Ice Cube Responds To “Hardcore” Fans’ Backlash Over “Drop Girl”

    Ice Cube has responded to criticism over his recent “Drop Girl” single and video.

    “To my hardcore fans, it’s only one song,” Ice Cube says in a video the rapper posted on Instagram. “When you see your girl dance to this shit, you’ll love me again.”

    Ice Cube’s video features the following caption: “A message to the hardcore!” 

    Cube was criticized for the 2 Chainz and Redfoo-assisted track by some, including HipHopDX reader “xhosa” who said the following in a comment for the “Drop Girl” video: “damn what a stupid song,why did Ice Cube have do this shit it useless…” Another reader, this one anonymous, called it “rotten.” A reader who calls himself “REAL WIGGA” also commented, saying, “HILARIOUS. 2 STARS FOR BEING FUNNY.” 

    Ice Cube spoke to HipHopDX about this in the past.

    “It’s a dope record,” he said. “It’s Ice Cube. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel at all. I’m just trying to be up to date with my topics and my flow.”

    Cube’s Everthangs Corrupt is set to be released this year. 

    To view the “Drop Girl” video, click here

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    65 thoughts on “Ice Cube Responds To “Hardcore” Fans’ Backlash Over “Drop Girl”

    1. Lame song to be featured on a album titled “everything is corrupt”. In the words of the man himself… “Ice Cube is not for the pop charts”

      1. “So where does a sucka like you start” Aww man so many contradictions you can find on that classic record…. But let’s give Ice Cube the benefit of the doubt, my fellow NWA enthusiast, none of us have the same mentality than we had in 88. That Dr. Dre “new friends” post was the final nail in the NWA coffin for me lol.

        I agree with your post though, respect on bringing that line back up.

      2. May have been his words, but after a handful of paydays from over budgeted kids movies, he is the corruption he speaks of. Everything about this song is corrupt. shameless corporate whorism.

    2. I saw Cube at the High Times Cannabis Cup in April and he killed his set! Homie performed damn near his entire catalog and even gave us a sneak preview performance of “Drop Girl” and everybody was Wilin’ Out!

    3. Still disappointed if he wanted to make a club song at least make it west coast, instead of what everyone is doing and not with lame feats

    4. The song is actually well done. At least he can make a good club song after being in the game 30 years.

      1. A good club song. Na. definitely not. I was a club dj for over 10 years and would have never let this slip into my collection of booty music.

    5. Ice Cube used to come hard, he was one of my favorites. This shit he put out now represents nothing I thought about him. Very disappointing. The song is garbage. I agree with the other comment, it would be better to dance to nothing than dance to this piece of shit!!

    6. It’s the fact your changing your style of flow and music to please what the industry and radio wants! Fuck them and make music for your fans the music you know how to make cube. Not this new sell out shot just to make a buck. Your rich already fuck the money make the music that put u on the map not this fake shit!

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    8. Cube has had a song like this on every album since his war and peace vol 2 album so stop bitching and saying he’s changed cube can do and collab with whoever he wants he doesn’t owe you anything. I hate this type of music too but it is what it is. “You can do it”,”you gotta lotta that”, “she couldn’t make it on her own” are all stupid commercial songs that cube has done and yet nobody complained back then

      1. Those songs you just mentioned are classics compared to Drop Girl. That track is just…garbage. And video is even worse.

      2. yes I agree they are better but still not good in my opinion. This new song sucks but you guys act like cube has never made a bad song before this which is not true imo

    9. Really? It can’t be as bad as snoops track with psy? That’s the wackest track I’ve ever heard ever!

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    11. i havent heard this song and i dont wanna hear ive been done with cube since watered down wack war and peace albums he hasnt made nothing dope since westside connection thats the problem with lot of these veteren artists today they try too hard to please everybody instead of keeping it real with thier sound from the jump if it aint broke dont fix it yeah u gotta change with the times i get that but damn u dont have to change all together u can still make dope music the cube i fuck with is the nigga ya love ta hate you know how we do it wicked ice cube thats the cube i fuck with i dont fuck with this wack cube out this wack bullshit he doing now dont come close to his classic shit

    12. See this is why lots of real artist and musicians do not expect Hip hop as a art listen to Ice Cube , he sounds illiterate and has no business being called a real music artist, ” he just wanted to do what was up to date ” How about doing timeless music which has no expiration goofy. I just threw all your music in the trash. YOU HAD THE NERVE TO SAY STAY TRUE TO THE GAME. AND YOUR OLD ASS IS MAKING KIDDIE MUSIC. YOU SHOULD OF PROGRESSED WITH YOUR ART.YOU GOT TOO MUCH MONEY TO THE POINT ITS CLOUDED YOUR MIND ON REAL ART. WHEN YOU WAS A KID ….BOYZ IN THE HOOD WAS NOT NO UP TO DATE FLOW. DOPEMAN…IT WAS SOME FLY NEW GANGTSA SHHH. SOME OSHEA JACKSON DOING HIM. this drop girl is embarrasing as a black man I must say we make the most dumb socially irresponsible degrading music in the world.I guess that is up to date to be ignorant. I guess thats why there is an epidemic of black on black killings and fatherless children and you old ass sellouts are rapping about drop it girl

    13. Horrible music. Looks like cube’s after a retirement pay check, making commercial shit like this..that is fair enough, but don’t expect any respect in the rap game it’s this st, he’s in the same category as 2chain with this bullshit

    14. Drop Girl? OMG That sh*t was so bad, don’t disrespect his other lame songs by comparing them. I understand the man is 45yrs old and needs to feed his seeds, but JAY-SUS, he gives a whole new dimension to the the phrase “sell-out.” But he’s been wack ever since he made those lame DISNEY-ish movies playing the same over-aged homeboy. Most young 20 heads don’t know who he is anyways. So its desperation time, but he can’t be taken seriously. SAD.

    15. No my girl want dance at this weak shit. Give it up Cube since 1996 your albums have been garbage. Go to Hollywood and act in some stupid comedy movie you commercial fool.

    16. Is like everybody…..you can’t please everybody everytime. So you just do you. Like he even stated “Its just one song on the album. I’m sure he has a track that will be soo dope he will redeam himself (Though he does not have to justify it to me). And with MP3’s you can just jump the song. Its not cassette

    17. Is their any real hip hop fans I hate hip hop fans all you guys do is put rappers in a box you guys like hoes you ain’t loyal how you diss An artist who has 3-4 classic albums if Ice Cube took off Drop Girl his Album and his album get 5 mics you still willnt buy it anyway so you rather hate because your envy him because he’s bigger than rap the reason I call you hater because most of you have never bought an cube album or listen to one but you hate . And not even loyal to favorite rapper because you don’t buy their albums either your a paid broke mad hater you hate anyone behind their back and suck cock in person your fuckboys not fans ice Cube is third rapper of all time I got seven of his album so rather drop girl is on the album Im buying because that what real fans do bitches !!!!

      1. Real talk

        If anything this song showed me how fukked up the game is. Dudes talking about they threw away his music and how cube supposed to be the epitome of blackness but I know when it comes to this internet rap thing a lot of them are rookies. They dont even know who weird al is dawg how Im supposed to believe them talking about cube, lol

      2. You sound mad. Why is that homie? Is your homo love for Cube blinding your better judgement? Cube has had some really good music over the years. Some bad as well, but what he’s doing now, while not the worst, is still pretty fucking embarrassing. It’s obvious he’s catering to what sells today, and that’s fine. Just don’t be surprised when hip hop fans come out firing with criticism.

      3. ice cube has always had a song that was for the radio on his albums… on war and peace he had that song with korn ,laugh now cry later he had go to church with lil jon and on raw footage he had got my locs on with jeezy… yall dont know shit

    18. You said the realest shit thus far and it was exactly what I was thinking. A rapper like Ice Cube is supposed to set standards and make the rules!! Not follow them!!

      1. Maybe 15 years ago, but today he’s making Hollywood paper, and doesn’t care what some internet bystanders think. Hate it or love it, it’s what Cube did, so live with it.

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    20. You guys make excuses for so called artist who really no longer have a hunger to be the best at their art and push the creativity forward and contribute to its advancement, this is a song thats all about getting paid regardless of its ignorance and downright damn near weirdness. a man thats old enough to be a grandfather out here making songs about Drop it girl.And not even creative in the process, recycled flow and over used azz beat style. The beatles, Stevie wonder, U2, and real artist try to advance the music and make timeless music. Cube chastised sellouts in his music many times yet he has became the very thing he spoke on,……and then to say an excuse about the people who dont like this song their girl will be dancing to it ..how ignorant…NAH SUN….my girl wwould never degrade herself dancing to this shhh….She a be off some Erykah badu, Lauryn Hill, Maybe even Jhene Aiko…..definitely not this….lol booo ..not even good enough for a free download

      1. its one track. ppl r gonna listen to what they want. what he’s doing is exposing himself to the fans of redfoo and 2chainz. Fans of those cats will check for him, maybe buy more into this album, and possibly ones in the past. Its a way in so they get into him and buy his back catalog and brand.

    21. “including HipHopDX reader “xhosa” who said the following in a comment for the “Drop Girl” video: “damn what a stupid song,why did Ice Cube have do this shit it useless…” Another reader, this one anonymous, called it “rotten.” A reader who calls himself “REAL WIGGA” also commented, saying, “HILARIOUS. 2 STARS FOR BEING FUNNY.””

      Lol @ Andres Tardio exposing y’all niggas

    22. After reading the comments by some of you bleeding pussies..I’ll say this..had this been a song with T.I. or Drake you pussies would still be bleeding..Ice Cube is a legend and can do what the fuck he so pleases..he don’t need yall anyway..like y’all pussies were going to buy his album before you heard this song..

    23. worst Cube song I’ve ever heard.

      Sasquatch was terrible too. Sick Them Youngin’s on Em was average. Cube fell a long way

    24. “You used to be hardcore Hip Hop, but look at yourself boy, you done flip flopped, giving our music away to the mainstream, don’t you know they ain’t down with the team?” Ice Cube – True to tha game, Death Certificate. I understand that artists have to evolve, and stay relevant but Ice Cube seems squarely fixated on becoming the person that he used to hate when he first started out. Welcome to the world of pop music Ice Cube.

    25. ima always be a Cube fan,but i will never like this song and neither will my girl! get back to the real shit Cube!

    26. This website looks like a joke. They couldn’t have quoted those comments with serious faces. As for the song, it sucks, just like most of the hip-hop over there in America. Lyrics are not only bad but also meaningless and the beat is horrible techno crap. Even though Ice Cube released shit like “Do ya thang” in the past, which was a bad song, he also made a lot of great stuff post-NWA, lots of great stuff with West Connection and on his own. Now Ice Cube is just another dude kissing the ass of the “new” industry.

    27. When you first start rhyming
      It started off slow and then you start climbing
      But it wasn’t fast enough I guess
      So you gave your other style a test
      You was hardcore hip-hop
      Now look at yourself, boy you done flip-flopped
      Giving our music away to the mainstream
      Don’t you know they ain’t down with the team
      They just sent they boss over
      Put a bug in your ear and now you crossed over
      On MTV but they don’t care
      They’ll have a new nigga next year
      You out in the cold
      No more white fans and no more soul
      And you might have a heart attack
      When you find out the black folks don’t want you back
      And you know what’s worse?
      You was just like the nigga in the first verse
      Stop selling out your race
      And wipe that stupid-ass smile off your face
      Niggas always gotta show they teeth
      Now I’m a be brief
      Be true to the game

      CUBE — YOU ARE A SELLOUT!

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