Jan 08 2009
“Tupperware-T” — Ice-T’s Tupperware Addiction
This isn’t new news, but I thought it made a nice addition to my other article about The Taming of Rap Stars. Ice-T is a Tupperware fan.
He caught Tupperware’s attention when he mentioned the plasticware on The Conan O’ Brien Show. Of course the uncool product line associated with housewives who have nothing better to do then try to sell the pieces to their friends (usually they end up buying the products for themselves so their sales sheets look good) wanted to associate with a well known rapper and TV star.
You might guess that I don’t like Tupperware. Some friend of my wife’s keeps trying to sell it to her and of course she gave her a set of Tupperware bowls as a Christmas gift (so again someone bought the product themselves to improve their sales figures). I don’t think there’s anything special about Tupperware. There’s plenty of plasticware out there where I don’t have to pay for the Tupperware brand name.
According to this post on contactmusic.com Ice-T is quoted as saying: “Tupperware is ghetto. Rich people don’t know about Tupperware because they don’t eat leftovers. Real people use Tupperware.”
And then he goes on to say about his party put on by Tupperware corporate: “All my rap friends showed up. It was very fly. We were drinking champagne out of Tupperware glasses.” This is something poor people apparently do with champagne…?
First off, poor people buy the knockoff Tupperware that is cheaper. Second of all, Tupperware is hardly ghetto. I grew up in middle-class suburbia and Tupperware was common. Maybe these weren’t “rich people” but there were a lot of families who were well off (doctors, lawyers, etc). Don’t try to make it “ghetto” cool. Your party was an infomercial–YOU’RE ICE T, FOR GOD’S SAKES!
Can you imagine back in the day when “Cop Killer” came out and during the flood of controversy Ice-T comes out in favor of Tupperware? Would Tupperware have even wanted an association with Ice-T?
Like I said, it’s the taming of the rap stars. They have all settled down due to success and money, only I’m not sure they recognize how tame they are now.
