The Breakfast Club - ICE CUBE in the Trap! | 85 South Show Podcast

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

The Black Effect Presents... The 85 South Show! West Coast legend Ice Cube pulls up to the trap to talk about his new album and kick it one good tine with Karlous Miller, Chico Bean, DC Young Fly and Clayton English! Off the rip they start talking about DC being in the New Friday movies. Cube takes it all the way back to how he started in Compton and Karlous asks about the lyrics to "Today Was A Good Day!" The squad talks about The Big 3 and the struggle to build an all new league. Cube talks about how the govt opposition to his early music and talks about how he got involved in developing a political plan for Black People. From Mike Epps to Bernie Mac, the conversations sways to talking about how comedians impact the movies. Cube talks "All About The Benjamins" and tells a crazy story from the time he was filming Anaconda with J Lo. This is the coldest podcast! || 85 SOUTH App: www.channeleightyfive.com || Twitter/IG: @85SouthShow || Our Website: www.85southshow.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Got the motherfucking OG in here. That's the dirty one. Yeah. Hey! Come on. Yeah. Man, this ain't for me to whip a goldberg up. Hey, man, welcome back to the 85 South Show.

Yo, Kelle. What? Now look, over here at the 85 South Show, we have made it our business to invite all of the ghetto legends. Oh! We want to speak to all the ghetto legends. All Hall of Famers.

This man right here is definitely a certified ghetto legend. Talk to your talk. All by himself. Yes, sir. They've been talking big shit in the rap game. Come on. We're part of one of the biggest groups in rap history. Yes, sir.

Come on. It's the big three. Yes, sir. TV show. Yes, sir. Cartoon. Big producers. Come on. TV show, anime, cartoon, voice-overs, teenage mutant, little turtles, educated niggas, how I learned it. What do you want, make money off of it, ice cube.

Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Hold on, how y'all do it? That's how y'all do it? Yeah, like that. Yeah, yeah. How you do that?

West Coast, West Side. Yeah, he hit it without having to twist his span. Yeah, you know, that's what a lot of people, we do it like this. You put it on the side. OK. First of all, we got to say thank you. Yes, sir.

For all the work you put in, all the game you put us up on, all the movies, all the everything you contributed to the culture, man. Thank you. Inspiration and. Checking it out, you know what I'm you. Thanks for absorbing it and you know making it part of the culture. All right first thing I got to say before we even start anything first shit out because I know you've been online I know you done seen the fans been making posters putting DC

and Friday for the last 10 years. What we gotta do to get DC in there, man? Not too much, not too much, you know what I mean? Once it come around, we gonna make it happen. I bet. Let's make it happen. Speaking of Friday, like you always talk about the executive side, and I think that's something that is important to talk about. Like, what made you so understanding

of that side of the business, being an artist so early? You know what I mean? You came in and was already a superstar, so you could have had people around you take care of all of that. What made you want to be so involved in that side of the business being an artist so early, you know what I mean, you came in and was already a superstar, so you could have had people around you take care of all of that. What made you want to be so involved in that side of the game? Oh, that's the fun part, you know, creating.

You know, being able to, you know, touch every aspect of the project. You know, this is what we get off on. At least me is the creative part, you know. I love the finished product, you know, this is what we get off on. At least me is the creative part, you know. I love the finished product, you know, but I'm just addicted to the journey, you know what I'm saying? Addicted to, you know, putting it together, the meetings, the creative input, you know,

people coming in with their talents and the pressure of getting it the day, do all this planning, but you usually only got one day to shoot these scenes. So that's the day we need you to be the shit. You know what I'm saying? We need you to be on your top level. So to me, all that's fun.

And then the finished product, we show it to the people, they love it, and I'm usually off to the next. Now you've been in the game for quite some time, and that's not something to say to be like, oh, now you old school, now young buck, you wanna be in the game for quite a long time. Which period was the best?

Because you are an icon, you are a staple. You president, when the beginning stayed, the shit that y'all like, the NWA shit, it can't be re-created, it can't be duplicated. You dig what I'm saying? So which one was the most vivid? Oh man, you know the beginning is always the most vivid. You remember the beginning more than the whole journey.

So, you know just starting off as locals and being underground, you know, we didn't even know. Yeah, you said Rodney and Swipe Me. We didn't even know, yeah, you said Rodeo and Swap Meet, we didn't even know the music we was doing was gonna make us big. We thought we was just gonna be local, underground, ghetto stars, that's what we was trying to be, get people in our own hood to really dig it,

because they was fans of what we considered the pros. You know, they was fans of the Run-DMC's and the Rock-Cams and, you know, everybody doing it on a major level. And so, we figured if we can just, you know, make noise in our own neighborhood, then, you know, we can get a little bit of luck, because y'all ain't, Run-DMC ain't coming around here, you know what I'm saying?

Rock Kim ain't coming through here, but we are. So that was our plan to conquer Compton, wide south central LA. And then as soon as we put our mind to that, it went the other way, it blew up. It went, instead of going more underground, it went up. Now let me ask you this, as a hood nigga. Last week, you fucked around and got a triple double.

Just as a gangsta rapper nigga. Just fucking around. Just fucking around. Just in the hood, fucking around, jumped out the six-fold, triple double on these niggas right quick, and who was keeping the stats? Well, you know, I kept my own stats, you know what I'm saying? You got to keep your own stats.

They keep their own stats. You keep track. I know I got 10 points. You know, I'm playing. He's been missing. I know I got to at least let him rebound, you know what I'm saying? So I used to play basketball all the time.

You know what I mean? We'd be at the studio shooting hoop. You don't play with Cat, he's the best. No, I ain't never played with Cat. I probably retired by the time he came. Cat gonna call me, I can't believe you really asked Q that question. In the video, Q shot a hook.

I'm so sorry. Yeah, I had a hard hook, and he had a hook shot. I said, man, what's up with this? I used to play with a wood like this. I used to play with a lot of big niggas when I was little. I had to develop a shot to get it over their ass. I developed this, you know, kind of like going to the basket, but I'm not going for a layup.

I'm actually going wider to throw that fucking hook up. Hey! Come on. Hey! That was one of my favorite ice-pubes songs. Today was fucking hook up. Hey! And kill him with that shit. Now that was one of the most bad day going over the top. Today was a good day. For a black man, that was a hell of a day.

That was a great day. That was an amazing day. That was an amazing day. That was a freaking freak been trying to dance since the 12th grade. Come on, man. This shit had to be fucked. Come on, man.

Then when you woke up and said, hey, hey, get up! Went outside and read the lights of the Goodyear Blimp. What is it? IQ's a blimp. Blimps are illegal. It's like 11 blimps in the world. He said it was a Goodyear Blimp.

It was a good day, man. You know, I just wanted to... It was a trip because when I did that song, you know, niggas in my crew was like, what is this, man? What's this? Before I laid it, I was just rapping it on the paper. Fuckers was like, what you talking about Q? You a hardcore rapper nigga,

you can't be having a good day and shit. You ain't got no time. What's wrong with you? Be depressed nigga. Blasting and then I'm like, nah, you know I'm a reality rapper and nigga I'm having a good day, nigga I'm a reality rapper and I'm having a good day I'm a rapper but it's okay to feel good. It's okay. They're right

They're crazy though to go from your basketball line that you just said to the big three like your love of stuff show It's like you saying that you enjoy creating. I'm like, okay. That's why you wrote the movie. You know what I'm saying? That's why you wrote the movie. You know what I'm saying? That's why you, the basketball thing, that's why you got the big three, and that ain't no easy shit to do, man. And he's stepping out of any sport, man, and you facing a lot of opposition with that, so I just got to tip my hat to that.

Thank you. That's good. He got his own league, man. These niggas out here balling, man. It's the hardest shit I ever had to do. I'm going to try to do an entertainment because, you know, hip hop was already here when I started. You know, rap was there, movies was going when I started. You know, they got basketball,

but they don't have three on three. And then to try to elevate it to the professional level and get, you know, first people to take it serious, and then for people to become fans, you know? That's been a, you know, that's not been the hard part. The hard part is going against this opposition from other leagues. They don't want new leagues to come in

because you start, you know, cutting up that sponsor dollars, so many dollars that go around in the sponsor world. NFL want it all, NBA want it all, MLB want it all, NHL, you know, all these other established leagues, they want all their money and they have a new league coming in siphoning those funds into our league. It's just a lot of people hating on that and trying to stop it and you know you gotta gotta be down to fight for what you believe in and can't be scared. You got to be down to go after the big boys. You should be used to it. You said, fuck the police. Yeah, I mean, you know. You been, you been, you been going against the system

since you came in the game, man. And that's the only way I know how to do it. Because like I said, we thought it was going to be locals and we didn't know. So we was just being real. And then when it started to blow up, now you have reporters in our face. You got people coming at us with all kinds of opposition, from the FBI to Billboard

and all these established music publications. Everybody's coming after us, even music industry, rap industry, the government, PMRC, which was the parent music resources some shit like that. And shit, to us, you know, we was like, yo, better than, you know, Crips coming after you, better than Bloods coming after you. You know what I'm saying?

This is easy, like to deal with these people, they just talking, ain't nobody gonna pull out no pistol, you know, it's just gonna be a bunch of questions. And then we went through that storm and realized, you know And we pretty unscathed, you know, I'm saying like Keep going, you know, don't don't let none stop us and that's been my attitude and entertainment I'm letting them stop so to go from fuck the police now you talking to the presidents and shit like that man What's what was that transition like to cover that much ground, to go from fuck the police,

like I got a plan, I need to go holler at somebody. Yeah, you know, what a plan was really a plan for us, like for us to have a 30,000 foot view of the big problem, you know George Floyd, everybody was saying, this need to change, this need to change. And they was coming from all angles. It was mostly on police brutality and law enforcement

and all that shit. But then I was like, man, this problem is bigger than just police brutality. It's an economic problem, it's social, it's a wide issue. So I got with a bunch of scholars and started to research, how did we get here? Why do we have it so fucked up in this country? And came up with a plan that I thought could help us get out of it if the country was serious by making a turnaround.

And I put it out there and just to be clear, these people came to talk to me. They was asking, could you come in, talk to us about your plan, Democrats and Republicans. So I was like, man, no problem, shit, what you want to know? Here's what we thinking on this, here's what we thinking on that. And some people ran with it, some people didn't, you know what I'm saying? I had the resources and I had just the energy and the passion to take a long look at it because nobody was doing that.

It's like, man, out of all these people that have been through office, ain't nobody came up with a plan for us. You know what I'm saying? Nobody from going back to Jesse Jackson and Thurgood Marshall and all these, like nobody came up with a plan and went to the government and said, this is what we need to do for black people

to start gaining the rewards out of this country that we putting in. Putting in a lot of tax money and shit, but I ain't getting no benefits of it or just bullshit benefits. And then, you know, it became controversial because one side looked at it, one side didn't, and now they was trying to use me as a political football.

Like, you with him, you with them, you with that, you with this. And I'm like, I ain't with shit. These motherfuckers called me. You know, I was minding my own business. I did this plan for us to look at. And now everybody thinking I'm this or that or the other. And it wasn't true.

So to be honest, it's just giving a fuck. You know, seeing the issue and trying to address it and the best way we can to get the government to look at it and fix it. So that's how you go from doing movies, music, you get in a position with people. Respect your opinion. Did they say some shit you could use? Did they give you some insight?

Who? The people you was talking to with the plan. Did they say any good shit? Man, you know, it's all a game at the end of the day. Everything in that plan, them niggas knew. It wasn't like I was bringing up something they didn't know. They know what's going on. They know they're not giving us what we need.

You know what I'm saying? That's part of the plan. And you know, that's what you realize when you get to the levels that, you know, people just cap in to get a vote. And then when they get the vote, they're gonna go do what the fuck they wanna do. Yeah, you seeing that?

That's the game. You know, you see in that. That's the gang. You know, you see hip hop now with all of the, you know, the way that people are affiliated with all this different type of stuff and niggas is going to jail and all that. You come from the city of gang banging, but you never was affiliated with anything. How did you manage to navigate that and what advice could you give the new artists to how they can navigate it and being able to become as successful as you are

without associating yourself with something that you might come from but you don't have to be a part of. Just make up your mind. Everybody in LA affiliated with something. You can't be from LA and not be from somewhere because every neighborhood is somewhere. You know what I'm saying? Every neighborhood you in is somebodyhood

that you part of and it was no different from me. It's just making up your mind. Like I saw something in music and being creative that took a lot of my time, took a lot of my attention, took me off the street and I was in the studio. So in them years, 14, 15, when you're making a decision on what you want to do, you know, you're going to be a writer, you're going to be a regular guy, you know what I mean? That age is when you start making those decisions.

And thank God I was hanging with Dr. Dre and making music. And in them years I'm thinking about something creative and positive and bringing in money. And it was just fun. Good times. We were talking about this shit for a long time with like sellouts and the black people who just, black on the outside who don't really give a fuck

about the black community. Even in the music with the, like, who's the Mac and shit like that where you always made fun of to sell out black people. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a thing where you can't forget where you come from, of course, and you gotta look to help people that's ready. Everybody ain't ready to ride.

Everybody ain't ready for, you know, they're not ready for prime time. So everybody can't go, but you know, always reach back. You know, I've always reached back talent or people or just, you know just people from my neighborhood that can help me on my journey. And the people that's serious, that's down, that's willing to change their life, they get to go.

The people that's still on that bullshit, they got to go. Yeah, they got to stay. And speaking of giving back, you always going to get people. It don't matter. I don't hear the gun. Yeah, they got the state. Speaking of giving back, like you're always going to get people. It don't matter. I don't hear the bullshit.

They're coming from a lane who don't know nothing about nothing. I can tell off the projects that you bring, you don't have to put niggas in the movie if you don't want them in. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. You feel me? Yeah.

Straight up. Yeah. You have made so many movies with other niggas in it that it put them on. Yeah, you know, it's, look, somebody put me on. John St. Sane discovered me. Right. You know, he just was like, man, I want to put you in a movie.

I know you can do it. And when I see people and I know they can do it, I be like, I can't wait till I got something for this person or that person or that. Y'all saw him pointing at me. And the key, the key, the key. Make sure y'all saw this shit. The key is to set them up for success.

Right. You know, not to just put them in anything with any role, but to give them that perfect role where they can get busy. They can like, you know, steal a scene or two. And then from there, continue to show the world what they got. I was happy that I had a way to show the guys that I thought was funny and good, that wasn't getting the shine that I had a project or something that they was right for and they was down to do it, trusted me and you know, I'm busy. Do you have a defining role for yourself and one that you wrote, do you feel like you have? Not really.

You know what I mean, I'm not like looking to play any other shit thing, you know, I was just like, you know, whatever's dope, you know, I don't have to be the one to think of the idea, you know, sometimes. I like Barbershop, somebody brought that to Tim's story and those brought that to the Q-vision and we did it. And so I'm up for that too. Ride Along was another movie that was dope, brought it to us. We put the polish on it and end up doing it. Hosted by Bobby Bones, the official Yellowstone podcast takes you deeper into the franchise that's captivated millions worldwide.

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I watched that movie 3,000 times. Yeah. That turn the show, she get busy, and I was like, ooh. You might have had a sequel. No cap. So, yeah, he was supposed to do the movie. He couldn't see it all like, whoo! You went ahead and see it. New cap. So, yeah, he was supposed to do the movie, he couldn't do it, and then they was like,

yo, would you consider doing a movie for kids like that? And I'm like, I said yeah, I said yeah, I wanna do it, because for one, black kids don't get movies done in that way, with the special effects and the stunts because for one, black kids don't get movies done in that way, with the special effects and the stunts and just a big movie for black kids. And so, because I had little five-year-olds coming to me saying, you crazy, you gotta knock the fuck out. You be like a little, you a little ass going watching that movie.

So, I said I need to do something for the little bitties. You gotta try to get knocked the fuck out. My fam's got kids, and I know they watching Friday. They should be watching some shit like R.O.A. My little brother played that motherfucker every day. Well, R.O.A. day, yeah? No, Friday. Every day. Now I wanted to ask every day. No, Friday. Oh, yeah. Every day. I wanted to ask you this.

I love cars. You mean it. You always got a dope ass car, bruh. That in the contract somewhere, you got that nice ass ride. I mean, I'm- The six-folded doughboy hat, that shit was so- the gold on gold? Yeah, yeah, that was hard.

The 96, buck them. Yeah, yeah. I definitely requested that Impala record. Yeah, that's a little- I had an Impala. You know, I definitely requested that Impala right here. I had Impala, you know, I had one for real. I was like, man, this ain't been in a movie yet. Right. Put this one in a movie.

Right. Yeah, I try to make sure my shit is right in the movie. I know a lot of people got fly ass cars and call them up, man. You want your shit in the movie? And like, yep. Who I need to give my number to over there? Right.

Give him the keyboard right there. Yeah. What you did Friday, and they wanted to come up with the secret, right? Yeah. And when OG wanted to go do his thing, how did you manage to transition and say, you know what, I ain't even trippin',

I can respect both sides, but I still got to be me. I got to go find new talent, and we got to keep this franchise going. Well, I knew like, okay, everybody got a crazy friend, but everybody got a crazy cousin, too. So I'm like, well, since Smokey not gonna be in the movie, I got to take it off the block because everybody's gonna be like,

where's Smokey at if we still in this neighborhood? Right, right. I said, okay, I'm gonna take Craig off the block. He worried about Deebo fucking him up and he gonna go live with his cousin. And finding Mike Epps was like a jewel. When I first seen him, I knew he was Day Day. First seen him on stage and just was checking him out

and I was like, this nigga is hilarious. Like, his comedy was all over the place. It was here, there, everywhere. And it was just hood and funny. He was funny. And I said, he could play my cousin. And it, you know, to me, you know, I wanted Chris to be in every movie,

but I'm glad Mike Cavs, me and Mike Cavs, we done did some great movies together. Yeah, Jackie Promos. Jackie Promos. Jackie Promos. All about the Benjamin, all about the Benjamin got the B one in mind. Jackie Promos.

All about the Benjamin got the B one in mind. That fish, when your fish die, nigga. Oh yeah. Jelly Roll. Yeah, that boy Jelly Roll. I Know but you work well with comedians though, you do ride along Kevin Hart. Yeah. Yeah you know some of my, all my buddies are funny. Like everybody that's, we look serious, everybody, you know, malleating through our shit, but it used to be laughing our ass off over shit. Well, could that be the thing, like all your characters, you want to play the serious role, but they end up saying some funny shit where you like, you make them, like they make you

like them at the end of the movie, like you aight. Yeah. I was talking for you, bro. You get your shit off in there too. You ain't even aight. Amongst some great comedians. Right.

Definitely, you know, the key to me is, you know, not trying to be funny. Right. You know what I mean? Just, you know, let the situation ride, let the comedians or whoever I got, that's they job. But my job is to support and throw them jabs in the middle of the comedian I'm working with getting busy.

It's a comedy and you know, it's really The cast and the people around us really making the movie super funny. I'm I don't have to be You know, I'm not a comedian. So I got to play your part. That straight man and Let him get busy. One of my favorite ice Cube characters was from Higher Learning. Yeah, Fudge. Fudge, he played the woke, serious nigga, but you still had, you know what I mean? Still kept it real street and hood. Yeah.

But throwing the education shit in there too though. Right, right. You know, it's one of those, probably on every campus, you know, dude who been there five years, know campus inside now, but also know all the games and you know, trying to spread that knowledge, which we all need. Players Club is another one, man.

Like just, players club, you know, with Bernie Mac, like was that, did you have a hand in that? Hell yeah, I wrote, directed that movie. I mean, I'm saying, as far as specifically picking Bernie. I specifically wrote Dollar Bill for Bernie Mac. That's hard. That's hard. That's one of the greatest all time like that.

Yeah, Bernie, you know. Tell them country boy Nutty. Nutty, Nutty. Yeah, like, he done been in a lot of, nothing. Yeah, like. Nothing, nothing. He done been in a lot of movies, but it's hard for, to me, for anybody to mess with that way of performing. That's the final, yeah, for sure. You know, we just, I just let him get busy.

I was about to say, how much of it did you write, or how much of it did you just say action and then let Bernie do what he did? Well, you know, I wrote, no, I don't start with a whack script. Right. The script gotta be funny out loud while you're reading it before I even start. So if I have a script that's funny out loud while you're reading it,

I know when I give it to, you know, somebody like y'all, you're gonna go. You know, it's solid, it's funny. If you just said it how it is, it'd be funny, but I know when I let dudes add they little flavor to it and stick with the script, but also add those, you know, curve balls in there that it just take it to another level.

Now when you take it to another level, like Anac, yeah plans for shit. I know I was in the swamp Yeah, you like I can't get in here. Well, you know, yeah The reason I did anaconda was cuz like nigga didn't die. I was like, yo. Yeah. Yeah. That's on. I saw Jurassic Park. I saw Jurassic Park nigga live.

And niggas died in the first five minutes of the movie. Man, yeah. So I'm like, if y'all want me to be in this movie, I can't die. Right. And I want to help kill the snake. Right. And they was like, all right. And they rewrote it and I was like, okay.

Angelina Jolie, daddy. That shit was crazy. J-Lo. We shot that shit in Brazil. Now, not Rio, nigga. Right. I was in the Amazon. Manaus, Brazil in the middle of the Amazon.

Yeah, in the middle of the Amazon. Yeah, in the middle of the Amazon. That shit was scary for real. I know that shit was scary for real. Yeah. You know that shit's scary. See a mosquito with a mustache out there. You see what you're saying? Shit in the Amazon don't care we doing a movie.

Right. You know what I mean? Man, it was like, it was a part where You had to go in the water. They told me you got getting the water This it's like back down and really know all the special effects I'm like man just Do some special effects It was like nah, man, you got to get in right

Everybody getting in man, you know, it's a part where I'm like where the fuck I gotta go, nah man, you gotta get in. Right. Everybody getting in, man. You know, it's a part where, I'm like, where the fuck I gotta go? Right. Now, the Amazon, when it rain, It rise. It rises 30 feet. God damn. So you at the top of trees, you on a boat, but you seeing the tops of trees.

Right. And so, I'm like, wait a minute, how we gonna get in this water, man? So the water's supposed to be waves high. So he said, we made a plank where you can walk on this plank and it'll keep you waves high. But if you step off the plank, you've been blown away.

Thank you. I'm like, it took him two hours to talk me into that scene. Two hours. Like man, I ain't going. I ain't doing it, man. I don't give a fuck. Shoot it without me. Shoot it without me.

That's like the AIQ. I ain't gotta be in that part. You know what I'm saying? I'm looking at where I can cut. If I cut this out, I ain't gotta go. I don't go in the water. Right. It was like, man, we need you.

We need you. We need you. So after a while, man, I put on scuba gear and all kind of shit. I'm like, God damn, man, this is some real shit. This is some real shit, I'm ready to get out this water, man. You know what I mean? Like, fuck this movie shit. Man, it's real Anaconda out there, it's Piranha.

It's all kind of shit in that water, man. So it was, it was. That was part of it. Yeah, I was like, man, what the fuck am I doing with my life? Right. You know what I'm saying? I'm in the middle of the Amazon doing a goddamn movie in this bullshit water, you know what I'm saying?

So it all turned out cool. We was actually really scared of the mechanical snake. They had a mechanical snake that these fucking college kids built and that motherfucker went haywire one time, almost fucked up Jennifer Lopez. It malfunctioned. And that shit just started to tear up the set.

Oh, shit. It almost swung. This shit looking real. It swung and almost hit her in the face and shit and they had to grab her out of there. So. In the middle of Brazil. So we, after that, everybody looking at this

fucking snake like, god damn. We scared this motherfucking thing for real. Because it was like this metal skeleton, the black one, but it was wrapped in this like a tire damn near, so this shit was, it hit you, it's gonna fuck you up. Fuck your face up. And we acting with this shit, and we like,

man this motherfucking malfunction is just popping nigga right in the mouth. So we scared of this thing for real. Right, this motherfucker's malfunctioning. Just pop a nigga right in the mouth. So we scared of this thing for real. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it definitely brought out the reality. Nigga can't tell Ice Cube he ain't a gangster. Nigga ain't never did that.

I ain't never did no shit like that. It don't matter how many drive-by's you did, you ain't never been in an Amazon fighting a snake. You did a Trouba X? Yeah, yeah, I did. You did a Trouba X? Yeah. I don't know, which one was the best one where you like, damn.

All About the Benjamin's. All About the Benjamin's. All About the Benjamin's, boy. That shit was incredible. That was a big smile. That shit was incredible. Yeah, that was fun. You know, we shot that in Miami. And, you know, it was like, you know,

to try to make, you know, this action comedy. It was my first time going after the action comedy title. And it was cool, you know, we didn't have a lot, a big budget, but we made it work. Don't you make all your great movies with the low budget shit? I wouldn't consider low budget. 3, 4 million ain't low budget. Yeah, yeah, yes you know in Hollywood it is. Yeah, it ain't low to them. That ain't no low budget. Actually 25 is low in Hollywood.

Right. They make movies for 300 million. Yeah, give us a low budget. We ain't building no snakes, we'll build something over 25. We'll take these hard, bitch. We ain't building no snakes. We'll build something over 25. We'll use your money. For sure. Back to the music, man. You are literally one of the greatest to ever touch a microphone. What, after all these years of being at this high level, what makes you still want to do that part, the rapping?

I love it. When we first came out, we didn't think we was going to make no money. We just was having fun, being able to do something different. A lot of people wasn't rapping when we started, so it was unique. You know what I mean? You come in, you bust everybody into it, and it's always been fun. You know, of course it got serious when I started getting deals and having to pay back budgets and all this kind of stuff but now I do my own records.

I've been doing my own records since 06 and that shit is fun because I ain't got to worry about paying nobody back. I just gotta do my thing and have fun with it. You know, the game has changed. Everybody's heard about some of the terrible record deals and the snakes in the game. But when young artists come up to you and ask you for advice on the music game or contracts,

what do you tell them? When it comes to contracts and stuff like that, everybody has a different situation. You know, some people can make their own music and, you know, before they even try to shop a deal. And then some people, you know, need that budget to even make a record. So it depends on where they coming from.

You gotta know this. You got your own music, you got your own record, you can do content, visuals, you own 100% of that. So you basically signing to go give somebody a piece of, yo, what you own 100% of, you're signing to give somebody a piece of that. 100% of your sign in to give somebody a piece of that. And so, you know, you gotta look at it on that level.

Like, I could see if you were just discovered, somebody say, y'all wanna do a record on you, you sound good. Okay, it's cool for them to get a piece of that. If you create and do everything, you should be trying to look for ways to put it out and keep everything if you can. If you can't then make a deal but don't go give up your whole project for little 10, 12 points or whatever when you own 100% of it off the jump. So you know know, we just gotta look at it in them terms, you know, you do your own content,

you own that until you go give it away. Straight out of Compton, how much of that is true? All of it's true. All of it's true. You went in there and demanded your shit. Yeah, I went in there with a bat. That's documented. That's why they wanted you to get in that water.

We saw the clip. Get in the water, Q. That's the cherry. With a movie like that, when you're making a movie about real life, and you're trying to squeeze 10 years into two hours or three hours or whatever. What you end up doing is a summary of what happened. So certain things might have happened in a month, you know, certain situations, but you gotta get it out in two scenes.

So you try to figure out how to create a scene where all this information can get out and make sense. So, you know, everything is true, but everything might not have happened in that one scene. Like you see us in the studio one time, and I'm like, yo Jerry, what about the contracts? You know, that probably happened over two or three weeks. So, yo what the fuck? You know, boom boom, working, yo Jerry, what about the contracts? That probably happened over two or three weeks. Yo, what the fuck?

Boom boom, working, talking shit, working. But in the movie, everything is just crunched and summarized. So it's all true. It's just timeline is squelzing into two hours when things should actually be stretched a little bit. Somebody never heard Ice Cube before. Somebody never heard your music. What song is Ice Cube playing for a person that never heard Ice Cube?

Oh man, never heard Ice Cube's song. I'd definitely play It Was a Good Day. That's the one? Definitely play it. I gotta ask you this. No Vaseline. Yeah. Man, that's one of the hardest motherfuckers I've ever heard. It's the hardest.

The hardest. The hardest. God damn it. Glad y'all set it off. Man, like, what was that day like recording at? I had to rap. I didn't tell nobody the lyrics. I didn't want nobody to even hear what I was saying because I didn't want to get back to them what the record was. So just kept it in my book. I knew what I wanted to rap over, which was Dana Dane had a record called Send a Fella.

And they used that Daz beat to get to it. I'm like, man, he used that a long time ago. I'm about to flip this shit. So I had DJ Poole, a couple other producers I was working with just flipped a beat and it was just rolling. I was like, all right, I'm ready. And put the beat on, I went in there and rapped that shit. And they was just quiet.

When I came out the booth, they was like, God damn Q, you putting that out? I'm like, yep, I'm gonna forgo on the end of the record. It was like, God, everybody just was like, eyebrows up. Like, man, hold your, we better get ready, it's coming. You know what I mean? This shit about to get crazy around here. So yeah, it just blew they mind.

Everybody was just tripping that I was going that hard. And you know, yeah, somebody asked me, are you going to put that out? Like, yeah, that's going out. That's going out. Everyone's forgotten who runs this valley. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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That's another one of my favorites. Ice Cube. That year. And Once Upon a Time in the Pride. What's our favorite one? We be clubbing? Everybody like it when the girls shake something? N***a break nothing?

We be bopping? That's my shit. Yeah. What about the one with you and Mac T? It was just number head. Pause. What's that one with you, Mac T, what about the one with you and Max Timberlake? It was just numberhead. Pause. What's that one with you, Max Timberlake, and the other one? Dubsie.

Yeah, it was West Side Connect. Come on, man. West Side Connect. Y'all have some bangers. Gags make the world go round. Oh, God. Y'all have some shit. Dope song.

Yeah, Summer Vacation. Man, with, uh, what was the first one you said before, before once we're talking about the project? Jack of the Beats. In 89, so many dope beats came out. All these records came out with all these beats and I was just going crazy like, damn, I wish that was my shit.

Damn, I wish that one was mine. And one day I was like, you know what? I'm gonna do a song with all these niggas beats. Just cut them up. Every beat I like, I'm gonna rap over that shit. Was you the first to do that at that time? I mean, I'm the first one I know to put it on a record. Niggas might have been rapping on other people's beats

in the projects, but to put it out, like you put that out. have been rapping on other people's beats in the projects, but to put it out, like you put that out. How did you get that cleared? Man, that was a headache. I was about to say, how you get that cleared? You f***ing around, I'm a rapper. I hear Ice Q rapping on my beat better than me. F*** that nigga, he can't put this out.

Man, they cleared it, but what was hard, like I would sample, like D-Nice is the first record. They call me D-Nice. It's the first record on Jack of the Beats. But that nigga had sampled it from another record, so I had to pay him. And that worked. This ain't D-Yo check.

This go to him. And it was on a few different beats. They had used other people's shit, so I had to double pay. You a sample of the sample? You must have really liked that. Yeah. So you know, that one fucking song,

you know, it's only 100% of publishing. I think that one was like 1,000% of just the shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Goodness gracious, man.

But you've always been known for being the writer, too. Like, you wrote a lot of raps for other people, man. Yeah. You ever be in that bag where you just, you're knocking the motherfuckers out and you're like, no, I don't even know if I want to get this nigga this one. I had a song called, A Gangster's Fairy Tale. That was supposed to be an Eazy E song. That motherfucker was so hard,

they was trippin', talkin' shit. I'm like, nigga, y'all ain't even, till we resolve this shit, what's goin' on? They in my notebook, I ain't even talkin' to y'all about this. And then we broke up, and I was like, this motherfucker mine. I changed, little boys and girls, they all love me.

Come sit on the lap of EZE and let me tell you a story or two. I just changed it. Come sit on the lap of ICE, let me tell you a story or two and just kept on rolling. Ooh. Nice with it. Now you've been writing rap songs 35, 40 years of them. How long it take you to create some shit now?

What's your process? It depends, you know. If I love the beat, if I got the concept, if I've been sitting on this concept for a minute, then I can write, I usually write two verses, write two verses off the rip. Just I don't leave till I got two verses and two hooks and then I'll go think about that third verse.

How do I sum this song up? How do I put the bow on it and wrap it up? So that third verse might, you know, just take me another time to go back in there and just work on the beat. Were you always nice with words? Like, did you read? You know, back then motherfuckers didn't read. I was, when I was young.

You know, something ain't about to read no fuck. Back then niggas wasn't reading, man. It was illegal. When I was young, I used to, you know, my teacher tell us, you know, just got off Christmas vacation, what did y'all do? I'd be able to write, you know, vividly what we did. And one day it got into, she read it and it was so cool she put it in the school paper like the little elementary newsletter. So I'm like damn that's my name that's my shit I wrote that. So it got me where I was like oh shit like

people did what I write and uh and then when I graduated from the sixth grade, they asked me to write a speech, to speak to my graduating class and shit. So I did that and I got up there and I delivered the speech and everybody was feeling it. They was clapping and shit. So I'm like, damn, I can write it and I can deliver it. You know what I mean? I can articulate it.

So that's where I knew okay, I got something here. And then rap came into my life about two years later when I was 14. It was a trip because me and my homie Kitto, we was in a typing class. That's when they had typing. Kids don't know nothing. They found typing.

Yeah, typing class. Typing class. Just young street punks. We didn't wanna be in there. Yeah, we don't belong in this class. It's just we didn't get our electives, we was late. So this is all they had left. This is all they had left.

So I'm looking at this nigga, I'm like, what the hell, I don't want to be no secretary. Come on, do one of these. So he looked at me one day, he was like, man, you ever write a rap before? I was like, nah. He said, you write one, I write one. We'll see which one's the best.

And I said, I was typing out a rap. You know what I mean? Thinking this shit, typing. And my shit was better than his though. Right, right, right. Cool. He was biting people's shit. I heard the fat boys say that.

You know what I'm saying? Like, mine was original. And I just never stopped after that day. Be trying to tell my raps to people. My fucker was like, come on, man. I was all off beat and shit. Didn't know how to flow it. I could write it, but I had to learn how to flow.

And fucking with the homie Jinx from down the street, only nigga that had DJ equipment and instrumentals and shit. He was like, man, come to my house because you gotta wrap that to a beat. We gotta find the flow on this shit. So, he's doing the instrumental and then I started to figure out, okay, the cadence.

And I'm like, oh, okay, the cadence and the lyrics. I'm like, oh, this shit is fun. Bouncing on this beat. And I was just down there every day. Niggas was clowning me. Niggas in my neighborhood. Why you going down here, man, hanging out with this dude, man? What the fuck you gonna hang?

Nigga, you run DMC now, nigga? You Curtis Blow? Nigga? And I'll be like, man, fuck y'all. When out here, we'd be in there hours, man. EJ and scratching and watching him, you know, try to, you know, we was all trying to get good. And we just kept on and then one day he was like,

you know where my cousin is? I said, no, no, he said, Dr. Dre. Nigga? I was like, Dr. Dre? Listening to them blues. And I'm like, uh, he said, yeah, he made a record. I said, nigga, you got a cousin that made a record? He's like, yeah, he pulled out a record.

Dr. Dre in surgery. You put that in my face. I said, nigga, that's your cousin? I don't even need to meet this nigga, man. This nigga's actually, you know, I'm a fan of rap music. This nigga's actually doing music. Like, he's doing it. Like, he's putting a record on.

Right, right. Got a record, so I was just addicted. I was like, when you coming over, man? When you coming over? That nigga would never come over. I'm like, nigga, it's your cousin. Nigga, it's your cousin. Nigga, you going in and then one day,

my nigga called me. They was having a barbecue or some shit, and they called me. He here, nigga, come on down. Yeah, I'm grabbing no books, nigga. Run it down there. And the last thing this nigga want to do is hear us rap. Right.

You know what I mean? He enjoying the barbecue. He's in there with Amy and cousins and everybody. And we just in the garage with the equipment like, when is this nigga gonna come back here? Right. I don't see him. Trey, you coming back?

Yeah, he said he coming right back. We in there another hour. I'm like, man, come on. Nigga finally came back there. All right, let me see what y'all got. So we start busing. He was like laughing at the shit I'm saying. I'm like, oh, okay, got this dude.

Then I started up, he ended up coming over a lot after that. Then we just was hanging out, and then he was like, man, you wanna go to the studio? I said, hell yeah. Took us all to the studio, and then that was Lonzo Williams, spotting Compton. He ran the wrecking crew,

and man, these niggas had equipment, they was doing beats and shit, and I'm like, damn, this is a dream come true. I don't wanna go home. Right. Yeah. Lonzo, you mind spending the night? Yeah, right here.

We can do this shit all day. I still got a thousand questions. Man. We gotta tell you, you got another project coming up. You got a new album coming out. You got a new album coming out. Yeah, Man Down. Man Down.

Yeah, November 22nd. Let's go. Man Down. Right here, man. I got that song out. Let's go. Right in time. I got that song out right now called It's My Ego. It's My Ego. Video is real. It's My Ego.

Video is looking real movie like. It's like you getting back in a movie bag. You know what I'm saying? We wanted to do a big video and not just, you know. Just a visual. Yeah, just a, thank you. Come on, G, you gotta know what that's. We're doing just visuals.

You know, I wanted to do a real video and It's got a lot of traction and shit. We got we got a remix called ego maniacs. That's out killer mic is on So that I'm gonna be out You know on the 22nd Quintessential ice cube, you know, if you've been ice cube fan, you're gonna love this record I'm gonna be out on the 22nd, quintessential Ice Cube. If you been an Ice Cube fan, you gonna love this record. I ain't trying to be nothing I'm not. I'm just trying to give you a fast ball

right down the middle. You brought your pastor with you, didn't you? No, that's Stanley, nigga. That is Stanley. That's Stanley, nigga. You ain't never seen that. Stanley! Oh! That's what I'm like, bro, I think that's Stanley, man. I want to walk on this nigga's grand. Nigga, that's Stanley. Y'all stupid.

Nigga. Yeah. That's, bro, you a real nigga, bro. He brought Stanley. Look, I forgot my way to my left. I'm like, I'm like, a real nigga, bro. He brought Stanley. Look, I forgot my way to my left. Stanley! Stanley!

Stanley! I gotta go to that funeral. Yeah, man. That was love, man. Oh, Stanley! Yeah. What's up, brother, B? Oh, that was so bad.

I got CW here too. Piki driver right there. That nigga in the door right there. Yeah, yeah. You hit the pole too fast, man. I think he got in the car. He's like, I don't give a fuck. Man, fuck you.

Fuck you. This your first time in the trap. Don't let it be your last, man. Oh my God. 85 South Show. I just killed it. I love this y'all doing. Y'all be changing y'all lives.

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