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South Central is just who I am.

Ice Cube

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
Character Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Musician
Rapper
Record Producer
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O'Shea Jackson
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If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
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I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone.
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I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.
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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
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I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.
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My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.
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Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet.
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.
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