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Ice Cube
O'Shea Jackson, known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer. His efforts on N.W.A's 1989 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's popularity, and his political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), and The Predator (1992) were all critically and commercially successful. He was inducted into the R…
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entertainment · American rapper and actor (born 1969) · rapper · songwriter · actor · record producer · film producer · television actor · television producer · film actor · screenwriter · voice actor · also Ice Cube, O'Shea Jackson Sr., O'Shea Jackson Senior, O'Shea Jackson, Cube
Born 15 June 1969 · Q173637
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2026· 13 entries
Published video “Ice Cube Speaks on how his Parents Influenced Him”.
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Published video “Mount Westmore is Back”.
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Published video “Ice Cube on Working with the Bomb Squad”.
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Published video “BIG Boston Takeover | BIG3 S9”.
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Published video “BIG3 brings it to Houston for Week 8 | BIG3 S9”.
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Published video “How We Came Up With The N.W.A. Look”.
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Published video “BIG3 Ends Week 7 in Atlanta | BIG3 S9”.
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AllHipHop: Ice Cube Reveals How A Typewriting Class Changed His Life Forever
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Published video “BIG3 Brought it to Miami | BIG3 S9”.
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Published video “Everyday's Friday in the LBC”.
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Published video “BIG3 Takes Houston | BIG3 S9”.
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Medical Dialogues rated the claim “Can Ice Cube Cure Headache in 3 Seconds?” False.
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2025· 3 entries
Released album “Man Up”.
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Ice Cube announced that his twelfth studio album, Man Up, would be released in 2025 and will be preceded by the first single "Before Hip Hop" on September 5, 2025
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Released album “Live at Woodstock Festival 1999”.
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2024· 3 entries
Released album “Man Down”.
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WKYC rated the claim “Giving your pet ice cubes when it's hot outside doesn't cool them off” False.
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Ice Cube is also a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers of MLB, performing a pregame show before game 2 of the 2024 World Series and later at the team's World Series win celebration at Dodger Stadium, and has equally been a devout fan of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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2023· 2 entries
Awarded Ice Cube Impact Award (2023).
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Published video “MOUNT WESTMORE, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40, Too $hort - Motto (Official Music Video)”.
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2022· 8 entries
Published video “MOUNT WESTMORE, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40, Too $hort - Activated (Official Music Video)”.
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Published video “Ice Cube - Hood Robbin’ (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Too Big (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Too Big (Official Music Video)”.
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Published video “Ice Cube - You Know How We Do It (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Reported claimRated Although dogs suffering from heatstroke should not be given ice, it is perfectly safe for healthy dogs. · Full Fact
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Published video “Ice Cube - Stand Tall (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Ice Cube - Dominate The Weak (Lyric Video)”.
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2021· 1 entry
USA Today rated the claim “Giving overheated dogs ice cubes is dangerous” False.
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2020· 10 entries
Published video “Ice Cube - Can You Dig It?”.
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USA Today rated the claim “Picture shows rappers Ice Cube and 50 Cent in pro-Trump hats” Altered.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows 50 Cent and Ice Cube wearing Trump 2020 hats” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “A photo depicts rappers Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing Trump hats.” fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing "Trump 2020" hats.” False.
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Reported claimRated False. The photo has been edited so the word "Trump" has been added on both caps, suggesting both rappers support the president. · BBC
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Photo shows Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing Donald Trump hats.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, rapper Ice Cube advised U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign on policy plans.” True.
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Cube joined rappers Snoop Dogg, E-40, Too Short and formed the supergroup Mount Westmore
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Marlow Stern wrote an article in the Daily Beast addressing Cube's "long, disturbing history" of antisemitism
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2019· 1 entry
Published video “Ice Cube - Ain't Got No Haters ft. Too Short”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Everythangs Corrupt”.
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2017· 5 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2017).
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Launched Big3, a 3-on-3 basketball league starring former NBA players
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Cube starred with Charlie Day in the comedy Fist Fight
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Through his son O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ice Cube became a grandfather in August 2017.
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Said that he thinks "religion is stupid" in part and explained, "I'm gonna live a long life, and I might change religions three or four times before I die
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2016· 2 entries
Played alongside comedian Kevin Hart in two more Tim Story films, Ride Along and Ride Along 2
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Cube returned for the third entry in the Barbershop series
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “Remain Calm”.
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Cube expressed regret at including the word "Jew" in the lyrics of "No Vaseline" and explained that he intended to attack only Heller and not "the whole Jewish race"
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The nightclub's co-owner and Wreckin' leader Alonzo Williams would recall feeling his reputation damaged by this and asking it not to be repeated
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2014· 3 entries
ITunes brought another single from it, "Sic Them Youngins on 'Em", and a music video followed the next day
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Reported net worth: $220M (as of 2014).
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Cube appeared on MC Ren's remix "Rebel Music", their first collaboration since the N
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Icon”.
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2012· 4 entries
Released album “10 Great Songs”.
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Ice Cube recorded a verse for a remix of the Insane Clown Posse song "Chris Benoit", from ICP's The Mighty Death Pop
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Cube appeared in 21 Jump Street
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Expressed support for same-sex marriage
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2011· 1 entry
Cube featured on Daz Dillinger's song "Iz You Ready to Die" and on DJ Quik's song "Boogie Till You Conk Out"
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2010· 4 entries
His ninth solo album, I Am the West, arrived with, Cube says, a direction different from any one of his other albums
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Released album “I Am the West”.
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ESPN aired Cube's directed documentary Straight Outta L
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Cube signed up-and-coming recording artist named 7Tre The Ghost, deemed likely to be either skipped or given the cookie-cutter treatment by most record companies
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2009· 1 entry
Ice Cube performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos, and returned to perform at the 2011 festival
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2008· 5 entries
Released album “The Essentials”.
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Released album “Raw Footage”.
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Yielding the singles "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" and "Do Ya Thang"
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Cube helped on Tech N9ne's song "Blackboy", and was featured on The Game's song "State of Emergency"
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"I ain't got time to be fuckin' antisemitic, anti-this, anti-that, anti-Korean
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2007· 2 entries
Released ep “At tha Movies”.
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Released album “In the Movies”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Laugh Now, Cry Later”.
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Cube released his seventh solo album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, selling 144,000 units in the first week
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2005· 2 entries
Cube discussed teaching his children to question the value of violence depicted in all media, not just song lyrics
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When asked about the balance between his music and parenting in 2005, Cube discussed teaching his children to question the value of violence depicted in all media, not just song lyrics.
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2004· 2 entries
Cube played in Barbershop 2 and Torque
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Cube featured on the song "Real Nigga Roll Call" by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, the then-leaders of rap's crunk subgenre
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2003· 1 entry
Westside Connection's second album, Terrorist Threats, fared well critically, but saw lesser sales
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2002· 2 entries
Cube appeared on British DJ Paul Oakenfold's solo debut album, Bunkka, on the track "Get Em Up"
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Cube starred in Kevin Bray's All About the Benjamins, and in Tim Story's comedy film Barbershop
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “War & Peace, Vol. 2: The Peace Disc”.
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Released album “The Peace Disc Bootleg Mix”.
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1999· 1 entry
Starred alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as a staff sergeant in Three Kings, set in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, whereby the United States attacked Iraq in 1990, an "intelligent" war comedy criti
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “War & Peace, Vol. 1: The War Disc”.
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Cube was featured on the band Korn's song "Children of the Korn", and joined them on their Family Values Tour 1998
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Writing again, the director Ice Cube debuted in The Players Club
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “Featuring… Ice Cube”.
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Playing a South African exiled to America who returns 15 years later, Cube starred in the action thriller Dangerous Ground, and had a supporting role in Anaconda
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Worked with David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails singer Trent Reznor on a remix of Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans"
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1995· 1 entry
Cube joined Mack 10 and WC in forming a side trio, the Westside Connection
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Bootlegs & B‐Sides”.
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Cube teamed with onetime N
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Lethal Injection”.
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Worked on Kam's debut album, and collaborated with Ice-T on the track "Last Wordz" on 2Pac's album Strictly 4 My N
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “The Predator”.
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Cube appeared on Del the Funky Homosapien's debut album I Wish My Brother George Was Here, on Da Lench Mob's debut Guerillas in tha Mist, which he also produced, and on the Kool G Rap and DJ Polo song "Two to the Head"
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Ice Cube has been married to Kimberly Woodruff since April 26, 1992.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “Death Certificate”.
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They have four children together; their oldest son O'Shea Jackson Jr. (born 1991) portrayed him in the film Straight Outta Compton.
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1990· 4 entries
Released ep “Kill at Will”.
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Released album “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted”.
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Cube followed up with an EP—Kill At Will—critically acclaimed, and rap's first EP certified Platinum
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A musical associate in the rap group Public Enemy introduced Cube to the Nation of Islam (NOI)
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1989· 2 entries
“s debut album Eazy-Duz-It. He received a total pay of $32,000, and the contract that Heller presented in 1989 did not confirm that he was officially an N.W.A member. After leaving the group in January 1990, Cube sued Heller, and the lawsuit was later settled out of court. In response, N.W.A members attacked Cube on the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin”
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Did not confirm that he was officially an N
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1986· 1 entry
At the age of 16, Ice Cube began rapping in the trio C
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1982· 1 entry
Ice Cube is a notable fan of the Las Vegas Raiders, originally supporting the team during their tenure in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994.
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1969· 2 entries
To hospital clerk and custodian Doris and machinist and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) groundskeeper Hosea Jackson
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Born 1969-06-15.
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