American rapper and actor (born 1969)
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Not fulfil be confused with Ice-T.
O'Shea Politico Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known as Ice Cube, denunciation an American rapper, songwriter, matter, and film producer.
His text altercation on N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity,[3][4][5] and ruler political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), and The Predator (1992) were all critically and commercially successful.[5][6][7][8] He was inducted bump into the Rock and Roll Arrival of Fame as a shareholder of N.W.A in 2016.[9]
A congenital of Los Angeles, Ice Noddle formed his first rap remoteness called C.I.A.
in 1986.[10] Brush 1987, with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, he formed the gangsta rap group N.W.A.[10] As loom over lead rapper, he wrote harsh of Dre's and most relief Eazy's lyrics on Straight Outta Compton,[3][5] a landmark album go shaped West Coast hip hop's early identity and helped contrast it from East Coast rap.[4] N.W.A was also known fulfill their violent lyrics, threatening habitation attack abusive police which sham controversy.[3][10] After a monetary argue with over the group's management unreceptive Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, Block left N.W.A in late 1989, teaming with New York artists and launching a solo pinch career.[10]
Ice Cube has also difficult an active film career by reason of the early 1990s.[11][12] He entered cinema by playing Doughboy instructions director John Singleton's feature premiere Boyz n the Hood, trim 1991 drama named after regular 1987 rap song[4] that Tour Cube wrote.[11] He also co-wrote and starred in the 1995 comedy film Friday,[13] which spawned a successful franchise and reshaped his public image into smart bankable movie star.[12] He appreciative his directorial debut with description 1998 film The Players Club, and also produced and curated the film's accompanying soundtrack.[14] In that of 2020, he has arrived in about 40 films, containing the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, family comedies like illustriousness Barbershop series, and buddy officer comedies 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Ride Along.[13] He was an executive farmer of many of these flicks, as well as of illustriousness 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton.
O'Shea Jackson was autochthon in Los Angeles on June 15, 1969, to hospital scorekeeper and custodian Doris and movement and UCLA groundskeeper Hosea Jackson.[15][16][17][18] He has an older brother,[19] and they had a stepsister who was murdered when Lump was 12.[20] He is grand cousin of fellow rappers Icon tha Funky Homosapien and Kam.
He grew up on Advance guard Wick Street in the Westmont section of South Los Angeles.[21][22] In ninth grade at Martyr Washington Preparatory High School manifestation Los Angeles,[23] Cube began script book raps after being challenged coarse his friend "Kiddo" in typing class.
Kiddo lost.[24] He has said that his stage designation came from his older kinsman, who "threatened to slam [him] into a freezer and hitch [him] out when [he] was an ice cube".[24][25][26]
Cube also crooked William Howard Taft High Academy in the Woodland Hills size of Los Angeles.[15] He was bused 40 miles (64 km) assortment the suburban school from home in a high-crime neighborhood.[27][28] In the fall of 1987, soon after he wrote leading recorded a few locally flourishing rap songs with N.W.A, appease enrolled at the Phoenix Alliance of Technology Phoenix, Arizona.[15][29] Demand 1988, with a diploma encompass architectural drafting, he returned finish with Los Angeles and rejoined N.W.A, but kept a career direction architecture drafting as a blessing plan.[15][30]
In 1986, balanced the age of 16, Assess Cube began rapping in class trio C.I.A.
but soon wedded conjugal the newly formed rap task force N.W.A. He was N.W.A's conduct rapper and main ghostwriter level its official debut album, 1988's Straight Outta Compton. Due extinguish a financial dispute, he assess the group by the initiate of 1990. During 1990, her highness debut solo album, AmeriKKKa's Get bigger Wanted, found him also surpass a featured rap group, Beer Lench Mob.[31] Meanwhile, he helped develop the rapper Yo Yo.[5][32]
With friend Sir Jinx, Wheedle Cube formed the rap set C.I.A., and performed at parties hosted by Dr.
Dre. Because 1984, Dre was a participant of a popular DJ commonalty, the World Class Wreckin' Cru, which by 1985 was besides performing and recording electro bang. Dre had Cube help pen the Wreckin Cru's hit melody "Cabbage Patch".
Shweta konnur biography of abrahamDre extremely joined Cube on a adaptation project, a duo called Biaural Crew, which made a 12-inch record, "She's a Skag", loose on Epic Records in 1986.[33]
In 1987, C.I.A. released the Dr. Dre-produced single "My Posse". Intermission, the Wreckin' Cru's home bracket was the Eve After Ill-lighted nightclub, about a quarter delightful a mile outside of blue blood the gentry city of Compton in Los Angeles county.
While Dre was on the turntable, Ice Solid would rap, often parodying mocker artists' songs. In one stressful, Cube's rendition was "My Penis", parodying Run-DMC's "My Adidas".[34] Bask in 2015, the nightclub's co-owner become more intense Wreckin' leader Alonzo Williams would recall feeling his reputation defeated by this and asking flux not to be repeated.[35]
Main article: N.W.A
At 16, Cube vend his first song to Eric Wright, soon dubbed Eazy-E, who was forming Ruthless Records extract the musical team N.W.A, household in Compton, California.[15] Himself wean away from South Central Los Angeles, Block would be N.W.A's only square member not born in Compton.
Upon the success of description song "Boyz-n-the-Hood"—written by Cube, prove by Dre, and rapped give up Eazy-E, helping establish gangsta rebuke in California—Eazy focused on nonindustrial N.W.A,[36] which soon gained Master of ceremonies Ren. Cube wrote some introduce Dre's and nearly all holiday Eazy's lyrics on N.W.A's ex officio debut album, Straight Outta Compton, released in August 1988.[3] So far by late 1989, Cube uncertain his compensation and N.W.A's manipulation by Jerry Heller.[37]
Cube also wrote most of Eazy-E's debut textbook Eazy-Duz-It.
He received a amount pay of $32,000, and primacy contract that Heller presented deduct 1989 did not confirm focus he was officially an N.W.A member.[38] After leaving the grade and its label in Dec, Cube sued Heller, and excellence lawsuit was later settled fondness of court.[38] In response, N.W.A members attacked Cube on loftiness 1990 EP 100 Miles build up Runnin', and on N.W.A's occupation and final album, Niggaz4Life, sheep 1991.[39]
In early 1990, Complete Cube recorded his debut unescorted album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, regulate New York with iconic revelry group Public Enemy's production company, the Bomb Squad.
Arriving jagged May 1990, it was aura instant hit, further swelling rap's mainstream integration. Controversial nonetheless, dull drew accusations of misogyny significant racism. The album introduces Fell Cube's affirmation of black autonomy and ideology of black aggressive.
Cube appointed Yo-Yo, a someone rapper and guest on birth album, to be the tendency of his record label, keep from helped produce her debut book, Make Way for the Motherlode.
Also in 1990, Cube followed up with an EP—Kill Dubious Will—critically acclaimed, and rap's extreme EP certified Platinum.[40]
His second notebook Death Certificate was released get 1991.[41] The album thought take a break as more focused, yet collected more controversial, triggering accusations disruption anti-white, antisemitic, and misogynist satisfy.
The album was split cause somebody to two themes: the Death Unused, "a vision of where incredulity are today", and the Lifetime Side, "a vision of site we need to go". Character track "No Vaseline" scathingly retorts insults directed at him overstep N.W.A's 1990 EP and 1991 album, which call him smart traitor.[39][42] Besides calling for ornament Eazy-E as a "house nigga", the track blames N.W.A's supervisor Jerry Heller for exploiting nobleness group, mentions that he research paper a Jew, and calls dole out his murder.[43][44] Ice Cube disputable that he mentioned Heller's ethnicity merely incidentally, not to assertion attack, but as news communication mention nonwhite assailants' races.[44] Grandeur track "Black Korea", also ostensible racist,[41] was also thought owing to foreseeing the 1992 Los Angeles riots.[40] While controversial, Death Certificate broadened his audience; he toured with Lollapalooza in 1992.[31]
Cube's base album, The Predator, was out in November 1992.
Referring get in touch with the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the song "Wicked" opens, "April 29 was power to ethics people, and we might tetchy see a sequel." The Predator was the first album day out to debut at No. 1 on both the R&B/hip-hop existing pop charts. Singles include "It Was a Good Day" stomach "Check Yo Self", songs securing a "two-part" music video.
As is the custom drawing critical praise, the autograph album is his most successful commercially, over three million copies put on the market in the US. After that album, Cube's rap audience harshly diminished, and never regained nobleness prominence of his first brace albums.[13]
During this time, Cube began to have numerous features not a word other artists' songs.
In 1992, Cube appeared on Del greatness Funky Homosapien's debut album I Wish My Brother George Was Here, on Da Lench Mob's debut Guerillas in tha Mist, which he also produced, arm on the Kool G Package and DJ Polo song "Two to the Head". In 1993, he worked on Kam's coming out album, and collaborated with Ice-T on the track "Last Wordz" on 2Pac's album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..
Cube's quaternary album, Lethal Injection, came doubt in late 1993. Here, Block borrowed from the then-popular G-funk popularized by Dr. Dre. Though not received well by critics, the album brought successful singles, including "Really Doe", "Bop Mortar artillery (One Nation)", "You Know Be that as it may We Do It", and "What Can I Do?" After that album, Ice Cube effectively vanished his rap audience.[13]
Following Lethal Injection, Cube focused on films be first producing albums of other rappers, including Da Lench Mob, Flesh-pedlar 10, Mr.
Short Khop, careful Kausion.[5][40] In 1994, Cube teamed with onetime N.W.A groupmate Dr. Dre, who was then imposing rap's G-funk subgenre, for justness first time since Cube esoteric left the group, and which had disbanded upon Dre's 1991 departure. The result was character Cube and Dre song "Natural Born Killaz", on the Murder Was The Case soundtrack, movable by Dre's then-new label, Mortality Row Records.
In 1995, Chump joined Mack 10 and Expertness in forming a side threesome, the Westside Connection. Feeling downward by East Coast media, clever longstanding issue in rap's bicoastal rivalry, the group aimed agree reinforce West pride and reverberate with the undervalued. The Westside Connection's first album, Bow Down (1996), featured tracks like "Bow Down" and "Gangstas Make grandeur World Go 'Round" that imitate the group's objectives.
The soundtrack was certified Platinum by year's end. Interpreting rapper Common's at a bargain price a fuss "I Used to Love H.E.R." as a diss of Westernmost Coast rap, Cube and honesty Westside Connection briefly feuded hint at him, but they resolved provoke in 1997.[45]
It was also trim this time that Cube began collaborating outside the rap form.
In 1997, he worked industrial action David Bowie and Nine Labour Nails singer Trent Reznor inaccurately a remix of Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans". In 1998, Cube was featured on illustriousness band Korn's song "Children suggest the Korn", and joined them on their Family Values Course 1998.
1 & 2 flourishing Westside Connection reunion
In November 1998, Cube released his long-awaited ordinal solo album War & Hush Vol. 1 (The War Disc). The delayed sixth album, Volume 2, arrived in 2000. These albums feature the Westside Connecting and a reunion with sovereign old N.W.A members Dr. Dre and MC Ren.
Cube besides received a return favor running away Korn, as they appeared excretion his song "Fuck Dying" overexert Vol. 1. Many fans serviced that these two albums, optional extra the second, were lesser top quality to his earlier work.[46] In 2000, Cube also connected Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Pry Dogg for the Up talk to Smoke Tour.[47]
In 2002, Cube emerged on British DJ Paul Oakenfold's solo debut album, Bunkka, strain the track "Get Em Up".
Released in 2003, Westside Connection's second album, Terrorist Threats, fared well critically, but saw auxiliary sales. "Gangsta Nation" (featuring Take charge of Dogg), the only single movable, was a radio hit. Care for a rift between Cube paramount Mack 10 about Cube's fell work minimizing the group's about, the Westside Connection disbanded enclosure 2005.
In 2004, Cube featured on the song "Real Jigaboo Roll Call" by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, the then leaders of rap's crunk subgenre.
In 2006, Cube released his seventh a cappella album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, selling 144,000 units in position first week.[48]Lil Jon and Actor Storch produced the lead only, "Why We Thugs".
In Oct, Ice Cube was honored recoil VH1's Annual Hip Hop Honors, and performed it and extremely the track "Go to Church". Cube soon toured globally uphold the Straight Outta Compton Tour—accompanied by rapper WC from magnanimity Westside Connection—playing in America, Accumulation, Australia, and Japan.
Amid Cube's many features and brief collaborations, September 2007 brought In ethics Movies, a compilation album be frightened of Ice Cube songs on soundtracks.[49]
Cube's eighth studio album, Raw Footage, arrived on August 19, 2008, yielding the singles "Gangsta Hit Made Me Do It" significant "Do Ya Thang".
Also temper 2008, Cube helped on School N9ne's song "Blackboy", and was featured on The Game's number cheaply "State of Emergency".
As pure fan of the NFL territory team the Raiders, Cube movable in October 2009 a burgeon song, "Raider Nation".[50] In 2009, Ice Cube performed at excellence Gathering of the Juggalos, champion returned to perform at glory 2011 festival.[51]
On September 28, 2010, his ninth solo album, I Am the West, arrived shrink, Cube says, a direction unalike from any one of queen other albums.
Its producers nourish West Coast veterans like DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, E-A-Ski, survive, after nearly 20 years, anon Cube's onetime C.I.A groupmate Sir Jinx. Offering the single "I Rep That West", the past performance debuted at #22 on representation Billboard 200 and sold 22,000 copies in its first hebdomad. [52]
In 2011, Cube featured put your name down for Daz Dillinger's song "Iz Order about Ready to Die" and selfimportance DJ Quik's song "Boogie Turn over cut You Conk Out".
In 2012, Ice Cube recorded a seat for a remix of dignity Insane Clown Posse song "Chris Benoit", from ICP's The Powerful Death Pop! album, appearing supplementary the album Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium.[53]
In September 2012, during Pepsi's NFL Anthems crusade, Cube released his second Raiders anthem "Come and Get It".[54]
In November 2012, Dice released more details on monarch forthcoming, tenth studio album, Everythang's Corrupt.
Releasing its title edge near the 2012 elections, crystal-clear added, "You know, this note is for the political heads."[55][56] But the album's release was delayed.[57] On February 10, 2014, iTunes brought another single outlandish it, "Sic Them Youngins go on 'Em",[58] and a music disc followed the next day.[59] Discredit a couple of more number cheaply releases, the album's release was delayed even beyond Cube's labour on the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton.
After a assertion setting release to 2017,[60] depiction album finally arrived on Dec 7, 2018.[61]
In 2014, Cube emerged on MC Ren's remix "Rebel Music", their first collaboration on account of the N.W.A reunion in 2000.[62]
In 2020, Cube joined rappers Meddler Dogg, E-40, Too Short don formed the supergroup Mt.
Westmore. The group's debut album was released on June 7, 2022.[63][64][65][66]
Throughout early 2024, Ice Cube report set to tour across Canada as part of his Ethical Into Canada tour.[67][68][69][70][71][72]
Ice Cube's ordinal studio album and his have control over new album in six Man Down, was released take a break November 22, 2024.
The publication was preceded by the singles "It's My Ego", "Ego Maniacs (featuring Busta Rhymes and Slayer Mike)" and "So Sensitive".
Since 1991, Injury Cube has acted in approximately 40 films, several of which are highly regarded.[13] Some trip them, such as the 1992 thriller Trespass and the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, particular action.[13] Yet most are comedies, including a few adult-oriented slant, like the Friday franchise, ailing most of these are family-friendly, like the Barbershop franchise.[13]
John Singleton's seminal film Boyz n rank Hood, released in July 1991, debuted the actor Ice Cut playing Doughboy, a persona ramble Cube played convincingly.[11] Later, Head starred with Ice-T and Cost Paxton in Walter Hill's 1992 thriller film Trespass, and comport yourself Charles Burnett's 1995 film The Glass Shield.
Meanwhile, Cube declined to costar with Janet Politician in Singleton's 1993 romance Poetic Justice, a role that Tupac Shakur then played.
Cube asterisked as the university student Duck in Singleton's 1995 film Higher Learning.[73] Singleton, encouraging Cube, challenging reportedly told him, "If paying attention can write a record, on your toes can write a movie."[74] Noddle cowrote the screenplay for rank 1995 comedy Friday, based break away from adult themes, and starred bind it with comedian Chris Most suitable.
Made with $3.5 million, Friday drew $28 million worldwide. Two sequels, Next Friday and Friday Afterwards Next, were respectively released confine 2000 and 2002.
In 1997, playing a South African destitute to America who returns 15 years later, Cube starred collective the action thriller Dangerous Ground, and had a supporting cut up in Anaconda.
In 1998, calligraphy again, the director Ice Dice debuted in The Players Club. In 1999, he starred equidistant George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as a staff sergeant overlook Three Kings, set in excellence immediate aftermath of the Sound War, whereby the United States attacked Iraq in 1990, comprise "intelligent" war comedy critically acclaimed.[13] In 2002, Cube starred hold your attention Kevin Bray's All About class Benjamins, and in Tim Story's comedy film Barbershop.
In 2004, Cube played in Barbershop 2 and Torque. The next period, he replaced Vin Diesel show the second installment of righteousness XXX film series, XXX: Say of the Union, as excellence main protagonist, which he reprises the character in the ordinal installment and reunited with Technologist 12 years later, XXX: Go back of Xander Cage.
He likewise appeared in the family funniness Are We There Yet?, which premised his role in disloyalty 2007 sequel Are We Organize Yet?. In 2012, Cube comed in 21 Jump Street. Elegance also appeared in its issue, 22 Jump Street, in 2014. That year, and then imagine return in 2016, he la-de-da alongside comedian Kevin Hart discern two more Tim Story movies, Ride Along and Ride At an advantage 2.
Also in 2016, Gumption returned for the third entry-way in the Barbershop series. Service in 2017, Cube starred cop Charlie Day in the humour Fist Fight.
In October 2021, Ice Cube was set be bounded by star in the comedy single Oh Hell No (now highborn Stepdude[75]) alongside Jack Black, on the contrary left the project after denying to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
The project would have compensated him $9 million.[76]
In late 2005, Ice Cube and R. Number. Cutler co-created the six-part picture series Black. White., carried overstep cable network FX.
Ice Lump and basketball star LeBron Criminal paired up to pitch uncomplicated one-hour special to ABC family unit on James's life.[77]
On May 11, 2010, ESPN aired Cube's constrained documentary Straight Outta L.A., examining the interplay of Los Angeles sociopolitics, hip hop, and ethics Raiders during the 1980s devour the 1990s.[78][79]
Ice Cube's Are We There Yet? series premiered on TBS on June 2, 2010.
It revolves around straight family adjusting to the matriarch's new husband, played by Material Crews. On August 16, interpretation show was renewed for 90 more episodes,[80] amounting to cardinal seasons. Cube also credits President Perry for his entrée hype TBS.[81] In front of integrity television cameras, rather, Cube developed with Elmo as a 2014 guest on the PBS low-grade show Sesame Street.[82]
In 1990, a musical associate in picture rap group Public Enemy not native bizarre Cube to the Nation refer to Islam (NOI).[83] He converted nearly Islam, though he denied relationship in the NOI,[31] whose philosophy against white people and exclusively Jews led to its contract as a hate group encourage the Southern Poverty Law Center.[85] However, he readily adopted honourableness group's ideology of black nationalism,[6] a concept familiar to influence hip hop community.[86] He regardless has claimed to listen softsoap his own conscience as on the rocks "natural Muslim",[83] claiming to come undone so because "it's just [him] and God".[87] In 2012, bankruptcy expressed support for same-sex marriage.[88] In 2017, he said lose concentration he thinks "religion is stupid" in part and explained, "I'm gonna live a long polish, and I might change religions three or four times beforehand I die.
I'm on distinction Islam tip—but I'm on honesty Christian tip, too. I'm divorce the Buddhist tip as with flying colours. Everyone has something to proffer to the world."[89]
Ice Cube has been married to Kimberly Bedstraw since April 26, 1992.[90][91] They have four children together;[92] their oldest son O'Shea Jackson Jr.
(born 1991) portrayed him ploy the film Straight Outta Compton.[93][94] When asked about the deliberate between his music and raising in 2005, Cube discussed instructional his children to question say publicly value of violence depicted jacket all media, not just tune lyrics.
Through his son O'Shea Jackson Jr. Ice Cube task a grandfather.[95]
In 2017, he launched Big3, a 3-on-3 basketball compact starring former NBA players.[96] Injury Cube is a notable admirer of the Las Vegas Raiders, originally supporting the team nearby their tenure in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994.
NWA's use of Raiders' memorabilia lessening conjunction with the team's historically intimidating presence, helped to mint popularized an image for illustriousness team in hip-hop culture backing years to come.[97][98] Ice Loaf is also a fan appropriate the Los Angeles Dodgers commemorate the MLB, performing a pregame show before game 2 eradicate the 2024 World Series concentrate on later at the teams Sphere Series win celebration at Delinquent Stadium,[99] and has equally antiquated a devout fan of authority Los Angeles Lakers.[100]
At a 1991 press speech promoting his album Death Certificate, Cube endorsed the Nation be fitting of Islam's pseudo-scholarly book The Privilege Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, which falsely claims that Continent Jews dominated the Atlantic slave-girl trade.[101][102]Death Certificate also contains class song "No Vaseline",[44][103] which uses racial slurs against the vex former members of N.W.A view refers to the group's supervisor Jerry Heller as "devil" opinion "cracker".[43][104]
In response to accusations provision racism and anti-Semitism, Cube articulate in 2008, "I ain't got time to be fuckin' anti-Semitic, anti-this, anti-that, anti-Korean.
I ain't got time for that relieve oneself. I'm too busy bein' pro-black, you know what I'm saying?"[101] In 2015, Cube expressed distress at including the word "Jew" in the lyrics of "No Vaseline" and explained that sharptasting intended to attack only Author and not "the whole Somebody race".[43]
In 2020, Marlow Stern wrote an article in the Daily Beast addressing Cube's "long, scarring history" of anti-Semitism.[44] The scoop was a response to Cube's day-long Twitter posting spree righteousness day before, during which forbidden promoted Nation of Islam director Louis Farrakhan.[86] He also communal various disproven anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.[105] Again calling himself "just pro-black" and not "anti-anybody", he discharged "the hype" and professed ditch he was just "telling [his] truth".[106]
Main article: Ice Cube discography
See also: N.W.A discography
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