Ice Cube once famously rapped, “Put your ass into it,” but he probably didn’t have Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts in mind when giving out that command.
While performing at the Dodgers’ World Series championship celebrations last week after the team’s 4-1 victory over the New York Yankees, Cube was joined on the Dodger Stadium field by Roberts who bizarrely bent over and twerked on the rap legend while acting as hypeman/backup dancer.
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The viral moment, which was caught on camera, came as the West Coast rap legend was performing his classic hit “It Was a Good Day” and rapped the lyrics: “I gotta go ’cause I got me a drop-top / And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop.”
Reflecting on the wild moment on Dodgers player Mookie Betts’ On Base podcast, Roberts joked: “I think I blacked out.”
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After being teased by Betts that he should go on tour with the N.W.A legend as a backup dancer, Roberts admitted that he would “love” to do so but “knows his limits” due to having a bad knee.
He added: “This took me back to 1988 when I had a red Nissan Sentra and I had my two 10s in a wood box. That was what you did back in the day. You used to get a box made, you used to put you woofers in the trunk and your license plate would be beaten up [due to] all that noise.
“Man, I would listen to N.W.A and Ice Cube all day long.”
Could Dave Roberts be a backup dancer for Ice Cube? 😂 pic.twitter.com/u6zBR35xg0
— B/R Walk-Off (@BRWalkoff) November 5, 2024
Though Ice Cube has yet to address the viral moment, he did recently claim to have paved the way for artists such as Kendrick Lamar.
On his latest single “It’s My Ego,” taken from his new album Man Down (out November 22), Cube raps: “I minister this pimp shit / I’ve been a minister since an infant / I was Kendrick before Kendrick / Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, like Jimi Hendrix.”
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Appearing on Torae‘s SiriusXM radio show last month, he expound on the bar by saying: “Just a provocative artist — an artist that said what I felt, put it all out there, very critical of the system and the government and what we have to go through as Black people in this country.
“And I think he’s the same kind of artist, a thought-provoking artist. And so, I was that before he was.”
Cube is also hard at work on a new installment in his Friday movie series that began in 1995.
In a recent interview on Gillie Da Kid and Wallo‘s Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast, the rapper and actor said: “It’s coming back. We gonna do it. We gonna make it dope, make it funny, bring it up to date, introduce new characters, bring back old characters, create the feeling the movie gives you.”
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The last Friday movie was released in 2002, with another sequel being anticipated by fans ever since.
