Episode 64 w/ Ice Cube

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This is Drinks Chip Radar War Every Day is New Year's e just right what it could be hopeless The shop Boy and DJ and the d est On Podcast make something and right now we had a legend every name. First off, people at Martel. You know what I'm saying. The corn yak. We we drank a lot of the con yak, had drank a lot of it. Yeah, yeah, you went in, You went in, you and you're the only one hot. Nobody else was. I feel like anybody else was hot. And that's that's that. Martell got damnit.

Let's make some noise of Martel got damn. So we gotta describe to the people when they're bound to head right now, both one of both very seldomly to me, and you have the same favorite rapper, ice Cube is one of them, definitely one of them, And we gotta describe that. We actually flew to New York to get them. Yeah, that's not much. That's much. He's one of my favorite. The Snowstorm debt at us and then they said he's

gonna be in Atlanta and I drove. You went back home here the handle business and you flew back and' hesitate. We didn't hesitate. We got it. So we're doing this and uh, I's killed. Many came in, ain't gonna front is that I'll get a little stars frock man. I kind of saw you a little nervous, and I was like, I was kind of like I like de centificate. It was just crazy man, America's most wanted Americans, most wanted um all the legend that we said we I could

have went for hours, we could have done. But I've seen that. You know his people's you know it's cool, but you know, we got it done. This is what this is what our jobs is. We come, we get it done, and we relax and it's gonna be another time. And we relaxed as well, and we relaxed so we can go about to say it was I don't want to anyway if I go to Chick fil A it's kind of crazy. That sounded wrong, right, Like it's sound

like cold word. I'm not even like I actually like the Chick fil A off the chicken salad s no't no, I'm just trying to clear it up. But we got ice Cube and we heard this a couple of podcasts out there hating. You're gonna go with the Elliott Wilson Elliott why you hated. We're gonna tell you why he's doing drink Chance and not Wrap radar because you're not on the radar, Wrap radar. You're not even on anybody's radar. And you're lucky. I ain't called hold and say you

made a wrong move. You're taking he's doing a little director title. But we'll expect you, elliot, because you haven't other than other than this. I thought you would you turned over a new leaf, and I thought you stopped hating. But apparently not. But we don't care. We we got love for you. We want you to to come back.

Jack who had n because they also hated on us in combat Jack as the fact it's not just us so U. The fact that he's puting on us both, I kind of like, I'm not even mad, Like I'm not cool with you hating on us both is cool. But you know, um, you know, get you get your weight up and hate up. He should come to the show. Yeah, we're gonna keep giving it to you at least. Yeah, you gotta relax for you, but you until you and

b dot com on Mr Lead called every year. But you know, for the people that's listening, we're just playing around. They actually don't care what they do. They can hate. We're gonna still do us. But yeah, we got to relax. Shirts all right? Cool website star Wick Clothing dot com. You can also buy weed from there. I'm just playing. What did you say, Rosenberg? Yeah did you? Yeah? Listen, I mean sucking up your ads as you picking up your ads just s throw Molly in there for so

no reason. Take them Molley as well, like you know what I mean. It's just retarded. But also you go to Martel once again for they came here. Cube had a right Russian with Martell. He drank very lightly. He's working, he's he's working, and we was his last interview. He actually went to colleges and he went and it was

a great experience for us. You know, that's just coming out here because the thing about it is we want people to know that we're serious about what we're doing, and um, we'll come, we'll come to the artist, you know, pause because we know other shows won't. Other shows won't do that, and so we're part of that. And I actually got to see fist Fight at level. Confused me on the hashtags. He gave me like seven different hashtags. I didn't remember which one. It was teaching fight at first,

and it was fist fight. And I really want you guys to go out there and support it because I'm not saying this because he's on the show. I'm saying this because it's actually I am not you know, because I'm open. Like if I hated the movie, I probably would still picked it up. But this is not the case. Like, this is not the case here, Like I actually love

the movie and I'm actually homegirls. She offered me free tickets, and I was I'm just still gonna take the free tickets, but I'm still gonna go out of support, and I'm definitely gonna buy popcorn definitely, like I'm gonna support because it's a great movie and I love comedies. Can we shot you out or you want to? You want to be behind the scenes? Tell me you don't like the movie, you don't buy popcorn? Alex big of Alex from Atlanta? What company you do or no company? What that? See?

That seemed mad complicated to announced? I'm sorry, and Alex and what's the name again? I'm sorry, Alex, Alex, She's such a wonderful person. Pick up Jenny um Our people's you know what I'm saying. Martell provided the Martell uh you pick up to the rock as well. Big up everybody, Big up everybody who supports Drink Chance. Drink Chance supports you am I'm very very hype and excited. This is our new season. We're starting off. So um. We had fun, man,

we had fun. We had ice Cube. I'm still drinking vodka with ice cubes and Martel on the side. Driver Martell got you high. You are high ship? Alright? Alright? So and then come on, come over here, Chicken come sell to the people. God damn it, come over here, chink Being getting on the ice Cube episode. Come on, come sit over here. Tell these people. For years you tell people you Chinese, but you are not porges. Please come sit over here, chink Bing, co don't know we're

going to set up, to set up. Come on, chink Bing, Come on, man, you know you know being Chicken Being actually me and Poem in jail for me and Chicken Being is actually like in the same houses like Poem was across. Chin Bing, talk to the people. God damnit, Yo, y'alla hats wait they selling yayall the New York. Y'alla hats right. I was chilling with my man with that. He said, Yo, chick Being. He said, you're more famous in a little bit and everybody ship. You need to

design your own ship. So I said, yo, let's do it, I said. He said, what you said, let's doing. He said, what you want to put? I want to do it? Yo y'alla had He said, yo y'alla had. It is so like an hour later he sent me the ship. He was like, Yo, what's something you like this? I said, it looked like, but you need to put it. You need to make it look good lout like you know, with some aura. And then he sent me the flick. I was like, Yo, let's do it. I like it.

I put one fire seven on the side that's for draw the murder unit. But you know, we switched up in time. You got you got you know what I'm saying, land both what's going on? He sent me twelve and I was like, all right, cool. So now I got like an order of like a hundred and fifties. So it's like crazy because I ain't believe it at first though. Now they were like a hundred fifty orders of me and God, so they're making them now, and you got

fall these residue on you. Let's make some much old jokes, you know every you gotta said, it's not the true relax, but we have you drink some Martell. Don someone tell you already got some martelling. You got some more. Tell to Mike, don't mix with I don't know what. Yeah, I ain't gonna front that. Don't that whatever you mixed it with, don't look gave you. Let's make up to the Marktell girls, by the way, not only they we have Martell, we've got the markets. Tell girls and they

would dressed. They were professional, they were here on time. They look pretty and gorgeous. Definitely made sure they make up was tights. I like women with great makeup. I'm into that. I'm into it. I acknowledge I'll be like sometimes like girl, your lip line is not you gotta get you gotta get your life together. Your shape up on your lips and good. You gotta shape your lips up. You know what I'm saying. The teams shout sound as the fight of the movie. Yeah, look up the rich

Blanco even though he ain't here. My man, it's the lead, Diego, Russ and everybody a part of the cool hour. Leaders. You gotta get you rex what you're doing right now. You gotta relax. Six dollars, you gotta relax, relaxed. But yo, man, we're building that we visited earlier I forgot that was pretty dope. Was it was? It was it was the

the country country Club, the gathering Club. So it's a place you would go, you could meet, you could have events there, and they had a full fledged of restaurant, had a full fledged ball and private private So it's very much worth birth the money whatever the money is a month, I forget what they said, but it was very much worth it. It was a very great environment. I immediately wanted to drink as soon as I've seen it, Like you know, usually I like I come to a place,

I just admire it and that's it. When I see the ball, I was like, I'm the type of person I have to have a drink there. And I did. And let's make some thise to that academic but so big up. So my people, uh didn't work. You know what you can tell you can tell Cube does fifteen minute interviews in that set, like we were, it was getting it was getting great crashes. We were you know that we seen him get off the limo. We she didn't get off the limo. We she didn't get in

the limo. I thought that was so fly. I felt like to me, like to me, like like when a person keeps something old school about them and they keep it like to me, that's dope, Like it's like, yo, you never forgot because like it was so dope that he was in driving a studio and it was let me to leave and I just for some reasons didn't feel the energy to leave, and just to me see him get into the limbo. He got us subourbon there as well. But he said, I'm not security. Just like

you just said, he was little boy. Yeah, yeah he didn't. He didn't. He didn't care that. Yeah, but he was little. But I didn't know. Stanley was his cousin. Stanley the guy you don't remember Stanley before keep off my grass, the dude with the no no no mania. That was Bernie Mac you're talking about. I'm talking abbout Bernie Mac was the square dude, Like, yeah, that's Stanley tonight. So

and I've seen him yesterday. That's what really caught me because I'm like, damn, and he's actually standing in front of the cube. He's actually like walking like almost I want to say, I don't want to say assisted because that's like, but wasn't assistant roll. It was kind of almost like security. It's the way he walked, and then he just said as his cousin. But I did not know that, and that now the Stanley is a fucking a great fucking character, fra you know what I mean.

Draink got hyped and I didn't get to ask him. Drinking didn't warranted because Draine found out right before that he might be Jamaican. It's a great great grandparents. Only another Jamaican would think like that, like nobody else this information. But Dream didn't even He drank like a one to side drinking the same coup. You can't we can't always expect God guests to get drunk and things like that. And and we're a better show. And he took a shot. That was he took a san he took a shape,

and he's working. He's working too many, little man. You know my brother Mike no I g Mike more I big my brother song. Yeah, people of us were to diego. We drove here like idiots from Yo. It was a great trip. But I'm just saying it was an eightiot like we were just all eightiots were just like you're fucking tonight, And I just wanted one of them to be like new anybody looked at they watched and say, we ain't got ship to do with and this Valentine's Day. And I looked at my girl, I said, come on,

one Valentinized dayta we gotta relax. We gotta relax, man. And she's like, hey, she let me get away with it. I kissed the missing already. I'm trying to get home. Look at me. We can get me all. Don't be afraid to give me all. I like the alls. God damnit. So yeah, so we did. We came here two days earlier. Atlanta is great. You know. We had we had a ball out here then chick bing and my glue flew

out here and we were just having fun. And that's what it's about, man, Like you know, we handle business talking about at offers. Yeah, they've been crazy at the wing stop stop. He took care of all the bill. The bill was, the bill was gracious. But we have fun. That's what it's about. Let's from yesterday. Let me go. I don't know where you got to. I don't know I was there. I wasn't little scoops right now, what

was DAGs? You got to have a clip right all right, So we're gonna smoke blunt, look at your phone, and we're gonna we're gonna hopefully enjoy what we did. Hopefully. I enjoyed the teasers that we put out, you know what I'm saying before the second season, because you know, we're really into what we do. We really want you guys to have fun. We really want you guys to be entertained. We really want you guys to laugh, joke and also learn something, you know what I mean. And

I think we've done We've done a great job. I think we've done a great job. So with no further ado, he goes to the ice Cube episode, Hey Hanks, that green Hope, it's south of here. That's your point and his dj e F and his Dreat Chance Mother podcast make something And right now, it's the absolute honor for me to introduce this man. Not only is he one of my favorite rappers, he's also one of my favorite people.

Like the person that he is right now, I'm I strive to be that, you know what I'm saying, as a person that who who writes his own movies, produces in his own movies, who you could tell he hand picks his roles. I do a lot of things in life and I say, if Ice Cube ain't doing it, I ain't do on it. Like I live like that. Like in real life, I'll be like, yo, somebody off me pink popcorn. I'm like, I don't think a cute you know what I mean? So in life I do that.

So I'm so honored to have in the building with the drink Chance. It's the first time hip hop is controlling media. My brother DJ e f Finn is a DJ. I'm a hip hop artist. And we transitioned and we now on the journalistic point of view, and we got what this is like our biggest, biggest, goddamn it, motherfucking West Coast legend school build it. I appreciate it. Man, that's love. Now. I went to the man last night and it was he hasn't stopped talking about that, not

talking about I'm going to go out and spend money. Yeah, I got with the preview for free, but I'm gonna spend money. I'm gonna bring my kids, I'm gonna bring my wife because the movie was hilarious from the beginning. Now, so when we speak about this movie, was, how did you get approached to this movie? Uh? You know, I've been um been working with New Line. Thank you. I've been working with New Line for a minute, and they had this project you know that they brought to me. Uh.

They said Charlie Dave was attached to it. Uh. And I've been wanting to work with Charlie for a minute because I think his form of comic is unique, you know, and so I just knew if we ever did something together it would be lit. And you know, it all came together. You know. The director is a guy that he worked with, you know, on Always Sunny. He shot episodes of that, so you know, the synergy was right, the role was right, and you know, we came out

here and did our thing. We shot it out in Atlanta, and then you got Tracy Morgan of a turn of Tracy Morgan is in this year and he's funny as oh my god, like you like because sometimes you know, the person goes through a tragic accident almost yeah, you almost feel like that it's something gonna be different about him. But he was straight up Tracy Morgan and it was hilarious. Yeah, you know, it was just good to see see that dude. Uh. I had worked with him before on First Sunday, did

a movie together. Yeah, yeah, and I got to go with the money he had. He had an ankle bracelet on his ankle, you know, so after we shot, he had to go straight to the hotel and you know, he said, man, doing that movie. You know, I really thought about it. I got my life together after that. It was cool to see him, you know, on the other side of this accident and you know, just a happy guy. You know what, He's still being healthy and happy. Yeah.

So now I'm gonna be a little bit all over the place because this is something that that that hit me crazy easy when I watched Straight out of Content. Yeah, was your wife comes over to you and says, how is Friday coming along? Yeah? So did you right Friday when you were still doing n W. No, I just left the group. But we wrote it in about ninety four, me and DJ what you wrote Friday in lanty four?

We shot at ninety five, so around that certificate time or right after right after, and then it came out of ninety five. Yeah, we shot Friday came out later. So but you you so you had the forcelight to to write this movie. Yeah. You know, we was fans of Hollywood Shuffle, which is a Robert Townsend comedy about you know, black people's experience going through in Hollywood. So it just we heard that he had he had done

that movie Off for Credit Cards. Basically he shot that movie, you know, kind of buying credit I mean getting credit cards and and uh you know the charge and everything and and kind of pieced it together. So we was like, Yo, that's what we're gonna do. We're about to make a movie. So me and Poole started writing it was DJ Pooh. We as fans of In Living Color too, you know. Uh. So it started coming together and and New Line got wind of it, and it was like, Yo, we'll make it.

Will make it with your credit card. He was on Money but New Lincense Friday even, Yeah, I've been working with New Lincense Friday. And it's that Stanley that's my cousin. I keep on people grass to this day because yeahs Stanley ain't let you walk with his grass. Damn. Let's up. So when you wrote Friday, did you know that this is a cult movie? Like immediately I knew it was a movie that only like I felt like, only cool people get this movie, you know, because it's just too hood.

But it's too funny. But you know what happened was everybody got it. You know, everybody came to the party, and I just thought it was gonna be like like my records. I thought only you know, people in the hood was gonna buy and everybody end up buying them.

We kind of felt the same way with the movie that it wasn't too many people in Hollywood like us and this movie, you know, is a little different than what people used to uh So we felt like only a niche group of people would would like this movie because because that was that was very It was very crazy that you had such a lustrious career as a hip hop artist. He was part of the arguably the best group of all times, in my opinion, the best group of all times. Then you go have your own

solo success. Why did you even think, like, let me do a movie next? Um, I got bit by the bug working with John Singleton. Boys gonna put me in Boys in the Hood, And you know one that was over at this crib and he was like, your que when you're gonna write a movie. I'm like what, I'm like, China came over here to have a big and I didn't, you know, get put to work. He was like, no, no, I think you can do it. I'm like, what makes you think I could do it? He said, the record?

You right? You know so vivid, I know you can write a movie. So that night, it's the trip. I went to the computer store and bought a computer and I got the programs I needed. That was back when you had to load all the damn programs into the computer. And uh, and I started writing the script that night. I didn't know what I was doing. I just started. The first two scripts I wrote was Whack Garbage Folly,

still worth four hundred million dollars. But but you know, the third one was Friday, And you know, seeing that when getting made, I kind of knew what I was doing right, knew what I was doing wrong. Just kept on from now. Who was the up AFT on Friday? Um Gray as Steve Carr did a Friday too? Right? He did next front? Okay, okay, I worked with Steve Carbore,

He's crazy. Welcome to play a new podcast network featuring radio and TV personalities talking business, sports, tech, entertainment, and more. Play it at play dot it. We're back to Drink Champs Radio with Rapper and R and d J. Then so now now easy, Yeah, easy, he said one of the most prolific lines in life. He said, ice cube, right the rhymes that I say, And nobody thought he was a sucker for that. But right now, Drake and all these people like, how did you feel when you

heard about the Drake thing? Um, I don't think it's a big deal. I think you got to two categories, you know, of of m c s. You know, you got mcs who could just kind of grab the mic and just ripped and they you know, naturally that and then you've got guys who you know, make good records and make it, you know, and that's really what it's all about. What coming what's coming out to speak is when it comes to this record gag because when you were an Easy were you writing it from his perspective?

Were you like saying, I'm gonna write it from Eric or was it like it was I mean his perspective is are my perspective? We all come from the same area going through the same issue. So I never looked at it like I'm writing the Easy record only only he could do. You know. It's kind of like, you know, I just took his name out and put my name in there, you know to be my rhyd Now did it happen like that in a movie? Because like in the movie, Um, I think y'all y'all was writing around

for East Coast dudes. YEA, yeah, I was definitely disappointed they couldn't write to drive. I'm really happy Easy wanted to be a manager. He just wanted to manage the groups. He didn't want to wrap and New York was so hot in l A was so cold. He was like, man, I want a New York group. So he found these dudes out of New York called Homeboys only HBO I think I remember them, and he said he was like, yo, right, cute right one of them hood wraps for these dudes.

So I did it. But when I wasn't rolling in the sixth foll wasn't really roll no third period, So I wrote did and gave it to him and they was like, man, this, what are you talking about? Ganking six? Yeah, Jack, we don't know what you're talking about. Man, this ain't got nothing to do with where we're from. So I think it was just the fact that the rhymes was so l a. They they just was like, no, and you act easy, you say easy dred so easy, man, what you do it? We got at the studio time,

we paid for it once you tried. Because Drey was producing all kind of records and he was producing, you know, he was moonlighting basically just producing these side records, so you know, he was used to working with guys who you know, dudes was paying any money. DJ's from radio stations was like, yo, I got this creative rap. I

want you to do the beat for it. So you know, Dre was like that, you know, just trying to trying to get on, trying to get money, and so it was like, easy, can coach you up, you know what you're doing now. In the movie, it was like you were like the only business savvy person, like you knew, uh,

you knew to ask for like certain things. And all the other artists they were they were kind of I mean, according to the movie, it kind of seemed like they were cool with going on too all getting some checks and smoking some weed and they were. But you had the foresight to say, I know that I'm I'm old something. How did you develop that business mind sense? I mean, you know, it ain't it ain't like I'm from a different planet, you know, it's each one to teach one,

you know. I had a publicist. The publicist for in w A was a lady named pass Shop And if y'all, if y'all know Friday, y'all know, y'all see that ain't pass Shoping now. But she ended up becoming my manager. But before she was my manager, she was like as soon as she saw Jerry Heller, she was like, y'all know this guy? Do you know who this dude is? And I'm like, nope, Who's he? Somebody easy brought around? So she would give me the game on like did

y'all sign a contract with him? Like? Nah? Because she knew his history and he was a guy. I mean, she knew his history. I don't know what he was knowing for, but she was like, yo, so she starts saying, did he get you? Kind of you know, just kind of giving me the game. So I was I was like, you know this the dude I need to watch then, you know, because if she I don't even really know her that good and if she's saying to watch him, I don't know none of these people. So I'm watching everybody.

And that's how I started to just notice things wasn't happening, you know, because I was young too. We all young. We're happy to just be doing a record, We're happy to be on tour, We're happy to just be part of hip hop and not just locals no more. So you know, I would listen to that lady, you know what I mean, And and she was giving me a lot of good game, and I was using it. And I was helping them too. You know, in the movie Don't Don't Show that, I go to win and say, look, man,

don't don't sign nothing. You know, I got already knew, They already knew somewhere coming. Yeah, they knew where I was coming from. And you know they clowned me when I didn't sign that contract. Man, And it really was seventy it was. Is there any reason y'all didn't portray? Hold on? Hold on? Because I want you to go there? But do you know seventy five thousand back then was like seven hundreds? So how did you walk away? And

I would go right back to your question. I'm sorry, but um, how did I like every young black kid from toghether it would have took that seventy five? Yeah, why didn't you want to do that I knew they owed me more more. I knew they owed me more, so I knew if I took that, then I was accepting that that I wasn't paid more, that this was cool, and I was like, this ain't cool. They gave me

five thousand dollars. I was happy seventy. You know, It's like, dude, you know when when you ain't never had nothing, and and you start getting getting a little and you start seeing people get a lot, and you start saying, with hold on, man, I'm putting in more work than anybody, or you know, most of the people around you know just throw up red flag. And where I'm from, it's like if you know somebody beating you and you accept it, you're just a bit period period you So I was

asking about Arabian princes. Is there any reason why he wasn't portrayed in the film? Um, you know, it's really like in a movie you don't even have so much real estate. And you know, he got out the group it's a trip. As soon as he saw Jerry, he was like, I'm out. I mean the original Yeah, he was. He quit the day after we shot that cover. He quit the day after we shot he quit. He quit, he wouldn't talk to He knew about Jerry because because he had done records with mccolla, he knew Jerry was

sitting there and wait for artists. He was like, Easy, what's up, man, Why are you signing with this dude? And I think, you know, Easy was like, he's a dope dealer that's making records and this dude is like, yeah, I'm gonna take you off of that at level and turning into some legit stuff. And he did get us, you know, he did get doors open, and he did get us a deal Jerry, you know, because the Majors wasn't giving us no deal. He was like, nah, it's

too crazy. So uh, you know, he did his thing in business by Easy, but he didn't do it by us. And then we find out that, you know, he was even still it from Easy. So it was just, you know, I don't want to talk about the dead, but yeah, whatever, Yeah, at least he was a part of getting y'all out though all probably that's why in the movie, you know, if you really look at he was, we didn't we didn't lampooning like we like I wanted to. We you know, we we did all right, buying Now you worked with

arguably everybody's top five producer of all times. Was Dr Dre always special or that was something that it was developed in time. He was always special, you know, first Djan then doing mix tapes. It was the O G mix tape now, not the new mix tapes where they just got somebody beating you wrap over it, because the mix tape back then was mixing, actually mixing, mixing, mixing records.

You know, he was, he was hot. He was always nice, you know, uh making beats, it's just his you know, his his ear is he just hears stuff different what I'm saying, and he's tedious and he liked it. He won't let you out that booth til you get it right. Yeah, some dudes can't handle it. I mean I heard chastise some dudes. You know, they used to going in there and just spitting right nah nah. But that's how I

know you was a real artists. I remember we did Pushing Weight the remix, and you said, Norri has to come to the studio, and you actually wanted to come into the stud and see me right my rhyme and like that, like you wanted you like to me that's real because when you do a record with somebody, you should share world. And I just knew one hundred said, this guy is authentic because of that, because I knew you could have You could have sent me the record wherever I was at and I could have did it.

He was like, I'm gonna be in the studio with him. And I always knew you one hundred percent real artists for that. That's what it's all about. Man, you know we're gonna do a record together. I don't want to send it over there. You know, we gotta be we gotta vibe, you know, or oh, we shouldn't do a record together. We smoked helloween that day, were as a fly ship to say just right now, we're gonna chill because we don't want smoking bills and ship like that.

But you know, um, so now you you you you you you you do Friday? What makes you say let me continue this franchise and go and do Friday Part two? Because now Friday Part two, Chris Tucker is not a part of this. Yeah, So what made you still want to say I'm gonna I'm gonna continue to do that? Why I didn't want to? I was like, why no, Chris Man, what is this movie? You know? It's like, you know, just like you're losing a major piece, shock and Kobe breaking up, you know what I mean? It's like,

how can how could y'all win championships? But then I started thinking, like, you know, this movie is not about two people. It's about a day. It's about understanding your environment and having a little fun laughing at it. So I'm like, yo, it makes sense if we're gonna continue this for Craig maybe to go off the block ranching all the characters. You know, we're gonna introduce you You had no idea that was a real place the way were wont We're wonna be in a new place. We're

having new cast of characters. And then I started saying it like yo, when I saw Mike Gapps do stand up, I'm like, we have that's Craig cousin. That's Craig Cousin right now. So I was like, yo, we can we can keep this thing going, you know, and just have my cousin instead of my friend and just clown about

being away from the hood. Now, be honest, because Chris Tucker destroy Please did you did you think Mike apps because now Mike Epps is a no name like at this time, like I don't remember being in the movie.

There it up and people being like when they saw that it wasn't uh data, it was smoking, excuse me when they saw it wasn't smoking, like people were they actually were boring at first when they seen that there was and in it transitions to be like, but did you know that he can hold it down or did you have doubts? I mean, I know he can hold it down. I knew that we can make because Friday is about it, it's about a field. It's more than just one person, you know, housing the movie. It's a

it's his own thing in a way. So I just knew that the cast that we had in the story, of course it was gonna jar people a little bit. But I knew once people got a chance to really feel my gaps and see him that his comedy is mo hood and Smokey's to me. And I just felt like, people are you know, they love him to tell people love my cap because he's so real and raw with it.

And then when we did part three, you know, bringing Cat Williams and bringing in Terry Crews, it just was Triple O. G Yeah, it's just it's just, uh, it's just a franchise people love and we want to do another one. But we gotta do it. Right there, I hear this is correct. It's gonna be a last Friday with Smokey and that's what we want. We're still trying to get Chris to do the rolling that. I know this is very bad and I'm just throwing myself in there, but I think I think I belong. Just throw me

in there. I could be the garbage man. I could be maybe the guy who picks up smoking whatever. I didn't do whatever, because yeah, you know, I mean I'm just such a fan of that. So so it would be a last Friday with both of them, I hope. So you know, it's like I can't make Chris do it, but fans can do. Yeah. Yeah, you know we're doing. I think you gotta write rushing over there too. You got be celebrating you tonight. Ice C. You know, I don't know if you know about show what it is is.

You know, when people in this music business, they got more than ten years, they try to kick us out. They try to say we old, They try to say me washed up. But me, you if we are prime examples that you can do whatever you want to do as long as you want to do it and continue to have fun. So tonight we are celebrating ice Cube and his luxurious career because I want to be the East Coast version of ice Cube. People want to be jay Z and Puff and Nas and Snoop, and that's great.

I love those guys. We ain't taking nothing from them, but I look, I feel like you're still having fun doing what you're doing. I am man. You know, It's like I got into this as a fan. You know, you know when I first started to just pay attention to hip hop, he was as a fan. And then to be able to do it, just to be able to rap, I felt like that was accomplishment. But to get this far with with my career, you know, it's just like I feel like, uh, you know, God is

smiling on me. What artists inspired you? Your primianship is crazy, oh man, man, Artists like Melli mal Sho, d carras One, I used t Big Daddy Kane, who get who don't get enough credit for being a lyricist? Um, you know these dudes were our giants. Run DMC is like the blueprint of how you do it, you know. So, um, you know I'm a fan of that school, MCS now fun the Police? Yeah, did you know that? Twenty years later, people still want to be saying, did you knew? The

Police was never gonna get better? And I was hoping, I mean, I was hoping it would get better, but I was hoping people will still be rocking something. But it's a trip. When we was, when we had like laid our lyrics, you know, I was so into making the song that Wren looked over at me and it was like, this one right here, it's gonna start some ship. And y'all knew it. Yeah, he just gotta just a sense like this one right here is gonna start some ship. And and every since he said that, it just put

it on my radar. And it was so true because you know, that was before we released the record. After we released it, it was like it was something you know that I still can't explain how because in the movie Electric that time you guys was at the studio and they pulled you guys over in the studio that I used to sweat us at that studio all the time.

I just one incident because it was like a Mexican food spot right down the street we were walked to and the Torrents police was on our neck, you know because they just wouldn't used to seeing dudes like us walking around. But we're in the studio right here doing our things. So man, a lot, a lot, way more than in the movie. It's just one time in the movie, but we gotta you know, doing that whole record at

least five six incidents. Wow, Now on tour, did it really happen like that when they said they told you not to perform that record? It TK that was on with us. He was on the TK was crazy, but he was on that tour. They was. They would do it every city though they would tell you don't perform this. Yeah, they would. You know. We was coming after the BCT boys had come around and everybody's like, man, this Raptur stuff is craig, you know, getting two out of hand.

Then Bobby Brown went around the country and just doing the most nasty sexy you could do for R and b artists. So they was by the time in w it was time them venues, police, everybody, hotels was ready like no, I mean, we ain't having with y'all bringing. So before every show, they would gather us up some you know, fat ass police would come with ordinance of it's basically saying, as you don't know about that, we're pulling out our ass from eighteen seventy six. Come back

the sidewalk. If you do this, if you have seen on stage boom boom one, we can't arrest you. And not just in the Bible, is everywhere everywhere. So we're hearing that, man, we hear that every night. We're getting tired of this. Man, it's harassment because we're seeing rocking rollers and guns and roses. They're doing what the hell they want to do. So we we just was fed up and they just it all came together in Detroit that night and we just was like, man, we're gonna

do it. And because we was like, man, ain't gonna causing the ride, because they kept saying, you do this song, it's gonna cause a ride. You do this song, it's gonna cause a ride, We're like, come on, man, hip, I ain't cause no damn Right then we did that

song and it caused a damn ride. It's crazy it the whole time, the whole time when I'm performed, I'm like, oh, you know, this is getting out of hand right now, saying the crowd like you know, when it's suthing, you know, when in this funk out in there and it's fighting and this crazy and yeah, it just kicked it off. Does does ice Cube consider himself the origin of one of the originators against the rat one of them? You know, but you gotta you gotta look at Iced Tea Tea

wet Iced Tea on the show. Who who picked you up as wells Iced Tea man. You know he uh, he's the one who really said it was okay you know, to put it on him and and and say, yo, you can say what you want to say, do what you want to do. And uh, you know he's an architect too. Sure, So all you and ice Cube listening to young the young boys or every now and then, you know, every now and then, you know, my my wife, my kids put put me up on it, you know, and uh, it's all good. I was just curious. I

was just curious. You know, what's what's your favorite song right now? Any song? Um man, I ain't got no favor that I'm liking that Big Shine, Okay, now you know, okay, that's not as Yeah, I like that. So now that you conk it, the movie world like, uh, do you open the doors for people like me to live out my dream? We're hearing that you're doing that? Was it?

Big Three? The Big Three? The Big Three? Explain to us for those of who that didn't know what the Big three is, the Big Three is a professional three on three basketball played by a retired NBA players. But I'm hearing it's a full court, half court, half court, half court three on three and you know how you know when dudes played three on three get you get rough and there, so so we're gonna have dudes going hard. But you coach, you ain't ain't coaching that on as

a founder. We don't have pro pros. It ain't for this. Ain't no celebrity game on a good thing, on a good day. You said you nice and basketball? Ain't that nice? You're gonna play in the game. I'm like, this ain't no joke. Don't give me saint no Mountain dew amateur, because if we're alson Allen Iverson, Chauncey Biller, Jermaine On, neil Um, Stephen Jackson, shar Lewis like Kenerson Henna, uh, you know some of them dudes got to go to the combine. We're gonna say combines. We're gonna see what

they got they still got, you know what I mean. Yeah, we're gonna put them through it. You know, you gotta have the ain't just not the name, you know, right? So what does ice Cube like more? You like movies or music? Mall? Uh, I love them both, you know, but music is my that's my baby, you know, that's I could do whatever I want to do. When it comes to music, it's no meetings, no committee, no you know,

a bunch of people. You know, with a movie, you got a hundred people working on one project, you know, but with a record not I can work on a hundred records just one man if I want to. So, um, you know my records are more um personal, I guess. Okay, one of the eldest collaborations. I think that people don't acknowledge or give it as much problem as when you did America's Most Party with the Bomb Spot. Yeah, because I remember back then, there's no internet. You go to

the mall, You're going to wrap producers. Yeah, it's public enemy. But yeah, you know what I'm saying that that's what made the sounds, So you go. N w A is my favorite group at the time. I excuse my favorite artists in n w A. Public Enemies one of my favorite groups. I go in the store and you don't get Internet, you don't get and I see America's Most Wanted produced by the Bomb Squad. I nearly lost my mind. Yeah, those was my favorite producers. You know. I worked with Dre,

but my was the Bomb Squad. Uh. I met Chuck on tour and when I left the group, I went up to Deaf Jam to to look for a producer by the name of Sam sever who I worked with Third Base. Third Base album was out. They had dope beats on it. So Leoy was like, Yo, I hook you over Sam and the nigga. Sam never showed up to the meeting, so I was like, so I'm bouncing, I'm leaving and coming down the hearts Chuck d Chuck was like, Yo, what you're doing here? I told him

what was up. He was like, man, come to the studio. I'm doing a record tonight with Big Daddy Kane called Burn Hollywood, Burn. You wanted you want to be on it. You want to be on it. Come to the studio that let people know you so long. I'm there did that record, and I was just telling them, and then Hank Shockley, Keith Shockley was in there and I was saying, y'all, you know, I'm leaving the group and I need to

do my own album. I told her, I said, I said, I told everybody I was coming out here to get production. And they laughed at me, right, because that's what I heard that. They was like, what in New York, She's gonna be wet. So when when when Hank, when Hank heard that, that turned him on, he was like what they laughed and said, yeah, they laughed. They don't think

I can get a record done out here. He was like, man, we do the whole record if he wants to a lot of songs, a lot of songs that did everything. Now now now we I can't tell me and my homies earlier was debating that when you left the n W Way that it was them who took a shot at you first. Yeah, it was not. You know, America wanted I don't say nothing about n Wright, right, that's why. Yeah,

And then you came back with no Vassil. I hit him a little bit with a hunt like I hit him a little bit on the end of Jacking for Beats because I had a song called a hunting Mouths and Running and uh so I just gave him a little little jab just to see what they would do. Then they kind of came out with a little more on on that Niggas for Life album, and then I was like, man, I'm going in probably records of all times. And you know what else is great to see is

that see you in common together? Yeah? Together? It's good man. It's cool to you gotta beat for somebody. It's better to squash it, you know what I mean, It's better to squash it. Um, So it's cool. You know, we had a misunderstanding years years ago because I never knew what that started. It was just a misunderstanding, you know, um, and it's cool that we got past it, grown men style. Now did you ever get to see the Tupac movie? Now? Ain't seening it? What? What was your relationship a pop?

It was cool, you know, that was one of the homies. Um. You know, I just looked at him as I look at you know, most of the guys that that's in the game and I'm cool with you know, just one of the homies that uh you know, it's kind of spired out of control. Yeah, definitely, it's Cube doing another album. Of course, we got the name of the album, Everything's Corrupt, Everything's Corrupt, and now now it's Cube Independent or No, I'm on Interscope. Wow, Jimmy, I've seen. Wow, that's the

kind of like a three sixty. Even though like No, Jimmy was deaf for all, he didn't have nothing to do with in No, No, he had nothing to do it in w A. I don't even know. I don't even know if he was still at in Scope, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just signed a deal with him. Do you think do you think that certificate gets is just do I think that's one of the best albums? Well, you know from fans, from people like you. We're gonna release the

twenty fifth year Universary that next month. Um, and I got three new songs on that, so it's gonna be cool too, you know, put that album back. Movie about some vacation. Yeah, everybody say that. I heard you got a movie called vacation coming up. Um, it's called Vacation. Friends and vacations. They still we're still putting it together. That's that's in the still in the infant stage. But it's filmed already. No, no, we haven't shot it yet because the writer is Tim and Tom where the writers

um um. They actually met with them and they were talking about the vacation. Yeah. It was so totally dope, Manque because I see your people were sickening of us, so you gotta go. You know what I mean? But you know this is hip hip hop. These people they need to know. So what is next for Cube though? Oh you know, just I got the hip hop squares coming out, but with hip hopers you know, and find Ray can't get sick. I'm here whatever, person, Cube, listen,

I'm gonna just be honest. We're in an industry that is full of fake people. So when I meet a real brother like you, when I sat down and we vibe that day, it's nothing more than I want to do is always just give you a person like you respect and continue because you know why, the older we get, the better we get in the more that we should know that we should big up each other, us as not just black people, but us as hip hop because we're part of a fraternity. It's bigger. It transcends race.

It's bigger than just just being black and that's just I'm being Puerto Rican and you being Cuban. It's bigger than that. We're all part of a hip hop fraternity. And if we don't continue to bag each other up, there won't be nobody else. And you're a person that we got to continue to big up. You're continuously doing great work. I sat there and I watched that movie in all like, I was just like, Wow, this ship was funny from the beginning, and like, how do you

always get the tough guy rolls? And do you request the tough guys? They just come to you come to me. Because I feel like, you know, when you do a movie you want, you got, you got, you got characters, and you got it. Like, yo, I see this person as that I see that you don't always get who you see, but you know, people you know put you in the category and start you know, casting you on that level. That's so dope. And you know what else,

I got a big up before you leave there. You know, I went to DJ Drama Studio because I had an interview real quick, and you there and I just watched it. I was trying to hide and just people. You and I seed you rolling the limo. Let's make some noise of the limo. That is some real, real nigga like you. You stuck with the limo. Yeah, you gotta jump in security.

You know, I really appreciate it. I really said there, and yo, listen, we really appreciate as you being both both of my favorite rappers and you know, um what you transition to is a great example for young hip hoppers period. Uh it doesn't stop with hip hop, no, you know what I'm saying. Like you look at uh you look at uh what is it? Kenney Smith and Charles Barkley, they all set up a platform that after

hip hop they can do something. But if it wasn't for you, you started their first with Friday and that we could actually still be relevant, still be out here, still do our things. You ain't gotta change, you know, and and you're a goldfallt of that. We gotta make some glad you're on the mic, man like you, you know what I mean, definitely need to be heard on the regular and uh, it's much love man, much A million people who listen to us. Now that's so much cute,

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