ice cube
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Common Has Secured the Bag and Now He Just Makes Dad Rap
Common is killing the game; or, in today’s parlance, Common has secured the bag. I’m almost 40 years old, which means that I grew up in the ’80s and ’90s listening to Common (née Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr.) when he was rapping about watermelons and communism and asking to borrow a dollar. I still own…
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The World’s 10 Greatest Solemn-Ass Negroes, Ranked
I forgot who it was who first told me that Ice Cube never smiles in movies. I think it was a Delta because that’s a very Delta observation to make. But yeah, Ice Cube never smiles in movies. I imagine Queensbridge project life is hard, but I had no idea it was so hard that…
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Why Black Thought Doesn’t Rank As High on Rap GOAT Lists as He Should
Last week, Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, frontman for the Roots, tried to break the rapper-nets with a 10-minute freestyle with Funkmaster Flex over the Mobb Deep “Burn” instrumental that even had people who think Kevin Gates is the best rapper of all time impressed. Even calling his performance impressive undersells it. For my money,…
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Revisiting Dr. Dre’s The Chronic 25 Years Later
There are a few albums in my life that have held pivotal roles: De La Soul’s De La Soul Is Dead, A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders, N.W.A.’s EFIL4ZAGGIN and Outkast’s Aquemini, to name a few. Another of those pivotal albums, Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, was released on Dec. 15, 1992, exactly 25 years ago…
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When Should Rappers Hang Up the Microphone?
When I was perusing the list of new-release albums from this past Oct. 13, it dawned on me after some time that three of the artists—Wu-Tang, Camp Lo and Krayzie Bone (with his group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony)—all released albums that I absolutely loved exactly 20 years ago. In 1997 I turned 16, obtained my driver’s license…
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LeBron James Sings, Spits ‘It Was a Good Day’ With Ice Cube for Carpool Karaoke
LeBron James became the latest star to ride out with The Late Late Show host James Corden for the season finale of Apple Music’s Carpool Karaoke series. Not only did the Cleveland Cavalier pay tribute to his friend and mentor Jay-Z by performing “Numb/Encore” flawlessly, but he also gave a rendition of Migos’ “Bad and…
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Ice Cube Receives Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Monday was a good day for Ice Cube as longtime friends and family were on hand to celebrate as the rapper-turned-actor received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. John Singleton, director of Boyz n the Hood, spoke about Cube’s career going from rapping about “fuck the police” (for which my 18-year-old son knows…
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Ice Cube to Bill Maher: White Folks Get a Little Too ‘Familiar’ When They Date Black
With lyrics like, “Fuck the police coming straight from the underground, a young brother got it bad cuz I’m brown,” Ice Cube has proved himself to be both a G and a sage. There’s also the line, “Check yourself before you wreck yourself,” which seems to be written right for Bill Maher, who put his…
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Bill Maher Books Michael Eric Dyson in a Desperate Attempt to Get Re-Invited to the Cookout
After apologizing for casually tossing out the n-word on live TV, low-key racist and prominent liberal douchebag Bill Maher has replaced Sen. Al Franken with scholar Michael Eric Dyson on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher. According to Variety, Maher announced earlier that Ice Cube will also appear on the show, but when…
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Ice Cube to Appear on Bill Maher’s Show to Discuss the N-Word
Although Ice Cube was scheduled to appear on Real Time With Bill Maher this Friday before Bill Maher poorly dropped the n-word during last Friday’s show, Cube says he’s not canceling and will appear solely to discuss the corpse-looking commentator’s use of the word. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) was supposed to appear, too, but canceled.…