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In a recent article in The Guradian Ice-T talks about video games and goes on about why he likes Grand Theft Auto games.

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Ice-T: I love them. The best one is Grand Theft Auto, which is just fucking mayhem. I’m in the Scarface game, which teaches you how to sell drugs, and I was in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I played a cracked-out rap star who had his lyrics stolen and the person that stole them became a star. So I went on crack and by the end of the game I get my reputation and my mansion back. You start off as a kid in South Central LA, you build up your rep and then you get a gang. It’s definitely some crazy shit.

The Vice City games are the worst shit ever – in a good way. It’s so intentionally wrong that you’ve got to get into it. You go, “Oh my God, if I’m out of money I just rob a liquor store.” Inside this world, all the things that you think about, you can do. Does that make you want to do it in real life? No. To me it diffuses it. People say video games make kids violent. I don’t think so. It can be an outlet for that aggression. It’s a masculine thing. Human beings have some weird blood lust, it roots back to us being animals. It’s ill, though.

Also in an interesting statement from the same article Author and Journalist Nelson George states that Video games are more important than hip-hop. He likens video games to the new rock and roll. I must say I totally agree. Nelson George wrote “Hip Hop America” in 1998 and also was co-creator of the movie CB4 starring comedian Chris Rock. This is what Nelson George had to say: … read more…

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GTA FTW

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