Ice T use to say this type of stuff all the time when he was at the forefront of the genre. Back then people didn't always agree with a Ice t, ice cube, nwa, rakim etc but at least they had SOMETHING to say & that's what I took from what he was saying.
I look at the contrast of rappers he mentioned like a lupe & kendrick who were probably affiliated with gangs but never really considered themselves "street dudes" VS a guy like a plies who grew with similar circumstances but at one time had people believing he was a modern day bump johnson. Same can be said about wayne, I never seen so many rappers claiming blood, even the r&b singers are now...smh