Ice Cube’s “22 Jump Street” Opens As Second Highest Earning R-Rated Comedy In History

    22 Jump Street just edged out How to Train Your Dragon 2 to take the weekend box office title, grabbing $60 million across 3,306 locations, according to Variety.

    Ice Cube assumes the role of Captain Dickson in the movie, a narcotics officer in charge of an undercover operation aimed at locating the supplier of a drug described in the film as “WHYPHY” (WiFi).

    Going into the weekend, most movie analysts predicted that How to Train Your Dragon 2 would be the highest-grossing film. 22 Jump Street nearly doubled the $36 million debut of the original film. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum co-star with Cube in the movie.

    Ice Cube has acted in numerous movies over the years. He got his first role as an actor in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, where he starred as Darin “Doughbouy” Baker, the maternal half-brother of main character, Ricky Baker and proclaimed Crip gang member. Since his first film, Ice Cube has went on to star in over 30 movies including Friday, BarberShop and Are We There Yet?, among others.

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    54 thoughts on “Ice Cube’s “22 Jump Street” Opens As Second Highest Earning R-Rated Comedy In History

    1. Ice Cube’s “22 Jump Street”

      That’s like saying Tyrese Gibson’s “Fast and Furious”. They star in it, but they’re not the commanding roles in respective movies

      1. Ice Cube was a main character… he was 3rd billed his character was a HUGE deal… HE HAD THE FUNNIEST SCENE IN THE MOVIE

      2. @brendon

        nah, that whole “let me beat up the restaurant” scene was meh and kinda cringeworthy.

        Funniest scene had to be Channing Tatum with the “oh shit” moment

    2. Finally covering a real one! I don’t care how many people talk shit about this legend. If you knew your history(u can only be a real hip hop fam if you do) It was the government, the writers, CIA, etc that called these dudes “gangsters” and called the music “gangster rap,” fuck all that noise too, jay z ain’t no legend, Hawaiian Sophie, Nas ain’t no legend, married kellis, then like sucker forced to pay a ho! It’s cheaper to keep her! Big triple OG ice cube is the real deal, wasn’t for him, wouldn’t be no jays, no nas, no biggie. He made popular that G shit. These fag skirt, bitch clothes wearing rappers shook of the powers that be, let alone their own shadow; big OG don mega had the CIA shook, sending threats to shut him down n shit. That’s REAL, real ass shit, to have not a corporation, but the fucking government on your ass! Revolutionary stuff, Death Certificate easily better than ANYTHING past two decades. Bitch boys, you just been schooled, those that know what cube did for the art form, what it do! Haters choke off of nut, hater ho’s stick a baseball bat in your cunt. Fuck who disagrees.

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    4. “As Second Highest Earning R-Rated Comedy In History”

      call me crazy,, but a real journalist would have written what the 1st HIGHEST EARNING R RATED COMEDY IS….

      TED, which over took HANGOVER

    5. Yeah this movie grossed what it did cause of cube..not a nominated Oscar actor and one of the most bankable white boys in Hollywood right now..lol

    6. this movie was straight boo boo

      walked out the first 10 minutes

      waste of money and time

    7. nigga had like 43 lines in the first one.. doubt he has much more here. Why the fuck y’all saying it’s his movie?

      1. Here it’s a hip hop site so they have to relate it somehow, plus he’s like the 3rd main character and a big part of the movie.

        Hip hop fans be such haters man we must support our own culture if a fuckin baller was in a movie like this they be putting it in the blogs and bigging up their own. If an R&B singer does a post mets game concert they wouldnt be hating, etc. Why do hip hop fans be hating on their own I don’t get it?

    8. and at least tell us what the 1st highest grossing one is.. and mention the sales of the dragon movie too

      hhdx never surprises me with it’s shit “journalism”

      1. It was the hangover movie. And why the fuck is DX claiming this is an Ice Cube movie, this is a channing tatum and Jonah Hill movie.

    9. People are addicted to movies. They will go see anything advertised (except for actual quality films). The lamest comedies become blockbusters. What was that bullshit movie about the end of the world at JAmes Franco’s house? That was beat-my-head-off-a-door lame!

      1. sounding like you’re a social misfit or you broke because no sane person who has family, friends, dating or in a relationship would ever say what you did

        just either the movie was/is wack or wait to redbox/on-demand it

    10. Ice Cube’s “22 Jump Street”.. Come on now, y’all acting like it’s Cube’s movie or that there is 1 person out there going to see it because of him.

      1. Ayo it’s a hip hop site so they have to relate it somehow, plus he’s like the 3rd main character and a big part of the movie.

        Hip hop fans be such haters man we must support our own culture if a fuckin baller was in a movie like this they be putting it in the blogs and bigging up their own. If an R&B singer does a post mets game concert they wouldnt be hating, etc. Why do hip hop fans be hating on their own I don’t get it?

    11. your all dumbass mother fuckers, if youv scene the movie youll know he was the 3rd main character and alot of the movie is based around him, his daugther and working with the 2 main characters, yall niggas hating because hes getting serious paper and you all broke as fuck dick suckers

    12. Ice cube’s. He was no director, producer, writer, or financial contributor. He was an actor in it. This site I swear. Sometimes I think they do shit like this so we can comment how they are wrong just for kicks

      1. obviously has the headline because if they didnt people like you would say how is this connected to hip hop. they cant win.

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      Uncle Tom ass fa66ot, thinks he’s been validated to use the N word just cuz he’s black. All white fanbase having h0m0, wack as fuck qu33r, who listen to this fruit cake???

      1. why the fuck you talking hopsin nigga, you spelled out “penises” and didn’t think you were a homo?

      1. It’s a hip hop site so they have to relate it somehow, plus he’s like the 3rd main character and a big part of the movie.

        Hip hop fans be such haters man we must support our own culture if a fuckin baller was in a movie like this they be putting it in the blogs and bigging up their own. If an R&B singer does a post mets game concert they wouldnt be hating, etc. Why do hip hop fans be hating on their own I don’t get it?

    14. I wouldn’t say it “edged” out How to Train 2, it beat it by 10 million… that’s a big fucking edge.

    15. I’ve never seen either movie, nor do I intend to since these new “21 Jump Street” movie trailers show they aren’t related to the TV series of the same name. For everyone that criticized this article, because this movie was described as Ice Cube’s movie, I’d like to point out the name of this website: https://hiphopdx.com . With that being said, I’m sure no further explanation as to why the article was titled the way it was is needed, but I’ll humor Ice Cube’s detractors. Since I’m sure it’s safe for me to assume that Ice Cube’s body of work in hip hop far surpasses Jonah Hill’s and Channing Tatum’s contributions to hip hop, his name was the one mentioned on this hip hop site, when they made reference to “22 Jump Street”. One eye-opening observation though, most of the critics of this article blasted Ice Cube, instead of the writer. Which probably means they disliked Ice Cube anyway, because he may not even know that this article exists. Actions certainly speak louder than words, even when that action is just putting out words.

    16. Its funny that a bunch of broke people argue over whether or not someone wrote or produced something… This is my point Ice cube made millions for just being in the movie and all of you made comments and still broke asses!!! Get a life!!!!

    17. Niggas think ice cube is the reason behind the succes but cube cant act or produces movies. its because of the 2 white boys

      1. NOT TRUE AT ALL!! You 2 are dumb as fuck!! Kill yourselves since we cant turn back the clock and have you 2 aborted!!

      2. this is y i usually dont read comments……faggots like this dude jus talkn to be talkn. No friends…..probably 16 & wanna kill himself cuz nobody likes him at school lol

    18. Congratulation Cube. Two number 1 movies this year, and these openings are big numbers. It’s fucked up though my man can be such a big box office draw, and still struggle to get pictures green-lit. Yet assholes like Jonny dep and Tom cruise’s movies flop but they still headline $200 mil pictures. “…let’s make our own movies like Spike Lee…Burn, Hollywood, Burn”.

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    20. YADA YADA YADA, EASY E was the TRUTH of the NWA group, Ice cube, ice tea and dr drew all talked that bullshyt until they dropped their drawers and TV roles to entertain the white man. Step and fetch it nigga. Money made these niggas stop talking about the problems in the HOOD and start talking about the money THEY GOT and calling BLACK women bitches. can I get a amen

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