Ice Cube

Released: November 17, 1992

Songwriter: Ice Cube

Producer: Sir Jinx

[5 seconds fades-in]

[Female Interviewer:]
Please, welcome O'Shea Jackson better known as Ice Cube!
How you doin'?

[Ice Cube:] How you doin'?

[Female Interviewer (male):]
Good to see you
Well known that the Crips and the Bloods are allegedly coming together
Yeah, you've been alot in the media lately than other rappers, we'd mentioned earlier Cube, that uhm...
You know? You have been labelled a lot of things
What do you say to the people with the causal being anti-semitic, (Fuck 'em!)
Or anti-Korean?
(Fuck 'em!)
It's probably the reason why they say that it's beacause some of the lyrics were...
Aimed at the women, bitches and hoes, and all that
I wanna talk a little bit about that, too
Because we saw the parents' discussion about this last time and... (yeah!)
[?] brothers, uhm... folks walkin' around, totin' guns, uuuuhm...
All that kinda stuff, do you think that sometimes those images and those lyrics...
Help white folks justify their continual racism againts us, or continue racism against us? (nah!)

[Ice Cube:]
I-I speak...in a perpective as uh...brothers on...
What we need to do is look in the mirror
I-I, I do want the white community to understand our community more...
And see what's going on, and see what, what uh...the things they've done to us in the past...
Are still affectin' us now...mentally, you know?
And,..the reason I said it's because, I mean everything I said about, uh, uuuhm...you know?
Everything I said on records before the riots, you know? Uuuh...(uh-hmm!)
Anything you want to know about the riots...
Was in the records before the riots! All you had to do was go...
To the Ice Cube library and, and, and...

[Female Interviewer:] In, in, in...

[Ice Cube:]
Pick a record and it would have told you
You know? I've given warnings...

[Female Interviewer:]
So in other words, it's almost like a... war-warning or prophecy?

[Ice Cube:]
I-I've, I've given...
I've given so many warnings on what's going to happen
If we don't get these, uuh...
These, these things straight in our lives, the clashes the-then, you know?
Armageddon is-is-is near! Eheh! [beat stops]

[Movie Bites from "Scarface (1981) ", Al Pacino as Tony Montana speaks:]
This here...
These words all about money

Straight outta South Central Los Angeles, Ice Cube became one of the most respected rappers in hip-hop, helping to usher in the era of gangsta rap with N.W.A and as a solo artist. He has gone on to become a mogul in Hollywood but still remains true to the game that brought him his success.

Born O'Shea Jackson on June 15, 1969, Ice Cube got his name from his older brother, who threatened to put him in a freezer and pull him out when he was an ice cube. He began rapping in high school and started his rap career as a member of Stereo Crew, which released the single “She’s a Skag” through Epic Records in 1986, and C.I.A. with the 1987 track “My Posse.” Both groups featured producer Sir Jinx, the cousin of DJ/producer Dr. Dre.

Ice Cube’s big break came when he wrote the song “Boyz n the Hood” for Eazy-E, which led to the formation of N.W.A. as a group. After the release of the 1987 compilation N.W.A. and the Posse, the group released their classic debut Straight Outta Compton in 1988. A financial dispute caused Cube to leave the group in 1989 and start his successful solo career, starting with his 1990 platinum debut Amerikkka’s Most Wanted.

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