Drink Champs - #Throwback Episode - w/ Ice Cube | (Ep.64)

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs and we're taking it back to some of the most legendary moments in Drink Champs history. Classic interviews, unforgettable stories, and iconic guests who shaped the culture. In this classic throwback episode of Drink Champs, N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN chop it up with the legendary Ice Cube!  The Icon himself Ice Cube pulls up for one of the most powerful conversations in the show’s history. From his early days with N.W.A. to becoming a global icon in music, film, and business, Cube sits down with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN to tell his story exactly how it happened—no filters, no industry spin.  Over drinks and laughs, Ice Cube breaks down the raw truth behind gangsta rap’s rise, the impact of Straight Outta Compton, and the battles he faced standing his ground in an industry that tried to box him in. He reflects on his transition from rap superstar to Hollywood heavyweight, sharing gems about classics like Boyz n the Hood, Friday, and building ownership beyond the booth. Cube also speaks on independence, power, and why controlling your narrative is everything.  As always, Drink Champs gives Cube the space to celebrate his wins, address the critics, and drop wisdom for the next generation of artists and entrepreneurs.This episode is more than an interview—it’s a history lesson from one of hip hop’s most fearless voices. Legends get their flowers, and Ice Cube gets a whole garden. 🍾🔥 Make some noise for Ice Cube!!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆   -Originally published on February 23rd, 2017 *Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.com   Follow: Drink Champs https://www.drinkchamps.com https://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps https://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps https://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps   DJ EFN  https://www.crazyhood.com https://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy https://www.twitter.com/djefn https://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions   N.O.R.E.  https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga https://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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First of all, big up to our people at Martel. You know what I'm saying? Provided the cognac. We drank a lot of the cognac. I definitely drank a lot of it. Yeah, yeah, you went in. You went in. And you were the only one hot.

Nobody else was hot. I feel like we need a... Everybody else was hot. You hot too? All right, that's that Martel, God damn. Let's make some noise from Martel. That's right. So we got to describe to the people with their belt to head.

Right now, both... Very seldomly to me and you have the same favorite rapper. Okay. Ice Cube is one of them. Definitely one of them. And we got to describe that we actually flew to New York to get him. Yeah, yeah. That's how much he's one of our favorites.

Right. The snowstorm dead at us. And then they said he's going to be in Atlanta and I drove. You went back home. You had to handle business and you flew back. But we didn't hesitate. We didn't hesitate. We got it.

So we're doing this. And Ice Cube, man. He came in. ain't going front Legend One of the few artists I'll get a little Starstruck Man

No I kind of saw you A little nervous And that was like I was Kind of happy That's cute NWA I like that I like that

I'm dead certificate I said It's crazy man America's most wanted America's most wanted All the legendary shit I could have went for hours No we could have done

I had bad questions But I think that You know His people's was 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 going to be another time. And we relax as well.

And we're relaxed so we can go, about to say, I don't know one to. Anymore. We go to Chick-fil-A. It's kind of crazy. That sounded wrong, right? It's like, it sounded cold word.

I'm not even, like I actually like the Chick-fil-A. The chicken salad sandwich. I don't know. I'm just trying to clean it up. But we got Ice Cube. And we heard there's a couple of Parcasters that's out there hating. Right.

You're gonna go with that. Elliot Wilson. It was Elliot. Elliot, why you hated on us, man? We're gonna tell you why that he's doing drink camps and not rap radar. Because you're not on the radar.

Rap radar. You're not even on anybody's radar. And you're lucky I ain't called home and say you made a wrong move. You're saying. He's doing a little director of title. But respect you, Elliot, because you haven't. Other than this, I thought you turned over a new leaf,

and I thought you stopped hating, but apparently not. But we don't care. We got love for you. We want you to- And big up to Combat Jack who had Q-Mond. Yeah, because they also hated on us and Combat Jack. This is a fact. It's not just us.

So the fact that he hating on us both, I kind of, like, I'm not even mad. Like, I'm not a cool. What you hate on us both is cool. But, you know, get your weight up. Not your hate up. No, he should come to the show. Yeah, we're going to keep giving it to you, Elliot. Listen, Elliot.

At least to relax. Yeah, you got to relax. Relax. Relax. It's your theme song. But you and until you and BDot come on the show. We're going to have Mr. Lee call you and say relax. Yeah, every day.

You're not Mr. Lee. But, you know, for the people that's listening, we're just playing around. We actually don't care what they do. They can hate. We're going to still do us. But we got the relaxed shirts. All right, cool. Website.

Starrockclothing. com. You can also buy weed from. I'm just playing. You can't buy no easy. What did you say? You could buy Molly. You're fucking ruined

Rosenberg. Oh, yeah. Did you? Oh, you said. He was there. He was there. Yeah. Listen,

I'll be fucking up your ads. As you're bigging up your ads just throw Molly in there for no reason. Like, yeah, take a Molly as well. Like, you know what I mean? It's just retarded.

But also big up to Martel, once again, for they came here. Cube had a right Russian with a Martel. He drank very lightly. He's working. 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 um let's just coming out here because the thing about it is we want people to know that we're serious about uh 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 um so we're a part of that and now we actually got to see fist fight uh ed lover confused me on the hashtags he gave me like seven different hashtags i didn't remember which one. It was teacher fight at first, then 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 there's an actually great movie. I am not I'll go back to Miami and watch. You know, because I'm open. If I hated the movie, I probably would have still big it up, but

this is not the case. Like, this is not the case here. Like, I actually love the fucking movie. And I'm actually, Homegirls She offered me free tickets, and I'm I'm still going to take the free tickets, but I'm still going to go out of support, and I'm definitely going to buy popcorn. Definitely, like, I'm going to support because it's a great movie, and I love comedies.

Can we shot you out, or you want to be behind the scenes? So to be straight, if you don't like a movie, you don't buy popcorn? Alex. Alex? Big of Alex. From Atlanta, what company you do? Or no company? What?

Come here. Say it on the way. That seemed mad, complicated to pronounce. I'm sorry. Allied Moxie. Allied Moxie. And Alex? And what's the name again?

I'm sorry? Alex. Alex, she's such a wonderful person. Big up, Jenny. Our people's, you know what I'm saying? Martel provided them Martel. Yeah, big up to Zaraq as well. Big up everybody.

Big up everybody who supports Drink Chance. Drink Chance supports you. I'm very hype and excited. This is our new season. We're starting off. So we had fun, man. We had fun. We had ice cube.

I'm still drinking vodka with ice cubes. Martel on the side. I'm drinking Martel. Martel. Whatever's in here. Martel got you hot. You are hot and shit. All right.

All right. So any day, come on. Come over here, Chick-Bain. Come up to the people, God damn it. Come over here, get on the Ice Cube episode. Come on. Come sit over here.

Tell these people for years, you tell people you're Chinese, but you are not. He's Puerto Ricanese. Please come sit over here, Chinkbein. Come on. Don't ruin the setup. Don't ruin the setup.

Don't ruin the setup. Come on, Chin'clock. Ching Bing. Come on, man. You know, me and Chick Bing actually, me and Pong met in jail, but me and Ching Bing was actually, like, in the same houses.

Like, Pong was across. Ching Bing, talk to the people, God damn it. Yo, Yala hats. What are they selling on, yo, y'allah hats? Yeah, he's the new yo, Yala hats. Right. I was telling him with my man with that. He said, yo, Ching Bing.

He said, yeah, you're more famous in a little bit. You're in everybody shit. You need to design your own shit. So I said, yo, let's do it. I said, he said, what you said, what you want to put? I said, I want to do a yo yala hat. He said, I, a yo yala hat it is. So, like, an hour later, he sent me the shit.

He was like, yo, what's up? You like this? I said, it looked like, but you need to put it. You need to make it look a little 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 157 on the side.

That's for Girard, for the murder unit. But, you know, we switched up. In time, you got it. Jose land. You got him for a ball. You know what's a ball. Jose land. Mike Booth.

What's going on TV wraps? Yo, MTV. He sent me 12 and I was like, all, cool. So now I got like an order of like 150. So it's like crazy because I ain't believe it at first. So now they wore like 150 orders and we even got them. So they're making them now.

And you got Folli's residue on you. Let's make some luck. All jokes, you know, everything I says, not the truth. Relax. Got awkward. All right. But we have a point.

You drink some Martel. You drink some Martel. Oh, you already got some Martel in you. Drink a martel. Got down. You got some more. too, Mike? Mix it, but I don't know what it is.

Yeah, I ain't on the front. That don't, that, whatever you mixed it with, don't look culture. Oh, they mixed it with it. Oh, they're just gay, you know. They're doing. Let's bring up to the Martel girls, by the way. Not only did we have Martel, we've got the Martel girls. And they were dressed, they were professional, they were here on time.

They looked pretty and gorgeous. And we love Pitchee, T, T, T, T. They definitely made sure they makeup was tight. 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 got to get your life together. You're shape up on your lips and good. Yeah, you got to shape your lips up. Yeah, you're going to shape your lips up. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to the team has it a sound. Your kids here. I roster. A rasta. The fight. The movie is. Big up the rich Blanco, even though he ain't here.

Big up a man. He's been working for a distance. Mr. Lee, Diego, Russ, and everybody are part of the crew. Ali. Twin, take up the twins. You got to get twins. You got to relax. We hear that you're doing right now.

You got to relax. Relax. You got to relax. Relax, twin. Yo, man, and what building did we visit earlier? I forget. That was pretty dope. It was a, it was the 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 restaurant, had a full-fledged bar, and private, private. So it's very much worth 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 come to a place. I just admire it, and that's it. But when I've seen the bar, I was like, I'm the type of person. I have to have a drink there. And I did. And let's make some noise for that, goddamn. So big up To my people

No bueno It didn't work Yeah you got the dud You can tell You can tell Cube does 15 minute interviews And that's it Like we were We were great questions

We was hitting him with We was hitting him with great hip hop shit The hell shit is that we've seen him get out the limo We've seen him get out the limo We seen him get in the limo I thought that was so fly I thought like to me Like to me like for

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 we was in drama studio and it was telling me to leave. And I just, for some reason, it didn't feel the energy to leave. And just to me see him get in the limo, it got a suburban day as well. But he said, I'm not security. Just like you just said. He was dolo-bo. Yeah, he didn't care.

He had security. Yeah, he has a good name, but he was Dolom Bolo. But I did not know Stanley was his cousin. Stanley, the guy, you don't remember Stanley for Friday? He said, keep off my grass. The dude with the, no, the midget. Yeah. No, no, the midget.

That was Bernie Mac, you're talking about. I'm talking about, but Bernie Mac was across the street. Oh, the square dude. The square dude that kept telling you. That's family. They were like the world. Yeah. That's Stanley.

We got to meet Stanley tonight. And I've seen them yesterday. That's what really caught me because I'm like, damn. And he's actually standing in front of Cube. He's actually walking like almost, I want to say, I don't want to say assistant because that's like, but it wasn't an assistant role. It was kind of almost like security almost.

Because the way he walked, and then he just said as his cousin, but I did not know that. Now, but Stanley's a fucking, a great fucking character in Frat. You know what I mean? Drain got hype and I didn't get to ask him, Drake.

It didn't warrant it because Drain found out right before that he might be Jamaican. His great-grandparents. Only another Jamaican would think like that. Nobody else got gay. Drey was like, oh shit.

Nobody else had this information by Drain. He drank like a one, two. That's all. Drink from the same cup as ice cube. Yeah, drink from the same cup. We can't always expect our guests to get drunk and things like that. And we're a better show.

He took a shot. That was good. He took a sip. And he's working. He's working. He took a sip. Yeah, salo, man. Yeah, salo, man.

Yeah, salo, man. For us, you know, big up, Mike, my brother, Mike Buf. No IG, Mike Moore. No IG Booth. Big up my brother, Saan. Yo, uh, Ali. Big up to, Big up to the people, Russ. Big up to Ross.

Big up to Ross. Diego. We drove here. Like, idiots. Oh. From New York. It was a great trip. It was a great trip, but I'm just saying.

It was a. idiot. Like, we were just all idiots. We just like, yo, fuck it tonight. And I just wanted one of them to be like, no. Everybody looked at a day and said, we ain't got shit to do with it. I was just like, and this Valentine's Day, and I looked at my girl and I said, come on, one Valentine's Day.

We got to relax, man. And she's like, hey, let me get away with it. I kissed her, I'm trying to get home. Oh, look at me. You give me all. Give me awe. Don't be afraid to give me awe. I like the God damn it. This is exclusive.

Yeah, so we did. I came here two days early. Atlanta's great. You know, we had a ball out here. Then Ching Bing and Mike Roo flew out here. And we're just having fun. And that's what it's about, man. He's like, like, we know, we handle business.

We don't talk about this thing. And Chick-fil-A. A lot of waffles. Yeah. It went crazy at the Wingstaff. The Wing stop. He took care of all the bills. The bill was gracious.

But we have fun. That's what it's about, listen. You got an ice-fucking ice-cule on the box, man. We got ice-cule slings of over here, man. I spoke out singles from yesterday. Relax. I was Ching Bigg is you little scoops right now. What the, what was dags?

Relax, chick-big. You got that half a clip, right? Yeah, got that. All right. So we're going to smoke a blunt. Look at your phone. And we're going to hopefully I enjoy what we did. Hopefully I enjoyed the teasers that we put out, you know what I'm saying,

for 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 done a great job. I think we done a great job. So with no further ado, here goes to the Ice Cube episode.

Yeah, yay. I love it. We're out of there. Hey, Hank San Grea. I hope you're Savi. This your boy, N-O-R-E. What up is DJ E-FN. And it's Dreachasman.

And it's Dreachasman. Make some no. Now it's an absolute honor for me to introduce this man. Not only is he's one of my favorite rappers, he's also one of my favorite people. Like the person that he is right now, I strive to be that. You know what I'm saying? As a person who writes his own movies, produces in his own movies, who you could tell he handpicks his roles. I do a lot of things in life and I say, if Ice Cube ain't doing it, I ain't doing it.

Like I live like that, like in real life. I'd be like, yo, somebody offered me pink popcorn. I'm like, I don't think a cube, but he thought. You know what I mean? So in life, I do that. So I'm so honored to have in the building with the drink champs. It's the first time hip hop is controlling media. My brother, DJ EFN is a DJ.

I'm a hip-hop artist, and we transitioned, and we now on the journalistic point of view. And we got, this is like our biggest interview for us. God damn it, the motherfucking West Coast legend icekew in the motherfucking building, make this. I appreciate it, man. That's love. Now, I went to the Perman last night, and it was... He has to stop talking about it. I can't get to go. He hasn't stopped talking about it.

I'm going to go out and spend money. Yeah. I got them to preview for free, but I'm going to spend money. I'm going to bring my kids. I'm going to 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? You know, I've been...

Been working with New Line. Thank you. Been working with New Line for a minute. And they had this project, you know, that they brought to me. They said Charlie Day was attached to it. And I've been wanting to work with Charlie for a minute because I think his form of comedy 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 a couple 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 right yeah interesting to me and then you got Tracy Morgan the return of Tracy Morgan is in this yeah and he's funny as fuck yeah oh my god like you like because sometimes you know when a person goes through a tragic accident you almost yeah you are you almost feel like that it's something going to be different about him,

but he was straight up Tracy Morgan, and it was hilarious. Yeah, you know, it was just good to see that dude. I had work with him before on First Sunday. We did a movie together. That's right, first Sunday. Y'all robbed a church. Yeah, yeah.

Yes, yes. And what was funny? That makes a noise by his cute, rob the church. Got to go with the money at. Yeah. He had an ankle bracelet on his ankle, you know. In real life? In real life?

Oh, shit. So he had to, 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. So 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 I mean? Healthy and still being funny. Healthy and happy, yeah.

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is Friday coming along. Yeah. So did you write Friday when you were still doing NWA? Yeah, no. I had just left the group, but we wrote in them about 94. Me and DJ. What the fuck? Wait a minute.

94, 94, 94. You wrote Friday in 94? 94. We shot in 95, so. Wow. This is around death certificate time or right after? Right after. And it came out in 95?

Yeah, we shot it. It came out 95. Why don't I feel like Friday came out later? No, 95. So, but you, you, so you had the foresight 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 of credit cards, basically. He shot that movie, you know, kind of buying credit, I mean, getting credit cards and, you know, you know.

The equipment. and everything and kind of pieced it together. So we was like, yo, that's what we're going to do. We're about to make a movie. So me and Poo started writing it. We were fans of DJ Poo. We was fans of in living color too, you know.

So it started coming together and New Line got wind of it. And they was like, yo, we'll make it, we'll make it, we'll use your credit cards. No, we didn't have to use on money. New Line since Friday you've been working. Yeah, I've been working on New Line since Friday.

And is that Stanley? Is that Stanley? Yeah, that's my man. Yeah, that's my cousin, actually. I keep on people grass to this day because of him. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to go. I walk a little glass.

Stanley ain't letting you walk on his grass, man. God damn. Let's make some noise for Stanley. Keep him up. Keep him up to be a grass. So when you wrote Friday, did you know that this was a cult movie, like, immediately? I knew it was a movie that only, like, I felt like only cool people to get this movie, you know, because it's just too good, but it's too fun.

But, you know, what happened was everybody got it. You know, everybody came to the party. And I just thought it was going to be like, like my records, I thought only, you know, people in the hood was going to bind. And everybody ended 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. So we felt like only a niche group of people would like this movie.

Because that was very, it was very crazy that you had such a luscious career as a hip hop artist. He was part of 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? I got bit by the bug working with John Singleton. He put me in Boys in the Hood. And, you know, one day I was over at this crib and he was like, yo, Q, when are you going to write a movie? I'm like, what?

I'm like, John, I came over here to have a beard, I didn't 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, them records you write, you know, so vivid. I know you can write a movie. So that night, it's a trip. I went to the computer store and bought a computer.

Right. And got the programs I needed. That was back when you had to load all the damn programs into the computer. 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.

Probably still worth $400 million. But, you know, the third one was Friday. Wow. You know, seeing that one get made, I kind of knew what I was doing right and knew what I was doing wrong. Just kept on from me. Now, who was the director on Friday? F. Gary Gray.

Gary Craig. Wow. And Steve Carr did a Friday, too, right? Yeah, he did next Friday. Oh, okay, okay. I worked with Steve Carr before. He's crazy. Yeah, yeah.

So now, now, Easy E. Yeah. Easy E said one of the most prolific lines in life. He said, Ice Cube, write the rhymes that I say. Yeah.

And nobody thought Easy E was a sucker for that. But right now, Drake, and all these people. Like, how did you feel when you heard about, like, the Drake thing? I don't think it's a big deal. I think you got two categories, you know, of, of emcees. You know, you got emcees who can just kind of grab the mic and just rip, and they, you know, are naturally that.

And then you got guys who, you know, make good records and make it, you know, and that's really what it's all about. What's coming out to speak is when it comes to this record. gang. Because when you were writing around for EZE, were you writing it from his perspective? Were you like saying, I'm going to write it from Eric's? Or was it like?

It was, I mean, his perspective is my perspective. We all come from the same area going through the same issues. So I never looked at it like I'm writing the EZE record. Only he could do. You know, it's kind of like, everybody could relate to it. You know, if I just took his name out and put my name in, there, you know, it'll be my rhyme. Now, did it happen like that in the movie? Because, like,

in the movie, um, I think y'all, y'all was writing around for East Coast dudes. Yeah, yeah, definitely shit it on us. East Coast. I was definitely disappointed. What's saying? What do you mean? They couldn't write the rhyme.

Remember? They got shit on them. Here's how it really happened. Okay, okay, okay. Easy wanted to be a manager. He just wanted to manage the groups. He didn't want to rap. and New York was so hot

And 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 Home Boys Only, HBO. Oh, I think I remember them. A little bit. And he said, he was like, yo, right at Q, right one of them hood raps for these dudes.

So I did it. Right. But when they... Well, it wasn't rolling in 6'4. Was it really rolling? No, no, I wasn't rolling. So we wrote third period. So I wrote it and gave it to him, and they was like, man, this, what are you talking about?

Gangking, six-fold. Slang was all. Yeah, Jack, we don't know what you're talking about, man. This ain't got nothing to do with we from. So I think it was just the fact that the rhymes was so L.A., they just was like, no. And you asked easy, you say it easy? The Drey T's so easy, man

Why don't you do it We got the studio time We pay for it once you try Because Drey was producing all kinds of records Man 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 Duz is paying any money DJs from radio stations It was like Yo

I got this creative rap I want you to do the beat for 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. I can coach you up, you know, what you do it. Now, in the movie, it was like you were like the only business savvy person. Like you knew, you knew to ask for, like, certain things.

Yeah. And all the other artists, they were kind of, I mean, according to the movie, it kind of seemed like they were cool with going on to all, getting some chicks and smoking some weed. but you had the foresight to say I know that I'm old something. How did you develop that business mindset? I mean, you know, it ain't like I'm from a different planet. You know, it's each

one, teach one. You know, I had a publicist. The publicist for NWA was a lady named Pat Sharvenet. If y'all know Friday, y'all know, y'all see the name Pat Sharvin' name. 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, do y'all know this guy? Do you know who this dude is? And I'm like, nope, who is he? Somebody easy brought around. So she would give me the game on like, did y'all sign a contract with him? Or not, because she knew his history. And he was known for being a bad guy. I mean, she knew his history. I don't know what he was known for. She was like, yo, so she starts saying, did he get you kind, you know, just kind of giving me the game. So I was like

You know this is a 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 Right You know because I was young too We all young We happy to just be doing a record We happy to be on tour We 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 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, it don't show that. I go to rein and say, look, man, don't sign nothing. You know, I got it. Wow.

So they already knew. They already knew something where you were coming from. Yeah, they knew where I was coming from. And, you know, they clown me when I didn't sign that contract, man. And it really was $70,000? It was $75,000. 75G Is there any reason

y'all didn't portray But hold on Hold on Hold on I want you go there But do you know 75,000 back then was like 700,000

Oh yeah Yeah Yeah So how did you walk away And now Go right back to your question I'm sorry But how did

Like every young black kid From the ghetto It would have Took that 75 Yeah Why didn't you want to do that? I knew they owe me more

More I knew they owe me more So I knew if I took that then I was accepting that I wasn't paid more, that this was cool. And I was like, just ain't cool.

They gave me $5,000. I was happy. I would be happy. I would be happy. Hey, man, you know, it's like, dude, you know, when, you ain't never had nothing. And you start getting a little,

and you start saying people get a lot. And you start saying, hold on, man, I'm putting in more work than anybody or, you know, most of the people around. you know, just threw up a rare flag. And when I'm from, it's like, if you know somebody beating you and you accept it, you're just a bitch, period. Period.

Yeah, no, so I was asking about Arabian Prince. Is there any reason why he wasn't portrayed in the film? You know, it's really like in a movie you only have so much real estate. And, you know, he got out the group. As soon as he saw Jerry, he was like, I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. He quit the day after we shot that cover.

He quit the day after we shot that cover. He quit. He quit. Wow. He went and talked to, he knew about Jerry. Because he had done records with McCola. 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 a. take you off of that level and turn it into some legit stuff. And he did get us, you know, he did get doors open and he did get us a deal. Talking about Jerry.

Jerry, you know, because the majors wasn't giving us no deal. Right. It was like, nah, we, this too crazy. So, 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 for me. So, dude was just, you know, I don't want to talk about the dead, but God bless. Yeah, whatever. Yeah.

Wow. At least he was a part of getting y'all out, though. Yeah. We didn't have y'all probably, you know. That's why in the movie, you know, if you really look at it, you get him just, he was, we didn't, we didn't lampooning like we, like I wanted to. Oh, you wanted to. More than that. We, you know, we, we did all right, By.

Now, you worked with arguably, everybody. top five producer of all times. Was Dr. Dre always special? Yes. Or that was something that it was developed in time? He was always special. You know, first DJing, then doing mixtapes. It was the OG mixtapes, not the new mixtapes.

All right. Where they just got somebody beating and you rap over it. Because a mixtape back then was mixing records. Actually mixing records. Mixing records. That's what I was doing. That's a lot of the mixtapes. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, the real big. Mixing records, you know, he was hot. He was always nice, you know, making beats. It's just his, you know, his ear, he just hears stuff different, you know what I'm saying? Right. And he's tedious, and he liked to, he won't let you out that booth until you get it right. Yeah. Some dudes can't handle it.

Right. I mean, I heard he chastised. 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 100% real artist I remember we did

Pushing Weight, the remix and you said Norrie has to come to the studio and you actually wanted to come into the studio and see me write 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 worlds of course and I just knew 100% I said this guy is 100% 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 you was like I'm gonna be in the studio with him and I always knew you 100% real artists for that.

That's what it's all about, man. You know, we're going to do a record together. I don't want to send it over to, you know, we got to be, we got to buy, you know, or, or we shouldn't do a record together. And we smoked Halloween that day, too. Let's make some noise for that.

We have some fly shit to St. Regis right now. We're going to chill, because we don't want smoking bills and shit like that. But, you know, so now, you do fry. Yeah. What makes you say, let me continue this franchise and go and do Friday Part 2 because now Friday Part 2, Chris Tucker is not a part of this.

Yeah. So what made you still want to say, I'm going to continue to do that? Well, I didn't want to. What? I was like, no Chris. Man, what is this movie? You know, it's like, you know, it's like you lose in a major piece. It's like Shaq 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 going to continue this for Craig,

maybe to go off the block. Ransom. From all the characters you know, Ransal Cucomonga. We're going to introduce. You had no idea that was a real place, by the way. We're going to be in a new place. We're going to be in a new cast of characters.

And then I start seeing it like, yo, when I saw Mike Apps do stand-up, I'm like, we have Mike apps on the show. That's Craig Cousin. That's Craig Cousin right there. So I was like, yo, 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 Now, be honest, because Chris Tucker destroyed that role. Yes, please.

Did you think Mike Epps? Because now Mike Epps is a no name. Like, at this time, like, I remember being in the movie theater and people being like, when they saw that it wasn't, uh, D-Day Day Day, when they saw it wasn't smoky, excuse me, when they saw it wasn't smoky, like, people were actually were booming at first when they think that it was, and it, and it, in the, transition to be like, but did you know that he can hold it down, or did you have, have doubts. I mean, I knew he can hold it down.

I knew that we can make because Friday is about it's about a feel. It's more than just one person you know, how's in the movie. It's a, it's its own thing in a way.

So I just knew that the cast that we had and the story, of course it was going to jar people a little bit, but I knew once people got a chance to really feel Mike gaps and see him that his comedy is Mo Hood

than Smokies to me. And I just felt like people are, you know, they love him. You can tell people love Mikeaps. He killed it. Because he's so real and raw with it. And then when we did part three, you know, bringing Cat Williams in, bringing

in Terry Cruz. It just was, uh... OG, triple OG? Yeah. You know, it's just, it's just a franchise people love. And we want to do another one. but we got to do it right to hear that. That's the hell of the question.

You know all it's going on here, Q. We got to do it right. And did I hear this correct? It's going to be a last Friday with Smokey and Day Day Day. That's what we want. We're still trying to get Chris to do it. I need a role in that. I know this is very bad that I'm just throwing myself in there.

But I think I belong here. Just throw me in there. I can be the garbage, man. I could be the guy that picks up smoky shit. He's auditioning right now. I can do whatever. I can do whatever. I can do whatever.

Because, yeah, no, I mean, I'm just such a fan. of that. So it would be a last Friday with both with them. I hope so. You know, it's like, I can't make Chris do it, but the fans can What you're doing without him, though? Yeah, yeah, you know, we do it. I think you got a right Russian over there, too. You got to go on, let's go on. It's it. We're celebrating you tonight,

Ice Cube. You know, I don't know if you know about our show, what it is, is, you know, when people in this music business, they got more than 10 years, they try to kick us out. They try to say we old. They try to say we washed up. But me, you, EFN, 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

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you 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, when I first started to just pay attention to hip hop. It was as a fan. And then to be able to do it, just to be able to rap.

I felt like that was an accomplishment. But to get this far with my career, you know, it's just like I feel like, you know, God is smiling on me somewhere. What artist inspired you? Your penmanship is crazy. Oh, man, man, artists like Melly Mell, Chuck D, KRS-1,

I-T, Big Daddy Kane who don't get enough credit for being a lyricist. You know, these dudes were our giants. One of the MC is like the blueprint of how you do it. You know, so, you know, I'm a fan of that school of emcees. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. On a recent episode, I sat down with Nick Jonas, singer, songwriter, actor and global superstar.

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Did you know that 20 years later, people still going to... me saying fuck the police was never going to get better? I was hoping. You was hoping. I was hoping they would get better. I was hoping people would still be rocking the song. The publishing.

But it's a trip when we had laid our lyrics. I was so into making the song that Ren looked over at me and was like, this one right here is going to start some shit. Right. Oh, so y'all knew. it. Yeah, he just

got a sense. Like, this one right here is going to start some shit. 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 time. You guys was at the studio and they pulled you guys over in the studio? Yeah. They used to sweat us at that studio all the time. Wow. I was just one incident. Wow. Because it was like a Mexican food spot. Right down the street we would walk to and them torrents police was on our neck.

You know, because they just wasn't used to seeing dudes like us walking around. Yeah, looking like gang babies. Yeah. But we in the studio right here doing our thing. So, man, a lot, a lot. Way more than in the movie. It's just one time in the movie. Wow. But we got it, you know, doing that whole record. At least five.

six incidents. Wow. Now on tour, did it really happen like that? Oh, wow. When they said, they told you not to perform that record? Yeah. Was it TK that was on with us that said he was on the tour? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. TK was crazy. He was on that tour. Right, he said he was on that tour. They would do it every city, though. They would tell you don't perform this record. Yeah, they would, you know, we was coming after the Beasley Boys had come around and everybody was like, man, this rap tour stuff is crazy.

you know, getting two out of hand. Then Bobby Brown went around the country and just doing the most, doing the most nasty and sexy show you could do for R&B artists. So they was, by the time, NWA was time. Them venues, police, everybody, hotels was like, was ready.

It was like, no, man, we ain't having what y'all bringing. So before every show, they would gather us up. some, you know, fat-ass police would come with an ordinance of, you know. Ordinance was that. I don't know what that is. It's basically saying, these are laws you don't know about that we're pulling out our ass from 1876. If you do this, if you're obscene on stage, boom, boom, boom, we can't arrest you. And not just in the Bible, though.

This is everywhere. Everywhere. Wow. So we hear that, man. We hear that every night. We're getting tired of this, man. It's harassment because we send rock and rollers and guns and roses. They're doing what the hell they want to do.

So we just was fed up and it just, it all came together in Detroit that night. Right. And we just was like, man, we're going to do it. Because we just like, man, they ain't going to cause no riot because they kept saying, you do this song, it's going to cause a riot. You do this song, it's going to cause a riot. Right. And we like, come on, man, it's hip-hop.

I ain't cause no damn riot. And we did that song and it caused a damn right. It was crazy. We doubted it the whole time. We doubted it the whole time. When I'm performing, I'm like, oh, shit. You know, this is getting out of hand right now. I'm saying the crowd, like, you know when it's something.

You don't perform. You know what it's in this funk out in there. And it's fighting and it's crazy. And, yeah, it just kicked it off. Does Ice Cube consider himself the origin, of one of the originators of gangster rap? One of them. You know, but you got to look at Ice tea.

Ice tea. We had Ice tea on the show who bigged you up as well. You're one of his best friends as well. Ice tea, man. You know, he's the one who really said it was okay, you know, to put it on and say, yo, you can say what you want to say, do what you want to do. And, you know, he's an architect too. For sure.

So are you, is Ice Cube listening to the young boys? song? Every now and there every now and then, you know, my wife, my kids put me up on it you know, and it's all good. All right, yeah, because I was just curious, I was just curious. You know, what's your favorite song

right now? Any song? Oh, man, I ain't got no favorite. You ain't got no favorite? I'll be listening to that. I'm liking that big shine. Okay. Now, you know. Okay. That's now that took a album. Yeah, I like that.

So now that you conquered the movie world, like you open the doors for people like me to live out my dream. Mm-hmm. We're hearing that you're doing the, what is it, Big Three? The Big Three. The Big Three.

Now, explain to us for those who that didn't know what the Big Three is. The Big Three is a professional three-on-three basketball. It's played by retired NBA players. But I'm hearing it's a full court? Half-court. Oh, half-court. Half-court, okay. And you know when dudes play three-on-three, you get rough in there.

So we're going to have dudes going hard. But you coach you ain't coaching you ain't coaching at all. Oh, no, I'm just a founder. Oh, okay. We're going to have pros. It's for pros. It ain't for, this ain't no celebrity game. Because I heard you on a good day.

On a good day, you said you nice in basketball. Yeah, I ain't that nice. I'm asking. I'm asking. I'm asking. I'm asking. I'm going to play with two dudes. You're going to play in the game.

I'm like, oh, no. This ain't no joke, no gimmick. Okay. This ain't no mountain dude amateur. So it's a tie? Because if we hear, Alan Iverson. Allen Iverson. Chauncey Billers

Johncy Billows Jermaine O'Neill Stephen Jackson Richard Lewis White Chalky Kennedy Anderson Kenny Anderson He's gonna

You know Some of them dudes Got to go to the combine What's the combine Combines We're gonna see what they got Oh We'll see if they still got it

You know what I mean Yeah we're gonna put them through it You know You gotta have the game Just not the name You know Right Why

So what is Ice Cube like more You like movies or music more? I love them both, you know, but music is my, that's my baby. You know, that's, I could do what I want to do when it comes to music. There's no meetings, no committee, no, you know, a bunch of people, you know, with a movie, you got 100 people working on one project, you know, but with a record, and I can work on 100 records. It's just one man if I want to.

So, you know, my records are more personal, I guess. Okay. You know, one of the LIS collaborations, I think, that people don't acknowledge or give it as much props as when you did America's Most Wanted with the bomb squad. Yeah. Because I remember back then there's no internet. I'm right, you go to the mall and you go into the rap section. But wasn't the bomb scar producers? Yeah.

It's public enemy, basically. You know what made the sound. So you go, NWA's my favorite group at the time. Right. I used my favorite artist in NNWA. Public enemy is one of my favorite groups. I go in the store. And you don't get internet.

You don't get tweeted. You don't see that. And I see America's Most Wanted, produced by the Bomb Squad, I nearly lost my mind. Wow. Those was my favorite producers, you know. I worked with Dre, but my favorite producers was the Bomb Squad. I met Chuck on tour, and when I left the group, I went up to Def Jam to look for a producer by the name of Sam Sever, who I worked with Third Bass. That third bass album was out.

They had dope beats on it, so. Leo was like, yo, I hook you over. Sam and the niggas Sam never showed up to the meeting. So I was like, so I'm bouncing, I'm leaving and coming down the hall is Chuck D. Chuck's like, yo, what you doing here? I told him what was up. It was like, man, come to the studio. I'm doing a record tonight with Big Daddy Kane called Burn Hollywood Burn.

If you want to be on it, if you want to be on it, come to the studio that I let people know you solo. I'm like, shit. I'm there. Right. I'm there early. did that record and I was just telling them and then Hank Shockley

Keith Shockley was in there and I was saying yo 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 he in New York she's gonna be wet

so when Hank when Hank heard that that turned him on he was like what they laughed I said yeah they laughed they laughed

They don't think I can get a record done out here. He was like, man, we'd do the whole record if you want to. You all did a lot of songs. A lot of songs were on that record. We did everything. Now, now, now, we, I can't tell. Me and my homies earlier was debating that when you left NWA, that it was them who took a shot at you first.

Yeah. It was not you. No. Okay. Americans was won it. I don't say nothing about NWA. Right, right. That's how I see.

They made the Benedict Arnold line. Yeah. And then you came back with No Vaseline. I hit him a little. bit with a hundred miles. I hit him a little bit on the end of Jacking for beats. Right. Because they had a song called 100 miles and running.

And so I just gave them a little little jab just to see what they would do. Then they kind of came out with a little more on that Niggas for Life album. Right. And then I was like, man, I'm going in. No vastnesses. No, it's probably the illest disc records of all time.

And you know what else is great to see is they see you in common together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's good. It's cool to, if you got to be for somebody, it's better to squash it. You know what I mean? It's better to squash it. So it's cool, you know, we had a misunderstanding years, years ago. Yeah, because I never knew what that started at all. It was just a misunderstanding, you know, and it's cool that we got past it, grown-man style.

Right. Now, did you ever get to see the Tupac movie? I ain't seen yet. What was your relationship with Pock? We was cool. You know, that was one of the homies. Right. You know, I just looked at him as I look at, you know, most of the guys that's in the game that I'm cool with, you know, just one of the homies that, you know, it's kind of spiraled out of control.

Right, yeah, definitely. Is Cube doing another album? Of course. Oh, let's make that. Let's make that announcement right now. We got the name of the album? Everything's corrupt. Everything's corrupt.

Yeah. And now is Cube independent or? No, I'm on Interscope. Oh, Iniscope. Wow, Jimmy, I've been. Wow, that's kind of like a 360. Even though, like, no, Jimmy was death row. He didn't have nothing to do with NWA.

No, no, he had nothing to do with NWA. Right. I don't even know if he was still at N-Scope. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just signed a deal with them. Do you think that certificate gets us just due? I think that's one of the best albums period in hip-hop. Well, you know, from fans, from people like you,

we're going to release the 25th year anniversary. that next month. And I got three new songs on that. So it's going to be cool to put that album back out. Oh, you're putting it back out? Wow. You should make a movie about summer vacation. Yeah, everybody say that.

No, I heard you got a movie called vacation coming up with John Cena. It's called Vacation Friends and Vacation Friends. We're still putting it together. That's still in the infant stages. But it's filmed already? No, no, we haven't shot it yet. Oh, because the writers, Tim and Tom.

Yeah. Ready to write this? I actually met with them, and they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they're talking about the vacation. Yeah. It's a good one. It's so totally dope. Man, Cube, because I see your people with sickening it and I see you got to go. Yeah.

You know what I mean? But, you know, this is hip, hip, hip hoppers. These people, we, they need to know. So, what is next for Cube, though? Oh, you know, just, I got the hip-hop squares coming out on. Yeah, Hollywood Squares, right? It's Hollywood Squares, but we're hip hoppers, you know what? Oh, wow.

And it's fun. Who's hosting that? D-ray. Okay. Just the case he gets sick, I'm here. Okay, I got you. You need to come. I'm going to come to an episode next year.

Yeah, come on. First off, Q, listen, I'm going to just be honest. We're in a industry that is full of fake people. So when I meet a real brother like you, when I sat down and we vived that day, it's nothing more that 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. and 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 a part of a fraternity. It's bigger. It transcends race. It's bigger than just me, us just being black and 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 big 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 awe.

Like, I was just like, wow, this shit was funny from the beginning. Yeah. And, like, how do you always get the tough guy roles? Do you request the tough guy roles or they just come to you? I mean, they come to me. People feel like, you know, when you do a movie you want, 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 were there, and I just watched you. I was trying to hide and just peeped you. And I seen you roll in the limo.

Let's make some noise with a limo. I say, my man, that is some real, real niggins shit. Like, you stuck with the limo. I got that a suburb. Yeah. You got a... Jumping in on SUV. I ain't security.

You know, I really appreciate. that I really said there and you know listen we really appreciate as you being both of our favorite rappers and you know um what you transition to is a great example for young uh hip hopers period uh that 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 Kenny 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 thing. You ain't got to change. No. And you're a godfather of that. We got to make some noise for that. Glad you're on the mic, man.

You know, I'm glad you're on the mic. Definitely, I need to be heard on the regular. And it's much love, man. Much appreciate it. So there are a million people who listen to us. That's all. That's all. Thank you so much, Q.

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