Ice Cube Speaks on Kanye West's Successful Career

Diddy recently launched his TV network, Revolt TV, and he has been getting a lot of rappers to do interviews for it. Their latest is an interview with legendary rapper/actor, Ice Cube. Kanye West recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of his debut album, College Dropout on February 10th, and the interviewers used that opportunity to ask Cube what he felt about Kanye's success.




"I think he carved out his own niche in Hip Hop. I think the style that he started, which a lot of us called it backpack rappin', it was underground. Kanye kind of brought it, to me, to a level where it was just as respected as any kind of Rap. He brought it from the underground and made it - not mainstream-mainstream, but mainstream Rap where it could hold its own up against Gangsta Rap, up against the Native Tongues, up against whatever style you want to talk about. I just think Kanye was the start of that niche right there."

Yea, that's very true. And thanks to Damon Dash and Jay Z for giving Ye that stamp of approval, or maybe he wouldn't have been accepted as he was/is. He was very creative, but his whole style was very different from what was in the mainstream at the time. The way that Rocafella stamp of approval helped Kanye out, could be compared to how Dr. Dre's cosign helped Eminem's career.