Nightcap - Nightcap - Hour 1: Warriors eliminate Grizzlies + Ice Cube talks 'Last Friday' & BIG3

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson are joined by Hip-Hop legend Ice Cube to react to the Stephen Curry and the Warriors knocking off Ja Morant and the Grizzlies in the NBA Play-in Tournament. Later, they talk news of 'Last Friday' being announced, the upcoming BIG3 season, and Ice Cube's legacy in Rap.00:00 - Intro02:00 - Warriors Beat Grizzlies12:40 - Ice Cube talks BIG3, ‘Last Friday,’ & more!51:48 - Magic eliminate Hawks54:30 - Nico Harrison’s strange Luka comments(Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.)#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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button and go subscribe to the Nightcap Podcast feed wherever you get your podcast from. You know me. I'm your favorite up. The guy that's down below, number 85, Rockrunner Extraordinaire, Liberty City Legend, Bingo Ring of Fame honoree, the Pro Bowler of the All Pros, that's Chad Ochocinco

Johnson. The guy that's at the very very bottom, man, he done shout out because he a Raider fan, y'all, and y'all know how that go. He ain't had a whole lot to cheer about, so hopefully he's in a better mood. He was just immortalized in the TCA. Man, it's Chinese

theater. He has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame, the CEO of the Big Three ceo of the big three one of the laker uh he'll like he'll be a laker fan than i am but let's before we get into all that q let's get into what we just saw the warriors beat the grizzlies 121 116 jimmy butler 38 points steph curry 37 points and they held off a very valiantant and game Memphis Grizzlies Team by the score of 121

To 126 this game was Really really close so now the Warriors Advance they're the 7th seed And they take on the Rockets That game probably will start Sunday Q watching this game What did you like about what you saw from the Warriors Damn that man

I heard that Raiders shot You know what I mean I'm the president heard that Raiders shot. You know what I mean? I'm the president of the Raiders nation. Always remember that. Okay? Alright. Now, getting to this game, we knew what was going to happen. It was close. But we know, you know, Steph

is, you know, the man and proved it once again, hitting big shots, big moments, Warriors advance. You know, we knew what was going to happen. I thought the game would have been a lot. You know what? It would have been interesting to see Q or Ocho had Ja not tweaked that ankle.

You know, he goes up for the shot. He comes down on the guy's ankle, and he came back in the game late, but he wasn't Ja. Desmond Bain was unbelievable. He kept him close. Big threes, stealing the ball, doing a lot of good things. Triple J played an outstanding game, but I just thought if Ja had stayed in there

it would have been interesting to see. We never know. Who knows? Maybe Steph goes crazy and he goes instead of 37-38, he goes for 50. But it was a good game it's what we expected to be this is the first time the Warriors have actually got out of the play-in there had been over three so not one or four in the in the play-in tournament oh Joe what'd you like about what you saw listen I enjoyed the game to its fullest I probably thought that the Warriors were going to come out and and be victorious in the win. Obviously, playoff

Jimmy, as he's known to be called. Play in Jimmy. Play in my man. Okay, you're right. Play in Jimmy. Listen, he had 21 and a half. He came up and he showed out. Steph Curry did what he did, ending the game with 37, but I think the game might have been different, even though it was

close. If we got a jaw that wasn't injured and didn't mess up his ankle towards the end of the game, now Desmond Bain did what he did to keep him close. But obviously Steph Curry coming in clutch towards the end of the game, and it is what it is. Yeah. I mean, look, this is the Warriors' time of year.

We know what they're capable of doing. It's amazing to me that they haven't gotten out of the playing cube considering all that championship game pedigree. All the time they've been in NBA finals, they've been in Western Conference finals, they've had tough ball games, but for whatever reason, it's hard for them to get out of the playing.

If I'm not mistaken, I think they lost to the Lakers, a couple of lost to the Lakers, lost to the Grizz, but they haven't been what we thought they would be, especially in the playing. So now they get an opportunity to advance. They're the number seven seed. They take on the Houston Rockets. The second best record in the Western Conference,

but this is a young team that's not really battle-tested, Q. How do you see this matchup shaping out between the Rockets and the Warriors? Well, you know, the Warriors got that pedigree. They know what it takes. The Rockets are scrappy you know they defense

they all over the court you know what I mean they running they gunning dunking they shooting they they kind of doing it all but you know they're all different animals you know you playing the same team

over and over again they get a chance to lock in on you you get a chance to lock in on them and you know in basketball by the third game you know all the moves they got they know all the moves you got

and it's just a will to win and so the Warriors are battle tested they got, they know all the moves you got, and it's just a will to win. And so the Warriors are battle tested. They got that will to win. Even though I like the Rockets young, scrapped the team, I just think the Warriors got everything it takes with Draymond

and Jimmy as hungry as ever. So I expect the Warriors to come out of that. Well, you mentioned you're the what did you say, the godfather of the President of the Raider Nation. You're President of the Raider Nation.

So what are you with the Lakers? Are you the godfather of the Lakers? What are you for the Lakers? Oh man, you know, the Lakers, I mean, I haven't put a name on it. You know, it's something greater than love. You the mayor of Lakerville.

But, you know, I've been a big fan, man, since I was knee-high to a horsefly. And so it's just really all about seeing them gel. You know, do they have enough time to gel to go all the way? We'll see. You know, they got a nice squad. You know, I like the size of all the role players. You know, they all damn near the same size with the same athletic ability. And so it's pretty cool to see them, you know them teamed up with LeBron, Luka, and AR-15. Cube, let me ask you this.

Where were you when you heard the news the Lakers were trading Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic? And did you believe it when you heard it? I didn't believe it when you heard it uh i i didn't believe it you know i was uh i was at the house and um and and you know i was uh you know i know my son he had a you know a podcast he had to do and uh he was just like freaking out on the podcast he was reading the news at the same time. And so, you know, it was hard to believe that was true. But the Lakers always pulled the rabbits out they had. You know, I'm like, I felt the same way when they got Shaq. You know, I felt the same way when they got LeBron.

You know, it was like, man, how do the Lakers pull this off? Yeah. Great front office. You know, I never count them out. No matter, you know, how the team look from year to year. You know, I never count that front office out. Even bringing AD in was amazing. Gave up a lot to get him, but it worked out.

Got a championship out of the deal. Yeah, without a doubt. Q, you're the co-founder of the Big Three. Last year was your most viewed season. How do you take it to the next level? And it's being reported that Dwight Howard said, my last year playing professional basketball,

I'm going to play it in the Big Three. There we go. You know, star power. You know, the same power, you know, the same thing, you know, that you guys got here, star power.

So that's what we bring in as a league. That's what people want to see, but also the style of play. You know, I think people love the big three because, you know, there's still a place for the big man. You know,

we still have the defense, you know, we let them try as tall. We let players be themselves, you know, you know, not have the defense you know we let them trash talk we let players be themselves you know you know not penalize personality you know what I mean and so I think people you know love

that fans want that that's what's missing in some ways in the other professional league and so him to come and do his you know last you know go around the country in the other professional league. And so I'm in the comment and, uh, do his,

you know, last, you know, go around the country in the big three, it's going to be a fun summer, but, you know, we also got other players. That's great too.

So, you know, now we're in cities. Now, you know, we got a team in LA, a team in Dallas, a team in Houston,

Chicago, uh, uh, Detroit, Boston, and the DMV in Miami. So it's going to be interesting to unlock those fan bases and start to grow the Big 3 from that model. What made you decide to come up with the big three? You're sitting around, I mean, look, you're busy. You know, you're in Hollywood,

you're back to doing music, and I see, I think now, Cube, you're back more into music now than you've ever been. Maybe you've taken a break from the acting thing, from writing. I know you got to,

we're going to get this a little later, but the Friday, the last installment of Friday, and you probably sitting down writing that, you, DJ Poop. But in this situation, what made you decide to come up with the big three? I'm a fan. And, you know, after the finals, NBA finals, man, I would hibernate until football season started. I mean,

seriously, for people who love basketball and love football, those dawn days of summer just got, you know, it was just brutal. And so I knew there was a lot of fans out there like me

who wanted something, a real season. Could we fit a real season into that window between the NBA finals and the start of the regular season in football? And so, you know, there was a great window. And three-on-three was sitting there kind of dormant. You know, it was kind of the little cousin of five-on-five. And so I said, you know, why haven't they been professionalized? And there was no good reasons.

I looked at what FIBA was doing, and I said, hey, we could do better than that to professionalize the sport. And we came up with great wrinkles, like the four-point circles, and bringing fire, and, you know, first to 50 win, no, no game clock, but the shot clock. Uh, so the games are fast, they fun, uh, and it's what basketball should be. And, and, and so, you know, we, we, we put all the great ingredients into it and it was a great idea and we had the the connections and the people to uh make it

come true uh and hall of famers had blessed us george gervin dr j clive drexler uh rick berry uh you know these guys blessed the league and said it's something they want to be a part of. And so I knew if the Hall of Famers was into it, I was on to something. Because they wouldn't get behind something that wasn't pure. And so, you know, that's the way it started. And it really happened after I seen Kobe's last game. I was kind of upset that I couldn't see him play no more. And I said, man, why can't he play?

And then I just was like, well, maybe it's just the 82 games. Because if you can score 60 points in a damn game, you can play. I don't give a damn, you know. How old you are, you know what I'm saying? You can play. So then I said, okay, well then, you know, what if it was half court? What if it was, you know, 10 weeks? You know, it was first to 50 win.

And it was kind of a sprint and not, you know, such a long marathon or a long grind. And you get a week to recover. You know, I just tried to put all the good ingredients in to make sure players were at their best. We kind of looked at the NFL model, you know, an important game once a week. And, you know, you use the week to get your body right.

You come out and you give a thousand percent. Q, what's kept you going? You think about it, right? You've had an idea. You had ideas. You had a vision. Being able to execute that vision. Big three, obviously, just coming off his most viewed season how does it feel to watch

something you created grow massively and become a cultural phenom i mean a phenomenon um it's it's amazing you know it's really uh the beauty of our minds you know we can manifest, you know, everything you see around you, you know, came out the back of somebody's mind. Yeah. And they work to make it a reality. And so I think that's our purpose is to, you know, to create, to always, you know, manifest, so to speak, our ideas and our thoughts, try to make them a reality. And then, you know, in what I do, it's all about really making it where people can enjoy it. So you bring a, you know, a comedy like Friday out the back of your mind and then people enjoy it all over the world. Yeah. And it's going to be here, you know, after I'm gone, it's going to still be here making people laugh.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. How do you come up with the Friday concept? I mean, that Friday one, that's, look, we got classic. There are certain movies that's going to be in our household, in our community, that's a classic. It's hard if you say, I got classic. There are certain movies that's going to be in our household and our community. That's a classic.

It's hard if you say I got five, give me your five black classics. It's hard to say life isn't in there. I would say probably Harlem Nights, A Life, Carl Washington. You know, things like that. Cuba, I don't know if you remember Penitentiary

or have did. I love Penitentiary. Come on now. Yeah, man.. I love Penalty Tree. Right, man. Come on now. Yeah, man. Leon Isaac Kennedy, man. Come on. Yeah. Yeah.

But to come up with that idea, you said a lot of times you'd have an idea, you put pen to paper, and this. And did you know when you were writing this, and when it came out, and you finished shooting your rap, because if I'm not mistaken, you finished Friday in 21 days, correct? We finished shooting it in 20 days. We shot it in 20 days. Did you know it was going to do this? Did you know it would be this? 30 plus years later, people are still talking about Friday. Classic. classic well you know me and dj poo we uh you know we in the studio we make music but we laugh

a lot and and you know we love the classics you know you mentioned some of them and we wanted to have one and we was you know watching people like robertsend, uh, who, who he had amazing specials and Hollywood, he has an amazing shuffled that that's brilliant. Uh, we were saying, you know what they was doing with in living color. Um, and,

and it was like, yo, you know, it was so many hard movies coming out about our neighborhood, you know, from the hood to menace to society. And we was like, yo, you know, from the hood to minister society. And we was like, yo, you know, it's hard around here, but we have, we had fun too.

And we laugh a lot. So, you know, that's kind of missing it and what we don't and what was being put out there. So we wanted to do a movie about the neighborhood and, and kind of turn things on their ear and laugh you know about some of the things that was happening instead of crying about it and and so uh you know when you grew up in the neighborhood like gardens you got you everybody got a dark sense of humor you know so yeah easy to turn something fun you know something that you know could be

um considered a tragedy you know people figure out a way to make to make you know to make light of it and laugh about it and not always cry about it so you know that's that's what we was doing we was taking real situations that we had grew up with and and you know we squozing into one movie and um and you know we we set out to make a hood classic and that's what we did uh so it was mission accomplished and but we couldn't have got it done without uh people like f gary gray. Gary Gray, who this was his first movie. You know, of course, you know, funny people like Chris Tucker and Bernie Mac. That's the thing, because a lot of these people, this is their first time.

You put Chris Tucker, you put Q, you put Ronaldo Ray, you put Bernie Mac, you put Ezell. When you go to shoot this movie, like we talked about earlier, we just saw Friday is moving forward to development. If you don't mind, could you give us a little insight? Because a lot of the original people that was in Friday

is gone on. D.C. Curry was another comedian that's been in more. Some more has been in your movies. You like to get, especially comedians that might not be household names, and we go back and like, man, Bernie Mac with the preacher coming over to Miss Parker's house. Yeah, you know, the thing is, to me, there's a lot of funny people out there. Yes. And a lot of funny people came and auditioned for these movies.

You know, some of them didn't get the parts. And that's not because they wasn't funny. It was because they wasn't perfect for that character. These are still characters in a movie. And we all know the neighborhood and all the different types of people that we run across. And so you want to have somebody that really embodies the character more than just a guy who can make you laugh. And so I'm looking for something, you know, a little different than most people. That's why I'm able to pick people that, you know, are not so-called household names. And I can see them as these characters and able to put them in a situation

where they can win. And, you know, so we're going to do the same thing. You know, there's still a lot of, you know, movie characters that's here with us. You know, hopefully, you know, a lot of them

want to be part in the movie. We're going to have a funny movie full of funny characters. It's going to be some old characters, but it's also going to be some new characters. Right. New people, new names, new situations. Craig, the only thing for certain is Craig and Day Day is back. Out of doubt. Q, you got to upgrade.

You might need to get that Boost Mobile bundle and put it in there. Your Wi-Fi tripping. Is that right? That's me? That's you? Yeah, that's you. I thought that was you, man. I got full.

No, don't do that, Q. Don't do that. Don't do that. I got full bars on me. Yeah. Well, bars are soup. You got bars are soup. That's the only bars you got. Yo, internet, some trash tonight. Hey, I'm gonna open this

Boost Mobile bundle. We will get the internet hooked right on up for you. Man, all that glory stuff you got back there. Hey, Cube. Cube, listen. Cube, Cube. I heard everything

you said about people fitting the character and not really just wanting people that are funny. People that you can use that fit the mold of the character that you're trying to envision

when it comes to shooting this film. So I'm putting my name in the hat. I'm putting my name in the hat earlier, you know? I got a long line, man. Come on, joint putting my name in the hat. I'm putting my name in the hat earlier. You know? I got a long line, man. Come on, joint. Just jump in the line, man. Bring a line.

Well, listen. If you have any type of auditions, regardless of how long the line is, I'm better than the whole line. I'm not worried about that. I just need the opportunity. All right. I got something work with him.

I'm going to definitely have you come in and get me a crack. Oh, yeah. Let me know. I got my SAG card, too. So, you know, I'm experienced. I know about, I know. Listen, hurry up and wait. I know about that all too well.

So just let me know when. Got you. Cube, you're going on the headline tour. You're Truth to Power. Four Decades of Attitude. This tour celebrates your 40-year legacy as a rapper, producer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and a cultural icon. It kicks off September the 4th. What made you decide to say, you know what, it's time for Q to hit the road again and tour?

Now, I've always been touring. You know, I've always, you know, done dates. But, you know, to do a fully production, a full production, so to speak, is something I haven't done, you know, it's time to really just focus on the career, you know, not only celebrate the music, but also show the influences, what made me write this kind of music, you know, growing up, coming up, the events, you know, we're going to cover the 80s, the 90s, 2000s, and, you know, up until the 2020s. So it's, you know, it's just, you know, for an Ice Cube fan, you know, this is, you know, a way to get closer to me as an artist, to understand me as an artist, understand some of the songs that I've done throughout my career,

and then jam out. You know what I mean? I got a lot of hits over these 40 years. A lot. And, you know, do some of the songs that, you know, sometimes I don't get to on some of these other shows. But now we're going to have to... In the production, it's going to be cool. I don't know which is worse, the Raiders or that Wi-Fi,

but they're both pretty awful. Man, don't the Raiders or that Wi-Fi, but they're both pretty awful. Man, don't be saying it's my Wi-Fi, man. It ain't your Wi-Fi. Who Wi-Fi you think it is? Y'all in two different places. Y'all ain't in the same spot. There's a thousand people. I know, and we got

no issues. You mentioned, Q, that this tour is going to be about spanning your career, 40 years. You probably are part of one of the most influential, if not the most influential groups, because you ushered in something, the gangster rap era. You N.W.A., you Dre, Eazy, Easy, the DOC, Yellow. At the time when y'all put this together, did y'all realize that damn near 40 years from now that people was going to pay, give you your due and pay you homage to what you guys had done? Did you did you think about that when you guys were putting this group together? Not at all. You know, we didn't even think about, you know, so-called ushering in the gangster rap era.

Because at the time when we did our music, all rappers had their own styles. It wasn't a follow the leader type of deal. It was either you create your own style or you're not going to rise to the top. Right. So, you know, we created our own style out here on the West Coast. And we had no idea that the whole rap game would start to do the kind of music we were doing.

You know? Yes. There was, you know, all kind of groups out when we first started in 1985, 86, 87, 88, 89. There were so many different styles of rap, you know, from the Day Z A's to, you know, you had, you know, Jungle Brothers, you know, you had Jungle Brothers, you had Fat Boys, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Family Mail, you had

Big Daddy Kane, you had Kool Moe D, you had LL, you had KRS-One, you had so many different flavors. Nowhere in the world did we think once we do this, all the flavors would turn into this flavor you know because that was actually considered a no-no you couldn't bite nobody's

style and um and and so um you know it was kind of a domino effect after the music came out. But there was no way for us to say, hey, it's time for this now. Because we were fans of all that other music, too. We was fans of Big Daddy Kane and EPMD and, you know what I'm saying? Eric O'Fallon's record Dollars. Yeah, you know, so we was fans of all that music. Run DMC was king. Yep.

You know, so... Houdini? Yeah. You know, it was like, it was a great time for hip-hop, for sure. Hey, Cube, man, you are a legend, man. You're a legend. You're an icon. And when I think about it and I sit back and I think about everything you've done,

which is about 40 years, you know, between Hollywood, Walk of Fame star, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Basketball Hall of Fame recognition, do any of these accolades hold a particular special place for you? And which one would mean the most to you? Or collectively, do all of them kind of equal the same are they all equally yoked um you know we started off in music so um rock and roll hall of fame is big yeah because okay after crescendo no that's where it all started yes sir the walk of fame is cool if they keep it clean.

You got to go up there, come down a little bit here and there. Yeah. And look, having an award in the Basketball Hall of Fame is something that you cannot even, that couldn't even be in my dreams because I had no...

Yeah, because you can't who? Yeah, how you get because i had no yeah because you can't who yeah how you get the hall of fame you can't call me you know i can fuck around get a triple double only you you what do you need that what do you need that you know what i'm saying so uh you know being being in that you know it's kind of like a a pleasant surprise but hall of fame you know, was kind of like a pleasant surprise. But the Hall of Fame, you know, that's something every artist, you know, looks to achieve as far as recognition from the industry. And the music industry, a lot of mavericks, you know, a lot of people on their own page. So, you know, when they all come together and say, you know a lot of a lot of uh people on their own page so you know when they all come together and say you know you you one of those uh top uh artists in history um you know that means a

lot cube every year we have this there is this the top 30 greatest disc songs. And normally within the top five, top 10, no Vaseline. Yeah. We just had a guy had, I don't know, people saying Drake might have, excuse me, KD might've had the greatest diss song,

considering who he went up against. When you look at what you, no Vaseline, you look at Hit Em Up, you look at Ether, you look at Not Like Us, Sheetha, Remy Ma, and Nicki going at it. Where would you, Vaseline you look at hit them up you look at ether you look at not like us she the remi ma nick and nicky going at it where would you where would you rank no vaseline as far as diss tracks

and did you know it was gonna it was gonna land like it i mean it was a bullseye it didn't just land it was a bullseye perfect hey you know you can't take nothing from Not Like Us. You know, it won a Grammy. It was at the Super Bowl. It's huge. But when it comes to a feud, what's the most vicious feud you can get into? The most vicious feud you can get into

is a family feud. Yeah. So when it is a family feud. Yeah. So when it's a family feud, it can get more vicious than that. So just because the fact that it was a family feud and we were in close proximity and we ran in the same circles and knew the same people, no Vaseline is hard to beat. Because... You did your thing on hard to beat because, you know. You did your thing on the night. Yeah, you know, this is somebody that's far away from you

is one thing, but, you know, this is somebody you can run into the next day or any day is another thing. So, I just, I got,

you know what I'm going to say, man. You know what I'm going to man no what I'ma say come on now Chad you know how to baby you know how to it is

hey I ain't gonna fight you because like I said no Vaseline hit him up with Tupac going at Biggie classic

Nas with Ether but you transitioned you transitioned I mean to be in the music and not only were you at the top of the rap game you say you know what i'm gonna act not only i'm gonna act i'm gonna write too bro i mean how what was that transition did you always want to be in movies because it seemed like you came up you you wanted to be you know you wanted to be a rapper and that's what it was

and next thing you know hey cube on the set and doing a hell of a job at that. No, I never thought about movies. I was discovered by John Singleton, rest in peace. He saw something in me. He saw when he was writing a movie and he saw from the videos, from the videos, from my interviews that, that I can do it. And, and, uh, he convinced me that I can do it. And, uh, I trusted him and, uh, in the process of making the movie, you know, John Singleton would keep, he would keep, uh, like picture frames of all his rejection letters well he sent boys in

the hood the script to a lot of studios and they all rejected him for whatever reason until columbia picked it up but he would keep those letters saying why the movie would never work. Um, and he kept them as motivation. One day I was in his house and he was, he asked me, when was I going to write a movie? He said,

uh, he said, you, you'll never get another movie like boys in the hood unless you write it. And so that just opened my brain to, uh, I left that day, you know, me and, you know, my wife, Kim, she was my girlfriend. And then we went to the Mac store and bought a computer, bought final draft and started trying to figure out what was my, what was the script I was going to write. Um,

and, um, I wrote a few, you know, he helped me do it. Uh, the first two scripts wasn't that tight, but the third script, right.

You know, third script was Friday and me and, uh, DJ pool wrote that together. So it took you longer to write the script than it did to film the script. Because until you say it took you 20 days to film the whole thing, it probably took you six months to a year to write it. It took me a while to write

it. Just because I was a new writer. I never went to school for it, so I was kind of teaching myself the format from the other scripts that I had. And I didn't, you know, know a lot about structure yet. the format from the other scripts that I had. And I didn't know a lot about structure yet,

secondary stories, how to bring them to a conclusion. First act, second act, third act, the structure of movies. And I learned that through, I got a lot of help from Pat Charbonnet, who was my manager at the time. She would help me, you know, proofreading structure, refining the character, you know, just making it more movie worthy and less amateurish. And so, uh, you know, we came up with the movie, we had 20 days to shoot it, you know,

so we shot and it's not 20 straight days. Like it's, uh, five days a week, weekends off. So. It's only a month, basically a month.

Yeah. That's dope. But you know, when you shoot a movie, when you shoot a movie when you shoot a movie like that in such little time everybody got hit the marks you ain't a whole lot ain't a whole lot of retakes and a whole aq i've been look i don't bid on sense i've been on commercial not a movie but commercials and when people when you when you work around that time because a lot of

time they give you two days they they blow a job around it. They're like, okay, we're going to send you back to your trailer. But when you're on a time crunch, when you say, hey, we got a month to shoot this. Come here. If you don't know your line, hey, you're going to get left behind. It's really that simple. Exactly.

We replaced you. There's a lot of people standing around. We replaced you on the spot. You know what I mean? But look, we was... We were hungry. You know, like I said, Gary Gray, it was his first movie.

We had done a lot of videos together. Yep. You know, I fought hard for him to get the movie because I thought he was ready. I thought he knew the L.A. culture. Yeah. He's from the neighborhood, and he knew all the nuances. And so we needed somebody. I didn't want to sit there and have to teach a director, why do we need the six-folder drop when we're trying to pull up. You need to understand that. Our whole need is to have to do all that.

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Hey Q, what's next? Everything you've done, everything you've touched has turned to gold. Everything has been very successful. I'm sure you've had your losses along the way, but you had more wins than ails. What's next for you? You know, have a great season with the Big Three. You know, put together an amazing tour, uh,

for, for after the season. Um, and then shoot a great movie. Uh, last Friday, people have been waiting a long time. You know,

we've lost some people, you know, a lot of people look at me like Q, why are you taking so long? Fuck me. Make a movie. But well, no, me, you Q, why you take us so long? What the fuck, man? Make a movie. But it wasn't on me.

You know, if it was on me, we'd have been on like the seventh Friday by now. So that's the way it goes out here in this business. A lot of people are attached to the movie. You got to get everybody to sign off for us to be able to trigger. So, you know, thank God we've, we've gotten everything signed off. Now it's all about, you know, the actors who want to be in it, who don't. I'm talking, I'm talking about the OG from the script actors that's been in, you know, the characters that we

need to bring back. And then we're going to put together a funny script for the movie. Yeah, I'm ready. Cube, thanks for joining us tonight, bro. Hey, check this out. Tickets for Cube's tour go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 18th

at 10 a.m. local time at IceCube.com. That's the – hold on. Let me make sure I get this tour right. It's the truth to power for Decades of Attitude. Those tickets go on sale April 18th at 10 a.m. local time, and you can purchase those tickets at IceCube.com. Cube, I'm going to get you out of here on this one.

The Raiders have the sixth pick in the draft. Who would you like to see them take? What position do you want to see them take that's going to make sure that y'all still continue to finish in last place in the division? Running back would be nice, but, you know, I'm always in the defensive side of the, but, you know, I'm always in the defensive side of the ball because you know, look at the quarterbacks

and look at the people we got in that division. Yup. Gotta go put them on the back. Yeah, you know, the guy, even the young kid at Denver. Bo Nix. Yeah, you know, so you know, even he's notix yeah you know so

you know even he's not bad you know so we you know defense is needed to stop Mahomes and you know stinking Chargers so

we need defense man you know that's where I'm going to go for it. Secondary corners, safeties, somebody to try to stop the home slot. Yeah. Q, thanks for joining us, man. Wish you continued success. Nick, the last installment of Friday will be out.

What can we expect, the 26th? Yeah, man. Come on, we got to get this out by 26 now. Come on, man. Oh, yeah. Well, hell, you have 16 years to write it since you wrote it last. I wrote two scripts that they messed around. Okay.

No, it's complicated, man, just like the Broncos. Hey, Q, now that I think about it, right? I've been sitting here thinking and politicking with myself for a little bit. Now, when we talk about those roles, instead of auditioning, can I actually pay you for a role? No. I got $5,200, though. He owe me. Nah, he don't got that that but don't worry about it

he ain't taking ban and come on this man hey Q I tell you no Q I got the perfect scene do y'all got a funeral scene cause I got a body

you can place in the casket cause if he don't give me my money I'm gonna see I ain't got nothing to do with that right there yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna have to off him Q I gotta do something bad to him with that right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to have to offer him, Cube.

I got to do something bad to him. Hey, man, you know, you've been recorded, man. So why don't you say, man, it will. I want Cube. He was being recorded. Cube, this man owe me $5,200. He went and bought a $700,000 Lambo, a new house, and furniture, and told me, hey, let me get my food, my pool done in the backyard

and then I'll pay you your money. Why did you do that, Q? Chad, you didn't do that. You can't false in front of the man when you owe him some money. No, I'm not, Q. The money, listen, I put it $5,200 to the side. I told him, download Apple Pay, Google, Dash App. Put it beside me. Don't put it to the side. Put it 5,200 to the side. I told him, download Apple Pay, put it beside me. Don't put it to the side. Put it beside.

He don't want to download no app so I can transfer the money. He want me to bring it to him cash. I don't carry cash. Hey, look, bro. Cash. Cash is king, man. Thank you.

Thank you. He wants you to work, man. You owe him money, man. He wants to see you he wants you to work man you owe him money man he wants to see you work for that count that out he posted everything on social media this man out there buying a new Lambo for 700 bands wow thank you that's exactly

what I said wow I was with his ass Q I be scamming though don't don't don't I be scamming, though. Don't, don't, don't. I be scamming. I know. So, yeah. Bright, bright chrome hard jeans, Q. I don't even know what that is, man.

They cost 10, 15, $1,000 for a pair of jeans, $10,000 for a pair of jeans, $15,000 for a pair of jeans. I'm too old for that kind of stuff. I'm 57 years old. He be out here sitting on he smoking a cigar sitting on a Ferrari. Man.

Must be nice. I should go right back. Yeah, get me a pack. Hey Q, thank you for joining us, man. Appreciate it, man. Continued success. Hey, y'all get out there and check out the tour. Cube is on tour with Heavy Production.

Truth to Power. Four decades of attitude. Ice Cube, bro, thanks for joining us. Anytime, anytime, man. Much love, much respect. Take it easy. Love. Appreciate it. Oh, man. Cube with that bootleg. Y'all know that was his internet.

That's his internet. I ain't ain't wanna say that but that is oh Joe the Magic were are the number seven seed and they will face the Boston Celtics they took down and the 7-8 matchup they took down the Hawks as usually the Hawks leaned heavily on Trey Young and he was on pace to play almost the entire game. But he was ejected late in the fourth quarter. Yeah. And what's the other number on him? Yeah, he threw the ball a little hard at the ref now. It had a little pace on it. It had a little pace on it.

It had a little pace. Yeah, it did. Hey, that ref dropped that ball so goddamn fast. Man, what the uh but he had at the time he played 40 minutes so he was able to get one level of 12 he had 28 points didn't get a whole lot of help from anybody else uh but hey the the magic are good bank carol and franz Franz Wagner did not play well. It was Cole Anthony off the bench that gave them 26. Black played well off the bench.

And when you get that kind of production, what'd they have? 42, 45, 47, 51. They got 57 points from their bench. You get 57 points from your bench, you're going to win a lot of games. Yeah. You know, you got Ben Carroll at 17, Wagner at 13, Wendell Carter Jr. had 19. So they got great top-end scoring.

Yeah. But the bench is what came in. Cole Anthony came off the bench 10 of 17, 4 of 9 from the 3. Anthony Black was 6 of 7 from the field, 3 of 3 from the 3. And that was the difference in the ballgame. But it's not all lost yet. Hawks get an opportunity. As the 7-8 matchup, the loser gets to take

on the 9-10 winner. Whoever wins that game, they will face the Hawks for a chance to be the number 8 seed and face the Cleveland Cavaliers. That ain't pretty. That ain't going to be pretty at all. No.

This is going to be a good game. I like Orlando. Orlando better than people think. I know if you're not with O.Tray Young throwing the ball. And then he, when they teed him up, he had the ball. He dribbled it and spiked it, didn't he? What'd he do? Hey, boy, he's funny,

man. He is funny. I don't think we ejected him for that. Yeah, he ejected him for throwing the ball too hard. He threw it a little hard. He threw it a little hard, though, Joe. He did. Oh, Joe, there's been one constant during the entire Luka Doncic trade fiasco

is that Nico Harrison and the Mavs continue to make some worst PR decisions imaginable. Nico said he has no regret in the Luka trade. When you look at this trade, we targeted AD. With our philosophy of defense wins championships, we wanted a two-way player that could lead our team, and that was Anthony Davis.

Everyone's going to have the criticism, and I'm not sure what Mark Cuban said, but that's a better question left for him. But we got what we wanted. My obligation is to the Dallas Mavericks. It's what's best interest of the Dallas Mavericks, and that's what's the most important thing. Some of these decisions

are going to be unpopular. Maybe to Durkin, maybe to some fans. But my obligation is to the Dallas Mavericks. Is he trolling at this point? No, but he should stop talking about it.

He's making it worse. I'm not sure what his angle is. I'm not sure what it is. For the betterment of the future of the Dallas Mavericks, you want to make the right decisions long term. Letting Luka Doncic go to the Lakers

is not making the right decisions by the fans or the Dallas Mavericks on this organization. Now, I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with AD, but I mean, when you talk about longevity and wanting to keep your job

based on the decisions that you make for the betterment of the team, it would have been keeping Luka there. But that's not his, but at the end of the day, that's not his call. That's ownership's call. And the Dumont family said,

okay. Mark Cuban just tweeted, What did he tweet? He called him stupid or something. I guarantee you. Dirk is the Dallas Mavericks. They're not forever. No one should ever forget that. That statue will be here forever. Loyalty never fades.

Tomorrow night, 15 guys will put on a Mavericks uniform and they'll do everything they can to win for themselves, each other, and the fans. Our squad busted that, you know what, fight through incredible adversity. They have my respect and support. Should have everyone's.

I'm a Mavs fan. I'll always love and cheer for everyone who puts on our uniform. Tomorrow night, and however many games we have left in this season and ever in the future, whether I'm in the stands or in front of the TV or following every play online, my heart and soul is committed to rooting for our Mavs to win. That will never change.

I know fans are upset, but don't be upset at the players. Support them. Root for them. Rally behind them. I don't know what ML what is that? Okay, well, what Ash said. Mavs fans for

life. Hashtag Mavs fans for life. Man, that was so PC. I thought he gave some truth based on the decisions that was made. What about David? He's upset

because Nico called out Dirk. Maybe Dirk is upset. Maybe the fans are upset. And he's looking at it like, bro, if you're a part of it, you know, Dirk ain't just, it's kind of like, Ocho he's looking at it like, bro, if you're a part of it, you know. Dirk A. just, it's kind of like, Ocho, it's kind of like if you were to call out somebody from Cincinnati. Yes, sir.

When I call out somebody from the Broncos or the Ravens, it's a little different. We played there. People still remember, you know, your number 85 is up. My number 84 is up. People remember what I did in Baltimore. So it's a little different. Right, when it comes to you. And somebody else criticizing a guy that played here.

Right. Like you said, Dirk is a legend. Right. 20, 20, 20, what did Dirk play, 20 seasons? 20 seasons or 21? 20 seasons. Same uniform, never left. Had an opportunity to land, get bigger paydays.

He said, no, this is my home. And so, Nico, my recommendation, 21. Yes, Ocho, just let it go. Fans are going to be upset. Fans are going to be upset. And especially because it's still so fresh. Time. Let time pass and you know you'll be okay but don't don't mention it anymore you're not you can't you're not going to make these people these fans forget and no matter how much you say you wanted anthony

davis you targeted anthony davis and we want to be a two-way team, because defense wins championships. Fans ain't really trying to hear that. They ain't trying to hear that, man. You gave a guy away. You traded a guy that was theirs. He came here at 18. Dallas was all he knew. Yeah.

Those fans, Luka is all they knew. And now they don't have him anymore. And... We know what he does on the court great i don't care nothing about all that other stuff and you say at some point the fans will forget they will never forget because there's a type of player that the lakers got they understand luca will always remind them dallas nico collins and the owners on what they did based on his play in LA. And they're going to always resent that

because he ain't going to be the superstar that they had. He ain't going to always remind them, this is what you let go. Every single

year. And every game that he had, like he had that game when he went back, he dropped 45. Acting a fool. That should have been, she should have been dropping that 45 on the Lakers for us you saw the other night he had 39 against

the houston i think the rockets and he didn't play the fourth quarter so when you see him go off for those type performances you're like what are we doing and ad look ad is a phenomenal player ad is an all 75 player he's been an all 75 player. He's been an all NBA selection. He's been an all-star. He's been an all-star game MVP. He's won a title. He's not Fettuccine, but he's not Luca. Not.

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