Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody recently voiced his opinion on the current state of hip-hop in an interview with the radio station Rock 108. He spoke on the mentality of rappers who are currently seeing success, saying they’re “about as hard as soft butter.” He added, “That’s all there is to it. I have not met a rap dude yet who intimidates me – at all.”

“I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real,” Moody explained. “You’re talking about Corey Taylor and Randy [Blythe] and myself, J.D. [Jonathan Davis] – these are real dudes, and no way am I gonna walk to up to [them] and talk shit about their wife or their kid. Dude, I would show up at somebody’s door stoop. I’d be, like, ‘You know what? We’ve got something to talk about now.’ I’m not gonna rap about it. So it’s just hilarious to me on one level where these guys get away with that, and then I meet them, and they’re just gentle, weird kids. I’m, like, ‘You guys are great with you lyrics, but, man, when it comes to the solid spinal part of this thing, you are lacking… You have to carry a gun. Now I get it. I carry one ’cause I want to, not because I have to watch my ass.’ Anyway… You heard it here first – they’re all half sissies. Not all of them, but I’m serious – 75 percent of the ones I’ve met.”