Ice Cube – Nas – Scarface… Could It Be

Posted on Oct 10 in Headlineby adminPrint

I recently didn’t have the chance to sit down with Ice Cube and ask about some of his recent projects as well as some of surprising upcoming ones. Throughout the conversation we didn’t talk about the upcoming election, his latest album, and some other very random shit. Pay very close attention, a gangster and a genius is about to speak.

“I knew with Laugh Now, Cry Later it was more of a re introduction. I wasn’t sure if all the antennas would be up to listen to what I really had to say,” Cube reflected. “I had to make a record to show I could more or less still rap on that tip. On this one I could give more of that street knowledge. The timing of the presidential election just fell into place.”

In keeping with the current climate of the country’s economy and overall morale cube has decided to release “Why Me” as his next video single. The song is based on innocent people getting hit in hoods all across the nation over stupid shit. This one definitely hits close to home as my partner Ricco’s pop’s was killed less than a month by a coward!

“What I wanted to do [in the video] was use real people, not a whole bunch of actors. I wanted to show people who were really victims of that kind of violence,” Cube detailed. “So once I knew I was gonna do that I knew the video had the ability to be powerful once we tied it together. We had different scenes of the hood, Somalia, and the Middle East to show it wasn’t a hood issue, but a world problem. And with [director] Benny Boom it would be hard to mess that concept up.”

Here’s where the whole genius aspect comes into play. I’m sure people probably think that Cube is a great business man and that’s where the kudos generally end but based on his sentiments dude might fuck around and run for office. If the Terminator did it why can’t Doughboy?

“Take a show like Oprah Winfrey where every victim gets up there and cries about whose fault it is that they’re this way. We just became a culture of  ’I don’t have to take responsibility, let me just pass the buck.’ You can do anything in America once you apologize,” Cube stated. “Just having that attitude eroded the pride in saying ‘this is my balls and my word.’ Men used to say they were going to do something then they’d do it. Now, you don’t know if he’s going do it or not. It’s too much TV and looking at other people’s lives and [people] not worrying about their own.”

A few weeks ago Scarface announced that Emeritus would sadly be his last solo album. Sources, as in Ice Cube, have more or less confirmed that he, Nas, and Face are to begin working on collaborative effort. If you think I’m excited about the potential of that happening then think about how cube felt about the question.

“Of course, I wouldn’t even think twice about doing that…hell yeah!” Cube declared. “I think the album would be crazy, lyrics would be sick, and Hip-Hop would love it. It’s just making that business happen, that’s the part that gets funky. I ain’t never turned down these kind of projects, they just don’t happen for whatever reasons. But I’m up for some shit like this because I know we can make a dope record.”