Talib Kweli & Ice Cube Talk N.W.A., East vs. West, Squashing Beefs, 'Friday,' BIG3 | People's Party

[Music] one two three and a place to be as talent quality to be KMC this is the People's Party welcome back thank you for tuning in thank you for rockin with us make some noise for my lovely and talented and funny and thoughtful and thought-provoking co-host Jasmine Lee in the place to be everybody now the People's People's Party what I've been able to do with this show is sit down with people who have a lot of cultural currency now rappers brag about making a lot of money but that money is worthless if you don't have any cultural currency today's guests might have the most cultural currency of anybody I've ever met in my life as a writer as a hip-hop artist he is one of my hugest inspirations he is very important to the culture to the history hip-hop music he's a game changer a revolutionary a movie star the owner of his own [ __ ] sports league savvy smart lyricist he's been dropping entire tutorials how-to books on how to conduct yourself in this rap game and in life ladies and gentlemen the People's Party welcomes Ice Cube [Music] thank you good morning or afternoon ice-cubes Jasmine Jasmine IceCube so jasmine we've actually met before we don't remember I worked with you she was an extra stretch out of Compton is that right yeah it was like one of my first background roles in LA what else don't you know strat Compton was a it was a monster yeah I might have been just you know a little bit I would say you know I I guess [ __ ] you love hate yeah [ __ ] you Ice Cube yeah I went to an ice cube concert you know in 1992 at toads place in New Haven I met my man blue gems they actually arrested peas he passed away recently recipes to him but I was the first person at the ice cube concert huh and you know that concert changed my life brother and made me want to be a performer so I want to thank you for that oh man thank you for telling me no doubt I also want to thank you for the first time we met first time I met you was in Brooklyn I afropunk it was a couple of blocks away from my crib and I walked down there and you developed you delivered a masterful set with grab see yeah and your son yes I was a beautiful thing and you paid me a compliment you said it has pen skills definitely no doubt and I appreciate that cuz that's your company he was right on and not fake that's that's like the highest praise I could possibly get you know from the later like yourself yeah you know some dudes are all respected I guess for for what they do in the game and some people are respected for who they are in the game you know and I've already I've always respected you for who you are in this game I appreciate and um what you stand for I know it's not easy to not chase that trend or fad or dolla you know and just stand on your heart and you know spirit your inspiration and your passion and I've always respect you for that I appreciate I learned it from watching you now that same year in 1992 legend has it that January 20th 1992 was the actual day that it was a good day every day above ground and somebody broke it down yeah and you know I his name was uh Donovan strain was the right I think broke it all the way down you said that was the day the Lakers beat the super Sonics it was a clear days no smog yeah he broke it all the way down yeah I mean you know it was a great piece of research but you know it was a good day is it's like to me a whole lot of day summed up into one ok no it's like the Friday movie you know mostly everything you seen in that movie happened on my block at one point or another and I just wrapped it into one story and so it was a good day is not one one day day okay it's a lot of days wrapped into one and to be honest like I said any day you above-ground you're not dealing with health issues and you're not in jail mm-hmm he's a good day that's a good day um you also said you hit a triple-double on this song yeah you know and there's a lot of basketball talk on this on that's some of the best basketball lyrics of all time on that one record and now you have picked three yes did you imagine when you wrote that record that you would have something like big three never you know big sports fan growing up play football and basketball wanted to actually play football till till it wasn't fun no more and then you know I was having fun but the coaches and everybody was all super serious you know and too serious for me you know when the game was like I'm playing for their jobs that's how they like you and me five and you ain't getting paid and getting paid a quarter it was just I like balling right um and anyone fun no more and at the same time hip hop was taking over my life and I had a chance to really you know kick it with dr. Dre and the recomm accrue and that just became my passion and focus and I just quit football I was like I'm done done with all this yelling you know no no high school we had similar experiences when I was in high school I was very good at baseball and baseball was the only sport I really followed I never followed football never follow basketball really you know I followed popular culture so I understand whoo-hoo affect and impact the culture yeah face donate level of accomplishments in a respected field but I don't I don't know I like that I know baseball oh and um hip hop took over my life like my inspirations lyrically just what the pen is you care is one a q-tip I feel like that's my style you know yeah and our dozer the record I was listening to I was listening to America's Most Wanted in a tribe called quest's and Boogie Down Productions stuff yeah and it was taking me away from baseball and I didn't wanna go to practice no more practice was not fun for me anymore being out there practicing when I could be listening to hip-hop music yeah you know I was just missing out um I was bused to a school in the valley so our practices was after school so I wouldn't pull in up to five six o'clock right everybody gone everybody's doing what they do you know and I'm like looking for people didn't have no car so I was just depending on people to come back and pick me alright California that just tough like it is it's over for you New York we had to let you ride all night you know rough tough and dangerous it was called the RTD yeah mm-hmm it's called the Metro I guess now black it was uh it was the rough tough and dangerous RTD nobody was getting on that unless you was you want to scrap right through every would you drove through mostly right so I was sick of getting left something like man imma imma be early so when Trey wake his ass up and getting that car I'm gonna be right there witty all right hang on you know get left so I stopped I was just football it didn't interest me no more cuz I didn't want to I didn't want to I don't want to play no more if it was all about being not fun super serious you know you trying to go to college and all that kind of stuff to football and all that I just didn't want to be that guy now a big three is interested to me because again I don't know too much about basketball but what I could tell from how you developed it it comes from a deep deep deep love of the game yes and you tried to bring the game to other people who share this deep love for the game yeah and to me it's you know we didn't reinvent the wheel like three-on-three nice part of basketball as much as five on five or even more right because most people can get at three on three half-court game going faster than they can get a five on five or you know it's not enough room you know I mean people ain't letting you just take the whole court so it was a game that was always on the under but never respected and elevated to the professional so that was the goal to elevated to the professional level and think of you know business model that worked and giving people reason to go and having all the games in one day and you know making it like a mini all-star guard mm-hmm and then you know we went after Hall of Famers mm-hmm and and made sure that the game was credible right now if Gary Payton and dr. J and Iceman George Garvin and Rick berry don't say yeah I don't know if we hear mmm because people looked at it and say you know if they put in a name into this it must be something that takes serious you know but then you know we had to evolve and make sure that we were you know tailor making the sports for the fan base that was watching it they wanted to watch you keep bringing up people and fans and it's very egalitarian it's very you know about community and communing and you know that's that that to me is the most important part of it and like bringing fun into it yeah and also the ownership aspect you've been pushing ownership in the music in the films and now you push an ownership in sports mm-hmm was is that a deliberate part of it yeah you know we wanted to when I say we you know it's not just me and you know I got a I got a partner named Jeff countenance and me and this dude been doing it for a long time when we both fearless when it comes to new ideas bringing something to the world that that don't exist now when it comes to fans and the fan experience you know me to me my my I would say my key and my goal is to make sure I don't try to sell you something that I wouldn't buy right you know ain't trying to push nothing on you that I wouldn't write pay a ticket you know thinking like a big three came to town if I had nothing to do with it would I go and the answer's hell yeah you know I beat ya so you know that's where it starts to me it's all about what the fan is gonna get out of it I remember doing doing like producing my first movie and you know which is Friday producing it cutting it and I was like not the fans ain't gonna really understand this and the editor was like fans what do you mean don't do what the stories say do I'm like no we not right we're not just gonna do it the stories say do if the fans ain't gon get it it's all about the fans it's not all about this story you saw me it's all about how two people absorb this story so I've always thought that way and to me that's the key to longevity in any business I think it's really cool that what you hated about sports and how is how over serious it was and so the big three is like cinch it around fun how did you come up with the new rules like four points shot and all that stuff well we wanted to be unique we knew we couldn't compete with the NBA and what they've you know they've been around 75 years so we knew we had to have wrinkles and things that would make you wrinkles like wanna see our game and make our game special and unique everybody's been talking about the 4-point shot but nobody's pulled the triggers we was like we gonna do it and it's competitive you know everybody say do a line why you gonna do a for playing line you know a line can't be defended really but a circle can you know I could see somebody getting to the circle and I can you know move towards that to defend that so you know these were things you know not having a time clock a game clock just the first one 250 win mm-hmm no more garbage minutes you know they everybody planned to somebody score 50 they playing hard one shot free-throws who the hell want to see somebody shoot three free throws you know and they damn sure don't want to see nobody shoot four so you know that I yo if you get but you gotta shoot it from the four you know you got to shoot it from the three you gotta shoot it you know so these are the little wrinkles that make our game special you know now we're we've come with bringing the fire rule which is a rule where you can you know once a half a coach can challenge a file so even if it's a real fire hard fire whatever a coach could say hey I don't want this dude to go to the free-throw line I want them to bring the fire and then them to players that was involved in that file go one-on-one for the point you know so it's you know if something fans been begging for it right like - I wanna see these dudes go one-on-one I wanna see you know Yanis verse LeBron I wanna see Kobe verse D way he figured out a way to make it happen a way to make it happen naturally in the Florida game and that it counts you know it's not just some size sure it counts towards the score or the file and these are the wrinkles that when you starting something new or you're adapting you have to think of things to make your game stand out you know we want to stand out away from the NBA you know we want the NBA to be over here we want to be over there just like you got boxing over here you got UFC over there that's what we want and we want the big three to stand along as its own professional thing now for what I understand the NBA is kind of copying some of the stuff yeah you know they've taken a few of our rules fourteen second shot clock wants a you know balls knocked out of bounds on the offensive side of the ball you know Gigli they doing these you know the one point free throws um one shot free throws put it that way so you know it's a few things that they've taken even you know our captain's pick the teams that that they play on you know it's not a a general manager you know it's so it's a captain co-captain and a coach and they run the team you know once we start doing that the next season the NBA had LeBron picking his all-star team and whoever right now now the Stars picked the team and so these are things that we think the image that has has borrowed from the big three and it's cool because they let us know that we we are changing the game we are ahead of the curve and we do know basketball now talk to me about these tryouts yeah and uh how is expanding we went down last year we went from 30 to 27 this year we're doing 22 years of age so you can be 22 and make the league and you don't have to have NBA experience you don't have to have you know overseas professional basketball experience if you do your thing in our tryouts you get an invitation to our combine and that's where all the basketball players are at the combine and you if you do your thing at the combine you'll have a chance to get picked so it's really opening the door up for any diamonds in the rough anybody out there be a fan like you talked about you built this thing for the fan experience one the fans want to be like I could play yeah I know my man yeah could try out and get there yeah and have a legitimate shot or other you know two sport athletes eyes you know dudes they play football that you know they can't play in the NBA but they might want to play in the big three this dudes out there bawling with NBA players now like Jay Cole and Chris Brown okay um which one plays but you know so it's open if you think you got what it takes which I doubt but if you think you do right you know come show us what you got and if you can if you can impress our Hall of Fame coaches and our you know all-star talent right then you'll get an invitation to the combine and you getting a combine anything can happen are you guys gonna allow women to tryout at any point yep come try out I'm gonna try out too no I got a nice three shot yeah but that is exciting to meet at that anybody is the opportunity for anybody and are just picture in the future that you're creating new superstars yes somebody's gonna come out of this that no one expected or no one heard and they gonna have face on a Wheaties boxes song wouldn't it be a great story if some guy you never heard of came to our trials made it through our combine God drafted did his thing this summer and then got invited to an NBA track and that's beer that would be beautiful that would be crazy you know so you know we want guys to come out but you got to have real game and we're gonna put you through the ringer and if you got the skills then you'll you'll get an invite god bless you for presenting these opportunities for people some wonderful thing man you know somebody presented opportunities for me along the way and that's the best thing about this league is you know guys are out of sports early yeah 30 do not me and could you imagine somebody come to you 31 32 tell you you done right I don't want to hear you on a magnum I was just start on one I don't want a movie from you right I don't want you to do nothing but go somewhere mm-hmm go fishing is what they say 31 30 man song 20 21 I mean but you know somebody 927 you don't get the call yo nobody called nobody wants you you ought to leave you retired and to be able to put them dudes back in the arena to be able to get him you know look do 6 9 in the air you know I'm saying and practice basketball his whole life he can't hang it up at 31 32 I mean that's mental torture so to have a game where a guy can come and do it all the way 350 I mean my mood up do raouf is out there at 50 bro giving them buckets so you keep your body in shape you keep your game right keep practicing and it's a place for you to still play and dudes man they bringing their kids it was like man my kids never saw me play you know and these are like special moments where like you're giving them back their true identities in a way their true job what they have trying a whole life to be you putting them back in that arena you're giving them a chance to make some money and get a profile on a platform back up where they can maybe parlay that into other opportunities for themselves you know I start saying you know Rick Bergen and uh Clyde Drexler commercials and stuff I'm like oh damn they getting a they getting a look sign back people seeing them and wanting them to do stuff and this is just a great thing a lot of our players are now you know they're doing the jump or whatever on here is PNE doing all the analysts and you know it's cool to see it's good energy who is some of your favorite players to watch oh man love watching Nate Robinson big baby Glen Davis Joe Johnson killed it this year the MVP of the league man Stephen Jackson still bring it and my mood abdul rauf man he's he's an inspiration oh my god at the beginning of your career I talked about CIA yeah shut up - sir jinx sir drinks man st. Jinxy when I first moved to LA bro that was - dude I used to make sure I was good cool in LA he know everybody you know everything he know everybody everybody know him yeah man and jinxes fearless man so he's uh you know one of the most creative dudes I ever met yeah yeah super talented yes arrested peace - crazy tools and C tones man that's another dude who was always showed me a lot of love ro he's number love ya I mean he's I mean he's a welcome committee mm-hmm and I mean he's so West Coast oh you know me crazy tunes and um you know I missed a dude a lot yeah I think about him a lot love - missed you wrote boys in hood for easy now was it eroded for a group car HBO okay okay yeah I wrote a full group called HBO homeboys only okay they was out of New York okay yes yes please I believe and the lyrics was just foreign to them they was like are you talking another language man and I was you know it was you know it was the fit we talked out here right so they didn't understand what I was talking about so they rejected it and then then he and then Dre convinced easy to to do it did you imagine it would become the name and inspiration for this film and recipes - Josh singleton as well nah man you know his just written it was such a cinematic fashion yeah you know it was it was in the nature of 6:00 in the morning I still yeah which is from PSK mm-hmm school Edie yeah yeah and so it was in that vein of telling a story it was all fans of Slick Rick and fans are curious who you know I mean that watch out there yeah yeah I mean that story is just crazy yeah so you know those was my favorite cats yeah any time and so I want to make a rhyme that talked about what I knew about mmm everything going on in the neighborhood so you know came out boys in the hood um did you see the thing online recently where slick Rick's name was trending yeah because someone had asked who's the best storyteller rap as Richards name is Trenton your name was was kept keepin up like people kept being like what's up with Ice Cube what about Ice Cube did you see that I picked that up okay okay so I agree you know Slick Rick when you we all look up to Slick Rick as a great storyteller but you can't have that conversation what I mentioned Ice Cube I appreciate that you know that's love I've always put you know storytelling rhymes on the tip top shelf yeah you know a rap is a rap a rhyme is around the riddle as a riddle but to walk somebody do a story in a masterful way and in a flawless way is to meet it the Paramount in the the tip-top of the game that's what made big special yeah and the reason why I Slick Rick is to me the best its delivery presentation to changing the voices and styles and you know it's like and I got dope rhymes you know and I could deliver but his were almost like you're turning the page of a book he known as a different thing you know so to me he's the best at it because of those reasons yeah um and lottie dottie is like I mean it's not like a singular story but but damn you know it's like you can't fade you this day yeah nobody can fail re daddy yeah I've always I won't say struggle I've always challenged myself to try to be a storyteller a rapper because I agree with you I agree that it's - top shelf that's like the top shelf liquor that's like yes you nose and a Johnny blooms they're like where's everybody's drinking Jack Daniels you know um coming like not to cut you off but if you did only have to be a hit record it only had to be something people like but you know as a MC when you delivered the perfect story and delivered the perf and you laid it out right yeah and you get the most satisfaction from them records no matter if anybody else like them on that right um you've seen a movie Inception yeah a great film but when they talked about how building scaffolding in your mind to create stories to try to Incept an idea of people that's how I feel when I listen to your music cuz you study architecture right yeah and that's what it feels like it feels like watching someone build an architectural struck structure yeah you know um I got rhymes that I you know I go after that you know I go after that mental know that um I think that's what it's all about at the end of the day you know means like what can you saying a rhyme that can help my mental no doubt and to me the best songs the best the biggest songs to me do that right um but I'm you know I'm trying to do that most of the time not all at the time because I think you know rapping should be fun - yeah and I think it should be the good bad and ugly right we have all of us all of that as a people yeah yeah why not yeah I mean put it out there you know it's like nobody is exempt on my records alright no black people white people right you know Mexican nobody everybody everybody you know every pencil need to be sharpened put it that way even mine right I even talk about me sorry you know I think that's the form that do that and a real MC does that right now I'm called a conscious rapper you're called a gangster rapper but you've made some of the most conscious music of all time you know [ __ ] the police is one of the most revolutionary records of all time yeah that's uh that's Street knowledge yeah kick inched it called Street knowledge why more [ __ ] in the pen and in college system thinking you love to hate but you know [ __ ] the police when when you were writing it did you see it as a part of a lineage or a part of a canon of revolutionary protest music uh yeah I mean you know we were fans of Public Enemy if you listen to their listen to her record has a lot of same breakbeats to it that PE use on on it takes a nation mm-hmm so you know I wanted to impact I didn't want to just like be gangster nothing else right I wanna you know I wanted to get you with that I wanted to you know yeah you know be you know Karis one chug D chugged is my favorite MC of all time yes shout-out to Chuck D you know but my top five I mean melly-mel in their iced tea is in there Chuck D Harris one hear it and rock him you know these are to me the ones that smell Rushmore yeah you know the ones that impacted me as a not just as a person that loved hip-hop but as a black dude trying to navigate what the hell's going on out here and so I wanted to be in that class in that category I didn't want to just be Romney for the sake of riddling you know what I mean right I wanted to have things to say and make impact and move move people like Chuck move me yes later in your career you did a excellent record called good cop bad cop yeah um whereas you break down how the reason why good cops everywhere bad cops exist and they are the norm as opposed to the exceptions to the rule the good cops are the exception to the rule and the good cops didn't want to lose a job and everything they speak up yeah because of that because bully a bully yeah because of the thin blue line in that bullying is there such a thing as a good cop yes okay oh yeah yeah it's the such thing as a good cop but like I said you know they bully push to the back not part of the gang you know I mean I'm part of the boys yeah but there are you know one of our only hopes last line of Defense's in a way right to try to get at some of the madness cuz they do cover up for they they do you know they don't report what they see right you know they they come in our neighborhoods and they want us to snitch but they won't snitch on each other right you sit on me so it's a problem they can solve it you know it takes courage it takes you know support from the system but you know the system is what they want to be yeah that's what we got to realize right you know it's not like man if I just show these people where they're wrong they'll do right right Danny how it works it can work that way though and what because what do you think about cuz when you say there are good cops even though they're not speaking up but I feel if you aren't speaking up then you're just as bad as the bad cop because if we if more cops come together and start saying no this is not right this is not right then they will become the majority yeah I think but it's you know it's a culture it's a little easier said than done you know they've kind of when they become an officer really accept this culture you know the you know they turn you into a police officer you know they don't you know just like they turn you into a soldier or you know doctor nation yeah you don't walk in and just here's a badge here's a gun they got it they got they got had eight weeks to do they work on you but guys put on the uniform and they still serve the community and do good things it's just not telling on this idiot that they saw you know choke out a 18 year old kid for mouthing off or whatever they're not speaking up but that don't make them bad cops are bad people you know it makes them a little you know somewhat cowards in a way yeah for sure but I'm not gonna say they're not good cops the way the way that you were on speaking on it reminds me of gang culture you know and it I think it's a similar type of mentality people grow up in these neighborhoods they joined gangs for survival and then they become indoctrinated and then it becomes a loyal to the loyalty thing or as like a soldier in the trenches who fighting who he joined the military because he wanted to pay for college to get out the hood of some and then the Iraq war pop off and now he fighting for Perry Ellis masters but he's just thinking about his man in the trenches I think that's kind of what I'm hearing you speak to when you speak about what these cops have to go do I mean it's real in the field you you know you you take off with some guys when y'all hittin the streets every day y'all not dealing with the best of the citizens that we have I hear you know most of the time y'all dealing with the worst and sometimes it can erode your sense of right and wrong you know I wish that cops could really go talk to people mandatory you know I mean no no you're taking no records and then you just every every week you got to come in there and just talk to these people yeah decompress let people know what's on your mind it's a lot of dudes bottle and stuff trying to be tough and then they they take their own life or take somebody else life in the street right you know it's it's um it's a situation that I think you know it's a way to get to a lot of issues and yeah if cops could go talk to people yeah man they gotta toughen it up yeah you know they gotta toughen it up man up they don't want to look like they can't handle it and you know one day day you know they snap they snap and go overboard and we wonder why yeah you have another song this great arrest of President yeah a lot his [ __ ] record Donald Trump you have one of my favorite quotes in the Trump era to describe down at Trump and because of how nuanced your quote was I think people try to use your quote against you you know weaponize your quote yeah um and you said uh Donald Trump is what America aspires to be the American dream he looks like a boss to everybody and Americans love to have a boss yes I got that yeah what do you think it was that people didn't didn't get about what you hire you were critiquing Trump in that moment I guess it was too too close for them to see right or it digs too deep but you know every American want to be rich and tell the whole world to you know [ __ ] off right do what the hell I want to do it's my damn money right right right Candice my house right I'm the man here who the man I'm the man who put this thing together me that's who ever I want I mean that's it right he's the character of that he's the epitome of that mm-hmm he's that disgusting arrogant greedy American Pig that's right and hey a lot of people is aspired to be that that's why I said what I said about him you know I don't see why you can't see a guy like that coming a mile away mm-hmm you know but a lot of people want to be that in their you know in their alter egos in there you know fantasies of being a king one day or having Auto money right whatever they people fantasize a be you know that's when you really think about it that is the American dream when you were putting out America's Most Wanted which I can't overstate the impact that that album had on me personally and just on a game in general in between the album between that and death certificate and then there was an EP right it was killer whale killer will um you had honor of being interviewed by Angela Davis yeah which is des powerful news in she I read excerpts of this interview recently but what struck me the most about it is you felt like death certificate you were very confident about death certificate he was like as good as America's Most Wanted is and as much as people loved it I feel like I was still learning when I was writing and working on an album now I feel a lot more confident in my experiences mm-hmm can you speak to that a little bit you know mean with it with Angela Davis you know I think she was kind of coming to give me a piece of her mind you know which was cool right but you know I wanted her to understand my position too and and I think we ended up seeing eye-to-eye yeah at the end of the day but death certificate to me was a right day it was the perfect balance of Street knowledge mm-hmm you got a street on one side you got knowledge on life or death yeah so the skits are masterful yes that the other year is cinematic game we had the game when he said that's his favorite album by you he's like that [ __ ] he said when that she said he was trying to describe for us what LA was like when you drop a death certificate oh man it was a I remembers lines around the corner with the warehouse and Tower Records and all that it was like a movie was coming out it was out the door people left school to go get it yeah um and and you know it feels good when you got to hide us record on the street what I would doubt and so you know I felt good about the record but then at the same time billboard the editor of billboard magazine did an editorial on the record and killed it basically said it shouldn't even be allowed on the shelves so the whole record got wrapped up into and and Jerry Heller's screaming to the JDL that I was anti-semitic because of no Vaseline the lyrics are no Vaseline and at the time I'm like I'm anti Jerry Heller [Music] you know his religion or who he is has nothing to do what he did it has to do right and wrong and so to me we we got entangled in all that kind of mm-hmm muck and never really got to the production the leery the the flavor of the record it was all what's the writers name a billboard yeah accent me yeah I don't know that's the point I make is like [ __ ] what the [ __ ] yeah you know but you know Billboard was the Bible yeah yeah yeah all these record store owners was renamed and you know it was things with with other controversial records so you know I felt like we had to speak out and we had to kind of fight fight that and not just and I just let it ride well I mean you come from you know hip-hop is a community where's like it comes out of signifying monkey and playing the dozens and and jasmine is a comedian she does rose battle and you know if you listen if you pay attention to battle rap culture and you've been in some huge beefs you know zan like you pay attention battle rap culture there's a code right where's like no-holds-barred mm-hm people ain't living their lives based on how they battle rap and I feel like there was the error in your life when you was a fiery young art as a young man and use battle in the world and there's records black career and horny little devil and and your needs and your association with the Nation of Islam which people were terrified people comes in and for you was it's liberating and empowering to you when you're learning new things and new experiences and your new experiences is terrifying people but somehow your your fortitude and your ambition and your drive and your passion as a man and as a writer you're able to write yourself out of that and keep writing a keep writer to the point where it's like now you do in Family Fare unum saying can you speak to us about how you able to make that transition but never ever lose the gangster Ice Cube conscious ice cube the ice cube does not I don't give a [ __ ] like a couple years I noticed like you dropped like a family-friendly movie and then drop a [ __ ] gangster ass record with rap a lot of some [ __ ] mm-hmm at the same month yeah yeah like tell us how you doing it well I mean I look at movies as movies and rap is real life okay okay so we've always had entertainment value in our records you know there's always been a slice of comedy you know I mean something that's not just you know raw dog you know unentertaining right just you know talkin la dudes in the midst of real dangerous beefs or whack some of that stuff that started a gangsta gangsta we're still doing funny ass videos about it yeah without a doubt so comedy yeah it's part of the hood just as much as anything else that you can associate with the hood so you know everybody has somebody funny in a family in a circle on a block at day school so comedy is just just as much part of it right so we always wanted to you know either laugh loud or talk about the real [ __ ] that's going on so it was always that balance I think that's where did like where did where the JDL comes in and has some of those criticisms cuz you're speaking in a language that's like a battle rap language or a roast battling yes um we had Michael Rapaport on recently right and you work with him with big three yeah and he gets himself into all these shenanigans with these controversy that's what I used to describe and what we we got into it on the show because I grew up Mike I'm known for a long time mm-hmm and I challenged him in Jasmine who doesn't know him like that we challenging him or someone to think he's saying yeah and the point that he was trying to hammer down was he was like how I grew up this I snapped [ __ ] like I'm roasting you or snapping you so if I say something that's that people are taking as racist or people taking a sex this is like in the rules of the game I'm playing it's not and I think that's where some of the stuff was happening when she was like if I'm more records I'm like [ __ ] I'm snapping on you yeah that's for two though because it's so funny how you know you you have such gangster rap but then you have are we there yeah and people that have seen are we there yet don't even know that you have [ __ ] the police a lot of times it's two different audiences and we're not without a doubt the movie audience to me always looked at that as a separate thing always looked at you know my records you know might make you cry but when people go to the movies they don't always want to see what they just left you know to it together they want to escape they you know they want a night out they want to laugh they want to have a good time and not be more depressed going back home than they was when they went to the movies so it was just a conscious thing where I was like damn I could do both I can I can you know do movies that make people laugh and get you know that whole funny side of my personality a place to be right and also I can do records and give people the real hard [ __ ] that they like but also that's it has comedy entertainment and yeah I mean but that's that's ill that you say that because when we were this week planning this interview we were discussing how your knack for comedy and not just your comedy chops as an actor and not just your comedic writing skills as writing these films but you being able to spot that comedian that Chris Tucker that Mike Epps that Katt Williams you know Zen yeah like you I guess that comes from what you were just speaking on I mean I give I give a shout out to Russell Simmons to for the Deaf comedy saying these dues first yeah and giving them my opportunity first yeah cuz that's what I saw a few of them on def Comedy Jam and I'm like this dude need to be in movies right but you're you seeing it from a cinematic lenses well yeah so you probably might like I know he's not gonna get I know Bernie Mac mm-hmm is not gonna get the opportunity to show what he got like I would give it right that's how I see right I'm gonna let you shine I'm gonna let you come and show people why are you funny right show people what I why you make me laugh you know so and set you up for that and encourage that and you know I know some dudes who they want to be the best in the movie they want to be the funniest mmm and they hold everybody back mmm they just hold everybody funny back they just make sure they have all fun stuff right I'm like no other way around mm-hmm mm-hmm i'ma let you go just stay within the parameters of the script and what we trying to get accomplished but you're gonna have an opportunity to do your thing and and I give you know everybody that freedom no doubt you know so I don't work with a lot of them you know very early you did you a Tiffany who's Earl work with her own promoters look okay I was gonna I was gonna save my janky promoters questions to later okay that you brought it up yeah all right I don't think people understand how brilliant this [ __ ] movie is I want to get a chance to finish all the testing that's was I love the movie but I'm so frustrated cuz they didn't let me finish Harvey when I stand in there hey they was going through the financial crisis 20 2008 and they just basically took everything and finished it and put it out so but but the movie is about yes it is Young Jeezy was brilliant yes and that [ __ ] Tate what's his name Lamar Lamar Tate Jesus you talking about oh oh oh my room [ __ ] up too you know romantic first of all the phrase in conjunction with yes it's such an important phrase yes in club promotion yes you know people have heard it all you know man jelly roll and ready read Russell Russell red dead red I see I see I see it now that him with the bullet hole fill holes in the car like I know I know this movie bro like the Hennessy taking a swig of Hennessy before everything where the Hennessy in a dressing room man I could go on and on about this movie and I encourage everybody to watch Genki promoters it's like a documentary about being a rapper did you hear what happened with the baby in his came up to me with jewelry and a hand trying to pay me right you know I was like I didn't deal with some janky promoters and you've come in contact with on this been years I think we was in Cleveland and do campaigns you know so he just he came with with trinkets of jewelry and he was telling me man just hold this and I'll get you the money tomorrow you know me before y'all leave and we just wasn't having it you start breaking down the equipment the the the fans rushed the stage to pushed all equipment over they knew we was leaving we had to get up out of there my dude had to take a potshot turnaround shot the gun and to just back everybody off so I you know I had to let him go cuz I'm like dude that's not the way for now you can't yeah you can't be shooting once you pull it out but right but naturally don't shoot it don't shoot don't shoot so early is and that's what I movie came from because you never came from just my whole career just dealing with dudes who you know you know they hustling right you know Danielle got on stage and took credit for the after-party the movie was perfect some of those I know you wanted finish it but from my experience I had a great good good um Friday minute Friday I I I'm from old New York so I watch Friday in the theaters smoking a blunt yeah that's the way to do it I know it's you you're younger than me okay the impact that a movie is like and and and the subsequent sequels as well it's just you know people have been clamoring for this new Friday we recently lost John Witherspoon yeah and I know there had to be a blow to the team and a family can you speak to me about his legacy and working with him he he was just like the funniest do purely hmm that that I know you know besides like Mike Epps and these dudes you know some dudes you don't need a camera you don't need a line you don't need a movie you don't need a script they just funny no matter what they're doing yeah and that's what John with us was right you know he he was just a funny individual and a script couldn't be no matter how bad a script was put it that way yeah I would save it like you couldn't do nothing wrong in a way when you think about him from you know I got no he goes back to the 60s and 70s when you think about him like Bart when you think about Barnaby Jones they think about a house party you think about boondocks you think about what he did in Friday that's Joe yes like and that's very some some not everybody can do that that you're showing up to to do you yeah then it works in every Wayans brothers yeah he's - you you doing you and it works for every single thing it's just a funny man you know wrote for Richard Pryor he opened up for every comedian emceed for every comedian mm-hmm hip-hop videos yeah you know his door was a master at what he what he do and he was just you know I casting because he reminded me of my real father okay but my real fathers not that funny okay but but John Witherspoon reminded me of that era and that s right and when I when he when he said he would do the movie I knew it was gonna be a good movie this was before we even got Chris mmm-hmm I just knew John is gonna do it we go right you got you can right up around him we golden yes he's gonna make sure the movie funny whether we funny or not and so that's beautiful and look he was a serious man he was a good man serious man about his bread you know always would invite us over he would have Christmas you know get togethers hit the piano sing old school Hollywood like that that's beautiful knows good yeah man good recipes to john witherspoon yes sir speaking of Christmas it was a debate this past Christmas because they were trying to say Friday after next is not a classic Christmas like tell black people that Friday after next is not a Christmas why there's no snow on the ground definite Christmas one of my favorite Christmas I'm gonna tell you my favorite part of Friday after next is and this speaks to how the details he tells the culture right Rickey smiley yeah I as to Santa ghetto Santa Claus rather ghetto ghetto you know robbing the house is raining when he's going through the presents and he finds a [ __ ] Dada Hat and he says god I always wanted me some data and doctor was only cracking for that year that movie came out Dada wasn't fracking after that so it was like a time capsule like I remember when I was flipping through a double XLS so I died I haven't like I might want to die ahead sequence at a movie you know where the chase Lewis sim and then we chase them you know party sequence reminds me of it reminds me of raised in Arizona yes the chases diapers yes I was a big fan of reason and a Coen Brothers yeah and that's exactly the feel that we wanted to give they sweat dogs the dogs the old man yeah my cats yeah and you know just it never ended it just went on and on and on and yeah it's just a cool Christmas movie I was like man we don't have no West Coast Christmas movie let me know how we celebrate which is a lot different in that most Christmas movies like snow and it's like that whole fear super cheesy yeah we just got I was palm tree alright no one knows this but I've been working on a Christmas album for the last couple of quality Chris Holliday album we're not really a creator so it's more like a holidays in the spirit album but it's real [ __ ] you know Zen our share is where anybody but Ice Cube here and we talk about Christmas movies but the reason I've studied every scene black Christmas song to try to figure how to do this album you know one of my favorites is that Santa Claus come to the ghetto remake that nate dogg ESCO yeah tradie and them did all every song you hear in next front I mean Friday after the next is my favorite Christmas song okay I mean this Christmas beat no it's not trying to remake it Chris Brown is good Chris Brown doing right but Donny Hathaway Johnny is yeah that right there it's like it was it seemed like it was made in the time when Nat King Cole did his life right just quintessential Christmas song it's crazy about the Friday movies too cuz I wasn't allowed to watch rated R movies so I only one could watch Friday when it came on TV and last year I saw it on Netflix version I had a good mother so I mean whatever I had a good mother whatever I saw it on Netflix and I'll say oh my god yeah Irish I recently watched Friday after the next because it was like Christmas going I'm like I haven't watched this movie forever yeah I was laughing yeah that's gotta be a good feeling though cuz I'll you know you forget ya little funny tidbits of them yeah yeah man um the second time I told you about the first time I saw you perform the second time I saw you perform was at the Palladium in New York City I think it was 93 94 Funkmaster Flex invited you performed the Palladium wicked had just dropped yeah I was in the audience yeah you do one wicked uh-huh and king's son yeah it grabs the microphone yeah X yeah and I don't know if it was set up or he grabbed to Michael what and he says yo guys set up he's yours cube IceCube that's my song I made that song and he was like well didn't come down and do something about it mmm and now you and him gone back and forth and I'm in the audience like oh [ __ ] and what I remember you doing we said listen um I know I'm in New York but la is only five hours away on the plane and then you perform wicked about three times yeah that was one of my greatest hip-hop moments ever seen but yeah talk to me about that moment well you know me and King son we go way back okay no it was always a lot of love and you know it was like the same time as you know people were grabbing you know Jamaicans to to rap with him and doing hooks and do things like that so yeah it was a situation where he had a song he had a reggae guy on it and I had a song and I had a radio and it was like yo you bitin right and I'm like nah that's it's it's a trend there's a wave coming and we didn't see eye to eye that night we ended up squashing it and being real cool but yeah that surprised me you know that first of all I was like yo who caters due to Mike whoever gave him right you know cuz you know I wasn't really worried about him but I was mad that he was able to hijack the show you know I mean kind of like wait for a quiet moment and then yeah wicked and then I was still mad I was still talking [ __ ] he was talking like [ __ ] did you did check yourself right out yeah so it was like that had never happened before you know but it was a crazy night I remember that night man yeah it was crazy that was um flex used to have just every Friday night to bring up from act out to the Palladium and take it use the acronym yeah man that's a good times for me now use a trip to choose that I was there that he was everywhere telling every freaking where now you know I'm you after Friday and to sell the movies your style musically shifted and you started making more club records yeah talk to me about that shifting style well we wanted to do me some la classics in this era as well yeah you know we wanted to uh and I was doing a movie card to Players Club clubbin we be clubbin which was there was a lot of records out but none of them were talking about actually going to the club so I'm like damn you know this is a lame man you know everybody go but nobody's really talking about it so let's I want do record since I'm doing the record about a strip club I need a record that's gonna make people think Club you know you know coincide so uh yeah you know it's a trip because I always was a guy who I loved hip-hop slow rhyming the fast hip-hop if it wasn't planet rock looking for the perfect beat it's time you know it's like clear just the classic Tour de France if it wasn't that I don't want to hear that from the fast hip-hop even even the NWA songs like that panic zone right I left the studio I'm refusing to be a part of this I mean I don't want no parts of it but I knew of it cuz trading him they loved it that's what how they first started right that does that's type of music fast Desmond electro electro funk so I'm like I need I need some RPMs I need I can't go you know planning rock fast but I gotta make sure this is moving and it's pumping and make you want to rock at the club so that's when I you know kind of went into - doing that song that was a my friend and I just wanted to beat - turn around a lot right I don't write that well it you know it's like a great song you know that describes one of the first songs that describe going to the club and then it's like after that I had a million songs kinda Club yeah man maybe an East Coast doom and again I count you as along with Karis and q-tip my stylistic forefather I am someone my career would not be what it is if I didn't leave New York I left New York and went to Cincinnati took a bus to our [ __ ] high tech nib early in my career I came out to LA 95 took a bus out to LA cuz I want to rap in a good life cafe and I'm like what freestyle fellowship in the mood I was always I went up to the base tower [ __ ] with mr. journeyman in him I always was trying to leave New York and so because I was trying to leave New York I saw this elitist attitude that New York has had when it came to hip-hop we was a home a hip-hop we the birthplace of hip-hop and when we leave people treat us like stars in certain smaller cities or smaller markets we come and be like oh you from New York people was impressed by that yes so there's definitely a thing that developed us particularly around hip-hop and filmed like the ownership of hip-hop where I know I know for a fact rode up in New York we're looking at everything that's not from New York like there's a little bit of cool and you decided while you're at the megastar to address this I decided that you know what I have to speak up for at least for the west coast yeah and can you speak to us about the necessity that you felt to create Westside Connection man thank you for that question it was a thing where we started to break through mmm when I say we like Easy NWA ice-t we was getting so much love in New York you know I was like yo you know it's like we finally fell not like these amateurs but actually you know we're being accepted into the pros and so there was always a generation of hip-hop that were kind of the gatekeepers at the time at radio you know you had everybody had a show you know I'm saying right you know was like oh we finally getting accepted and then Tim dog does a record called [ __ ] Compton yeah we like dog whoa what's this sounds like now coming from LA mm-hmm it's a gangbang culture so when somebody say [ __ ] you it's like some I crush your name out yeah so we took a light we need to [ __ ] this dude Tim dawg mm-hmm you know I'm saying so easy was trying to get a communication to really see well what like we don't even know you humming what's the issue right so from there another record came out masta ace hmm he did a red cross slaughterhouse mm-hmm which just seems like he was kind of like murder murder murder kill kill kill right right so he's like oh it's like this real backlash starting to come mmm and I'm looking at the artists and like nobody's doing nothing or saying nothing or nobody's really confronting this head-on so I'm like gotta be meeting mm-hmm cuz we can't lose what we've gained mm-hmm by being basically you know dismiss discredited mm-hm that's just this you know me that's how you know were a real hip-hop yeah you know me keep it real mhm that was the sand keep it really want that real hip-hop not that [ __ ] the gangsters your head that ain't got that's just negative you know you get that along with the see the lowest Tucker's of the world and and they felt like oh damn not only is establishment coming down on us but the mecca of hip-hop is coming down on us we got to stand our ground we gotta say [ __ ] that we hear rain going nowhere and so that was the undertone going around you know what we gonna do man starting to discus left and right on the radio it's like we let this [ __ ] Compton thing sly and now everybody's starting to feel like okay to take my shot I take my shot and it just got too much or it's like nah we ain't initiated a yeah and nobody knew how crazy it was gonna get because we felt like the people in New York loved us the artists loved us the industry haters you know I'm nights [ __ ] that radio mix [ __ ] and knees in these positions of power and these magazines all these people hate us they hate the wave right and it's a resentment cuz you know we're taking the tension because I was still touring and you can see the love from the people you you as an artist you see in that cuz you still going in their faces so the industry of course once we start to shoot back of course they they hope there was a ton of people against us you know so then it became a whole thing and then you have two top two labels deaf wrong and bad boys beefing and they just took it over the top it's crazy because well I was like in elementary school during that bad boys versus death row but we were in the cafeteria like [ __ ] La Follette cause like we do nothing about what was going on just cuz it was cool yeah we didn't say [ __ ] what you saying but it's funny cuz with me it's like you said I was by that time doing this for a living on my way to do this for a living so I'm privileged to be in artistic communities yeah and we didn't move like that but you people watching videos and I'm saying people people there was no comments section so it's just word on the street still indefinitely yeah you know it was things like the Box remember the box yeah you had to call calling get the video play and people need comments yeah people start playing like did this video over and over and over yeah yeah you know so now it's going throughout the country like everywhere yeah it was a situation where he was like no [ __ ] this don't really turn into an industry thing then spilt over to the fans and you got the mainstream media loving it fan and all the flames mm-hmm so they're their headlines is all about East Coast yes cause beef but that the music which I'll did you mac-10 dub see like in addition to your stellar career as with NWA in addition to your stellar career as a solo artist y'all created some West Coast classics and began it was I do think it's a bit of a shame that as as great as y'all did a lot of people in the East Coast don't really have a relationship with some of these Westside Connection Records when you when you get out west you hear them in the clubs and on the radio it's like man like we missed some records mm-hmm look we pigeon-holed ourselves a lot in that right in those records you know we are a thousand percent west cause very specific records so we kind of deserve that in a way okay you know that half the country loves those right now the country can't stomach them right so that's just without that's the price you pay as an artist when you draw some dumbass imaginary line and say that music shouldn't even be drawing lines like that music should be opening it up hmm you know I mean that's what it was about and were you from this were you that and so you know those records live in them you know yeah yeah I've lived in New York and then in the south so when I lived in New York I only heard New York music or whatever was on the radio and then when I moved to the south it's like oh wow a whole slew of music that you never knew about and now you can be anywhere in here music in any coast and that's like one of the greatest things about social media yes some of it to someone as good but some of it is not good the sort of a corporatization of the of the radio stations and the pulling together is like I like the fact that you can go I like the time when not with the beef [ __ ] but when you hear in regional music from New York reading music from the west coast regional music from the south now it's the same top ten no matter where you go oh yeah because all the stations are owned by the same people and that is harmful to the business up there yeah he used to be better when you know regions kind of on what they played anyway or they were proud of their region and was gonna make sure if you're in Philly you're gonna have some fairly artists yeah straight up you know you're not gonna be told from a corporate mm location mm-hmm what what you should be playing in your city and what's hot right now you the DJs used to dictate to the people well yeah now took control away now some corporate person telling you what the plan would not deploy yeah and so that's why you know radios dying you know in a way it's it's coming to a point where what they want I just hear us talk now yeah that's why podcasting is pop yeah they want to hear us talk is really all about you know clowning artists yeah and highlighting and magnifying our artists worst moments yeah and such like you eroding your own purpose when you do that it's the radioman when you dissing the artist that you plan the audience stops listening yeah and they're not it's not just not listening to the artist and not listening to you either that's right so we got to reverse that yeah if people you know he's got to be he can't be like whoa what did this person do today you know guy ain't gotta be better than that it can't be just about getting a laugh I don't think that that's not what I meant I wasn't oh I get exactly where you're coming from but I was just talking about how you can hear music from different places I don't really listen to the radio but I'm listening to like you know you can be on Instagram and finally call this person listen to this in their car let me look up this music or something like that that's what I'm talking about right yeah I got about Justin I guess I didn't answer that question but it is good you know what you know to me you know I'm a fan of you know record stores and going in and talking to somebody and have them put you up on good stuff but you know the good thing about iTunes or whatever is that you can't hear music from all eras you know at the push of a button you have to carry around you know he's care of crates and cases full of CDs and all this stuff you ain't got to do that no more which is good but it's bad too because you know owning a record you cherish it more that's right then you do when it's just digital by the digital world is fake reality and we can't make it real reality is because it's never gonna be no doubt um talk to us a little bit about just the impact and the journey from NWA as a group to the film to where now it's like such an establishment that you know you have your son playing yourself who's a great dude by the way he first of all your son always always has my back on Twitter he always do he always make sure you come in help me shut down these races and he's biggest he's an but I'm just talk to me about how it's just become such an institution you know he's second-generation Hollywood you know and it's like why not write um you know when we have our foothold in the industry you know we should you know try to make it a family business and you know he's the town as a kid but it was the right situation it wasn't force-fed know we could have put him in a movie a long long time ago as a kid right he just wasn't right maybe here and there it wasn't a passionate he's like he took it as a as something he wanted to do for the family he took it on as like this is legacy this is our family I can't nobody come in and play you when I can do it and so you know he took it on as as that you know as as a badge of honor mm-hmm and realized that he liked acting and he wanted to do more and ended up doing more which I'm happy because it's been some great shoes you know he should like and my other kids that they're not as interested in Hollywood but but uh if they ever did you know I got a few people I can call form they said hey you know they get a uh you know the right shot no doubt you have always part of the story of NWA as told by the film is the story of butting heads and then growing out of that yeah you've always thought your career would do with these situations we talked to you butted heads with people but what's beautiful to watch is what happens when y'all come out of that yes and I you know comment as somebody who showed me love as soon as I came in a game and so one of my favorite moments of hip-hop was seeing common in barbershop yeah um I know I paid attention see our beef in the records back and forth and y'all have told that story a million times so we I don't think we have to tell that story on this show but can you tell the story about how linking up with him for barbershop oh um you know sometimes you have a beef with somebody and you squash it but it's not really squash you know I mean it's still that it wasn't that way with comedy right and myself okay it was truly squashed you know when I was see coming and you know was squash that Minister Farrakhan had a summit yeah and he was accident all of us west coast East Coast anybody beefing to squashed a beef today and do it do it for the culture face down and we did and it was genuine it was true I walked away you know feeling like I had more to say about the beef but I wasn't gonna say nothing else and I saw common running to him periodically after that and I didn't feel my animosity yeah it was genuine love it was genuinely happy to be past that point mm-hm and you know I was like you know when it was time to figure out who you know we was we was needing these different characters for barbershop we knew we wasn't gonna get Michael Ealy back and we was looking for a guy who was you know could be that you know right and bring a different presence and when his name came up I was like hell yeah oh yeah cuz you Chicago dude to Chicago do good do he folded culture he's improved it over and over and / he not in the beefing with nobody and we need to show the world that no matter what happened in the past that we could still work together and be brothers and and you know I don't even I don't even think about that beef you know I mean it's kind of like a dark moment in my career because common is a good dude right I don't think he deserved it you know it was just a misunderstanding I was in my feelings you know system about everybody saying anything about the West and I thought of her song yeah you know I was shedding everybody down in and you know I was wrong you know I'm saying so you know with that it's cool to be past the beef you know Sam would be real mm-hmm you know Cypress healed we had him on this shows yeah you know that's my man yeah yeah he's a good dude I've always been a fan Cypress Hill mm-hm and so it's cool to be passed on B's man on the other side of that I think I know buddy that won't do nothing to me I have a question so there was a viral video of you and the dude Kyle whatever he's trying to take a picture with you and he try to like lean on you like nah so what are the rules of taking a picture of like a gangster rap was I if I when I take my picture after this I know I mean if you og I might let you get away with it youngster don't don't even do that I mean nobody you know that's been in the game way longer than you mm-hmm you know just ain't cool yeah might be might be harmless and I think he was harm something he was trying in front but you know it's probably best to to not do that to dues who've been in the game so long melly-mel some eye candy hey it took that that I wouldn't mind right that's a whole G to me right but I think that is you have been skillful and masterful how you've been able to publicly employ you know some of the lessons that you learn from spending time around people from the Nation of Islam but still maintain who you are yeah um if in your records you shout out black lives matter you know you've always been someone who you know a lot of people don't like nation Islam a lot of people don't like black lives matter for very different reasons yeah you've always been someone who's shown solidarity with pro black organizations Pro black movements but particularly with the nation and and when you first came out as a solo artist you were being very much associated with the nation so I want to ask you about where you at which your spirituality no um I feel like I'm very spiritual I'm not really into religions you know I'm really into having a one-on-one with my maker mm-hm and I'm not gonna pretend to be somebody I'm not in those discussions mmm-hmm I'm gonna be myself and I'm not down with any organization religion group that's not into letting me be my natural self mm-hmm I'm not gonna conform to nothing mm-hmm I'm gonna try to be better every day mm-hm and I'ma listen I'm uh you know observe and I'm gonna make my own decision from there I'm not gonna be indoctrinated I'm not gonna be anybody's foot soldiers or you know anything like that so long as I can do that and still support organizations and causes and movements I will mm-hmm no doubt but the minute somebody try to give me to be something I'm not I'm gone I'm not with it so you know I did one dabble but I never join anything mm-hmm well we appreciate you solidarity brother one of my favorite moments of pop culture is the mention of you on the boondocks flavor most def Yasiin Bey do you know what I'm talking about the one when he's like when Gangstalicious is locked in the trunk with Riley and he's like decides to like really have a heart-to-heart with him he's like you know who my favorite rapper is he goes who he goes Ice Cube and Riley goes Ice Cube the do make the family move ice cube is so gangster when I was little I would dream that ice cube would come over my house and murder my whole family on that note I would like the People's Party to give it up for Ice Cube [Music]

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Length: 90min 38sec (5438 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 03 2020