Ice Cube on the Rap Game Today
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Ice Cube recently chatted with Complex Magazine and discussed Hip Hop today and George W. Bush:
I feel like you got a different kind of rap. You got real serious rap and you got comic-book rap. And, you know most of them dudes just fall in the comic-book section of this whole thing. You have people that are way over the top with it, and fake with it no matter what they do, and you got people that are real with it. I’m not saying that gangster rap is real, and ring-tone rap ain’t, because both rap is real. I don’t want you to be fake and just trying to do anything you need to to get over. Those are the rappers I don’t like the ones that do anything to get over. They got to be popcorn they’ll be popcorn, they got to be hard they’ll be hard. That’s fake. My style ain’t never change.
I don’t know if it’s different. I don’t know if rappers are holding back. I think the rappers are going with the audience. At some point mainstream media decided to promote hardcore gangster rap to the masses on a big level, and you can’t blame the rappers for that, it was something that [the media] did in the mid ’90s. Now they want to blame us for them taking it and blowing it up. The Viacoms and all these people in the world got to take the blame too. They ain’t no innocent bystanders in this shit either. So if it got out of control or whatever, it ain’t just because of the artist.
He (George W. Bush) doesn’t give a fuck about anybody. That’s my main frustration. He cares about making his families rich and his friends. That’s how his daddy is, and that’s how he is. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. They don’t care about nobody, they just want to be rich, and use their position to get richer. They know they have four or eight years to snatch and grab all they can and they did. And people are going to say “worst president ever,” and he’ll say “who gives a shit? I’m rich.”
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Luv’n me sum Ice Cube rub’n right about now.
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I was just n la was no blacks on roedao so how is cali getting
I feel him on the rap shit but he needs to check himself about his music don’t change because he went from Death Certificate one of the Dopest albums ever…to the west side connection shit and songs like “we be clubbin”…I love Cube but c’mon chief you let the radio spins get to you too.
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Big-up Ice Cube. Mainstream but real. Positive and rich. Gotta love it!
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damn! i was just saying this on the other board about black republicans … black, white .. they all the same. the agenda of republicans is to rape the system while the poor man gets poorer
Shut the fuk up; stop making those dumass movies, then I’ll give a sh*t bout what you gotta say.
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Ice Cube is the shit. Thats all there is to say
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His movies are tired, but I’ve been hearing his politics since 92.
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I see what he’s saying. But he makes ridiculous movies, chasing raindeer and ish. That’s ‘popcorn’.
Cube da man!!!
Yeah he do need to chill with the corny azz movies tho’
I don’t give a crap Ice Cube is the shiznit. I love I love I love that man! Bi&ches ain’t $HIT!!!!
I heard First Sunday is funny. Pimp down!
Cube is the nigga! The difference with him rappin and actin is two totally different “art forms”. For the record– Cube is capable of doing both serious and funny movies and as a rapper– he’s straight hard. Aint no Laffy Taffy shit or Shake your Money Maker shit gon’ come from him. Fuck his acting abilites! An actor is supposed to be able to switch that shit up on any level but if you call yourself a “Gangster Rapper” you best not be comin around with that Super Man that Hoe shit!
Keep doin you Cube (my husband and baby-daddy in my head). West side for life!!!
Nas, and then Ice Cube?! Bossip, you are two for two today.
I luv Cube and I’d be his illegitimate baby momma, but he just talked me in a cot damn circle with that bubba gump shit: “U got fake rap and you got real rap. Gangsta rap aint real rap but but popcorn rap aint real rap. But if you like pop then pop it and then it aint real cause rap is not real if you have aring tone which is real.”
I think Cube was real and spitting the straight truth. Bush aint shit! The rap game now aint shit. I’m sorry but I know I am going to get alot of hater responses but the only thing the south has proven to the game is they can take any good beat and jack it up by adding some bull shit words and coming out with one hit wonders!
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Hardcore Rap…Comic Book movies
I luv Cube and I’d be his illegitimate baby momma, but he just talked me in a cot damn circle with that bubba gump shit: “U got fake rap and you got real rap. Gangsta rap aint real rap but but popcorn rap aint real rap. But if you like pop then pop it and then it aint real cause rap is not real if you have aring tone which is real.”
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thanks for the laugh…u R soooo RIGHT…i kept readin’ and readin’ and, as usual, Ice Cube led me no where…I was like, ‘Are We There Yet?!” Ice Cube seems to take pride in the fact that HE NEVER GREW as a musical artist. Yeah, he has lyrics and beats and classics for yo azz…but when he starts opining on political issues, talking in circles…*yawns*, I’m like, “Are We DONE Yet?!!” Ice Cube is one of the main architects of the gangsta rap genre…methinks it is Cube who is rich and really doesn’t give a sh*t!!!
@night blogger I agree Ice Cube’s last album was the truth and you can just tell the comic book rappers from the old real deal rappers, I mean listen to scarface new album made, you really don’t hear rap like that anymore until one of the old g’s come out. I mean I listen to some of it, because its cool for as beats and funny stuff they say basically ENTERTAINMENT, but when u listen to pac, cube, scarface, big mike, ugk, it’s just not the same you begin to really listen and out of all the rappers i just named you never hear about their cars or clothes, I mean like cube said after that niggas run out of stuff to say. when i am trying to dig it after a while you can’t even put your hands up cuz most of us ain’t got no maybach or no ferrari or all that bling i mean where do we fit in in some of these songs what bout hold your head up or better dayz or some like that!
I wish I could ask him to please repeat that ish. Cause the second time around, I just might understand what the Fk he was talking about
This ho needs to sit down, didn’t he come out with that other lame ass fat rapper that was married to TBoz rapping some ole we still thuggin? negroe please you used to be relevant, now your just as corny as them other clowns. after all this time you still ain’t evolved chat bout we still thuggin and your movies are whack with minstrel characters. you got money now quit mean muggin and sit yo ass down in a corner.
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Cube aint said shit with that one!!
Ice cube is right….comic book rap…hahahahahaha. can u say soulja boy, mims hurricane chris…yea i think they fall in that area…
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Ok but the movie Are We There Yet? is popcorn what ever happen to the ice cube in Friday or Playas Club
Nobody cares what he has to say ne way
All ice cubes melt.
Why the hell do i have to listen to what Ice Cube have to say. What the hell does Cube or West know anything about politics. All these rappers should just shut up and rap about the ghettos since they are love the ghettos and the streets so much. Why is he bitching when he’s rapping for free. They should be grateful for living in the US and shoot up their mouths about anything without being boned in ass.
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cosign everything Cube said, these Soulja Boy, Young Joc crap that you chicks support is absolute garbage,they are not pusing th artform creatively. Thank god for Lue,Nas,Jay,etc.
Lol at people asking what Cube knows about politics, you cannot be over 25. Go pick up Amerikkka’s Most Wanted and Death Certificte and listen to “I wanna kill Uncle Sam”, “Black Korea”, etc instead of sounding ignorant.
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Growth is not the same as faking it,that nigga damn near 40,he has how many kids?If you had the chance to make some live shit for your kids and the doe to do it why not.Thats the point of being an OG-You grow the fuck up.I love this site cuz ya’ll be on some serious hate type shit,I need to see a hater before I start my day,lets me know shit could be a lot worse.
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Anyways ice cube is on point with what he said..
Sounds like he was watching http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
to be able to make that comment about the BUSH family.. THE TRUTH will evientually come to light
I love the way Ice Cube straddles the fence.He want to be gangster one minute and all Hollywood the next.I love it!
Can’t hate on people who making money.I mean why not?Don’t like it don’t listen to it.Just that simple.I don’t listen to it.Quit making it hard on yourselves like people owe something to you.
@flada i feel you that was the same thing i was thinking they must be young, or some, and then his last album was the truth but people on that bubble gum rap now so much they cant even detect real from entertainment.
@beyanki he addressed that to on his album too, to all said i went hollywood im a ganster i know when i got it good, i mean foreal though just because he making money and not round her still shooting and stuff doesn’t mean he sold out to me he has the background to prove it ice cube is a very intelligent man i saw that on the nwa documentary where he refused to ganked and sign a contract, he was very business like at a young age, and i don’t think he sold out he’s just matured and GROWN, i mean where do being a ganster get you all your life?
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If Obama gets the presidency, I think black folks need to CHANGE (to use Barack’s word) how cartoonish they’ve come to let themselves be depicted to the world. Pull ya *k’n pants up and stop worshipping rappers like they are the utmost. Obama makes the people that are hiphop’s major players look like played out clowns. You realize we have exalted people like Jay Z and pro athletes because we didnt HAVE anyone in this GENERATION to look up to? Well prayerfully, all that sh* ends in 08. We cant continue down this road of destruction we’ve been on yall…time for CHANGE.
shante look like that cat name riff-raff on Hethcliff cartoon
who is he talking about? furthermore, none of his movies are gangster there all about family
california rappers suck, except for kurupt, iriscience, and xhibit…and one of them sold out a long time ago
sit down california and shut up
SPEAK ON IT! Ya’ll OBVIOULSY don’t know the old school 1991 Ice Cube and NWA. Anytime you get the President of US and members of Congress afraid of your ass and ready to shut you down, you hittin on nerve and that’s what Cube and ‘em did. They weren’t to be fucked with. This BS that is considered “rap” is just that— popcorn, ring-tone, bubble-dumb BS.
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Who cares about ICE CUBE. Well he paved the way for all the other’s and he didn’t go around doing all this buffoonery bs that most of these rappers are doing today.
All rap is comic book. It is not now or ever was music. It’s just posing bozos rhyming over jungle beats. What a bunch of jackoff clowns!
Gangsta rap made me do it!
Well said. He accurately grasps the situation in the White House.
I remember when Cube was Vusi in that movie made in South Africa. I wish he did more work like that. That was my main man in the 90s, for real. I was Straight Ice Cube.
“Ring tone rap”!?!?!? That’s hilarious.
But for the record, a lot of that ‘Laffy Taffy’ shit is being made by HS kids, they aint got no business rappin about drugs and shootin people and shit.