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  • 5/18/2025
TMZ Hip Hop caught up with Babyface Ray outside LAX this week and he tells us he fits all the criteria to be immortalized in his city -- along with Eminem, Big Sean and the late Blade Icewood for his Mt. Rushmore picks.

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00:00you're one of the leaders of the new school bro yeah and Detroit is is taking it to a new level
00:08for years sure and now everyone's seen it you know but there's people that have you on on you
00:15know everyone does the Mount Rushmore thing right now yeah but I wonder from your perspective people
00:21got you on there but from your perspective what is the the final you know like locked in what's
00:27your what's your Detroit rap Mount Rushmore it's me you know I'm saying I'm gonna just go with it I
00:33used to be a bit um chill and leave myself off there so I'm gonna put me on there I'm gonna go Eminem
00:39I'm gonna go big shine and then I'm gonna go a legend rest in peace to Blade Icewood I like that
00:43people that don't know you know now they can pick up this stuff they know they know but some people
00:48know they just act like they don't know but rest a piece of Blade you know I'm saying I think Eminem
00:53did what he was supposed to do for the city and then shine was pretty big too but it's a lot of
00:58Detroit artists that I can put on there oh yeah Mount Rushmore need to be a little bit more you know
01:02you got to expand it you know we got to expand ours our our concrete build a little bit bigger than just
01:07four people what what about if you think about it from like you we got athletes actors yeah you know
01:14you know that's Motown bro you know who if you got to put together like the the full one like
01:19that you know considering all John man we'd be standing there all day you know I'm saying we
01:23ain't got enough time for that but shout out to everybody from Detroit shout out to the Motocity
01:27man shout out to the up-and-coming artists though the old artists that inspired us you know I'm
01:32saying we appreciate y'all so what you think about the Lions this year I love the Lions love the
01:36Pistons you know I'm saying today I mean like how far are we out you know because I mean I Super Bowl
01:40we Super Bowl for the Lions this year and then we probably gonna go a little bit deeper for the
01:44pisses next year yeah they're Kate Cunningham is a beast any any of the you know you know these
01:51guys close any of them got flows that like we wouldn't know hey right okay correct okay do
01:57stay you heard you heard it but I think he and his mom was you know mama time right now he
02:01ain't really good yeah yeah yeah focus on bass but you've you've heard him kick and you're like
02:05nice some of my engineering to put me up on that engineer me he engineer for cable so and he's
02:11he sounds like a like a like a marketable artist no I never got a chance to hear him they told me
02:16now that's the rumors yeah that's what's up man would you hey right now man hey would you do a
02:22collab okay yeah for sure let's go okay let's go

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