Ice Cube found himself a trending Twitter topic earlier this week after Donald Trump’s senior campaign advisor Katrina Pierson thanked him for “helping” the Trump campaign with The Platinum Plan.
Naturally, people were shocked the same person responsible for the 2018 song “Arrest The President” was any way affiliated with a Republican, especially when he’s a founding member of the pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A, a group that’s always been anti-establishment.
On Thursday (October 15), as Cube continued taking Twitter lashings from outraged fans, he announced CNN had previously scheduled him for an episode of Prime Time with Chris Cuomo, then canceled.
“So the POWERS that be cancelled my interview on @CuomoPrimeTime tonight,” he wrote. “I’ve actually been ban from @CNN for a few months so I was surprised they even asked. But it seems like they can’t handle the truth.”
But on Friday (October 16), Cube revealed the show was back on, writing, “Rebooked on @CuomoPrimeTime tonight. The truth will set you free.”
Sure enough, Cube showed up toward the end of the show and appeared immediately offended after Cuomo insinuated he sought out the Trump campaign.
“Your lead-ins are a little misleading,” he told Cuomo. “The Platinum Plan is not my plan. I came up with Contract With Black America [CWBA]. I didn’t run to work with any campaign. Both campaigns contacted me. Both campaigns wanted to talk to me about the Contract With Black America … I didn’t run to nobody, so that was real misleading to me. You said I ran over to the Trump team instead of the Biden team and that’s just not true. I’m willing to work with both teams. I’m just working with whoever is willing to work with me.”
Cube then asserted he was “not playing no more of these political games” and would go to “whoever’s in power.” He added, “I’m going there for Black Americans, the ones who are the decedents of slaves, and that’s what I’m going to talk to anybody who’s in power. If anybody has a problem with that, it seems like a personal problem.”
When Cuomo asked how he could possibly trust Trump’s word, Cube replied, “I’ve never met Donald Trump. I don’t know what he’s going to do. I just know what he said he’s going to do. Both of them have a plan. Both of them say say they’re going to do something. Who knows whats going to happen after November 3. Nobody knows, from each side. We’re all hoping candidates keep their campaign promises.”
He then assured Cuomo, “I’m not trusting any of them. I’m just going by action. That’s all I’m going by. I’m not going by words, rhetoric, media spin — I’m not going by any of that. I’m not on nobody’s team. I’m not on team blue. I’m not on team red. I’m an independent person and I believe that’s what Black people need to do is become independent and we need to get something for our vote … I’m working with whoever’s in power. Whoever wins, they’ll hear from me.”
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Cube then explained the motive behind the CWBA, saying, “My plan is broad. It goes beyond the public sector. It goes into the private sector — banks, even the movie industry. We gotta deal with a lot of different companies, corporations and even government when it comes to solving this problem. I believe it’s a bipartisan problem when it comes to Blacks in America and what’s going on.
“This is for both of them to solve … they seem to come together when it something that really affects America, and I don’t think nothing affects America more than the situation that Black America finds ourselves in. This country is coming apart at the seams, and it’s not going to come together unless we deal with this wealth gap.”
The Hip Hop legend also talked about police violence and how it’s “just part of our life here.” He continued, “Once we get some capital, we’ll be treated better. This is a capitalistic society and if you ain’t got no money — you see how people are treated on the street. Bottom line is, dollars bring dignity… we need to close this wealth gap.
“It’s not getting smaller. Do some research; this is the problem in America. Black people have no capital. We own half of a point when it comes to all the wealth in America — 13.5 percent of people living off half of a point. We can’t survive in America for another 100 years living like this.”
While Cube was thankful Cuomo invited him on his platform, he had a few words for fellow CNN anchor Don Lemon who, according to Twitter, basically called Cube ignorant following the interview.
“Thank you Chris @CuomoPrimeTime you’re a man of your word,” he tweeted after the show. “@donlemon that was some punks ass shit you just did. If you have any balls. I need to be on your show Monday night at 10pm. I’ll be ready.”
Well done ice cube for waking up past the demorats lies
The man who control CNN is Jeff Zucker. He wears a small hat!
just as long as it doesn’t involve torturing tormenting and killing people eh!
Fuck cube. Work with the kkk if you want to but don’t say it’s for all black people simp ass nigga
No fuck you, KKK has always been the militant wing of the democrat party. Study your history. I’m sick of white liberals telling us what we can and can’t do. No the parties never switched. KKK, Jim Crow, Slavery was all democrat.
What a dummy. You are holding the democrat party hostage over something that happened 100 years ago (neither of us were alive, nor were our parents) and you claim to know everything about it? Nah, the parties did switch and you can watch the slave drivers any time you want a reminder of who they are or what they were about…just turn on Fox News, you’ll see plenty!
Joe Biden’s best friend in the Senate was a Democrat Senator and KKK Grand Dragon Robert C. Byrd who sat in Senate 1959-2010 and helped Joe Biden WRITE the 1994 crime bill and all the other legislation Biden wrote under Reagan, George H. W. Bush and first two years on Clinton (1981-1994) while Democrats had MAJORITY in the Senate and House.
The parties NEVER switched, the KKK sat in Senate and House as part of the Democrats since 1950’s and until 2010.
In Robert C. Byrd’s funeral Biden gave the eulogy and said what a great man Byrd was and then Biden cried together with Hillary.
Is it a part of Democrat party or is it a part of social conservatism, which is an instrument of white supremacy? Because there is a difference between those two things. Harry S. Dent was a social conservative. Barry Goldwater was a social conservative. Richard Nixon was a social conservative. Joseph McCarthy. Ronald Reagan. All of those individuals were Republicans and American social conservatives. So it has nothing to do with political parties but everything to do with personal values, which is Cube’s point. Black American issues are not a device that should be used as a tool for someone’s political platform. They are real and needed to be treated as such. So you can kill all that party noise. I am opposed to social conservatism and whoever or whatever harbors that ideology.
Fukkk you troglodyte Chris. Go suck Broke Don
How us he working with the kkk? He said hes working with both parties to try and improve black america.. But even someone like cube who tries to fix issues is called out by a retard like you, who just speaks out his ass with no basis in fact.. Go back under your bridge.. We dont want you here.. Ol grumpy ass troll.. Lolol
So hope you that the KKK was started by the Democrat party and still are run bybtgem. Biden spoke at the funeral of a KKJ leader and said that the man was his mentor. He also received tgecdesk that the KKK manifestonwas written on. The 94 crime bill is also proof of his racist ideology. Here you are a biased ignorant Dummycrat who knows nothing outside of the false narrative your brainwashed with through the media. We got ppl like you who want to blame white ppl for oppression when it’s your own ppl who oppress you. Black ppl killing each other daily, pushing dope to their ppl, supporting the baby killing party of liberal socialist who us going to put you back in chains. Your a special kind of stupid.
All these black twitter intellectuals are mad at Cube, because he is open minded. I don’t see how black lives got any better under Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. The Democratic Party only talks about taking money from rich people, and giving free stuff to impoverished people. But, what actually ever changes?
Nope, that’s a Twisted and False Narrative, Ice Cube Corrected and Clarified to Chris Cuamo That he isn’t siding with either side, he’s just proposing his “Contract With Black America”….No matter who the president is Biden or the other guy,….It’s a Known fact that Businessmen and BusinessWomen indeed collaborate with others that may not like, but transparency is the common denominator, Many People Criticized Ice Cube way before listening, reading, and watching the full clip in it’s entirety, That’s what’s Wrong with many people in this World…You Fail to think Critically, They make Decisions before reading the small print, You’ve cancelled People’s platforms or Wrote them off much too soon without doing Your Homework….To the Complainers….What are you or What Have a you done to Help Support and Build upon the Black Agenda like Brothers Killer Mike, Ice Cube, Rizza Islam and a host of Others….Get off that inkless Smear Campaign You’ve been blindly riding….Probably many of the People Complaining and Criticizing Ice Cube is probably the Enemy posing as Black Men & Women….He’s Addressing The Socio-Economic/Wealth Gap between between Us and You Know Who….Think For Yourself instead of riding a Wave leading to a shore you know absolutely know nothing about….
I watched the interview live last night on CNN. The title of this article is very misleading. Ice Cube clearly said he reached out to both campaigns and only the Trump campaign was interested in talking now. He clearly stated that the Biden campaign wanted to talk after the election. Ice Cube was very clear he would work with anyone who wants to talk to him.
No shit. He’s still defending it. Ughhhh you people are really reaching to constantly talk shit. Get a life.
Wait? All white people are rich and don’t suffer? How did I miss that memo?!??
Democrats have FOCKED American blacks and American latinos and American poor whites with the Democrats OPEN BORDERS policy and Democrats OBSESSION to allow tens of millions ILLEGAL immigrants to flood into USA and STEAL tens of millions of jobs from AMERICANS and lower working class wages for ALL Americans.
Allowing ILLEGAL immigration is a RACIST policy intended to keep American blacks, American latinos and Amaerican poor whites poor while illegal immigration benefits ONLY Wall Street and big corporations.
Without the 29.5 million ILLEGAL immigrants in USA currently (MIT-Yale study from 2018) Americans would have 15-20 dollars an hour minimum wages just because companies would have to COMPETE for workers when there would NOT be 29.5 million ILLEGAL immigrants in USA lowering wages.
Biden and Democrats want MORE illegal immigration and they want amnesty and US citizenship for all current ILLEGAL immigrants which would make the situation WORSE and attract tens of millions new ILLEGAL immigrants to USA to either get into the Biden amnesty or wait for the next amnesty.
You know your shit whitey good stuff
I disagree with some of your posts, but this is the truth. A lot of people don’t realize the game democrats are running on the American people.
Who da fuck made Ice Cube the spokesperson for African Americans? How do you sit down across the table from a person that has said the things he said and done the things he’s done? BUT you get mad at Eazy E for going to the White House? Hypocrite! Nigga fuck you! You want a contract for African Americans, how ’bout you pay some residuals you’re still collecting off of Friday after you didn’t pay those actors shit. Stupid ass nigga.
Cube iz a LEGEND…now f–k off
Educate yourself idiot Africa is a name that comes from a Greek man and Ameeica is a name from and Italian man. So what your saying is that you derive from 2 men. Another thing stfu and stay in your lane.
People grow up over the years you dumb fuck, easy and cube beefed so long ago they were young, hungry back then and shocked at the price of fortune and fame (selling your soul)
I agree with Ice Cube! I know what he said and what is the meaning of what he is saying. Others please get it! Cube is totally right!!!
Why Cube said he wanna put Trump in jail then turns around and works with him now, for publicity?
Trump never apologized to Central Park 5 after calling for their execution even though they innocent. He still won’t admit he was wrong.
Trump don’t care about environmental issues only about corporations. He let them pollute into low-income hoods.
Trump only cares about Trump.
Cube made a BIG mistake associating with a President who welcomes the support of white supremacists.
Rich Ice Cube talking about poor people with his 160 million in the bank.
We understand you were in an Atlanta motel room last night with Don Lemon. The question on everyone’s mind is how was it?
You and Don Lemon sitting in a bed. F-E-N-C-I-N-G.
Read the ad that he released. He never called for their execution, he said we should bring the death penalty back so things like that would stop happening. In the entire full page ad, he actually only briefly mentioned the CP5, and while it is in the context of assuming their guilt, remember that they had all confessed at the time. I disagree with the death penalty, but there was nothing racist about any of that.
when you work with a white supremacist ,you lost your right to call out people
Cube might not be all wrong but he got played,only thing missing was a picture of him in front of the Trump tower
who is the white supremacist?? Trump didnt give a eulogy to a kkk Member. Trump didnt say diversity in schools would turn schools into a jungle. Trump didnt say “you aint black if you dont vote for me”. Trump didnt say that black people are not diverse people. Trump didnt create a crime bill that imprisoned the most innocent black people in history.
Tell ’em, yikes… Trump for another 4 years… easy choice… It’s a no-brainer. Sleepy Joe Hiden and them phony dems have no chance.
Didn’t Joe Biden work with Strom Thurmond?
Ice Cube is in my Top 10 Studio Gangster list.
While you were in the top 10 this year in the U.S. for hiring transgender prostitutes.
Nah that was Mister Cee, son.
Ice Cube can read between the lines. Democrats come across as Pro Black but reality is, they put down other cultures…Republicans are about Money and Power. Ice Cube knows Trump isnt a racist its the old Republican way that was meaning Bush Sr and Jr. Trump pushes for a great economy and to better American people. Biden doesn’t stand for anything really except making sure Trump gets downgraded
Did someone who is worth $150 million just complain about the wealth gap? Bro, give away $145 million to your brothers in Compton. Then I’ll listen to what this guy has to say. There are plenty of rich black people. Go back and help your communities. Awww no? Too busy spending money on depreciating assets so you can be fly? Lebron can’t be the only one stepping up. For as much as Lebron has been getting on my nerves, I can’t hate on him. He puts his money where his mouth is. Someone with $150 million who sang, “fuck the police” is a clown.
Yeah he should. If you shut up and listen instead of being a hater somebody who has actual well can tell you how to get it.
I already have it
I caN honestly dash this. His contract with black America is the most cohesive approach to ha sling the obvious problems we have that I’ve seen so far. I’m a life long liberal and democrat. I signed the doc. I think BLM was hijacked by weirdos that weren’t about justice reform BTW
Hoping to ‘close the wealth gap’ together with accepting capitalism in one sentence. Respect him as an artist, but this is some dumb shit!
So which economic system lifted most of the world out of abject, subsistence-or-less poverty? do you know? Google it. See what the numbers are on global poverty over the course of history, and then match that against the reign of capitalism.
The problem right now is it’s not capitalism, it’s corporatism. It’s socialism for the rich, and particularly for the big banks and the multinational companies, but it’s wage and debt slavery for almost everyone else.
If we had capitalism, you wouldn’t see massive bailouts like weve seen the past 15 years across the economy. In capitalism, bigger just means you must fail even more. Government micromanagement, across the economy in the form of onerous laws and regulations and bureaucracies and central bank currency manipulation and lobbying over buying and selling favors over buying and selling and completely corrupt legislators and executives, etc. are NOT capitalism.
This is a real post. Down with globalism
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I think Cube meant well, but knowing Trump, this is just a ploy to get votes. Biden didn’t need to talk to Cube about a Black America project. He’s coming in with his own plan. That’s the difference. I have been in the Democratic Party since before I even understood politics. Now that I do understand, I feel better off being here. People are out here listening to rhetoric and outright lies and not paying attention to actions.
Both parties are pure rot, but the DNC treats black people like their handicapped pets. They always assume they’re incapable and the answer is more welfare. Biden is a career racist corporatist and a long-time saboteur of black people. I’m not saying Trump is the answer, but they’ll never get anything without leveraging the vote, and voting blue no matter who (and no matter how little they do—cough, Obama) is not that.
Kennyken, Ha! Biden has a plan for black Americans? Wow! He had his chance when he was VP and did nothing! He had forty years to get his ass in gear for Black people, and all he did was talk smack about them, but I guess that’s ok with hypocrites in the D party.
When Biden was asked about reparations he deflected and started to talk about rights for illegal immigrants. He also deflected on another occasion and asked about Native Americans who have already received reparations. Biden is a Dixiecrat. Biden has a track record of harming Black people with his policies. Trump’s prison reform actually freed some of the people who were caught up. Trump gets a lot of heat because he’s not a globalist. You even have republicans who are against him.
where are all of ice cubes friends? he is doing this solo.
The industry is full of sell outs and wouldn’t dear do anything to bring negative energy there way.
Black people please read between the lines when it comes to the Democratic Party..dont take everything at face value..you know it’s crazy that the breaking news is still not on Biden family..his brother was just caught on some abusing Chinese teens on some weird sex shit…but when Trump speaks about women and grabbing by the pussy it’s a big deal meanwhile Biden out here loving on kids..TWITTER and some of these media outlets are suppressing the story ..it’s crazy. Media propaganda is real and I’m sorry to say if rap videos influence y’all so easily there is no way you guys aren’t getting swayed by the media.. all I can say is do y’all research the government has sick groups within their organization and there is a BIG reason everyone is against trump even his on squad
This all reminds me of when TO talks about systematic racism, yet somehow has accumulated 60mil working with white run record labels and execs. A bit confusing, no? Cube is worth 150mil BTW.
T.I.
So the wealth of one means their is no racism?
You’re a dumb ass. The wealth gap between African Americans and Whites is by 100 years. I hate how these privileged White folks bring up the net worth of a few black as evidence that systematic racism doesn’t exist. The goal of systematic racism is to make black people a permanent underclass. why does 13 percent of the population own only 1/2 of 1% of this countries wealth
What About the 100-year wealth gap between Whites and Blacks. Why does 13 percent of the population own half of 1% of the nation’s wealth
Damn all my comments got deleted. Everyone can Address Black people and their issues, but as soon as White people are mentioned its a problem
He is contradicting everything he preaches in songs. Great example his last album. Everything’s Corrupt. What happen to Arrest the president, Chase down the bully, and Everything’s Corrupt songs? Now he flops like 50 Cent. Is hypocrisy. Just make money off us. Then worry about what they are gonna get taxed. Don’t support artists who don’t care about your livelihood. All Cubes songs sound like lies now. How can he support a racist president? Shits a joke! All about richer getting richer. Let him go side with Mitch McConnell. Dave Chappelle bout to do another race draft with 50 Cent,Kanye, and Cube getting traded. Lmfao
at the end of the day, the government doesn’t give a fuck about you, they just want power and control, so stop relying on the government