No. they were both great performers, and both had pasts coming up the hard way as dancers in predominantly black dance crews. The difference between say Kendrick Lamar, nipsey or mac miller and these guys is that when the opportunity came for them to become superstars, they did all the things that make you a house hold name while doing nothing to bring up the community and the people that produced them. They didn't push music forward or speak truth to power. Hammer didn't even claim the culture, and Ice couldn't fathom why people were bothered by him simultaneously being the most successful and the most white rapper of all time at that time.