Ice Cube discusses Black Lives Matter, during Bloomberg Politics interview
Rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube offered his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement, in the wake of comments former president, Bill Clinton made about the organization. According to Cube, the mere fact that Black Lives Matter exists proves “how bad the problem is.”
The musician also responded to comments from those who question if black lives matter to black people.
“The fact that you even have to say ‘black lives matter’ lets you know how bad the problem is,” Ice Cube said. “And I know a lot of people blur the lines and say ‘Well, do black lives matter to black people?’ Of course they do. And they talk about black on black crime, but all communities commit crime against their own…The government killing citizens, that is a whole different texture and a whole different argument. And it’s apples and oranges to me.”
Ice Cube later explained that any concerns about past comments Hillary Clinton made, specifically those about “super-predators,” are warranted given that the politician could possibly become president.
“She might be the president of the United States,” he said. “And if she becomes the president of the United States, we need to know what she’s thinking. How does she think. How is she gonna handle this. How’s she gonna fix this. She helped create it in a way. How are you gonna fix this?”
Prior to speaking on Black Lives Matter and Hillary Clinton, Ice Cube was asked why there’s been a decline in political Hip Hop given the highly-charged, political climate currently present.
“It’s not rewarded at all,” the rapper said. “It’s not rewarded on radio…If you go political and go hardcore with it, you just really kinda set yourself straight into the underground. About ’93, the gatekeepers of the airwaves started to say ‘You know, that kind of political rap, we’re really not gonna play that. It’s not really a style.’ And they started to play and promote the escapism kind of rap. Sex, drugs, money, cars, women, clothes, clubbing. All the excess became more popular and more exposed.”
Video of Ice Cube speaking on Black Lives Matter and Hillary Clinton, can be found below.
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This site used to be decent a few years ago now it’s just the same recycled articles no wonder it’s becoming known as the home of race baiting .PS I’m white by the way
After reading your post there was no question about your nationality/race
You’re a fuckboy. I can tell because you can’t come to grips with how your race is starting to lose constantly. Feels bad, doesn’t it lol! My guess is that you’re a culture vulture, wanting to be in the streets and listen to hip hop. Boy, you aint welcome so GTFO!
You can’t run from the problem, if you want to be down. Or is you a culture vulture , your pass is revoked
Ya we knew it, fuck yer culture vulture cracka ass, someone will slap you up fool!
Black People created everything & rock & roll we had chubby checkers & chuck berry little Richard & Jimi Hendrix & billy cox & little willie john & all the first people to be found was black people we were the first civilization & we were richer than Europe we had diamonds & Oil & we built the pyramids we were kings & Queens before yall bitch white people came to get are ancestors so Fuck yall
black people are da original people, da first people and originators of everything and that’s why black lives always gonna matter by any means necessary. all white devils need to die asap!!! farrakhan for president!!!
Ice cube fell off when left NWA,dre was the only reason could rrap, I wish he would melt already
Rappers are the original culture vultures, stealing their shit from the Italians
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>And they started to play and promote the escapism kind of rap. Sex, drugs, money, cars, women, clothes, clubbing.< this question in this regard is why so many black people distribute to this crap and the answer is money over everything, i call them chuch-niggas cuz there is where they learned it from (see p.diddy for e.g)
Sooo more white people were killed by police in any given year if you actualy read statistics just the fact it doesnt get blasted all over TV like it does when a black person is shot or assaulted by police the black side of the race issue is a huge ratings game for them and just like the people at black lives matter say they can control the government with the influences the media has over the people stop being fucking sheep and realize there is crime accross the board against EVERYONE and lets as a country rise up together and change things there are over 350 million people in this country and between the government state officials military and everything they are 1 million or less and WE have the power and can make change but they alwayd put us against one another whites vs muslims whites vs blacks whites vs mexicans whites this whites that well we are the majority in this world so of course everything we do will never ever go un noticed and so many of us to where its easy just to portray us as the antagonists everyone hates to stop us from rising up against them of course we have fucked up slavery was fucking horrible no person should ever be treated as property EVER nor rights be infringed upon in any way yet we are the ones who can admitt how wrong it is and would never stoop to such an awful thing again yet in africa black people enslave black people everyday for labor excavating diamonds and will kill one another for literaly less than $100 us dollars but yet we are the devils and hate us and fight us no we all need to work together to make change and until that happens this world will always be how it is