Ice Cube has made controversial art on two sides of the scale — from his early days with N.W.A to his role in John Singleton’s 1995 film Higher Learning. Over the years, Cube has been close to the forefront of examining race in America through his own hyper-focused lens as well. Recently, a 2006 reality series he produced for FX titled Black. White. resurfaced on Twitter, bringing up old memories of the short-lived show. It forced certain Twitter users to re-examine the show with a 2022 worldview.
“What’s it like to walk not just in another man’s shoes, but in another man’s skin?” the synopsis for the show reads. “That’s the question this series asks as it transforms through extensive makeup work a Black family into a white family and vice versa.”
For the duration of the experiment, both families lived with one another and once the makeup was removed, they explained the differences they experienced while living as a different skin color. All six episodes of the series can be found on YouTube for free (FX didn’t renew it for a second season).
One Twitter user commented, “Most people thought the show was funny or they just didn’t care about it but no one took it seriously. So it’s funny seeing young people just finding out about this show Ice Cube produced and losing their shit.”
Ice Cube is currently on tour and has yet to comment on the show bubbling up on social media.
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Damn sensitive ass young people and their stupid ass twitter memes. Everything is offensive to them. Why do they feel the need to comment on something 16 years old. Cant they grasp that the previous generation didnt give a shit ?
Exactly!!!! If They Only Knew What Kind Of Emcee Ice Cube Is Pre “We Be Clubbin” Then They’ll Just Understand I Was 17 When This Dropped On FX I Wasn’t In An Uproar Because It Was A Social Experiment Show…. This Generation Are Lost As Hell…. They Really Seek Unnecessary Validation..
It actually looks like a fun and interesting show. Don’t expect intellectual from it but just for some good, brainless fun, it looked like a fresh concept. I don’t understand why people are getting upset over it.
How is this a bad thing? I think white people should have to mandatorily live this way for a couple of years out of their life. Maybe then they’d get it and stop spewing their hateful nonsense at everybody without context of what we go through living in this country that was literally built on our ancestors’ backs yet has never been for us to win on any level. But 99% of them are too scared to do it because they know what it is but don’t want it to change anyway.
Way to generalize you clown. You obviously never got a real education and prolly spend your whole day on twitter wrapped up in your weird little online world. Maybe you should grow some balls and try to be successful instead of blaming millions of individuals you know nothing about for your inadequacies. Old bitter ass loser.
I’m pretty successful. What does that have to do with your government sanctioning owning my ancestors to build this country for almost 200 years? As usual, bitches like you answer emotionally and without rationality because you know you have no leg to stand on and know I’m right. Oh, and I’ve never in my life had a Twitter account bitch.
You dont have the slightest clue what your ancestors went through. A white kid doesn’t have a clue what his great great great grandpa did either. Its hard for blacks to see past slavery, its hard for whites to see past blacks committing non stop murder, glorifying gangs and sellin crack to their own people. We gotta meet in the middle somewhere.
Cube always been a massive greedy hypocrite anyway, we all know that. Preaching about racism but doing shows like this because he is greedy, working with racists when it suits him, being a fake Muslim……the list goes on
Cube’s always been an attention hungry anti-semite. He loves shitting on anyone that doesn’t look like him.
Meanwhile, he was exposed as being as fake as Rick Ross. Homie was an Architectural Collge student writing raps from college about the gang lifestyle. A lifestyle he never lived.
The rare retroactive, non sexual assault, cancel. Gen z pulls this move once in a while. Nothing to see here, they’ll forget about it in 3 days
ADORABLE. THE LATEST TEENAGERS OUTRAGING OVER THEIR 1ST GOOGLE SEARCH. MAD LATE. DROP THE SOY AND EAT SOME REAL PROTEIN.
WORD! Lol
I watched this when it was on. The make up was so trash that all the interactions had to be staged because people easily caught on.
Before April 9, 2022, no one in the world—including Cube—was thinking about this show.