Is Ice Prince Better Than MI

Do you like the fact that i used a pic from when Ice Prince was still hungry? lol! Anyway, I was chilling with some of my friends yesterday, and this argument came up. I don't really consider it an argument, cos we just laughed it off. Apparently, one of my friends that's closer to the younger generation...teenagers, said most of them had concluded that Ice Prince was a better rapper than MI. I am not a big MI fan perse, but i know and listen to him enough to know that he is way better than Ice Prince.



I can say what would bring up this judgment in the first place is the fact that Ice Prince is currently all over the place. He is the hottest rapper out. Remember i said "hottest", i didn't say best. What that really means is that he is the wave for now. Of cos, i don't dispute the fact that he CAN RAP. But when it comes to a well rounded craft, MI beats him out. When you listen to an Ice Prince verse, you appreciate the metaphors (which MI has mastered), and the way he rides the beat. But, you can't really count on hearing a well crafted story, or a style switch between verses. Most times, Ice Prince uses the same repetitive rhyme pattern. Of cos, if you don't know too much about rap, you wont understand all that i'm saying.









If you are not just about a good beat and a nice voice on it...if you really listen, you would know that MI has more quality rhymes than Ice Prince.  What i mean is that when it comes to the total package- wordplay, delivery, story telling, voicing, lyrics patterning....MI is better than Ice Prince. And if you take your time to listen to Ice Prince critically like i did, you would notice that he burrowed a little of his style from MI...and a little from Drake...just a little from Drake...that dragging of last words in a verse, that's Drake's thing. Or should i say, that was Drake's thing, cos Drake nolonger does that.


This dones't take anything away from Ice Prince. I think he is a cool rapper, for the section of the population he carters for. Personally, i think his "Superstar" single is a success. For him to make a song better than "Oleku" is a job well done by him. And yes, i do believe the Superstar song is better than oleku. Oleku had a banging beat, a great chorus, nice flow, with okay verses...which were kind of monotonuos. But on superstar, he didn't have the luxury of a great hook...just an okay one. So, he had to make up for it with his delivery and lyrics, and he did okay...he did great.


With all that said, i think Ice Price is a good rapper, but MI is better than him.