuck are you?

  Cheryl C. : Obviously the only person here who cares about T's welfare.

  Tone Def : How long you been on welfare?

• Tasty Taste : What's wrong with you, Cheryl?

  Cheryl C. : Ain't nothin' wrong with me a man can't fix.

  Tasty Taste : Oh, so you're sayin' I ain't a man?

  Cheryl C. : I'm sayin', I needed what I needed when I needed it.

  Tasty Taste : So, what'd you buy her, lce?

  Ice Cold : Nothin', man! That bitch is a ho!

• Ice Cold : What we are sayin' is, if we want to change this madness that's going on in our community, in our world, then we got to step to the pussy. Step to this ideology. We got to embrace the pussy. You understand? Embracing the - have you ever had your pussy embraced? I mean, has someone came up and just, you know, embraced that motherfucka?

• Ice Cold : [rapping]  Political Unrest Stabilizes Society Yes, And I must confess, When you step to it, Step to it hard, It'll open up, So don't Bogart, The P the U the S and another S Y, Pet it and you will decide, The fate of this entire nation, When it comes you'll get total elation...

• Ice Cold : [rapping]  Step to the L-I-P-S, Then pucker up and press, Your lips to the lips, Of the funk between the hips...

• Ice Cold : Well, artistically I could make a move backward to make that step forward.

• Ice Cold : [rapping]  Time to stand erect and gain entry, To the richness that waits within, see, Gotta work hard if we wanna groove it, And I'm in it to win it, So let's do it

  Tiffini : Come and pet the pussy...

• Ice Cold : This is, as per my song "Booty Juice", bottled Booty Juice. This is gonna be big. Check it out. Let me turn on the Booty Juice display. It's not pasteurized, it ain't from concentrate. And I'll tell you what, we're just like Evian around here. We get our Booty Juice straight from the source. Believe that. And I see you got a little source behind you we might be able to use.

  Nina Blackburn : Thanks, I like to keep my juices to myself.

  Ice Cold : Alright. Well, you let me know if we can ever stick a tap into that - and we can all make some money. You know what I'm sayin'?

• Ice Cold : We are N.W.H. That's "Niggaz With Hats". If we don't have hats, then we "Niggaz Without Hats". That's a whole different group of niggaz.

• Vanilla Sherbet : N.W.H. is in the house! Yo-yo-yo-yo-you, what's up? N.W.H. in the house. Yo, I'm Vanilla Sherbet and shit, G. Yo, I'm down with you motherfuckers, man. I been listenin' to your shit for the longest time, dude. I got all your old tracks. You know what I'm sayin'? Yo, I got "Booty Juice," "P.U.S.S.Y." I got all that old shit, G. I got your old track, lce man. That shit: My penis, Uh, Big and large...

  Ice Cold : Peanuts. "My peanuts."

  Vanilla Sherbet : That shit was on, huh. That shit was dope, G. You know, I'm down with you motherfuckers, I can relate. You know what I'm sayin'? Because I grew up in the 'hood. Right? I was raised by a black family. You know what I'm sayin'? Because my parents abandoned me and shit. But, yo, so I can relate to you. I'm almost like a brother and shit. You know what I'm sayin'? Word. We gotta hook up after the show, G. And go pick up some bitches. You know what I'm sayin'? Smoke a big, fat blunt. You know, it'd be chillin'! You know why Because y'all my niggas, dude. Y'all my niggas!

• Nina Blackburn : In the song lyrics, and I'm quoting: "He'll rip you off, He'll take your money, Make you work for free, Though you might scoff, It isn't funny, He's the devil, see."

  Nina Blackburn , Ice Cold , Tasty Taste : "Kill Whitey."

  Ice Cold : Right. Now how can you listen to that and think we're talkin' about killin' all white people?

  Tone Def : Fact. We was talkin' about one specific Whitey.

  Tasty Taste : Whitey DeLuca, our ex-manager. He ripped us off for 70 Gs.

  Ice Cold : Right, you know, and Whitey DeLuca wasn't even white. He was - he was Italian. You know, he was one of them olive-complected motherfuckers, you know.

• Ice Cold : [rapping about Security Guards]  It seems like damn near every time I shop, I'm always getting clocked by some wannabe cop, Follows me around like a magnet, Eyes on my ass like a two-bit faggot, Why it gotta be I'm treated like a thief? Because I'm black and wear a pager on my jeans? So it seems I'm gonna have to set the sucker straight, I turn around and say "Yo, get out my face!" And he wastes no time pointin' to his fake badge, And real nightstick that can make a nigga hemorrhage...

• Ice Cold : I want you all to understand somethin'. When I say nigga - I don't mean nigga in the way a lot of people when they say nigga mean nigga. Right? Because to me, nigga breaks down to a whole different thing. Like, check this out. Like, see, nigga stands for: Naturally, lntelligence, Gonna, Get, you know, like, Ahead. But you might wanna take it a little bit further than that. It's like you might say that nigga stands for: Naturally, lntelligent, Gonna, Get - that Ass. Now, there's no "T" in there. That would be "niggta." But, you pretend that is is there. Right? You got: Naturally, lntelligent, Gonna, Get, Ass.