Ice-T recently explained why his beef with LL Cool J ended after the two posed together last weekend for a picture. They both took part in the Hip Hop 50 Tribute at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards on February 5th. Prior to the performance, Ice-T shared a picture of him alongside LL Cool J on Instagram captioning it, “Here’s a Pic Hip Hop heads probably thought they’d NEVER see.. ICE and @llcoolj Chillin at the 2023 Grammy rehearsals.. Tonight is gonna be Legendary.”
Ice-T further explained the situation with Ll Cool J saying, “LL and I have been together on different occasions, I’ve worked with him on Rock The Bells, we’ve done podcasts and stuff, but as far as an actual physical picture of us? I think there’s probably one other one out there. And I think the other one was before we actually really sat down and talked like grown men about it. But yeah, that’s over and lol the beef never really escalated. It was just rap beef.”
The Hip Hop 50 Tribute was put together by Questlove, and included artists such as, Salt-N-Pepa, Run-DMC, the Furious Five, De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy and Rakim to Method Man, The Lox, Missy Elliot, Nelly, Lil Baby, GloRilla, Lil Uzi Vert and more come together to celebrate every era of the genre.
Ice further recalled that he almost didn’t take part in the tribute saying, “Questlove calls me up and he says, ‘Alright, you gotta come to L.A. this weekend. It’s a big performance, I got you in the lineup,’ And I was still hesitant ’cause it’s a long travel. But then he says, ‘You don’t want to be sitting at home watching this show, saying you should’ve been there. I was invited but I didn’t show up.’ And [so] I got my Black ass on a plane. Real talk, unfortunately, that’s usually the only time we all get together and see each other, So the GRAMMYs brought us together and it’s so crazy that for a while, rap wasn’t even represented at the GRAMMYs. I got one of the early GRAMMYs with Quincy Jones, you know, but I felt Quincy kinda snuck us in the backdoor.”
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