Liz Interviews Ice Cube
Ice Cube stopped by The Wave to talk Big3 basketball, 'Friday,' music, and more.
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00:00Morning, buenos dias. I'm Liz Hernandez. Man. I never thought I would say this while sitting at the wave
00:06I got in studio
00:08West Coast legend global legend ice cube. Yeah. Yeah
00:18Cube what's going on? Oh, man. All good. Happy to be here. Happy man. Thank you. Thank you cube
00:25Okay, I want it let's get into the big three because I know there's a big event going on at Anaheim's Honda Center this Sunday and
00:34First of all, congratulations on
00:36Another I mean, what do we it's like a rap legend movie star
00:42producer
00:43entrepreneur
00:45Now, what is it like sports entrepreneur? I don't know how you put that but I'm happy to whatever you figure out
00:55In your bio later. No. So what can fans expect when they head down to this three-on-three in Anaheim man great hoops
01:04You know, what's great is you get six games for the price of one so you get to see the whole league
01:11And we got some great matchups, you know, this is week five
01:17You know, we have an eight-week season. So
01:20Everybody's like jockeying for the playoffs and so doors open at 11
01:26first game started new
01:29We got DJ quick and dub see performing
01:34Man if you can make it down to the Honda Center, that'd be great. If not, check us out on CBS Paramount Plus
01:41Some of the games are gonna be on X
01:44Wow, are you so I know this is still big three is still kind of in its infancy stage
01:49But are you I know you saw the vision, but are you surprised at how quickly it has grown?
01:55I'm not surprised, you know
01:58for years, I would be like I would hibernate during this time a year because
02:04No NBA
02:06No NFL yet. What do you do as a sports fan? If those are your favorite?
02:11Sports, so I knew that there was a void
02:15and
02:16If I could fill that void I could
02:20Really, you know, you know wake up fans
02:24Like myself who who have a have a basketball hangover
02:28When the finals is over, you know
02:30I could I could serve that and I knew that there was millions of fans who wanted more basketball and
02:38Here we got guys playing a sport. They recognize which is three on three
02:43Pant playing it at the professional level. So right, it's great
02:46And I love that. I don't know if you said this but that the players are in it for the love
02:52They're not in it for the money. They really love the sport. They love the game. They want to win, you know
02:58that's why the WNBA has blown up because
03:02When you watch the girls play or the women, you know, they want to win, you know, it's not like
03:09Not playing for a brands or playing in the low management all this kind of crazy stuff
03:15But actually want to win and there's a passion for the sport passion for the sport, you know
03:20We see it the same way at UFC or boxing, you know, it's the passion to win football same thing
03:27So our guys, you know, they they have the passion to win. They're still competitive
03:34And it's great fans love it cube you've got so much going on new Friday in the works
03:39Yeah new album in the works. Yep. Can you tell okay, let's start with Friday. We got Friday for coming
03:45What can we expect as fan? We're so excited. Yeah, I'm excited too. You know right now
03:50we were like, you know about to finish the deal once we finish that then then we can kind of go full speed ahead and
03:59You know make the movie that people been waiting to see
04:04You know, I just think you know, we're gonna you know cook up something that's special and
04:10Can't wait to start are we bringing Chris Tucker back in if he wanted to be back in you know
04:16Are you are you ever surprised at because of social media being so gigantic now all the memes that have come from Friday
04:23I mean, I must use damn at least
04:27Yes, it's great
04:29When we did the movie we wanted to do, you know a neighborhood classic
04:34and so
04:36we wasn't worried about Oscars or
04:40Box office we just wanted the movie to be a classic amongst people that dig it or understood the life and
04:47we just we was like, you know, only the cool people are gonna get this movie and and
04:54We didn't realize it was so many cool people in the world because everybody loved it
04:59Everybody quote from it. It's one of those
05:02Just a feel-good movie at the end of the day. I mean Felicia has her own songs now, you know
05:09It's crazy, I mean that's
05:12That was just a line. I would have never thought that that would get so much traction man
05:17You have so many incredible quotes from movies whether it's Friday whether it's boys in the hood
05:23I mean one of my favorites is like if you ain't from the hood like yeah, I mean those are just some
05:30Forever cemented in Hollywood classics. Yeah, you know, I think it's because it was really the first time
05:37You were able to see
05:40Kind of how we grew up on screen. Yeah
05:44You know like we've watched movies from other parts of the world
05:50But sometimes you got to see that quintessential LA
05:54Movie that you know, that's us that yeah that you like yo, this is how we grew up
05:59This is you know, even with a Friday after next, you know having the the Christmas in LA
06:05No snow
06:07It's like, you know, you don't really see that in movies
06:10So, you know, I want to be able to show LA and how we are cube. You're working on a new album
06:16Yes, I know. We got a target date of like around September. Yeah, maybe we can get it out sooner, but we'll see
06:23okay, so I gotta ask you this because I heard you say in the press that
06:27You're not big on the hip-hop beef anymore. You've never had hip-hop beef, right?
06:30I
06:32Mean, I like I like, you know to be honest. I like beefs
06:37I mean, I like the back-and-forth on on wax sport the sport. Yeah, just stay on wax
06:43Yeah, you know the minute it goes to the streets or yeah, it's physical then that's just
06:50That's just simple crime. It has nothing to do with music. So so if we keep it to the sport
06:54We have it to support. What do you think about the Drake and Kendrick?
07:01Yeah, exactly when people were saying rap was born
07:05It wasn't really nothing that was you know, moving the needle here comes this that you know
07:12you got two heavyweights going at it and
07:15You know, like I said, as long as it stay on wax is fun. Do you like not like us? I do
07:21It's banging. You know, I talked to my guy dub see
07:25when the
07:26Beefs first started. I was like whoever comes out with that mega hit is gonna win and
07:33Kendrick did it no, he didn't do it. He did
07:39When they teach a master class on hip-hop beef and how to do it right it's gonna be you and Kendrick Lamar
07:46Yeah, I mean, you know, you got to have 50 cent in there. He's vicious
07:51You're right, you're right. Oh my god
07:55Yeah, so did
07:57Did you at all just look back or just look at what Kendrick had created in the sense of what he did with that beef?
08:05He took it to another level where he created unity with it
08:08Which I thought was I mean I was at that concert on Juneteenth and I thought man
08:13There are people on this stage that are united that would never
08:18Have been united before. Yeah, it reminded me of
08:22Of
08:23You know when my conception did all in the same gang back in the day
08:29When there was the the gang truce, you know in 92 after the LA riots
08:38You know, this was kind of one of those moments
08:42Where you know, it was all love. Yeah. Have you talked to Kendrick? No, I haven't
08:48I would love to see you to get on a record without a doubt. Yeah record with him
08:54We did a little something on the George Clinton record
08:59But but yeah, we need to do something together what's on your playlist cube
09:05You know me I'm working on music so I don't really listen to a lot when I'm working on music cuz I
09:11You know, I don't want to be influenced
09:14By other music I want to be influenced by what's going on inside of me. Yeah
09:20And so I shut it down when I'm working on music and then pick it back up when I'm done
09:26You know, they do like part twos in movies, you know, obviously, you know that cuz yeah, you're a legend at that
09:31Would you ever do today's a good day part to something similar to that? Yeah. Yeah, I would
09:36I think I got a song called today's a bad day or
09:40something like that
09:42But but uh
09:43Yeah, I would you know or even update it, you know, I got references in there like beeper and yeah supersonics
09:52You know that team don't exist no more. Well, let me know if you want me to drop some fire on there
09:57You know, I think I got eight bars in my back pocket
10:05Cube thank you so much for stopping by
10:08It is always an honor to sit with you you are a legend you for like man
10:14I never thought me being here at the wave or you know
10:17We're paying we're playing to barge and Mariah Carey that I'm gonna sit with you
10:21Let me tell you this me and Kim we bumped away of all the time
10:25Like we roll we turn it on the way because you know, y'all gonna give us the great variety of great music
10:32That's you know
10:34lost on some station, so
10:37You know, it's it's a great station. I'm happy to be here and
10:42Hey, we all bumped away. I appreciate that. I always say that I'm like now we play the best music in the game fight me
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