Icewear Vezzo has recently sat down with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious on The Breakfast Club where he talked about Eminem and commented on Skilla Baby saying streets in Detroit don’t consider Eminem as one of the greatest rapper of all time.
“I never wanted to speak against Eminem publicly, ever. But I just couldn’t contain my thoughts and how I felt. And I feel like I do so much for the city, I do so much for the community that I grew up in and he grew up in and a lot of people grew up in and that support don’t be there from certain artist, especially people like Em. Hommie’s a megastar. And I know what them kids get out of seeing me and Peezy, seeing me Sada and Skilla, I knwo they get out of seeing us, being able to talk to them, I know the type of motivation that come from that. And I just felt like, I wished hommies would have did that with us. I never been a guy that’s be like ‘Em ain’t did nothing to put nobody on from the city.’ He don’t owe nobody nothing, absolutely nothing, at all. And respectfully, he did what he needed to do. He did that for his era. When Em was our age…If it was not for Em, there would be no Proof. There wouldn’t be a D12. It wouldn’t be Royce Da 5’9″. He did what he had to do. We just admire everything about Em so much and he inspired us so much, I just think we’d appreciate more if we could have met him early on and got some knowledge, got some game, got some type of insight. I don’t understand how I met and locked in with 50 Cent who was from Queens before I met Eminem.” said Icewear Vezzo.
Then he continued: “Me and Em, we literally bumped to each other [at 50 Cent’s show]. It’s all good. I rock with 50 the long way. He a real one. Meeting Em was mad awkward but I was like ‘hey bro, it’s all love, I respect you bro, ain’t nothing like that. I feel how I feel.’ He like ‘I see what you doing’ bla bla bla. We kept it moving. Em don’t owe anybody nothing, man. We gotta leave him alone, man.”
Then Charlamagne asked about Skilla Baby saying most people from his generation wouldn’t consider Eminem the GOAT. “That’s true. That’s how it is. Why should that be a problem, man? Them youngers ain’t listening to that. They listen to most street artists in Detroit. Em got a fanbase. He got his fanbase. He got people that like that kind of music and the music that he makes it’s a way bigger audience to it so if I was him, I wouldn’t even care if certain audience don’t listen to me anyway because I got way bigger audience. But it was true what Skilla said. He got some flack for that too, didn’t he? I don’t understand, it’s true, it’s what it is.”
“Put it like this, is the youngest in New York listening to JAY-Z? Probably not. It’s a same scenario. It’s a generational gap. It’s all good. The youngest in Detroit don’t really understand JAY-Z. They don’t get it. They don’t care about that music either.” Icewear Vezzo added. You can watch the interview below:
