Before Ice Cube starred in films such as Are We There Yet? and Fist Fight, he’d already built a rap career centered on gang-banging anthems and shouting “fuck tha police.” A South Central Los Angeles native, Cube witnessed plenty of gun violence and saw first-hand what happened if someone stepped out of line.
During a recent interview with In Depth with Graham Bensinger, Cube admitted he nearly killed a drug addicted man who’d swindled his mother out of $20 with some “cockamamie story.” Thankfully, fate intervened.
“I was so mad,” he said. “You violated me and my family. So, me and my friends were going around the corner to kill him. And he wasn’t home. So, thank God. … Because we were young, we were mad, we had a weapon, and it was going to happen.”
Ice Cube still thinks about that day and knows his life could’ve turned out much differently.
“It would’ve been stupid and I wouldn’t be sitting here if it did happen,” he added. “Like I said, I’m glad he wasn’t there, because nobody should die over $20.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Cube was asked about his sister’s murder that took place when he was just 12 years old.
“It made me realize how cruel the world could be,” he replied. “It made me realize something as precious as your life can be taken away by somebody you know. It made me realize life is not a joke. It’s precious and it just made me a more serious person. It robs your literal childhood. It took away a little bit of what it is to be a kid.”
Other topics include Cube’s parents, the time his mother forced him to take his ex-girlfriend to prom and how he communicates with his children.
This wanna be thug. He was in school studying to be an architect. The only real thug in NWA was Eazy.
Who died of SuperAIDs from a needle injected by one of Suge Knight’s Undercover goons. Seriously, who dies in 3 weeks?
He never sold drugs or was in a gang or anything. Seriously this guy had different goals. Its actually a good thing, but when this guy then wants to pretend to be hard its a joke.
Ice Cube never said he sold drugs or was in a gang. The gang he was in was NWA. The only person in NWA who claimed on record to be an actual gangster was Eazy. That was the whole NWA brand. Eazy was the charismatic street hustler. Dre was the musical visionary, Cube was the genius lyricist and actual intellectual, Ren was the shooter and Yella got the girls with the DJ set after the show
I can never understand trolls. Don’t get it twisted. Just bc he out here as a new man making money doing family movies don’t mean he won’t wreck you. Go back to Fox News bii@+ch and quit trying to divide us. Like, what is your life worth spending time trying to create drama on a commemts board? You’re pitiful like your mom.
@ Smh / so you knock a dude for pointing out the fakeness of a wrapper making several fortunes repping thug life even though he wasn’t a thug? you call it pitiful for dude pointing that point out? what’s pitiful is your tongue up the asshole of a bitchassniqqa that don’t do shit for you. FOH homo wrap stan
@ Smh / so you knock a dude for pointing out the fakeness of a wrapper making several fortunes repping thug life even though he wasn’t a thug? you call it pitiful for dude pointing that point out? what’s pitiful is your tongue up the asshole of a bitchassniqqa that won’t do shit for you’re virgin ass. Truth hurts all you homo wrap stans FOH
You’re retarded bro, fox News is dividing us? Your a godamn idiot lmao
Bro, you must definitely not be from Los Angeles. If you know Cube and where he grew up, dude didn’t have to join a gang. Over where he grew up near Jesse Owens Park, when I tell you the gang life over there was real. It was as real as it can get! Cube got respect over there because he was student and a dope emcee. Man, you must not know Terry and Cube’s crew. Terry is a street dude. One of those real street dudes. Cube’s parents bused him out to the valley because they didn’t want him to attend Washington High School Prep (my alumni) because it was too rugged. Cube didn’t have to beat your azz because he was a solid dude with those lyrics.
@ THE Ripper, stfu. You acting like you know a momfucka personally. Of Course Cube is dope with the pen and a witty momfucka, but he really didn’t search the hood for that crackhead, in the end, he still got disrespected coz he didn’t find him and gave him a beating like he supposedly done to Above The Law
Heard he smoked a fool for 20 bucks
Quit it with the tough guy act you aren’t Dough Boy
They should have put this info in the movie rather than Ez drug deal gone wrong