Ice Cube
Ice Cube was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on June 15th, 1969 and is the Rapper. At the age of 54, Ice Cube biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), also known as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor, producer, and writer. Ice Cube first became known in 1986 as a member of the hip hop band C.I.A., which had limited commercial success prior to disbanding around the time N.W.A. was established.
Ice Cube, along with Dr.Dre and Eazy Eazy, formed N.W.A., where he rose to fame as the group's key songwriter and performer and for pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music, as well as video imagery in music videos.
Ice Cube's musical output has largely influenced brutal socio-political analysis and storytelling, earning him multiple awards and accolades from various publications and writers, often cited as a hero and one of the best rappers of all time.
He wrote and appeared in the Friday film collection, which also contributed to his public image as a movie star.
Ice Cube has appeared in the Barbershop, Ride Along, and XX film series, as well as many other films, including Straight Outta Compton (2015), a biographical film that follows N.W.A.'s career.
Life and side ventures
Ice Cube was born in Los Angeles on June 15, 1969, to Doris, a hospital clerk and custodian, and Hosea Jackson, a machinist and UCLA groundskeeper. He has an older brother, and his half-sister was killed when Cube was 12 years old. He grew up on Van Wick Street in South Los Angeles's Westmont neighborhood.
Cube began writing raps in ninth grade at George Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles after being challenged by his friend "Kiddo" in typewriting class. Kiddo was killed. Cube, quoting his stage name, accuses his older brother: "When I was an ice cube," he threatened to slam me into a freezer and pull me out. I just started using the word and it's sincere."
Cube attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, where he was a student there. In a high-crime neighborhood, he was driven 40 miles to the suburban school from his house. He migrated to Arizona to enroll in the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall 1987 semester shortly after he wrote and recorded a few locally popular rap songs with N.W.A. With a degree in architectural draft, he returned to Los Angeles in 1988 and rejoined N.W.A., but with a focus on architecture drafting as a back-up plan.
Street Knowledge, a hipster from the rap group Public Enemy, introduced him to the Nation of Islam in 1990. The Ice Cube was converted to Islam by the Ice Cube. Despite denying membership in the NOI, the party's ideology often rebukes whites and especially Jews, he quickly adopted its ideology of black nationalism, which is familiar to the rap group. Despite this, he has claimed to heed his own conscience as a "natural Muslim" because "it's just me and God." When asked in 2017, he said, in part, that "religion is stupid." "I'll live a long life" will imply, and I'll change faiths three or four times before I die," he said. I'm on the Islam train, but I'm also on the Christian path. I'm also on the Buddhist train. Everyone has something to offer the world.
Ice Cube married Kimberly Woodruff, who was born in 1970, on April 26, 1992. They have four children together. When asked about the balance between his music and his parenting, Cube talked to his children to evaluate the violence depicted in all media, not just in music lyrics. In the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, O'Shea Jackson Jr. portrayed him.
In a 2016 interview, he cited Jaws as his favorite film and his most popular among his own songs as "It Was a Good Day." Cube has promoted Coors Light beer and St. Ides malt whiskey, as well as a licenced a clothing line named Solo by Cube. In 2017, he unveiled Big3, a 3-on-3 basketball league starring former NBA players. With eight squads, an eight-week regular season, playoffs, and a championship match, the season got off to a good start in June.
Musical career
Ice Cube began rapping in the trio C.I.A. in 1986, but N.W.A. was soon joined by the newly formed rap group N.W.A. On its official debut album, 1988's Straight Outta Compton, he was both N.W.A.'s lead rapper and chief ghostwriter. He left early in 1990 due to a financial crisis, and he left early in 1990. Da Lench Mob, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted's debut solo album, found him also leading a featured rap band during 1990.
In the meantime, he was instrumental in the development of rapper Yo Yo Yo.
Sir Jinx and Ice Cube, a friend of Sir Jinx, formed the rap group C.I.A.A. and performed at Dr. Dre's hosted parties. Dre has been a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cruse since 1984, which by 1985 was also performing and recording electro rap. Dre had Cube help write the Wreckin Cru's hit song "Cabbage Patch." Dre was also working on a side project for Cube, a duo called Stereo Crew, which released a 12-inch record, "She's a Skag," which was released on Epic Records in 1986.
C.I.A. A. in 1987. "My Posse," Dr. Dre's produced single, has been released. In addition, the Eve After Dark nightclub, about a quarter of a mile outside of the city Compton, Los Angeles county, was the Wreckin' Cru's home base. Ice Cube would rap, often parodying other artists' songs while Dr. Frost was on the turntable. In one instance, Cube's rendition was "My Penis," parodying Run-DMC's "My Adidas." Alonzo Williams, the nightclub's co-owner and Wreckin's boss, will remember feeling his name was tarnished by this and requesting that it not to be repeated.
Cube performed his first song on August 16, then known as Eazy-E, who was establishing Ruthless Records and the musical group N.W.A, based in Compton, California. Cube, a man from South Central Los Angeles, would be N.W.A.'s only core member not born in Compton.
Following success of Cube's book "Boyz-n-Hood" (written by Dr. Dote and rapped by Eazy-E), Eazy-Eazy began rapping in California, and Eazy-Eazy began focusing on developing N.W.A, which soon earned MC Ren. On N.W.A.A.'s official debut album, Straight Outta Compton, released in August 1988, Cube wrote some of Dr.'s and nearly all of Eazy's songs. However, Cube questioned his compensation and N.W.A's leadership by Jerry Heller by late 1989.
Cube produced the bulk of Eazy-E's debut album, Eazy-Duz-It. Heller's 1989-dealing deal did not state that he was an N.W.A member. Cube sued Heller after separating the company and its name in December, and the case was later dismissed out of court. Members of the N.W.A. slammed Cube on the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin' and the 1991 Niggaz4Life album, which was released by the N.W.A.
Ice Cube's debut solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, was released in New York by the Bomb Squad, the legendary rap group Public Enemy. It was a hit on time in May 1990, and the rise of rap's mainstream integration is only getting bigger. Despite this controversy, misogyny and bigotry had a lot of critics. Ice Cube's reaffirmation of black nationalism and a conception of black nationalism is included on the album.
Yo-Yo, a female rapper and investor on the album, was hired to lead his record company and assisted in the release of her debut album, Make Way for the Motherlode. Cube returned to an EP in 1990: Kill At Will, critically acclaimed, and Rap's first EP Gold award.
In 1991, Death Certificate II was the first album to be released. The album is expected to be more focused, yet still more controversial, prompting accusations of anti-white, antisemitic, and misogynist propaganda. The album was divided into two themes: the Death Side, "a look at where we are today," and the Life Side, "a glimpse of where we should go." The track "No Vaseline" scathingly retorts insults directed at him by N.W.A's 1990 EP and 1991 album, which call him a traitor. In addition to calling for Eazy-E as a "house nigga," the track also accuses N.W.A.'s boss Jerry Heller for misusing the organization. Ice Cube claimed that he discussed Heller's ethnicity only in passing, not in a plot to attack, but that non-white assailants' races were given in news outlets. The track "Black Korea," which was also deemed racist, was also thought to have predicted the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Death Certificate, although contentious, widened his audience; in 1992, he appeared with Lollapalooza.
The Predator, Cube's third album, was released in November 1992. "April 29 was power to the people," the song "Wicked" opens, referring to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. We may just see a sequel. The Predator was the first album to debut at No. 1 in the United States. 1 on both the R&B/hip Hop and pop charts. Songs including "It Was a Good Day" and "Check Yo Self" are among the "two-part" music video on the album. The album is widely praised by critics, with over three million copies sold in the United States. Cube's rap following has drastically diminished after this collection, and he has never regained his fame from his first three albums.
Cube first appeared on other artists' songs during this period. Cube appeared on Del the 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, and on Kool G Rap and DJ Polo's "Two to the Head." In 1993, he appeared on Kam's debut album and collaborated with Ice-T on the track "Last Wordz" on 2Pac's album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.A.Z.
Lethal Injection, Cube's fourth album, came out in late 1993. Cube here borrows from the then-popular G-funk, which Dr. Dre also admired. Despite not being well received by critics, the album did well, with "Reality Doe," "Bop Gun (One Country), "You Know How We Do It," and "What Can I Do?" Ice Cube has effectively lost his rap audience since his debut on the album.
Following Lethal Injection, Cube concentrated on films and releasing albums of other rappers, including Da Lench Mob, Mack 10, Mr. Short Khop, and Kausion. For the first time since Cube had left the company and which had disbanded following Dr. Dre's departure in 1991, the pair joined a onetime N.W.A groupmate who was then leading rap's G-funk subgenre. The result was the Cube and Dre song "Natural Born Killaz" on the Murder Was The Case soundtrack, which was released by Dre's then-new company, Death Row Records.
Cube joined Mack 10 and WC in 1995, forming the Westside Connection. The group, which long been a part of rap's bicoastal rivalry, wanted to promote West pride and resonate with the undervalued. "Bow Down" and "Gangstas Make the World Go "Round" represented the Westside Connection's first album, released in 1996, and it included songs such as "Bow Down" and "Gangstas Make the World Go Round" that reflected the organization's goals. By the year's end, the album had been certified Platinum. "I Used to Love H.E.R." - A rapper Common's song "I Used to Love H.E.R." Cube and the Westside Connection briefly feuded with him as a result of West Coast rap, but they reconciled amicably in 1997.
Cube began performing outside of the hip hop genre around the same time. On a remix of Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans" in 1997, he collaborated with David Bowie and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Cube appeared on the band's "Children of the Korn" in 1998 and joined them on their Family Values Tour 1998.
Cube released his long-awaited fifth solo album War & Peace Vol. in November 1998. 1 (The War Disc). Volume 2, the postponed sixth album, debuted in 2000. These albums include the Westside Connection and a reunion with his old N.W.A. colleagues Dr. Dre and MC Rene. Cube earned a return favour from Korn as they appeared on his album "Fuck Dying" from Vol. 1. Many fans claimed that these two albums, particularly the second, were inferior in quality to his earlier work. Cube appeared on the Up in Smoke Tour in 2000 alongside Dr. Eminem and Snoop Dogg.
Cube appeared on British DJ Paul Oakenfold's solo debut album, Bunkka, in 2002.
Terrorist Threats, Westside Connection's second album, despite the fact that it was released in 2003, saw less sales. The only single recorded version of "Gangsta Nation" (featuring Nate Dogg) was a radio hit. The Westside Connection disbanded in 2005 after a divide between Cube and Mack 10 over Cube's film work, minimizing the group's touring.
Cube appeared on Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz's album "Real Nigga Roll Call" in 2004, the then leaders of hip-bose's crunk subgenre.
Cube's seventh solo album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, sold 144,000 units in the first week. "Why We Thugs," Lil Jon and Scott Storch performed the lead single. Ice Cube was honoured at VH1's Annual Hip Hop Awards in October, and he performed it as well as the track "Go to Church." Cube followed the Straight Outta Compton Tour around the world, accompanied by rapper WC from the Westside Connection, who appeared in America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
In the Movies, a compilation album of Ice Cube songs on soundtracks, was released in September 2007 amid Cube's numerous releases and brief collaborations.
"Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" and "Do Ya Thang" were two of Cube's eighth studio album, Raw Footage, which culminated in the singles "Do It" and "Do Ya Thang." Cube appeared on Tech N9ne's "Blackboy" in 2008 and was also included on The Game's "State of Emergency" song.
Cube, a diehard fan of the NFL's Raiders, was released in October 2009 as a tribute to "Raider Nation." Ice Cube appeared at the Gathering of the Juggalos in 2009 and then returned to perform at the 2011 festival.
Cube's ninth solo album, I Am the West, debuted on September 28, 2010, a departure from any of his previous albums. DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, E-A-Ski, and A-Ski's E-A-Ski were among the show's designers, and after nearly 20 years, Cube's one-time C.I.A groupmate Sir Jinx appeared in the C.I.A. The album, "I Rep That West," debuted at number 22 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 22,000 copies in its first week. Most recording studios are likely to skip or give cookie cutter treatment to Cube and others in 2010.
Cube appeared on Daz Dillinger's album "Iz You Want to Die" and DJ Quik's "Boogie Till You Conk Out" in 2011.
Ice Cube recorded a verse for a remix of Insane Clown Posse's "Chris Benoit," a member of ICP's The Mighty Death Pop! This album is available on Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium, a collection of songs.
Cube's second Raiders anthem, "Come and Get It," during Pepsi's NFL Anthem campaign in September 2012.
Cube's Corrupt, his forthcoming, tenth studio album, debuted in November 2012. "You know, this one is for the political heads," the author said of a releasing of its title track ahead of the 2012 elections. The album's launch was postponed, but it was then delayed. "Sic Them Youngins on 'Em," iTunes released another single from it on Friday, February 10, 2014, and a music video followed the next day. Despite a few more song debuts, the album's launch was postponed even more than Cube's work on the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton. The album finally arrived on December 7, 2018 after a dramatic set release to 2017.
Cube appeared on MC Ren's remix "Rebel Music" in 2014, the first time since the N.W.A.A reunion in 2000.
Cube, E-40, Too Short, and other rappers joined the supergroup Mt. Westmore, a Westmore. On June 7th, 2022, the group's debut album was released.
Film and television career
Ice Cube has appeared in over 40 films since 1991, many of which are highly regarded. Many of them, including the 1992 thriller Trespass and the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, highlight action. Nonetheless, the bulk of these comedies are comedies, with a few adult-oriented ones like the Friday franchise, being among the more popular ones, though the majority of these are family-friendly, like the Barbershop franchise.
Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton's seminal film, debuted Ice Cube as Doughboy, a persona that Cube played convincingly. In Walter Hill's 1992 thriller film Trespass, Cube appeared alongside Ice-T and Bill Paxton, as well as in Charles Burnett's 1995 film The Glass Shield. Cube, on the other hand, declined to costar with Janet Jackson in Singleton's 1993 romance Poetic Justice, a part in which Tupac Shakur appeared.
In Singleton's 1995 film Higher Learning, Cube played Fudge as the university student Fudge. "You can write a book, you can write a movie," Singleton, a Cube supporter, had told him. Cube wrote the script for the 1995 comedy "British Whistle" on adult themes, and he appeared alongside comedian Chris Tucker in it. Overall, the Macaulay family made $28 million on Friday, earning $28 million. In 2000 and 2002, two sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next, were respectively released.
Cube starred in Dangerous Ground, a South African exiled to America who has 15 years later, and was a supporting cast member in Anaconda. The director Ice Cube made his debut in The Players Club in 1998, writing again. In 1999, he appeared alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as a service sergeant in Three Kings, set in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, whereby the US attacked Iraq in 1990, a "intelligent" war comedy that has been critically acclaimed. Cube appeared in Kevin Bray's All About the Money (Average) and in Tim Story's comedies Barbershop.
Cube appeared in Barbershop 2 and Torque in 2004. Xander Cage, a former Vin Diesel in the second installment of the XXX film series XXX: State of the Union, as the principal protagonist, will return to the character in the third installment. He appeared in Are We Really Here Yet?, a family sitcom, which premised his appearance in the 2007 sequel Are We Done Yet? Cube appeared in 21 Jump Street in 2012. In 2014, he appeared in the sequel, 22 Jump Street. He appeared in two other Tim Story films, Ride Along and Ride Along 2. He appeared in that year and then reprised in 2016. Cube made his third appearance in the Barbershop series in 2016. And in 2017, Cube appeared in the comedy Fist Fight with Charlie Day.
Ice Cube and R. J. Cutler co-created the six-part documentary series Black in late 2005. White is the product of the cable network FX.
LeBron James, the ice cube and basketball star, and ABC presenter LeBron James teamed up to create a one-hour special based on James' life.
The interplay between Los Angeles sociopolitics, hip hop, and the Raiders continued on ESPN from May 11, 2010.