Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday

The Joe Rogan Experience when I found out that you wrote Friday I was like that's insane that's incredible yeah me and me and DJ Pooh that's a funny [ __ ] movie yeah yeah it is you know I mean DJ Pooh he's one of those he's like one of those undercover Geniuses that been in you've been involved in a lot of hip-hop I mean he he helped LL do Going Back to Cali you know I mean like he'd been around forever and we're all fans of pool you know what I'm saying and pool um is funny he technical he he's the one who who got rock star to do the Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto San Andreas that whole you know like take it from Miami and put it in LA you know I mean take it from the Miami dope culture to the LA gang culture so he's the one who's behind the scenes with stuff like that and he helped me write Friday he produced uh it was a good day the song um so whenever we together it's just magic and uh we wrote Friday because we were watching uh In Living Color uh and we love Hollywood Shuffle by Robert Townsend and uh we was like let's write it let's write a movie about the neighborhood like because everything that was coming out was depressing you know colors boys in the hood right Menace to Society right South Central it was like yo this is a Hill Zone and we're just like on it did you remember it like that or don't we laugh around here all the time like let's let's show how it really is for us around here and so that's how Friday kind of germinating became like yo we're gonna show our version of what how we have fun in South Central that is an all-time classic yeah it's it's uh it's a movie that I get commented all more than any other like people quoted love it yeah the the characters are iconic um the dress up well you know you got a line like you got knocked the [ __ ] out that gets repeated for decades yeah yeah I mean I knew I knew it was one of those lines because I had never heard it in a movie before when somebody got knocked out and I'm like yeah this is what he gonna say when he jump over him and look down on him like you got knocked the [ __ ] out how many times you seen that on the world yeah how many times have you seen on a World Star Hip-Hop now though all the time it's just like everybody else yeah when someone goes down it's automatic it's automatic yeah you know all you know that's as as an artist that's all you want is to have a couple Classics that people remember you for you know when you 80 in the cafe you know drinking coffee somebody run up and be like yo Craig what's up yeah I mean that's that's all you want

Channel: PowerfulJRE

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Keywords: Joe Rogan Experience, JRE, Joe, Rogan, podcast, MMA, comedy, stand, up, funny, Freak, Party

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Length: 3min 28sec (208 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 29 2023