Ice Cube
Ice Cube
O'Shea Jackson Sr., known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer and filmmaker. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the seminal rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music and films. Additionally, he has served as one of the producers of the Showtime television series Barbershop and the TBS series Are We There Yet?, both...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth15 June 1969
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.
I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.
I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about.
I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.
You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry.
If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through.
You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission.
There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.
You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.
I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.
The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.
There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.