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Fans tend to be meaner towards their legacy acts. They\u2019re hellbent on preserving the memories they hold of their favorite veteran artists. Consequently, whenever they release a new record, there comes a lot of criticism However, Ice Cube takes exception to all the mean comments.<\/p>\n
Recently, the \u201cIt Was a Good Day\u201d rapper put out a new song with Scarface<\/a>, \u201cAct My Age.\u201d The music video sees the pair juxtaposed on two baby bodies, responding to anyone hating on older rappers still cranking out music. \u201cThis is for the Black, white, brown, and beige\/Never tell me to act my age\/Bitch told me to act my age\/That\u2019s when I let his ass out the cage,\u201d Ice Cube raps on the hook. <\/p>\n The video is incredibly silly and middle-aged. Frankly, it\u2019s hard to really think too hard about. However, one tweet essentially tells Cube and Scarface to hang it up. \u201cThis is a prime example of why as a rapper you just gotta know when it\u2019s time to hang the mic up,\u201d it reads. Instead of letting it slide, Cube addresses the criticism directly. <\/p>\n \u201cI would never listen to you and hang up my mic. You\u2019ve obviously lost your sense of humor. You need to go find it and stay out my business,\u201d Cube harshly responds<\/a>. <\/p>\n This follows the general mission statement of the song too. The intro is particularly cranky, parroting all the typical ideas that modern music doesn\u2019t mean anything anymore. But instead of just complaining about it, the song calls for rappers like Ice Cube and Scarface to keep going in order to fill the void. <\/p>\n If you over thirty-five and still rapping, keep rapping, my boy. Keep going to that studio. F**k all of that, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m getting old\u2019 shit. No, we need y\u2019all, we need y\u2019all to save music. We need the real lyricists back,\u201d the Ice Cube song goes.\u201dYou know what I\u2019m saying, it made an impact. When you listen to a song, you felt that s**t. It spoke to you, talked to you\u201d<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n