Michael Jai White: It's Silly to Think Ice Cube was Really a Gangsta During NWA Era (Part 14)
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In this clip, Vlad and Michael Jai White spoke candidly about the controversy surrounding N.W.A.'s impact on Hip-Hop. Special Ed claimed in a previous interview that the group had a destructive influence, a notion met with backlash from artists like Xzibit. Vlad agreed with Ed, recounting how N.W.A.'s music incited aggression amongst him and his friends. It was also argued that N.W.A.'s music originally intended to parody the hood with no expectation of its enormous future success. Artists like Ice Cube have radically changed over the years, going from perceived gangsters to family men and entrepreneurs. Vlad and Michael Jai White urge audiences to be discerning and to not blindly believe the personas they see on screen. They conclude by saying that many artists wanted to release positivity, but record labels insisted on promoting narratives of violence and destruction, as Ed also claimed.
I think the movie showed Ice Cube’s actual stand point from the hood, not really involved in anything crazy but just observing everything around him, like the bus scene, he wasn’t trying to be gangster and trying to stand up to a blood. I think it’s okay to come from the hood and talk about certain things, even if you’re not the one doing it, just makes for tales about the hood
It’s facts not everyone in the hood is a “gangster”. That just means you’re in a gang. Doesn’t mean that you’re soft or not hood or nothing like that.
Ice cube dumb shit go listen to that track
Like Friday I feel is a perfect example. It showed Craig coming from a 2 parent house hold. A dad who cared. Craig was never a gangster. He just observed what happened around the hood
Explain Natural Born Killaz ...
Feel the same about Nas. They both in the hood but gift is to observe and write about it. Not live it fully
A real man ain't no less harder than a gangster, it's what you stand for is what is remembered
The hardest thing about being a ganster is being man first. The hardest thing about being hard, is being real
The hardest thing about being real is to be "Humble"..
@@carltonbanks2865 every body wants to keep it real, until the truth is delivered, and now everybody is offended.
Y'all corrrrn balls 😂
Chris Rock hit the nail right on the head when talked about NWA in CB4.
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No he didn't bruh and if he did he nailed it when he clowned public enemy and other rappers also and the politicians
@@thelastdon9000 nah, not public enemy but he nailed ice cube
@@kactusJacko Yes he did bruh you didn't see that seen when Allen payne did I'm black y'all that was a shot at conscious rappers
@@thelastdon9000 😂 right. Bliggiddy Bliggiddy Bliggiddy black yall.
I was 11 years old when I heard the “Straight Outta Compton album a year or two after it released (the edited version 😂). A few of my classmates really thought they were actually killing people, I recognized it as something like a wrestling gimmick. The same ones who believed (at the time) NWA, Geto Boys, etc. were actually killing and robbing folks then telling on themselves, probably believed the Undertaker was a real dead man being resurrected on occasion to wrestle.
Paul Bearer was a real mortician though lol legit
😆 Funny joke/thanks for the laugh. (don't know if NWA and those guys were as chaotic as they seemed though. Didn't see the movie either.)
It's amazing that people don't understand a celebrity is a projection of ideas. You can't take everything so seriously.
I feel the same way about social media. It's meant to stay on social media. It's not meant to be repeated on other media outlets.
The value of NWA's music was they were openly rapping about real life in raw words about the Black experience in the hood - especially here in LA. Cube didn't have to be a real deal street guy like Eazy to pen relatable, profound lyrics that tilted the axis of hip-hop at the time.
I respectfully disagree. Everything you said only points to one song NWA has and thats F the police. If you actually listen to their music their not uplifting their community most of their music is hedonistic. Although very talented i can still make a better case that NWA hurt hip hop with their content then uplifting it.
@@jasonpierre6108Gangsta Gangsta painted a picture of LA life
@@johndeere593 you can paint a picture of the harsh reality of a city without glorifying it. To live and die in LA by tupac is a perfect example of the proper balance. Gangsta gangsta only gives you one side and glorifies the bad parts of the hood. Still a fire song though lol
Do you believe EAZY-E was a gangster?
@@jasonpierre6108 Express Yourself
Dopeman
Today was a good day - I've Cube
Lil ghetto Boy- Dr. Dre
"I dont bang i rock the good rhymes and im a victim of neighborhood crimes" -Ice Cube in multiple songs.
That's not how the lyric goes son, it's "I don't bang I rock the good rhymes, the whole scenery reminded me of good times"
“Once Upon a Time in The Projects” Ice Cube
"I started this Gangster sh*t, this the muthaf*ckin thanks I get"....He said those lyrics 15 years later still bragging about helping the destruction of the culture.
@@ItsDoctorFunkits notable that thats with NWA. And the nugga been rocking with gnagsters. Lench mob, W.C.
@@earlcampbell7953 Dawg, he’s quoting Alive On Arrival 🤦🏿♂️
"Its Silly to think Michael Jai White could hang with a trained MMA fighter." 🤣🤣🤣
You are super lame👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽🤞🏽
Or beat Bruce Lee lol
@@EX001 facts, Michael j white ain't no real fighter, he's a phony
Somebody salty 😂😂😂.
You don't know what you're talking about. 😂
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Vlad…NWA didn’t bring destruction to hip hop bro….it almost seems like certain people wanna say that them or the artists that came after them like Quik, Eiht, Snoop etc are not hip hop which I think is wrong…what NWA didwas open doors of opportunity for guys on the west coast whether they were in the streets or not…NWA especially Eazy E did a lot for hip hop and we have to be careful with this conversation because if you gonna say what Ed said about NWA then you saying about 80 percent of the Westcoast…. What really happened is the Eastcoast lost their crown because before NWA they were dominating
MJW hates on all rappers just cause they don't present themselves like him .he such a hater man
Vlad so ignorant ice cube still dresses in Dickies n converse
Vlad you a sucka. We get it, cube wasn’t gangsta, what point are u trying to make with this? Bringing in all these folks to talk about it? As if cube wouldn’t have ran up in your studio. Damn u are annoying
Ice cube had that menacing look about him so people thought he was a real gangsta. But ive learned not all gangstas have a hardcore look about them, some gangstas are quite and mild looking. But they will lay you down quick fast.
Real killers have dead eyes.
It’s kalled glaring eyes & you right most look like the most interesting people that you’d want to be around 🤣💯
@@FrankinDallasWho said anything about killing?
Cube is the Godfather of Gangster Rap. He wrote and starred in hood classics. He has his own B-Ball league. He starred in family movie classics for the Black Middle class to show growth.
Vlad and the movie extra he interviewing there have no bidness critiquing anything Ice Cube did in the culture!!!!!!
He a fake ass gangster lmao
Yessir Eazy E is the Godfather 👍
@@RealFloxks59I'd say Ice T. But in any case, Schoolly D is probably the first.
Ice cube always was and has and always been a studio gangster, he trys to mean mug like he about that life and, yet he's never even gotten so much as a parking ticket
@@javiervega1065 not a single rapper is a gangster. All gangsters are dead on in prison.
This interview makes a lot of sense. All these guys used music to escape poverty, they live in mansions, fancy cars. Making commercials and Andy Griffin movies. They ride through the ghetto with their windows rolled up. There won’t be any Baby Boy 2 or Boyz n the Hood 2 movies. Hanging around Martha Stewart makes more sense.
Andy Griffin!?? What, like Matlock?
Vladimir is 😂😂 a wigga with an attitude 💯🔥👮🏻♀️😂😂😂😂‼️
If NWA’s material was no different than The Godfather, Goodfellas, and Pulp Fiction. No one is running around blaming Deniro, Scorsese, and Puzo for the Mob’s behavior.
I agree but why is Michael Jai White always talking about the streets? That wasn't his lane.
He’s not the one asking the questions. He’s just answering them
You don't his story dude was in them streets
Ice Cube was never about that life like he portrayed in his music lol, i remember growing up thinking ice cube was the realest rapper on earth but grew up to learn that it was just a persona, the only real ones in NWA was Eazy E and MC Ren, they were actually in the streets. Cube had loving parents,, lived in a decent neighbourhood and studied architecture lmao, he was a smart kid, he had it better than tupac. Pac actually grew up rough and in poor conditions. It's funny how niggas these days mostly call out pac for being a fake instead of ice cube when pac actually did some gangsta shit and got into some street situations, getting shot, getting shot at, shooting at off duty cops etc.
When he shot those cops.. it was to protect another black Man. .I was listening to him since 1992 as a kid.. and I can tell you he wasn't a gangster he just wasn't scared of too much of anything.. this guy Michael Jai.. said fat joe and trech from naughty by nature are real G's and nobody argued but he actually hung with Tupac and people disagree with him,alot of people don't know but this guy used to teach children with behavioral issues and he's definitely into phycology.. so his guestimation of someone personality is something we could consider to be valid than most..
Ice cube neighborhood in south central is the 111st neighborhood crips ice cube grew up around the bangers like Monster and Dub C but didn’t bang himself because his pops didn’t play that shit ice cube never claimed to be a gangsta but if u hear his stories he never ran from a fight or nobody
Bruh you have been to Los Angeles I see
@@l-khop0110Exactly these dudes never been to la or even seen la like bruh I stayed in the 111s and shit is real around there
@@thelastdon9000 hell yea and the Lench mob wasn’t no joke either 💯 especially J-dee
I'm confused how people take music seriously, but not everything else in media.
EXACTLYYYY
Ice isn’t a gangbanger but he is a gangsta and him being a family man makes him a bigger gangsta
No
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FACTS.. NOW THATS SOME GANGSTA SHIT. 💯
Does ice cube not being a gangster mean anything?? I don't remember ice cube saying he was a gangster… He made music from his point of view with his friends from the same place he's from… Not only that as their music gained popularity and they made money eventually their points of view and lifestyle changes 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
@@thereasonthroughthebs😂😂 right. Wtf!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@thereasonthroughthebsHe literally has a song called the gangster the killer and the dope dealer..🤦
That’s cap Ice Cube actually said he the father of gangster rap
MJW Was In Karate Matches And Real Street Fights.....Former CIA Confessed They Used NWA To Poison The Black Community....
So are you saying he's a fraud and a liar? Him not being officially from a set doesn't make his music any less relevant its entertainment at the end of the day but he was from compton and eazy E was a crip
Vlad still mad bout cube anti semitic comment
And he's a non practicing Jew and a atheist. 😅😂 make it make sense.
Right on!
The problem is how we define what gangsta is? Is it gangsta to be in permanent danger in the hood or is it gangsta to finesse the system, get legally paid and not having to watch over your shoulder. We need to change the paradigm for black people
Your changing the meaning of a word with a clear definition. Why not just abandon the word as opposed to attempting to redefine it.
Anybody that says they knew Ice Cube wasn't a gangster is purely lying... It's easy to say after the fact through the years that he wasn't a gangster but in 1987 and 1988, They had the swag and the look to pull off the gangster style... No one knew his history to think otherwise... We all thought they were gangsters in that time period
I knew he wasn't get real
and we all knew Tupac wasn't a real thug ...
@@jojosaylor8996 in 1987 you knew his whole history? Okay buddy I'll let you tell it lol
If u were from the West Coast u knew he wasn't. Gangster don't move the way cube moved.
@@cocopuff6810 Ok sure Pal... Like everybody thought Bill Cosby was the perfect father... To his real history came out to the public... Unless you was ice cube's family member or an acquaintance of his in South Central, the public didn't know anything about him or NWA personally... A lot of drug dealers became rappers that we know and love today
This one is gonna be a classic, especially that ending. Ty Vlad, and Michael Jai White
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Ice cube being a gangster is the same as Michael Jai white beating Sean Strickland in MMA😂
CB4 is all you need to know. It’s the blueprint of gangsta rap in the 1990’s.
People love to dismiss how hardcore the 90s was tho..every hood was active
Bruh I'm from Chicago and the chyt NWA was talking about was good to me because that's what was actually happening in Chicago BEFORE NWA was even out. The chyt NWA was talking about was happening when Michael Jackson's Thriller was out and before that so THAT'S WHY I FELL IN LOVE WITH NWA Music and their music didn't make me MORE AGGRESSIVE like Vlad is saying because I already was living amongst the chyt they were rapping about, I just LOVED the music. With all that being said, Vlad and Special ED, I fuggs with ya'll but KNOCK IT OFF MANE 🤦🏿♂
You would think that this is common sense. It ain't no different than Special Ed or Nas rapping about life in their projects. That ain't make NOBODY want to leave the suburbs and join the glamorous project life of their favorite rappers.
@@Wizznilliam Exactly. How in the fugg did NWA music bring on destruction when they were rapping about the destruction that was going on in Compton and every other city with the same conditions as Compton before their music even existed? WTF are they talking about? This is silly bs.
st. louis too. you know whats funny its like going to the movies and watching a bruce lee movie. all of a sudden everybody thinks they can fight. acting the moves out except who.......the ones who actually know that stuff.
It’s silly to think Michael jai white would outbox Mike Tyson in a boxing match
true hahaha
of course but if white kick tyson in the mouth its over.
Vlad lmao 🤣🤣 he knows damn well he was never aggressive
Out of NWA, the only one who really lived that life was Eazy E. And mabe Ren.
The only person who had any gang ties, gangsterism in NWA was Eazy, just because the rest grew up un the hood doesn't mean they were about that life.
MC Ren was affiliated with the exact same crip gang as Eazy lmao, the reason why he’s on the cover of NWA and The Posse was because he was gangbanging, he wasn’t a member at the time
MC Ren is on the cover, standing right besides Eazy-E with a foot on a beer bottle. @@JohnBaillie18
@@olafuria i know, im saying the reason why he was on it was because he was a close friend of Eazy and a Kelly Park Crip. He wasn’t a member of the group when the photo was taken, he just happened to be there when it happened.
Ah true, he came in later replacing Arabian Prince basically :-)@@JohnBaillie18
I was 17/18 when I heard NWA. Charleston White had to be 12/13. Not hard to see how he'd believe they were gangstas. He was a kid and impressionable.
Cube is the most MC Gusto rapper we’ve ever had.
This guy is a genius. So intuitive. He is an oracle 😂
In his world, Michael Jai White is the only real gangster/tough guy 😂
false
Facts
The ghettos were there long before gangsta rap, not the other way around.
Trust me Eazy was about that life. Kelly Park Cripz
And Ren was too..cube and dre where basically just 2 chuck d's political rebels of the clicc and yella just a dj
Its silly to think that MJW could beat a real fighter.
I have so much respect for MJW, he tells it like it is.
More like like HUGE CAP
@@endrykperez412😂😂😂
@@endrykperez412 explain
It's silly for him to think he's as tough as he thinks never having one professional fight
Nigga really thought he could beat MIKE TYSON in boxing. That should show people how big his ego is. He calls everyone a dumbass he should use that word on himself.
Why does Glad always single out Cube
Right
He salty about something I've noticed it too lol smh I guarantee if Cube came ready to throw hands Vlad would be trying to find the nearest toilet.
I'm glad finally someone said this because REAL street people were just happy someone was talking about what WE were going thru. Those who believed the lies told in these rhymes are just stupid
What's a real street person??
But it’s entertainment. If you don’t know the difference between entertainment and real life then that’s on you
Lol@ “we”
He like many other rappers are just street poets
@@dfromgarylantasota2439
A person in the streets or who’s heavily been in them. Homeless, starving, poverty, addiction to the point they can’t hold a job when they try. But get treated like shit wherever they go so they keep the addiction going to numb the pain. The list goes on
I think vlad has some type of personal vendetta against ice cube.😂😂
He still mad bout that comment he made bout the Jews. Ever since that movie dropped, he’s been bringing everyone in to talk about his cube wasnt gangster…….. or maybe he’s mad that cube turned down an interview? He loves to shit on people for that. Even told saweetie “your album flopped, maybe if u did the Vlad interview you woulda sold more, but u declined it.” I’m paraphrasing.
All I know is Ice Cube would have slap the shit out of someone or beat their ass back then. If they saying he won’t be shooting anyone than sure probably true.
Ice cube got knocked tf out
Not true
They were good kids and really scared of the streets
Having a bit of a temper & some aggressive tendencies doesn’t make somebody a literal gangster tho
@@newyork6159anybody can lose a fight ..that doesn't mean he's soft lol
Ice Cube was never a fighter lol, he has so many stories of him getting his ass whooped, dude realized that he aint a gangster after getting his butt whopped numerous times and now sticks to his lane, which is acting lol.
Some people don’t really know what a real gangsta is .
Cube wasnt a gangsta but hes indeed from the hood. Same for Dr. Dre. In fact Dr. Dre use to dress up wearing tight sequined clothes (and light makeup) when he was with his first group called World Class Wreckin Crew. He took on a gansta persona when he joined NWA but just like Cube he was never a gangbanger. You dont have to be a gangsta to know how to relate to gangstas and that underground crowd.
Pac wasn't a gangster too. But he was still in the hood making barbecues for the community, buy clothes and food for his people. I think thats more "hood" than selling drugs or be in a gang and kill somebody. And it's right to talk about certrain things because in that moment you are a voice from the hood you were born.
In Los Angeles if you say you're from nowhere the next question will be, where did you grow up . In Los Angeles Ice Cube is still a Neighborhood Crip NHC
Civilian Vladimir: me and my OG homies would listen to NWA, shirtless drink 40s all night
Michael Jai White can tell all the truths with no consequences because he knows nobody can fuck with him 😂
Eric Wright wasn't capping
everybody bleeds the same pal
@@414MILboy true. Some people just know what they're doing and Jai is one of them
@@JamesRolle-k9e I wasn't there to say, but I just know nobody is gonna run down on Jai tryna check him about it
It's almost 2024. Nobody is trying to fight anymore, so his skills are irrelevant.
It’s always cool for A white dude to play gangsta and play family movies but when it comes to Ice cube it’s different now I guess 🤦🏻♂️😂
Crazy, ain't it...
Bruh, why is there so many people in the comment section getting they feelings hurt over what MJW said?😂Like he was talking about them or something. Its really people out here commenting and getting pressed trying to defend somebody they don't even know. 🤣🤣
You Gotta remember , The KIDS are who really ate this up! I was a Kid in Compton At that time. You couldn’t Tell us that Ice-T ,Ice Cube , Eazy-E , Dj Quik , were not Gangstas! I remember Playing Marbles at McKinley Elementary School in (COMPTON unified school district) with Johnny Burns who Grew up to become Dj Quik’s Prodje’ ( Mausberg) , This is like 89 / 90 going into Vanguard Jr High around 91 and I remember some the Conversation , Some thought they were real gangstas some thought they were just making money,But because they were attached to these Neighborhoods with these (SETS)alot of us thought they were. That was like 9 , 10, and 11 years old . By the Time I was in High School There was no way you couldn’t Tell me That Suge Knight was not a Real Blood 🩸or Piru. And at Compton High School I remember a lot of Teenagers ( some were Gang affiliated)saying Tupac Had Got Put on they Hood because of what he Was Hollerin In Songs. I grew up off Rosecrans And Remember saying to my Homies at about 16 years of age “ what do Tupac Know about Rosecrans?” Although it sounded Tight as Hell to hear 👂🏿 it “🤣
Execpt dj quik was really doing it and eazy was too im not from the west but you can tell they would never be loud on the songs because their not trying be targets even though their hoods knew already what they are about
@@genecg84 I hear you , But you have to remember it was a Different Time period. How could the Kids tell the difference between the ones that lived it and the ones who didn’t ? Today you Can Look someone up on the internet to see if someone goes in and out Jail or Prison. Back then you couldn’t. One Person may find some paperwork on a Rapper, or Find out that they have no felonies , But then the Rap Artist would just Deny it . Who was going to be able to really Check it. But I will say this , When the Regular kids Hang out in the Park and play Ball 🏀 with the Gangbangers When you growing up there ,From the outside looking in , it hard to tell who’s from the SET and who it’s based of The lingo you are hearing ! I’m pretty sure Ice Cube said Cuz a time or two while in his hood because he grew up around Crips . Just like the cats In my neighborhood That were not Pirus , Said Blood every other word at Times , And Put everything on the B to prove they aren’t Lying about something! 🤣🤦🏿♂️🇺🇸
CB4 🎬 Movie 😎
At first he was hating on 2PAC and now he's hating on Ice-Cube... 😅this guy..
As Eddie Griffin said " gangsta rap is an oxymoron.. "first code of a gangsta is silence , if you're a rapper you talk too much"😂🤣
Here we go again. We know alot of these artists do not live the lives they rap about otherwise they would be on the daily news or be doing triple life. However, some do. These are usually the local ones who do not make it very far for the very same reason. Most rappers either rap about the lives they are escaping, used to live or what they see going on around them. That's obvious. But what Special Ed is talking about is the violent and negative energy and images that subconsciously take over peoples minds and control their behaviour. West Coast Hip Hop which became alot more vivid with the success of NWA and was perpetuated through movies like Boyz N the Hood and Menace was the catalyst which made it larger than life formulating what we see if hip hop today, because it was far more entertaining and ultimately made the corporations more money. Its a deep topic which cannot be tackled through 5 minute Vlad clips but you get the jist.
pure silliness
Why does everyone always focus on gangsta rap like black people didnt create every other genre of music too?
We created Rock and Roll and Jazz
@@seanwaston3892 the list goes on
@@maxwellbrisk5622 I heard that !!!!
michael jai white takes himself to literal 🤣🤣🤣 who tf doesn’t lnow this is entertainment but it’s also part of it is reality. n it’s nothing wrong with expressing yourself. hip-hop is a art form
This man is real badass no question ask
Vlad is the biggest ice cube hater damn,What he do deny your interview request 🤣
Actually cube did, he 💩 on vlad pretty bad.
It's Silly to think Michael Jai White is a REAL FIGHTER. Michael Jai White is just an Actor
The issue is no one is telling the youth this is fantasy so you when you promote it to them as authentic they receive and embrace it as such
Nobody I knew tried to become nwa after listening to nwa. Tupac was just inspiring to all people. Worldwide in all walks of life. But that’s what happens when 2 people who don’t understand your cultures talks about your cultures
Michael J White more like Michael Twerking on dylight with a chopper
Thise dude is always talking bs.
Dudes that were young and old thought they were gangster especially those that knew nothing about Compton.
I grew up with sweet Texas boys who couldn’t hurt a fly, soon as NWA came out. Oh now everyone is bragging their crotches and waving around guns. You literally saw that shift In society
Ice cube has a really convincing mean mug though.
These two are way out of context? Michael is a good brother but he's got to stop letting Vlad drag him into these conversations. This is way deeper than thinking someone was a gangster?? There was at that time an agenda to push "gangster rap"! they were trying to change the image from Public Enemy, Eric B and rakim, Poor righteous teachers, Kane, Moe D? the majority of rap was positive pre gangster rap. No coincedence Gangster movies, Rap, and Drugs all rose at same time?
No its not?WTF are you talking about? Didn't they start out with the Special Ed comment about gangster rap?? C'mon man follow??@@thereasonthroughthebs
It’s crazy how people can’t separate an artist from his music, that’s like an actor being exactly who he portrays in a movie, exactly what Michael jai said if your that stupid than that’s on you
It’s not about being stupid. Once upon a time in rap, you had to be who you said you were. So it’s not crazy that people actually thought those guys were gang members especially when 2 of them actually were.
Lol man I grew up in the backwoods of Ohio on a farm and at no time did I think NWA and all of them were gangsters and in gangs. Even as a kid I realized they were just rapping about their environment. The stupidity of today's adults compared to me as a child is amazing. Why is was Ice cube and them gangsters even a topic? No they weren't gangsters, Eazy E was a Crip, but it's not like he continued to bang once he made it lol. Even DJ Quik has a song talking about how he isn't a gangster and he was actually a blood. Vlad just a hater mad he couldn't rap.
Ren and eazy were Gs.
VLAD: I interviewed Tookie Williams once. He’s my homie.
I respect Special Ed, he didn't air out his grievances on social media. He went right to Cube man to man. Also, when Michael Jai White speaks I tune my ears. He spits pure facts 💯
Ice cube came to him
Vlad and Special Ed are wrong. It is unique that Michael, Ed, and Vlad give rappers so much power and call what caused the rise of gangs "whataboutisms." I can tell none of them were that sharp in school.
It was a group not an individual and in the group eazy and mc ren were certified on the street so you cant say the music was fake .
Always thought it was weird people acting like Ice Cube was a gangsta. He was the definition of Studio Gangsta
JACKIN FOR BEATS and YO YO are Cubes best thing for hip hop at that time.
you tripping, the projects, grand finale verse,
Ice Cube is the gangster Black kids should want to be because he's a boss, has built an empire using violent words which is more powerful then the violence of a individual, especially of he knows who the real enemies of the black community are, which Cube did asfar back as NWA days and won't hesitate to put down any violent gangsters out here or government if they threatened to harm him or his family. That's gangster!
I mean It’s probably true that he never did anything he was rapping about during that era but it still made for great music so idgaf
Right smh like people really glorify being a mindless "gangster" ruining the community lol Cube tackled bigger issues going on in America and he wasn't some one dimensional block dummy.
All Michael wanted to talk about was him directing a movie😂😂
NWA speaks the truth. Everything they said I seen and heard about. Even experienced my share of police profiling.
How you perceive their art is on you. To me, nwa is someone I can listen to and be like….yup. They couldn’t be more right. A reminder to better yourself and your community. The results of poverty, greed and deceit.
Mike got a lil hater in his tank! 😂
Has Michael Jai White ever completed a damn thought or sentence on any of these interviews… Am I the only one…???
Cube mostly talked about being from the ghetto and having to survive. Not being a gangster. For example “today is a good day” is all about not doing gangster stuff all day.
I despise people who think like Xibit, people who wouldn't think twice about sacrificing the general good of their folk in order to make an extra dollar.
Yes. Ice felt bad about it. That's why he put out Until we rich.
Depends on an individuals view of what a gangster is.
Vlad was worried about too heavily emulating NWA? Cmon man.
Noooooo…. Really???? Next you’ll be telling me Michael Jai White isn’t actually Black Dynamite 😂
All this guy does is attack people. I lost respect for him a long time ago.
Told you we're not all gangsters Vlad 🙄
Vlad: Let's start from the beginning..... Did you get into alot of trouble as a kid, or.....
😂😂😂
Ppl are stupid. Cube never wore a blue or red bandana or claimed a set. Wasn’t even from Compton. Just enjoy the music.
Who didn’t know this🤷🏽♂️….it’s music….
It’s not like he would have stepped to cube face and told him he a fake gangsta. This dude be dry hatin lowkey
We all knew that, that's why nobody was surprised when Cube was terrified of Cypress Hill when they pressed him and Westside Connection lol.
Michael Jai White mad that the black community don’t show him love like they do PAC and other rappers
In gangsta gangsta cube said "Heres a little something about me/ never should have been let out the penitentiary' I was in the 10th grade and kid said "dang he been to the pen." I knew cube was like a few years older than us. i said "no he wasnt. Hes like 19. He aint been to the pen and now hes out doing records about it. c-mon" for the most part, back then we wasnt stupid like rap fans today first thinking Rick Ross the rapper was some dug lord. What drug lord raps? Thats going backwards. A drug lord makes millions a day. A rapper has to wait for someone to pay them and it aint millions. LOL
Cube grew up with the 111 NHC them cats are solid as they come, Cube is from the hood he’s seen it all with his sister being killed, dead homies, fights and more that we don’t know about . Just kuz you ain’t actively gang banging committing 187’s pressin enemies doesn’t mean your not bred from those same streets.