"Ice Cube" On The Jonathan Ross Show Series 6 Ep 9.1 March 2014 Part 4/5

welcome back those of them let's get my next guest he is a rap legend he's also now a Hollywood superstar please welcome Ice Cube great to have you on the show thank you for joining us yeah modular Mutchler uh what is I've been calling you I could your cube earlier cube is what you prefer your herbs work what I prefer you know uh and this is a you know white guys always ask me what to call me because you want to get it right yeah you know they say dark call you ice just call you cubed I'll call you mr. cube I kinda miss you guys yeah you know I mean Cuba's is what all my homies call me you my homey I go on the wet hold um when I call you Honda what do you family call you was part of my family you know I mean you know my mom's she gonna call me Oh che okay that's the name she gave you yeah that's my name that's the name she gave me she gave me a Irish last name I don't know why okay yo cubes in a new big comedy movie he's out here in the UK right now it's just open it's called ride-along number one movie in the USA this was yeah yeah graduation roll wow that's a great feeling and that big time so this is a funny film a deliberately funny if it was a comedy tell us the premise of this what why the long is about well I play you know badass cop you know I mean who's I'm trying to take down the biggest kingpin in Atlanta so I'm focused and I got this little mosquito buzzing around my head by the name of Kevin Hart and uh he's a wannabe cop he's he's school security who wants to be a cop but what's worse he wants to marry my sister so I can't have that you know I mean because he's a he's a little challenged when it comes to height and you know I don't want a little bit of nephews you're not I mean so I decide to take him on a ride-along and just try to scare the out of this reminded me in that wasn't afraid film there's the film training day the great film with Denzel Washington in and it's kind of like this but this ain't it this is this is training today flipped upside down in a probably training day on crack okay that's it this weekend it's very funny have a look at this Kevin Hart um so uh partly your character doesn't like him coming him because he's marrying your sister in the Boomer wants to yes yes yes can't have that okay and you are a your father in real life cube yes I am how did your a screamer your daughter how does she know she's 20 now cuz she's turning herself yeah yeah he's bringing young fellas back I guess now to see to me Dad wanted to wanted to and and do they meet the friendly welcoming cube what do they meet they're slightly more judging cube when they're coming out what you paint Jonathan I got to put him through the wringer man you know I got a motto my motto is whatever you do to her I'm gonna do to you what a pumice yeah so that keeps it but you do the you do this the sort of uh the the mean face pretty well I don't know what you're talking about me well just my face but you know I don't know how to do it but you just got it you just gotta feel gangster when you do it you're not me feel gangster and give it to him wait man this is Mike is this my camera come on baby give me the red light there we go yeah give it to him that's how you do it so cuz I like to think I'm original G yeah you're original look hard man just look hard not quite we're sharing a cell no not okay um let's wrap you moving into acting so your first big acting wall I guess the big break for you would be boys in the hood girls boys in the hood had you acted before had you studied acting never it took two years to really convince me that I could do it I just figured I never went to school for acting I wasn't qualified you should get somebody get Todd bridges get somebody that's qualified you know me so dude was like no you don't want in I'm glad he pursued me I'm glad I did it and this is an interesting I think it interested me again I'm really you're probably better known to a whole generation of people out there now as a movie star as an actor yeah that's Creighton for me it's a music that would I guess that was an unexpected turn of events was it it was you know I when I first started I just wanted to be you know my I had high ambitions I wanted to be the best rapper in the world you know I mean I can't sing a lick so rapping was the only way I was gonna be able to be up here you know sitting up here with you you know I mean so I just just put my all into it I met dr. Dre when I was 14 you know and he's you know he was a local at the time you know nobody knew knew who Dre was and uh and we just started working together and I kicked it off and ended up starting NWA together and uh here we are so NWA were a huge Bank if you then and a controversial band of course as well definitely you had your fair share did you coke that controversy or were you surprised when that happened no no we knew it was gonna happen you know uh coming from South Central Los Angeles Compton wise you know it's rough neighborhoods you know I mean is yeah you know back then we only felt we had a few outlets and uh the music was our it was our way to be constructive and not being and not being destructive but it also was a weapon it was like it was our weapon against police brutality it was our weapon against crack cocaine it was our weapon against gang banging and you know it was something that we use to to speak our feelings cuz we felt powerless at that time and the music gave us power how were the police with you guys because you were fairly vocal at times uh they hated us yeah yeah they hated us we was on stage one time in Detroit in 89 and we had a song the police you know that was the same so the police didn't like that song not even I thought it was such a catchy number you know they didn't like the song and uh the promoter that we were we were doing the shows for said yo we'll put you on tour but you can't perform that song cops everywhere they ready to shut you down so we agreed to that until we got mad at the promoter we was like tonight we gonna do that song we're gonna tear this thing up so we got on stage and we we started performing the song and we was like yeah the audience was looking a little rowdy and it was kind of getting out of hand and we was like what's going on and then we saw the whole Detroit Police Department rush the stage they threw a fireworks and stuff on stage they made it we took off running some of the guys ran out the arena to the hotel they corralled us arrested us all and all they wanted was damn autographs but they daughters so for that you through there's a movie or there's a possibility movie based on the story of NWA itself of you getting the band together and you being that boy back when yeah yeah we put in the movie together called Straight Outta Compton and uh you know it's a feature film about about the world's most dangerous group you know about NWA and uh you know I've been it's like this is a dream project for me this is something I never thought I was gonna get get done and you know easy died of AIDS in 1995 so when he died I never thought we was gonna be able to make this movie and uh here we are we're about to make it you know you're obviously your movie sundown but you can't you couldn't play yourself back then no no you know the jheri-curl won't fit on me now so we don't we all get a UH we'll get some reputable actors and uh you know I got I got one role in mind that uh that I hope that that my son'll and you know I hope he plays me in the movie you know so I think he could do it you know so we'll see he's a good-looking young man do you think he's as good-looking as you oh you think he's better-looking white not quiet you know man he they broke the mold but you know he is it he's a fair ii uh and will he be comfortable with growing the jheri curl for the movie do you think he'd better be it's a job that if it was good enough for diet hey it's good enough hey it's the reason he's here yeah I've had that jheri curl his mama wouldn't have liked me and he wouldn't be here that's not there we are uh he said was well at me yeah yeah he gets busy he is you go yes come on man well I don't produce no junk cube the movie is called ride-along it's out already it was the number one movie in the face for three so now that's got to feel pretty good to know yeah we're trying to get it number one here too okay well let's hope so it's great fun Kevin Hart he's wonderful say hello to him for me we'll go ice cube great to have you here mr. Ice Cube

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Length: 9min 49sec (589 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 01 2014