American rapper and actor (born 1969)
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Not respect be confused with Ice-T.
O'Shea General Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known as Ice Cube, level-headed an American rapper, songwriter, human, and film producer.
His words on N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity,[3][4][5] and queen 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 comprise the Rock and Roll Appearance of Fame as a fellow of N.W.A in 2016.[9]
A ferocious of Los Angeles, Ice Cake formed his first rap throng called C.I.A.
in 1986.[10] Slot in 1987, with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, he formed the gangsta rap group N.W.A.[10] As well-fitting lead rapper, he wrote pitiless of Dre's and most type Eazy's lyrics on Straight Outta Compton,[3][5] a landmark album meander shaped West Coast hip hop's early identity and helped oppose it from East Coast rap.[4] N.W.A was also known go allout for their violent lyrics, threatening oratory bombast attack abusive police which swayed controversy.[3][10] After a monetary enigma over the group's management fail to see Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, Cut left N.W.A in late 1989, teaming with New York artists and launching a solo wrapping up career.[10]
Ice Cube has also abstruse an active film career by reason of the early 1990s.[11][12] He entered cinema by playing Doughboy slur director John Singleton's feature inauguration Boyz n the Hood, undiluted 1991 drama named after uncut 1987 rap song[4] that Lacerate 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 neat bankable movie star.[12] He plain his directorial debut with illustriousness 1998 film The Players Club, and also produced and curated the film's accompanying soundtrack.[14] Pass for of 2020, he has attended in about 40 films, counting the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, family comedies like excellence Barbershop series, and buddy officer comedies 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Ride Along.[13] He was an executive manufacturer of many of these movies, as well as of glory 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton.
O'Shea Jackson was inhabitant in Los Angeles on June 15, 1969, to hospital recorder 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 Dice was 12.[20] He is systematic cousin of fellow rappers Describe tha Funky Homosapien and Kam.
He grew up on Front line Wick Street in the Westmont section of South Los Angeles.[21][22] In ninth grade at Martyr Washington Preparatory High School emergence Los Angeles,[23] Cube began terminology raps after being challenged induce his friend "Kiddo" in typing class. Kiddo lost.[24] He has said that his stage fame came from his older fellow-man, who "threatened to slam [him] into a freezer and draw [him] out when [he] was an ice cube".[24][25][26]
Cube also phoney William Howard Taft High Faculty in the Woodland Hills make even of Los Angeles.[15] He was bused 40 miles (64 km) accost the suburban school from monarch home in a high-crime neighborhood.[27][28] In the fall of 1987, soon after he wrote shaft recorded a few locally loaded rap songs with N.W.A, lighten up enrolled at the Phoenix Society of Technology Phoenix, Arizona.[15][29] Hassle 1988, with a diploma leisure pursuit architectural drafting, he returned get at Los Angeles and rejoined N.W.A, but kept a career direction architecture drafting as a advice plan.[15][30]
In 1986, take into account the age of 16, Pull off Cube began rapping in say publicly trio C.I.A.
but soon married the newly formed rap purpose N.W.A. He was N.W.A's be in charge rapper and main ghostwriter ditch its official debut album, 1988's Straight Outta Compton. Due covenant a financial dispute, he leftist the group by the commence of 1990. During 1990, fulfil debut solo album, AmeriKKKa's Crest Wanted, found him also beseeching a featured rap group, Snifter Lench Mob.[31] Meanwhile, he helped develop the rapper Yo Yo.[5][32]
With friend Sir Jinx, Put in place Cube formed the rap unit C.I.A., and performed at parties hosted by Dr.
Dre. Owing to 1984, Dre was a 1 of a popular DJ multitude, the World Class Wreckin' Cru, which by 1985 was along with performing and recording electro row. Dre had Cube help manage the Wreckin Cru's hit ventilate "Cabbage Patch". Dre also connubial Cube on a side game, a duo called Stereo Party, which made a 12-inch tape measure, "She's a Skag", released expulsion Epic Records in 1986.[33]
In 1987, C.I.A.
released the Dr. Dre-produced single "My Posse". Meanwhile, honesty Wreckin' Cru's home base was the Eve After Dark discotheque, about a quarter of straighten up mile outside of the movement of Compton in Los Angeles county. While Dre was carry out the turntable, Ice Cube would rap, often parodying other artists' songs. In one instance, Cube's rendition was "My Penis", parodying Run-DMC's "My Adidas".[34] In 2015, the nightclub's co-owner and Wreckin' leader Alonzo Williams would reminiscence feeling his reputation damaged building block this and asking it wail to be repeated.[35]
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At 16, Cube sold rule first song to Eric Designer, soon dubbed Eazy-E, who was forming Ruthless Records and loftiness musical team N.W.A, based plod Compton, California.[15] Himself from Southernmost Central Los Angeles, Cube would be N.W.A's only core affiliate not born in Compton.
Upon the success of the trade mark "Boyz-n-the-Hood"—written by Cube, produced from end to end of Dre, and rapped by Eazy-E, helping establish gangsta rap mull it over California—Eazy focused on developing N.W.A,[36] which soon gained MC Dark. Cube wrote some of Dre's and nearly all of Eazy's lyrics on N.W.A's official first showing album, Straight Outta Compton, insecure in August 1988.[3] Yet indifference late 1989, Cube questioned her majesty compensation and N.W.A's management surpass Jerry Heller.[37]
Cube also wrote nearly of Eazy-E's debut album Eazy-Duz-It.
He received a total benefit of $32,000, and the solicit that Heller presented in 1989 did not confirm that crystal-clear was officially an N.W.A member.[38] After leaving the group good turn its label in December, Block sued Heller, and the case was later settled out have a hold over court.[38] In response, N.W.A men and women attacked Cube on the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin', and on N.W.A's next dispatch final album, Niggaz4Life, in 1991.[39]
In early 1990, Ice Chump recorded his debut solo volume, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, in Spanking York with iconic rap vocation Public Enemy's production team, integrity Bomb Squad.
Arriving in Could 1990, it was an important hit, further swelling rap's mainstream integration. Controversial nonetheless, it thespian accusations of misogyny and illiberality. The album introduces Ice Cube's affirmation of black nationalism remarkable ideology of black struggle.
Cube appointed Yo-Yo, a female doorknocker and guest on the volume, to be the head custom his record label, and helped produce her debut album, Make Way for the Motherlode.
Additionally in 1990, Cube followed with with an EP—Kill At Will—critically acclaimed, and rap's first Zealous certified Platinum.[40]
His second album Death Certificate was released in 1991.[41] The album thought to in the same way more focused, yet even very controversial, triggering accusations of anti-white, antisemitic, and misogynist content.
Distinction album was split into match up themes: the Death Side, "a vision of where we update today", and the Life Verge, "a vision of where astonishment need to go". The ambit "No Vaseline" scathingly retorts derision directed at him by N.W.A's 1990 EP and 1991 lp, which call him a traitor.[39][42] Besides calling for hanging Eazy-E as a "house nigga", decency track blames N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller for exploiting the gathering, mentions that he is cool Jew, and calls for wreath murder.[43][44] Ice Cube contended give it some thought he mentioned Heller's ethnicity only incidentally, not to premise incursion, but as news media observe nonwhite assailants' races.[44] The turn "Black Korea", also deemed racist,[41] was also thought as foreseeing the 1992 Los Angeles riots.[40] While controversial, Death Certificate broadened his audience; he toured rule Lollapalooza in 1992.[31]
Cube's third ep, The Predator, was released alternative route November 1992.
Referring to grandeur 1992 Los Angeles riots, greatness song "Wicked" opens, "April 29 was power to the community, and we might just perceive a sequel." The Predator was the first album ever understand debut at No. 1 come to blows both the R&B/hip-hop and protrude charts. Singles include "It Was a Good Day" and "Check Yo Self", songs having dinky "two-part" music video.
Generally sketch critical praise, the album legal action his most successful commercially, bend three million copies sold etch the US. After this autograph album, Cube's rap audience severely vitiated, and never regained the notability of his first three albums.[13]
During this time, Cube began lay aside have numerous features on on the subject of artists' songs.
In 1992, Dice appeared on Del the Foetid Homosapien's debut album I Yearn My Brother George Was Here, on Da Lench Mob's opening Guerillas in tha Mist, which he also produced, and escaped the Kool G Rap coupled with DJ Polo song "Two come to the Head". In 1993, fair enough worked on Kam's debut tome, and collaborated with Ice-T achieve the track "Last Wordz" observer 2Pac's album Strictly 4 Tonguetied N.I.G.G.A.Z..
Cube's fourth notebook, Lethal Injection, came out inlet late 1993. Here, Cube overseas from the then-popular G-funk average by Dr. Dre. Although clump received well by critics, authority album brought successful singles, counting "Really Doe", "Bop Gun (One Nation)", "You Know How Amazement Do It", and "What Commode I Do?" After this manual, Ice Cube effectively lost cap rap audience.[13]
Following Lethal Injection, Block focused on films and presentation albums of other rappers, containing Da Lench Mob, Mack 10, Mr.
Short Khop, and Kausion.[5][40] In 1994, Cube teamed varnished onetime N.W.A groupmate Dr. Dre, who was then leading rap's G-funk subgenre, for the pull it off time since Cube had left-hand the group, and which difficult to understand disbanded upon Dre's 1991 going. The result was the Dice and Dre song "Natural Innate Killaz", on the Murder Was The Case soundtrack, released lump Dre's then-new label, Death Order Records.
In 1995, Cube united Mack 10 and WC pathway forming a side trio, high-mindedness Westside Connection. Feeling neglected give up East Coast media, a longstanding issue in rap's bicoastal feud, the group aimed to prop up West pride and resonate recognize the undervalued. The Westside Connection's first album, Bow Down (1996), featured tracks like "Bow Down" and "Gangstas Make the Pretend Go 'Round" that reflected grandeur group's objectives.
The album was certified Platinum by year's extremity. Interpreting rapper Common's song "I Used to Love H.E.R." kind a diss of West Seashore rap, Cube and the Westside Connection briefly feuded with him, but they resolved amicably uphold 1997.[45]
It was also at that time that Cube began collaborating outside the rap genre.
Discern 1997, he worked with King Bowie and Nine Inch Nails singer Trent Reznor on well-ordered remix of Bowie's "I'm Lilylivered of Americans". In 1998, Chump was featured on the congregate Korn's song "Children of class Korn", and joined them absolution their Family Values Tour 1998.
In November 1998, Solid released his long-awaited fifth on one`s own album War & Peace Vol.
1 (The War Disc). Illustriousness delayed sixth album, Volume 2, arrived in 2000. These albums feature the Westside Connection current a reunion with his endorse N.W.A members Dr. Dre turf MC Ren. Cube also standard a return favor from Korn, as they appeared on wreath song "Fuck Dying" from Vol. 1. Many fans maintained cruise these two albums, especially leadership second, were lesser in constitution to his earlier work.[46] Kick up a rumpus 2000, Cube also joined Dr.
Dre, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg for the Up in Smoking Tour.[47]
In 2002, Cube appeared treatise British DJ Paul Oakenfold's individual debut album, Bunkka, on rectitude track "Get Em Up".
Released in 2003, Westside Connection's in a tick album, Terrorist Threats, fared come off critically, but saw lesser commercial.
"Gangsta Nation" (featuring Nate Dogg), the only single released, was a radio hit. After boss rift between Cube and Cater to 10 about Cube's film industry minimizing the group's touring, rectitude Westside Connection disbanded in 2005.
In 2004, Cube featured swift the song "Real Nigga Reason Call" by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, high-mindedness then leaders of rap's crunk subgenre.
Sudarshan sukhani narration of william hillIn 2006, Cube released his ordinal solo album, Laugh Now, Screech Later, selling 144,000 units drop the first week.[48]Lil Jon don Scott Storch produced the heave single, "Why We Thugs". Revel in October, Ice Cube was reputable at VH1's Annual Hip Be derived Honors, and performed it distinguished also the track "Go space Church".
Cube soon toured in all places in the Straight Outta Compton Tour—accompanied by rapper WC chomp through the Westside Connection—playing in Earth, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
Amid Cube's many features and transient collaborations, September 2007 brought In the Movies, a compilation sticker album of Ice Cube songs compassion soundtracks.[49]
Cube's eighth studio album, Raw Footage, arrived on August 19, 2008, yielding the singles "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" and "Do Ya Thang".
Along with in 2008, Cube helped arrival Tech N9ne's song "Blackboy", take up was featured on The Game's song "State of Emergency".
As a fan of the NFL football team the Raiders, Cut released in October 2009 top-notch tribute song, "Raider Nation".[50] Grasp 2009, Ice Cube performed be inspired by the Gathering of the Juggalos, and returned to perform sleepy the 2011 festival.[51]
On September 28, 2010, his ninth solo jotter, I Am the West, dismounted with, Cube says, a point different from any one touch on his other albums.
Its producers include West Coast veterans come into view DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, E-A-Ski, and, after nearly 20 era, again Cube's onetime C.I.A groupmate Sir Jinx. Offering the nonpareil "I Rep That West", character album debuted at #22 state the Billboard 200 and advertise 22,000 copies in its premier week. [52]
In 2011, Cube featured on Daz Dillinger's song "Iz You Ready to Die" skull on DJ Quik's song "Boogie Till You Conk Out".
In 2012, Ice Cube recorded straight verse for a remix reproach the Insane Clown Posse aerate "Chris Benoit", from ICP's The Mighty Death Pop! album, showing up on the album Mike Dynasty. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium.[53]
In Sep 2012, during Pepsi's NFL Anthems campaign, Cube released his in no time at all Raiders anthem "Come and Into the possession of It".[54]
In November 2012, Cube released more details put your name down for his forthcoming, tenth studio medium, Everythang's Corrupt.
Releasing its honour track near the 2012 elections, he added, "You know, that record is for the governmental heads."[55][56] But the album's run away was delayed.[57] On February 10, 2014, iTunes brought another solitary from it, "Sic Them Youngins on 'Em",[58] and a air video followed the next day.[59] Despite a couple of alternative song releases, the album's come to somebody's aid was delayed even beyond Cube's work on the 2015 tegument casing Straight Outta Compton.
After systematic statement setting release to 2017,[60] the album finally arrived confide in December 7, 2018.[61]
In 2014, Chump appeared on MC Ren's remix "Rebel Music", their first cooperation since the N.W.A reunion get your skates on 2000.[62]
In 2020, Cube joined rappers Snoop Dogg, E-40, Too Small and formed the supergroup Mt.
Westmore. The group's debut book was released on June 7, 2022.[63][64][65][66]
Throughout early 2024, Ice Solid is set to tour pay Canada as part of diadem Straight Into Canada tour.[67][68][69][70][71][72]
Ice Cube's eleventh studio album and emperor first new album in digit years, Man Down, was loose on November 22, 2024.
Integrity album was preceded by authority singles "It's My Ego", "Ego Maniacs (featuring Busta Rhymes become calm Killer Mike)" and "So Sensitive".
Since 1991, Ice Cube has acted weigh down nearly 40 films, several cataclysm which are highly regarded.[13] Abominable of them, such as distinction 1992 thriller Trespass and blue blood the gentry 1999 war comedy Three Kings, highlight action.[13] Yet most archetypal comedies, including a few adult-oriented ones, like the Friday dealership, whereas most of these apprehend family-friendly, like the Barbershop franchise.[13]
John Singleton's seminal film Boyz untrue myths the Hood, released in July 1991, debuted the actor Assistant Cube playing Doughboy, a face that Cube played convincingly.[11] Subsequent, Cube starred with Ice-T stake Bill Paxton in Walter Hill's 1992 thriller film Trespass, come to rest in Charles Burnett's 1995 integument The Glass Shield.
Meanwhile, Chump declined to costar with Janet Jackson in Singleton's 1993 declaration Poetic Justice, a role stray Tupac Shakur then played.
Cube starred as the university pupil Fudge in Singleton's 1995 vinyl Higher Learning.[73] Singleton, encouraging Gumption, had reportedly told him, "If you can write a register, you can write a movie."[74] Cube cowrote the screenplay tight spot the 1995 comedy Friday, supported on adult themes, and asterisked in it with comedian Chris Tucker.
Made with $3.5 trillion, Friday drew $28 million worldwide. Deuce sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next, were respectively unattached in 2000 and 2002.
In 1997, playing a South Someone exiled to America who receipts 15 years later, Cube marked in the action thriller Dangerous Ground, and had a manner role in Anaconda.
In 1998, writing again, the director Gain entry Cube debuted in The Club. In 1999, he marked alongside George Clooney and Highflying Wahlberg as a staff serjeantatlaw in Three Kings, set call the immediate aftermath of glory Gulf War, whereby the Merged States attacked Iraq in 1990, an "intelligent" war comedy strictly acclaimed.[13] In 2002, Cube marked in Kevin Bray's All Lug the Benjamins, and in Tim Story's comedy film Barbershop.
In 2004, Cube played in Barbershop 2 and Torque. The twig year, he replaced Vin Technologist in the second installment ceremony the XXX film series, XXX: State of the Union, introduce the main protagonist, which fiasco reprises the character in excellence third installment and reunited bang into Diesel 12 years later, XXX: Return of Xander Cage.
Flair also appeared in the descent comedy Are We There Yet?, which premised his role pigs its 2007 sequel Are Amazement Done Yet?. In 2012, Solid appeared in 21 Jump Street. He also appeared in disloyalty sequel, 22 Jump Street, meat 2014. That year, and spread to return in 2016, earth played alongside comedian Kevin Stag in two more Tim Chronicle films, Ride Along and Ride Along 2.
Also in 2016, Cube returned for the gear entry in the Barbershop keep fit. And in 2017, Cube marked with Charlie Day in justness comedy Fist Fight.
In Oct 2021, Ice Cube was unexpected result to star in the farce film Oh Hell No (now titled Stepdude[75]) alongside Jack Begrimed, but left the project fend for refusing to get vaccinated make public COVID-19.
The project would conspiracy paid him $9 million.[76]
In introverted 2005, Ice Cube and Concentration. J. Cutler co-created the six-part documentary series Black. White., defraud by cable network FX.
Ice Cube and basketball star LeBron James paired up to fall head over heels a one-hour special to ABC based on James's life.[77]
On Hawthorn 11, 2010, ESPN aired Cube's directed documentary Straight Outta L.A., examining the interplay of Los Angeles sociopolitics, hip hop, unacceptable the Raiders during the Decade into the 1990s.[78][79]
Ice Cube's Are We There Yet? keep in shape premiered on TBS on June 2, 2010.
It revolves show the way a family adjusting to greatness matriarch's new husband, played beside Terry Crews. On August 16, the show was renewed tend 90 more episodes,[80] amounting fit in six seasons. Cube also credits Tyler Perry for his entrée to TBS.[81] In front glimpse the television cameras, rather, Solid appeared with Elmo as a-ok 2014 guest on the PBS children's show Sesame Street.[82]
In 1990, a musical associate bind the rap group Public Competitor introduced Cube to the Polity of Islam (NOI).[83] He regenerate to Islam, though he denied membership in the NOI,[31] whose ideology against white people mount especially Jews led to fraudulence categorization as a hate objective by the Southern Poverty Modus operandi Center.[85] However, he readily adoptive the group's ideology of sooty nationalism,[6] a concept familiar consent to the hip hop community.[86] Of course nevertheless has claimed to hear to his own conscience whilst a "natural Muslim",[83] claiming space do so because "it's unbiased [him] and God".[87] In 2012, he expressed support for same-sex marriage.[88] In 2017, he aforementioned that he thinks "religion in your right mind stupid" in part and explained, "I'm gonna live a scuttle life, and I might do religions three or four generation before I die.
I'm talk into the Islam tip—but I'm uprising the Christian tip, too. I'm on the Buddhist tip tempt well. Everyone has something make offer to the world."[89]
Ice Block has been married to Kimberly Woodruff since April 26, 1992.[90][91] They have four children together;[92] their oldest son O'Shea Actress Jr.
(born 1991) portrayed him in the film Straight Outta Compton.[93][94] When asked about class balance between his music talented parenting in 2005, Cube subject-matter teaching his children to concentrating the value of violence delineated in all media, not crabby song lyrics. Through his appear O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Ice Block is a grandfather.[95]
In 2017, settle down launched Big3, a 3-on-3 hoops league starring former NBA players.[96] Ice Cube is a famous fan of the Las Vegas Raiders, originally supporting the setup during their tenure in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994. NWA's use of Raiders' memorabilia in conjunction with the team's historically intimidating presence, helped put your name down further popularized an image shield the team in hip-hop refinement for years to come.[97][98] Accessory Cube is also a enthusiast of the Los Angeles Dodgers of the MLB, performing spruce pregame show before game 2 of the 2024 World Lean-to and later at the teams World Series win celebration trim Dodger Stadium,[99] and has similar to one another been a devout fan bequest the Los Angeles Lakers.[100]
At a 1991 entreat conference promoting his album Death Certificate, Cube endorsed the Deposit account of Islam's pseudo-scholarly book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks scold Jews, which falsely claims lose one\'s train of thought European Jews dominated the Ocean slave trade.[101][102]Death Certificate also contains the song "No Vaseline",[44][103] which uses racial slurs against magnanimity other former members of N.W.A and refers to the group's manager Jerry Heller as "devil" and "cracker".[43][104]
In response to accusations of racism and anti-Semitism, Noddle said in 2008, "I ain't got time to be fuckin' anti-Semitic, anti-this, anti-that, anti-Korean.
Hilarious ain't got time for ditch shit. I'm too busy bein' pro-black, you know what I'm saying?"[101] In 2015, Cube verbalised regret at including the chat "Jew" in the lyrics good buy "No Vaseline" and explained dump he intended to attack solitary Heller and not "the complete Jewish race".[43]
In 2020, Marlow Dark wrote an article in honesty Daily Beast addressing Cube's "long, disturbing history" of anti-Semitism.[44] Rendering article was a response redo Cube's day-long Twitter posting escapade the day before, during which he promoted Nation of Mohammadanism leader Louis Farrakhan.[86] He along with shared various disproven anti-Semitic section theories.[105] Again calling himself "just pro-black" and not "anti-anybody", appease dismissed "the hype" and assumed that he was just "telling [his] truth".[106]
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