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In the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, a Crenshaw Mafia member named OG 2 Tone confronts some students on Ice Cube's school bus, after they display Crip gang signs. He warns "Remember me. He warns "Remember me.
O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer.His lyrics on N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity, [3] [4] [5] and his political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), and The Predator (1992) were all critically and commercially ...
Individually, Mack 10, WC, and Ice Cube continued to work on solo projects between group albums. As Westside Connection, they contributed several tracks to film soundtracks and compilations, including "Bangin'" (from West Coast Bad Boyz II ), "Let It Reign" (from Thicker than Water ), and "It's the Holidaze" (from Friday After Next ).
N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes, [5] [6] eye dialect for Niggas With Attitudes) was an American hip hop group formed in Compton, California.Among the earliest and most significant figures of the gangsta rap subgenre, the group is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential acts in hip hop music.
In the video, Ice Cube kidnaps various rappers (some resembling his former bandmates) who are portrayed as "record sellers" and not "true to the game". The video's outdoor scenes are set on Crenshaw Boulevard , which in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots featured many burned-out buildings. [ 1 ]
Ice Cube is making it known that he has zero affiliation with Sean "Diddy" Combs amid the latter's sex trafficking and racketeering charges. "Almost 40 years rocking the mic and I'm gonna tell you ...
The highly publicized acrimonious departure of Ice Cube from the group N.W.A. required him to recruit protection from threats from his former label. During this time Shorty's childhood friend and future bandmate, J-Dee (Dasean Cooper,) introduced Shorty to Ice Cube. Shorty's street reputation preceded him and Ice Cube hired Shorty the first day ...
The group’s guesses of Ice Cube and Drake, however, didn’t appear on the board at all. (Trainor, 30, was the person who guessed Drake, noting that the answer came from her “heart.”)