Reason First: Master P is the Real Ice Cream Man

Though Chris “C&H” Hicks may have started the trend of calling dope sellers the ice cream man, Master P gangstered his way by snatching the title.

In his musical genius, Percy Miller conceived of making a song and video that also looked like Faison Love in Friday with a perm. This means that Hicks did not properly secure his role as the originator of the name and look.

Rappers like Yukmouth have pointed out that Snoop didn’t invent the “izzle” lingo. He got that from 3X Krazy.

Miller simply scooped up a hotline and made it a hot song and album. He even made surecto be called Mr. Ice Cream Man. This is traditional in the genre of rap music. In fact, it’s traditional in all human endeavors and activities, especially music.

From the blues onward, black musicians crafted a style that whites ran with in their day. While American whites had stupidly been so racist and black Americans too stupid to own their publishing and masters, the Brits took command of both.

The first British invasion began off of the sonics of blues people like Ma Rainey, Ledbelly, and Robert Johnson.

Bands like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones picked up and stole tunes by these blues and rock & roll artists like Little Richard and Chuck Berry. White audiences went wild. They didn’t see the black faces, just the popular Fab Four from Liverpool and the bad boys from London ripped off American blues musicians without regard.

Bands like Led Zeppelin and its front man Robert Plant straight up stole Johnson’s “lemon” line.

Later, in hip hop, stupid black rappers just hijacked melodies and beat patterns from the rock bands who stole from the bluesmen and women.

What makes Master P immune is the fact he rocked something that can’t be copyrighted. Rapper Yukmouth even admitted this whole line.

Master P’s sterling reputation for patching things up with most of his artists still holds the title as the greatest example of being a rapper executive. For being the Ice Cream Man on records and in videos, he has made himself an entry to the hallowed halls of musicianship.

Though not as technically skilled or possessing a lyrical dexterity, Master P has shown that he can take your whole style and make it all his own.

As the best rapper to ever do it, he has made inroads for the likes of Suge Knight, Baby, Jay-Z, and host of other performers and label owners in rap.

The Ice Cream Man moniker is like he took a bag of that white stuff from a compatriot who couldn’t sell it and flooded the block and made a killing off of it.

Because of this savvy idea, Percy Miller changed the game for himself securing a nine figure deal with Universal, an unprecedented move that is still part of hip hop lore to this day.

As the Ice Cream Man, P represents a whole ideal that resonates to this day. By him being the leader of an enterprise that is still strong in the streets and on the Web, Master P solidified the notion of just taking something and blowing it up beyond all expectations.

In an industry that demands you know what you’re getting into before you make a move, it is incumbent on artists to know about points, publishing, and master recordings.

Master P has shown that to his artists whether want to admit it or not. The tale of the Ice Cream Man will always be passed down through the ages. It exemplifies the human condition to use something that has potential and make it into something truly great.