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     *And so it has come to this. The latest hip hop beef to hit the Internet – played out in back-and-forth clips on YouTube – is between O.G. rapper Ice T, age 50; and 17-year-old rap sensation Soulja Boy.

      It all started last week when Ice T appeared on a mixtape intro that blamed Soulja Boy for "single-handedly killing hip hop" with his single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and suggesting that the youngster "eat a d**k." (View here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCN2bHp_7k)  

      Soulja Boy retaliated with his own YouTube clip in which he made fun of Ice T's age, his real name (Tracy Lauren Morrow), his role as a cop on "Law & Order: SVU" and the fact that he reps the West Coast but was born in New Jersey. (View here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr8B2dnIvR4&feature=related  

      Ice T came back again with an explanation of how his original Soulja Boy dis came about, saying he "went on one" when producers of the mixtape asked him to comment on the current state of hip hop. Ice T apologized for telling Soulja Boy to "eat a d**k," but maintained his position that the teen's music is a disaster.

       "A brother of my caliber shouldn’t be talking down on a youngster of your age," said Ice. "But as far as your music goes, it's garbage. And I'm saying that for all of hip hop, homie."  (View here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8J4jBRgT8g)    

       Allhiphop.com got an exclusive with Ice T to get to the bottom of the beef.      

        “I’d like to clarify how all this s**t jumped off,” Ice-T explained. “I was in the recording booth doing a mixtape, and the cats in there doing the promotion were f*cking with me. They were saying things about ‘Soulja Boy this, Soulja Boy that’ and basically I went on one. It wasn’t meant to be evil, it was basically that Hip-Hop ‘n*gga f**k that’ stance.”        

        “I didn’t expect them to use that clip to promote their mixtape,” Ice-T reasoned. “So I’m in the crib and n*ggas is calling me talking about Soulja Boy is replying to you on the Internet. And I’m like ‘replying to what?’ So I see it and I’m like ‘man here we go.’ It was a statement made behind closed doors, not meant to be an attack on this n***a.       

        "I didn’t even know dude was 17 years-old,” Ice continues. “I felt bad. I know I came hard at the n***a, but at the end of the day that’s just an old school, passionate Hip-Hopper trying to keep this thing 100. I’m not trying to disrespect Collipark or even lil homie [Soulja Boy]. Of course I overreacted…it’s not meant to be harmful. Bottom line is I would like to see rappers of today step their game up.”

      Read the rest of Ice T's comments here: http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/default.aspx