Icewear Vezzo talks about Eminem.
When people think of Detroit, they usually think of Motown Records and, from a Hip Hop standpoint, Eminem. The rapper from 8 Mile Road rose to fame as the world’s second best-selling artist and is widely regarded as one of the finest rappers of all time. It’s understandable that Detroit residents look up to the legend, but despite the incredible numbers he’s still putting up on the board, the hoods in the D who document the streets aren’t rocking with Slim Shady. Detroit rapper Icewear Vezzo sat down with Say Cheese! for a new interview where the interviewer says that he interviewed a lot of ex-Detroit rappers and they never put Eminem in their Top 5, why is that.
“Because we ni**as don’t feel connected with Eminem,” said Icewear. “he wasn’t nobody that we, like I’ve never met him never seen in him in person. So it always is a connection type of thing obviously. We grew up differently or had it different from him. I really think it’s more like he’s far gone. I’m pretty sure it’s a lot of people that seen Em before he came up, dealt with him that ran into him. We just haven’t, we way younger than him. It’s more like we are street rappers, and he ain’t no street rapper. We can’t deny what Em did at the end of the day he from this motherf**ker, we can’t take that from that ni**a, can’t nobody take that from him, he’s from there ain’t no way around.”
Icewear continues, “I don’t move like that, I mean I can’t speak for everybody but I don’ t do that, I can’t do that I can’t discredit no nigga that I don’t know. We ain’t even the same age so of course I wouldn’t have seen him growing up and he was already a millionaire.”
He also says that Eminem’s movie 8 Mile is lit, but that’s not Detroit, that’s Eminem’s life, What he witnessed that ain’t Detroit, that movie was a misrepresentation of Detroit.
Vezzo makes it clear that he isn’t implying that Eminem is unconcerned about the city or the hood. He commends Em for his philanthropic work through the Marshall Mathers Foundation, as well as Slim Shady for being an example of someone who fulfils their obligations. He simply claims that the hood wants Eminem to be more accessible.
Despite his belief that Em isn’t really a hero to the streets, Icewear Vezzo maintains that the Detroit great owes them nothing. It’s widely documented how Eminem was treated on the streets before he became famous, and like many rappers who have gotten the short end of the stick in their lives, making it out is the first priority.
