Frequent has admitted that he feared his beef with Ice Dice might get “ugly” when the 2 exchanged disses within the mid-’90s.
Showing on Carmelo Anthony and The Child Mero’s podcast 7PM in Brooklyn, the Chicago rap veteran mirrored on his feud with the N.W.A legend, which produced iconic diss songs similar to “The Bitch In Yoo.”
Speaking about his resolution to do battle with Dice, Frequent stated: “I’m a warrior too. I’m from the South Aspect of Chicago. At a sure level, for those who come at me, I’ma defend myself and I’ma go at you. I’ma combat to kill, John Wick fashion.”
The 52-year-old additionally detailed how issues practically escalated past diss songs: “Finally, I felt good that we stored it on wax. It was attending to that time with me and Dice, as a result of they was taking a look at me like, ‘Oh, Frequent’s simply the backpack dude.’
“However then we had a bit of confrontation in Atlanta and this was like ’95 the place — and like I stated, me and Dice, it’s all love now — however at that time we had a bit of confrontation and I used to be like, ‘Man, this would possibly get ugly.’”
Frequent additionally praised Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan for serving to settle the meat: “And thank God for Minister Farrakhan ‘trigger at the moment, Biggie had simply handed, clearly ‘Pac had handed earlier than him and it was similar to, ‘Man, you don’t know who going to do what.’”
Farrakhan helped mediate the dispute between Frequent and Ice Dice, who was a member of the Nation of Islam on the time.
The sit down between the 2 rap titans occurred on the group’s headquarters in Chicago and was additionally attended by different Hip Hop luminaries similar to Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Bone Thugs-N-Concord, Nate Dogg, Mack 10, WC, Too $hort, Fats Joe and Chuck D.
The meat began after Dice took situation with lyrics in Frequent’s traditional hit “I Used to Love H.E.R.” the place he rapped: “I wasn’t salty she was with them Boyz N the Hood.”
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The rapper/actor fired again on Mack 10’s “Westside Slaughterhouse” earlier than Frequent famously responded on the Pete Rock-produced “The Bitch In Yoo.”
Dice mirrored on the feud himself final 12 months and revealed that the Be MC really got here to his rescue earlier than they grew to become adversaries.
“Love Chicago. My first large present exterior of L.A. was on the Regal Theater in Chicago,” he stated in a documentary on the Chicago White Sox.
“We forgot considered one of our information that we had been performing. Guess who took me to the document retailer to purchase the document? I needed to go purchase our personal document. It was Frequent.”
He continued: “He was opening up for us. I imply, we didn’t actually know who he was and that’s simply, you understand, a type of footnotes. [But] Chicago has at all times welcomed us earlier than the remainder of the nation.”
