Ice Cube

Ice Cube

Rapper, Actor

Ice Cube is a prominent rapper, actor, and filmmaker known for his impactful contributions to hip-hop and his outspoken views on social issues.

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Born
June 15, 1969
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286
Rank
#357

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"As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made, and it wasn't on the set. They were being made in the production meetings. That's where producing a movie happens. And that's where I wanted to be. I didn't just want to be a piece, a pawn being played. I wanted to take part in the creative process, and that's how I sort of got introduced to the idea."

Critical Decisions Ideas Creative
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"My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it but it was my transportation."

Girl Car Unattractive
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"Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever."

Unique People Wow
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"You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It's always extra cool... always a treat."

Tired Tvs Treats
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"I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you."

Guy Flavor Figures
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"I could do an interview or just as well not do one. It's not like I'm looking for extra publicity."

Publicity Interviews Wells
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"That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves."

Selfish People Speak
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"Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day."

Good Day Reality Today
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"Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with."

School Kids Play
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"You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag."

Rap Hip Hop Devil
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"Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music."

Running Art Rap
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"They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And for rap, trying to get recognition, and be seen as a regular form of music like anything else. I mean, the Soul, R&B, Rock 'N Roll, they would dis the hell out of rap when it first came out."

Rap Mean Rocks
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"I care about what I look like on the red carpet."

Looks Care Red
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"We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it was everything. And then it became not cool to be conscious; it became cool to just hang out. Escapism rap became the norm. And, when I say "escapism rap", I mean getting high, get your cars, get your money, get your jewelry, go to the club, have your women, and it just became all about escaping your reality and not making your reality better on a real tip; not just on the have fun tip."

Fun Real Rap
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"Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect."

Laughing Black Together
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"You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big."

Writing Bigger And Better Things Waiting
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"I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run."

Running Believe Long
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"It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more."

Giving Fans Littles
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"I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through."

People Guy Shots
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