Rap legend, Ice Cube, talks to the gang about his incredible career in the music industry, working with John Singleton on "Boyz n the Hood", and becoming Superfly in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
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00:00welcome man how you doing man i'm good man how you doing doing great thanks for coming on i was
00:08you know going through the uh the movies and and everything that you've done and uh you you are a
00:13guy who stays busy all the time do you you like it that way do you like having stuff on your
00:19schedule i do because you know it's i'm a creative guy you know that's what i really love about the
00:26whole business is being able to create cool stuff that people dig um and so you know i love to stay
00:36busy you know when i'm on vacation you know after about seven eight days i'm like you know let's get
00:45back to it yeah i hear you you start to get antsy it's hard to force yourself though and i think
00:50what do you what do you do to sort of clear your mental plate because you've got so many
00:56things going on uh because you need to do that you need to take a real rest what what do you turn
01:02to when you need to just get away uh you know really just um you know just kind of relaxing you know
01:10nothing special yeah i can turn it off you know it's not really something that um i don't feel like
01:17i'm a workaholic you know my other people may feel like i am but i i feel like you know i got enough
01:24time off and uh it's time to get back to work my brain is going so you know i don't want to turn it
01:30off you know it's wild to see you over your career because you know obviously you you came at us through
01:36the the music and then moving on to um producing and writing movies and you know uh with uh well you
01:45just you just did one recently you're you're in the new uh ninja turtles uh yeah the animation that
01:51seth rogan directed um how did that come about oh you know seth called me and he was he was laughing
01:59before you know he always giggled you know
02:01calling me and he's like cube i got i got something for you i'm doing it i'm doing the new ninja turtle
02:11movie and uh i want you to play a character i'm like okay and he's like super fly and i'm like cool
02:18you know big hat cadillac let's do it and uh he was like nah let me send you the drawing and it's like
02:25a big giant you know seven foot fly and um and so i asked him i said fly are flies that ugly
02:34like yeah they're pretty ugly and i was like okay and then he was like yo let's do it um if are you
02:41down i said come on man teenage mutant ninja turtles like i would be the stupidest dude in the world to
02:47turn this down yeah so it was easy it's cool that something like that started so casual like we're
02:53just a phone call because i i think of you know meetings and agents and people getting in touch with
02:58each other but is it sometimes is it something that will attract you to a role or a project because
03:03somebody picked up the phone and had a conversation with you that way about it
03:06most of the time that's how these things come together um you know studios have their ideas of
03:14who they want to put in the movie directors have their ideas but sometimes until you get a call
03:19like 21 jump street i ran into jonah hill we were at some kind of a event quentin they was they was
03:29honoring quentin tarantino and uh it was boring and then so i walked in the lobby and and jonah hill
03:38came out there and he started rapping it was a good day like the whole damn song and i'm like what's up
03:46what's up jonah this our first time meeting he's like man i wrote something that's cool i want to
03:52send it to you man i think you'd be perfect for captain dixon and uh that's how that came together
03:57uh it's by the way those movies are hilarious and you are extraordinarily funny in a 22 jump street
04:04you have a scene where you have a mental breakdown at a buffet once you find out that jonah hill is
04:10banging your daughter it's so happy funny do they just it was easy yeah it was easy to come up with
04:18all i had to do was think of it for real you know and so that was easy to i was gonna tear up a few
04:29more things up in there you know till they said cut uh yeah that's great it's great i wanted to ask
04:34about your son o'shea because we had him in here a couple years ago real nice kid man he was really
04:40cool and he um he and i squared off on a game of thrones trivia trivia battle and he just beat me
04:47yeah i was pretty good but he was solid uh but how's he doing and what's going on in his career
04:52he's doing great um he's in spain right now working on dinner these two um with yeah gerard butler
05:03uh so he's you know he's man he's living his best life right now um sent me pictures i'm like man you
05:11live you you're doing better than me right now because you're on a nice island you know i'm saying
05:16it's beautiful and he's shooting you know a sequel to a movie that people really dig so i think you
05:24know he's having fun was there ever a point where you like you thought i'm just you had to cut your
05:28teeth in entertainment you know how you know the pitfalls and and how it can be really you know
05:33caustic was there ever a point where you tried to dissuade him from getting into the entertainment
05:38business no actually it's all my fault because um when i heard we was doing straight out of compton
05:48um i kept looking at him you know he was going he was going tour with me all the time jump on stage
05:55grabbed the mic you know he would do some of my songs and um i just was looking at him i said look
06:02the movie's gonna come together look like it's gonna happen i want you to play me and lightning
06:09quick nonchalantly he was like okay and i didn't really dig that response it was just too easy
06:18so i i ran him through the ringer you know i mean like a coach's kid yeah having him uh study in la
06:27study in new york uh and he stuck with it and made a career for itself so it's a beautiful thing it's
06:33great and his range cocaine bear he is hilarious and serious and it's just that movie is i i'm so glad
06:40it's in my life yeah you know uh everybody need a little cocaine bear in their life you know what
06:47i'm saying so he uh he got that movie um by just calling the director uh elizabeth elizabeth banks
06:56yeah yeah he caught caught her up i think he he heard that she was doing the movie and he he tweeted like
07:05uh cocaine bear i'm here for that in seconds you know i'm here for that in seconds and something
07:13like that that tweet got her to call him and then she put him in the movie so to the point about not
07:20it being about meetings and and all this stuff that that just happened through social media
07:25i wanted to ask you so uh ovation hall uh oceans casino july 7th uh what can people expect what's
07:31the show gonna be like 30 years of hits yeah you know 30 years of my career you know from nwa
07:39uh you know early solo stuff um you know so we gonna we're gonna have fun you know i think
07:46you know if you've never seen me perform um you know i i give you what hip-hop you know the essence
07:54you know i'm saying it's i'm not rapping over the the record you know i'm saying i'm not you know
08:00doing no funny stuff that happens nowadays you know i grip i grip and i rip and so that's what
08:07we're doing we're gonna have fun and uh come through you know i expect everybody in the house
08:13to have a good time that's got to be a blast you know it's it's also for people who sometimes
08:18people will kind of turn their back on what got them to the dance and they kind of become oh i don't
08:22want to do that the fact that you're embracing it getting it getting out there um you know it's
08:28it's got to be cool for you because that's that's that's the initially the way you expressed yourself
08:35yeah you know when i when i first started rapping and and got into hip-hop it was a it was a hobby for
08:42me it was a it was a way to to get things off my chest uh i never knew i was gonna make money at it
08:50you know especially being from the west coast uh in the early days it was a east coast dominated
08:57sport so to speak so um then boom you know it happened with with uh eze nwa and uh and it's
09:06still fun for me to get on the mic and and perform like it was when i was you know battle rapping people
09:13on the senior quad you know i'm saying it's still it's still a hobby for me and it's still fun
09:19even though i've made a career out of it wow cube i stumbled down a youtube hole uh a few days ago and
09:25it was i ended up on the series where you and kevin hart and conan o'brien were driving around in la
09:30and there's the one where you're hanging out with a student driver and i had i'd seen it when it when
09:34it first aired but i'd forgotten that the three you guys and the student driver ended up in dispensary and
09:38it was it's it's comedy gold and and you and conan and kevin it's so funny to watch you guys
09:44make each other laugh are you still buddies with conan and kevin you still hanging out from time to
09:48time oh yeah you know those dudes right there you know they uh they just great guys and you know going
09:54back to that skit it was uh we had done a movie called ride along yeah and and it was like we got
10:02to do conan o'brien and it was a saturday and i'm like what the hell he don't he don't shoot on saturday
10:08what what we doing oh we're gonna go we're gonna just jump in the car it's like a uh it was a lift
10:15or some kind of car like that uber or whatever they they we're gonna put cameras in and we just
10:21ride around and talk i said damn conan y'all cheap like come on man this is all y'all thought of
10:30yeah me and kevin hart out here and we just gonna ride around okay comedy gold i guess so i was i was
10:40really like i didn't know what was gonna happen when we got in the car and then it becoming the
10:45most hilarious thing that we had done to promote the movie so you know you just never know where
10:51the comedy's gonna come from when you get these personalities you're good in that element i'll never
10:55forget the interview you did with jiminy glick where he kept thinking you were vanilla ice
11:01and uh and your reaction is priceless you're you're good you've got a good comedy instinct
11:08thank you man you know um growing up you know we we laughed a lot in the hood as you can see when we
11:14did friday right it was a movie where we tried to show you know the fun that we had you know amongst all
11:22the chaos and so um all my friends are funny like the people i gravitated towards when i was younger
11:31you know a lot of them are hilarious so you know being with them you got to stay on your toes or you
11:37get roasted real quick so you just gotta you know i developed the instinct thank you you know there's a
11:44lot of uh movies classic movies the uh the cast will get back together and and and speak uh in a group
11:50and like a panel in a theater or something like that uh has that ever happened with boys and hood
11:54because that was that was one of those life-changing movies for me the first time i saw that it opened
12:00up that world of south central and so on and that i was not privy to and i was like it was powerful so
12:06powerful have you guys gotten back together as a group and done any kind of q a or anything like that
12:12yeah you know it was great because we was able to do it while john singleton was still alive yeah um
12:20the the academy of motion pictures had a a tribute to him and all his films and um everybody who ever
12:30was discovered by john because i was discovered like i wasn't trying to be an actor i you know when
12:36he came to me i didn't know what he was talking about i thought you had to go to julio art or something
12:42like that to become an actor so he uh he he look he he discovered me you know he discovered uh buster ryan
12:51tyrese tupac you know we were all musicians that he put in movies and um and so we were all there and uh of
13:01course you know uh not pak but but we were all there and we were all embracing him we got a chance
13:07to give him his flowers before he passed away so we actually it was a great night we actually had john
13:13in the studio for an interview and he was the nicest guy and when we broke after the interview they were
13:21talking about stuff that would never make it on air but he was he was so funny i remember i asked him
13:27about when he the the scene where um the drive-by happens and everybody's outside and that he had
13:33pulled one over on the cast and had somebody firing off blanks and they didn't know the cameras were
13:38rolling oh no you know he the whole night he's saying we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna do the
13:46the drive-by part it wasn't really a drive-by it was a guy just just kind of showing off with a gun
13:53we're gonna do this part you're gonna hear bang bang bang bang everybody run he said this over
13:59and over and over and i'm like john shut up okay we're gonna once we hear somebody yell bang bang bang
14:08over the you know megaphone we'll we'll react yeah never never knew he was gonna have a guy out there
14:15with a real ak and blanks so when we're like they're filming we're at our most relaxed yeah and
14:25you hear it i mean it's already a bunch of gangsters out there watching us film yeah so we didn't know
14:32if it really went south you know i mean it's like this is the first time we film in a movie like this
14:37on crenshaw it's it's real rolling 60s around it's everybody you know the real deal is in the
14:44audience with the movie cast so we didn't know if it went bad for real and and our reactions are
14:50priceless legit legit yeah you can tell legit yeah i almost hit a dude if you watch i almost hit a guy
14:57with that with that six tray you know i mean almost ran he fell in the street he almost got it yeah
15:06with that story in mind wow man uh well listen uh you know we love uh love the fact you spent some
15:11time to to come on and talk to us this morning and like you said 30 years of hits coming up at
15:16ovation hall is gonna be on july 7th tickets available at theoceanac.com and we'll keep an
15:21eye out teenage mutant ninja turtles uh mutant mayhem and then i saw a bunch of other things uh war of the
15:27worlds and uh life form accidents and humbug these are just names that i'm reading on a sheet i'm sure
15:32we'll find out more about it but those are these are all projects coming up that ice cube is involved in
15:36you're a busy man so we appreciate the time cube thank you so much have a great uh holiday and
15:42everything all right no problem appreciate you guys and everybody check out the big three this saturday
15:48on cbs one o'clock eastern all right done and done all right thank you ice cube everybody