Ice Cube
Ice Cube | |
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Born | O'Shea Jackson June 15, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Education | Taft High School Phoenix Institute Of Technology |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1986–present |
Organization(s) | Cube Vision Lench Mob Records |
Spouse |
Kimberly Woodruff
(m. 1992) |
Children | 5, including Del tha Funky Homosapien (cousin) (cousin)Kam |
Musical career | |
Genres | |
Labels | |
Member of | Mt. Westmore |
Formerly of | |
Website | icecube |
O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), better known as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer. His lyrics on
A native of Los Angeles, Ice Cube formed his first rap group called
Ice Cube has also had an active film career since the early 1990s.
Early life
Ice Cube was born O'Shea Jackson in Los Angeles on June 15, 1969, the son of hospital clerk and custodian Doris and machinist and
Cube also attended
Music career
Early work
In 1986, at the age of 16, Ice Cube began rapping in the trio C.I.A. but soon joined the newly formed rap group N.W.A. He was N.W.A's lead rapper and main ghostwriter on its official debut album, 1988's Straight Outta Compton. Due to a financial dispute, he left the group by the start of 1990. During 1990, his debut solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, found him also leading a featured rap group, Da Lench Mob.[29] Meanwhile, he helped develop the rapper Yo Yo.[3][30]
1986: C.I.A.
With friend
In 1987, C.I.A. released the Dr. Dre-produced single "My Posse". Meanwhile, the Wreckin' Cru's home base was the Eve After Dark nightclub, about a quarter of a mile outside of the city of Compton in Los Angeles county. While Dre was on 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".[32] In 2015, the nightclub's co-owner and Wreckin' leader Alonzo Williams would recall feeling his reputation damaged by this and asking it not to be repeated.[33]
1986–1989: N.W.A.
At 16, Cube sold his first song to Eric Wright, soon dubbed Eazy-E, who was forming Ruthless Records and the musical team N.W.A, based in Compton, California.[13] Himself from South Central Los Angeles, Cube would be N.W.A's only core member not born in Compton.
Upon the success of the song "Boyz-n-the-Hood"—written by Cube, produced by Dre, and rapped by Eazy-E, helping establish gangsta rap in California—Eazy focused on developing N.W.A,[34] which soon gained MC Ren. Cube wrote some of Dre's and nearly all of Eazy's lyrics on N.W.A's official debut album, Straight Outta Compton, released in August 1988.[1] Yet by late 1989, Cube questioned his compensation and N.W.A's management by Jerry Heller.[35]
Cube also wrote most of Eazy-E's debut album Eazy-Duz-It. He received a total pay of $32,000, and the contract that Heller presented in 1989 did not confirm that he was officially an N.W.A member.[36] After leaving the group and its label in December, Cube sued Heller, and the lawsuit was later settled out of court.[36] In response, N.W.A members attacked Cube on the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin', and on N.W.A's next and final album, Niggaz4Life, in 1991.[37]
1989–1993: Early solo career, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Death Certificate, and The Predator
In early 1990, Ice Cube recorded his debut solo album,
Cube appointed
His second album
Cube's third album,
During this time, Cube began to have numerous features on other artists' songs. In 1992, Cube appeared on
1993–1998: Lethal Injection and forming Westside Connection
Cube's fourth album, Lethal Injection, came out in late 1993. Here, Cube borrowed from the then-popular G-funk popularized by Dr. Dre. Although not received well by critics, the album brought successful singles, including "Really Doe", "Bop Gun (One Nation)", "You Know How We Do It", and "What Can I Do?" After this album, Ice Cube effectively lost his rap audience.[11]
Following Lethal Injection, Cube focused on films and producing albums of other rappers, including Da Lench Mob,
In 1995, Cube joined Mack 10 and
It was also at this time that Cube began collaborating outside the rap genre. In 1997, he worked with
1998–2006: War & Peace Vol. 1 & 2 and Westside Connection reunion
In November 1998, Cube released his long-awaited fifth solo album
In 2002, Cube appeared on British DJ Paul Oakenfold's solo debut album, Bunkka, on the track "Get Em Up".
Released in 2003, Westside Connection's second album, Terrorist Threats, fared well critically, but saw lesser sales. "Gangsta Nation" (featuring Nate Dogg), the only single released, was a radio hit. After a rift between Cube and Mack 10 about Cube's film work minimizing the group's touring, the Westside Connection disbanded in 2005.
In 2004, Cube featured on the song "
2006–2012: Laugh Now, Cry Later, Raw Footage, and I Am the West
In 2006, Cube released his seventh solo album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, selling 144,000 units in the first week.[46] Lil Jon and Scott Storch produced the lead single, "Why We Thugs". In October, Ice Cube was honored at VH1's Annual Hip Hop Honors, and performed it and also the track "Go to Church". Cube soon toured globally in the Straight Outta Compton Tour—accompanied by rapper WC from the Westside Connection—playing in America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
Amid Cube's many features and brief collaborations, September 2007 brought In the Movies, a compilation album of Ice Cube songs on soundtracks.[47]
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". Also in 2008, Cube helped on Tech N9ne's song "Blackboy", and was featured on The Game's song "State of Emergency".
As a fan of the
On September 28, 2010, his ninth solo album, I Am the West, arrived with, Cube says, a direction different from any one of his other albums. Its producers include West Coast veterans like DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, E-A-Ski, and, after nearly 20 years, again Cube's onetime C.I.A groupmate Sir Jinx. Offering the single "I Rep That West", the album debuted at #22 on the Billboard 200 and sold 22,000 copies in its first week. Also in 2010, Cube signed up-and-coming recording artist named 7Tre The Ghost, deemed likely to be either skipped or given the cookie-cutter treatment by most record companies.[50]
In 2011, Cube featured on Daz Dillinger's song "Iz You Ready to Die" and on DJ Quik's song "Boogie Till You Conk Out".
In 2012, Ice Cube recorded a verse for a remix of the Insane Clown Posse song "Chris Benoit", from ICP's The Mighty Death Pop! album, appearing on the album Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium.[51]
In September 2012, during Pepsi's NFL Anthems campaign, Cube released his second Raiders anthem "Come and Get It".[52]
2012–present: Everythang's Corrupt and forming Mount Westmore
In November 2012, Cube released more details on his forthcoming, tenth studio album,
In 2014, Cube appeared on MC Ren's remix "Rebel Music", their first collaboration since the N.W.A reunion in 2000.[60]
In 2020, Cube joined rappers
Throughout early 2024, Ice Cube is set to tour across Canada as part of his Straight Into Canada tour.[65][66][67][68][69][70]
Film and television career
Since 1991, Ice Cube has acted in nearly 40 films, several of which are highly regarded.[11] Some of them, such as the 1992 thriller Trespass and the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, highlight action.[11] Yet most are comedies, including a few adult-oriented ones, like the Friday franchise, whereas most of these are family-friendly, like the Barbershop franchise.[11]
Narrative
Cube starred as the university student Fudge in Singleton's 1995 film Higher Learning.[71] Singleton, encouraging Cube, had reportedly told him, "If you can write a record, you can write a movie."[72] Cube cowrote the screenplay for the 1995 comedy Friday, based on adult themes, and starred in it with comedian Chris Tucker. Made with $3.5 million, Friday drew $28 million worldwide. Two sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next, were respectively released in 2000 and 2002.
In 1997, playing a South African exiled to America who returns 15 years later, Cube starred in the action thriller Dangerous Ground, and had a supporting role in Anaconda. In 1998, writing again, the director Ice Cube debuted in The Players Club. In 1999, he starred alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as a staff sergeant in Three Kings, set in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, whereby the United States attacked Iraq in 1990, an "intelligent" war comedy critically acclaimed.[11] In 2002, Cube starred in Kevin Bray's All About the Benjamins, and in Tim Story's comedy film Barbershop.
In 2004, Cube played in Barbershop 2 and Torque. The next year, he replaced Vin Diesel in the second installment of the XXX film series, XXX: State of the Union, as the main protagonist, which he reprises the character in the third installment and reunited with Diesel 12 years later, XXX: Return of Xander Cage. He also appeared in the family comedy Are We There Yet?, which premised his role in its 2007 sequel Are We Done Yet?. In 2012, Cube appeared in 21 Jump Street. He also appeared in its sequel, 22 Jump Street, in 2014. That year, and then to return in 2016, he played alongside comedian Kevin Hart in two more Tim Story films, Ride Along and Ride Along 2. Also in 2016, Cube returned for the third entry in the Barbershop series. And in 2017, Cube starred with Charlie Day in the comedy Fist Fight.
In October 2021, Ice Cube was set to star in the comedy film Oh Hell No (now titled Stepdude[73]) alongside Jack Black, but left the project after refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19. The project would have paid him $9 million.[74]
Documentary
In late 2005, Ice Cube and R. J. Cutler co-created the six-part documentary series Black. White., carried by cable network FX.
Ice Cube and basketball star LeBron James paired up to pitch a one-hour special to ABC based on James's life.[75]
On May 11, 2010, ESPN aired Cube's directed documentary Straight Outta L.A., examining the interplay of Los Angeles sociopolitics, hip hop, and the Raiders during the 1980s into the 1990s.[76][77]
Serial television
Ice Cube's
Personal life
In 1990, a musical associate in the rap group
Ice Cube has been married to Kimberly Woodruff since April 26, 1992.[88][89] They have five children together; their oldest son O'Shea Jackson Jr. (born 1991) portrayed him in the film Straight Outta Compton.[90][91] When asked about the balance between his music and parenting in 2005, Cube discussed teaching his children to question the value of violence depicted in all media, not just song lyrics. Through his son O'Shea Jackson Jr. Ice Cube is a grandfather.[92]
In 2017, he launched
Conspiracy theories and antisemitism
At a 1991 press conference promoting his album
In response to accusations of racism and
In 2020, Marlow Stern wrote an article in the
Discography
- Studio albums
- AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)
- Death Certificate (1991)
- The Predator (1992)
- Lethal Injection (1993)
- War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) (1998)
- War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc) (2000)
- Laugh Now, Cry Later (2006)
- Raw Footage (2008)
- I Am the West (2010)
- Everythang's Corrupt (2018)
Filmography
Films
Year | Film | Functioned as | Role | |||
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Director | Producer | Screenwriter | Actor | |||
1991 | Boyz n the Hood | Darin "Doughboy" Baker | ||||
1992 | Trespass | Savon | ||||
1993 | CB4 | Himself (cameo) | ||||
1994 | The Glass Shield | Teddy Woods | ||||
1995 | Higher Learning | Fudge | ||||
Friday | Craig Jones | |||||
1997 | Dangerous Ground | Vusi Madlazi | ||||
Anaconda | Danny Rich | |||||
1998 | The Players Club | Reggie | ||||
I Got the Hook Up
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Gun runner | |||||
1999 | Three Kings | Sgt. Chief Elgin | ||||
Thicker Than Water
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Slink | |||||
2000 | Next Friday | Craig Jones | ||||
2001 | Ghosts of Mars | James 'Desolation' Williams | ||||
2002 | All About The Benjamins
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Bucum | ||||
Barbershop | Calvin Palmer | |||||
Friday After Next | Craig Jones | |||||
2004 | Torque | Trey Wallace | ||||
The N-Word | Himself | |||||
Barbershop 2: Back in Business | Calvin Palmer | |||||
2005 | Are We There Yet? | Nick Persons | ||||
Beauty Shop | ||||||
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars | ||||||
XXX: State of the Union | Darius Stone / XXX | |||||
2007 | Are We Done Yet? | Nick Persons | ||||
2008 | First Sunday | Durell Washington | ||||
The Longshots | Curtis Plummer | |||||
2009 | Janky Promoters | Russell Redds | ||||
2010 | Lottery Ticket | Jerome "Thump" Washington | ||||
2011 | Rampart | Kyle Timkins | ||||
2012 | 21 Jump Street | Capt. Dickson | ||||
2014 | Ride Along | Detective James Payton | ||||
22 Jump Street | Capt. Dickson | |||||
The Book of Life | The Candle Maker (voice) | |||||
2015 | Straight Outta Compton | |||||
2016 | Ride Along 2 | Detective James Payton | ||||
Barbershop: The Next Cut | Calvin Palmer | |||||
2017 | XXX: Return of Xander Cage | Darius Stone / XXX | ||||
Fist Fight | Strickland | |||||
2020 | The High Note | Jack Robertson | ||||
2023 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem[104] | Superfly (voice) |
Television
Year | Film | Functioned as | Role | Notes | |||
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Producer | Screenwriter | Director | Actor | ||||
1994 | The Sinbad Show | Himself | Episode: "The Mr. Science Show" | ||||
2002 | The Bernie Mac Show | Himself | Episode: "Goodbye Dolly" | ||||
2005 | BarberShop: The Series | ||||||
WrestleMania 21 | Himself | ||||||
2006 | Black. White. | ||||||
2007 | Friday: The Animated Series
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2010 | 30 for 30 | Episode: "Straight Outta L.A." | |||||
2010–2013 | Are We There Yet? | Terrence Kingston | Recurring role (20 episodes) | ||||
2017 | The Defiant Ones | Himself | Documentary |
Video games
Title | Year | Role | Other notes | Ref. |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops | 2010 | Chief Petty Officer Joseph Bowman / SOG multiplayer announcer | Voice and likeness actor | [105][106] |
Awards and nominations
Film awards
Ice Cube has received nominations for several films in the past. To date, he has won two awards:
- 2000: Blockbuster Entertainment Award: Favorite Action Team (for Three Kings)
- 2002: MECCA Movie Award: Acting Award
Music awards
- VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2006
- 2006 Honoree Snoop Dogg
- BET Hip-Hop Awards 2009
- BET Honores 2014
- Grammy Awards
- 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (as a member of N.W.A.)[107]
Other
- Hollywood Walk of Fame star 2017[108]
- N.W.A.2016
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External links
- Official website
- Ice Cube at AllMusic
- Ice Cube at IMDb