It really is crazy how Ice Cube was able to crossover

[Xtraz2]

Yeah it trips me out how that happened, he wuz going super hard on cacs back in tha day

like Ol boy said on here, tupac wuz on his way to flipping also, until suge knight brought him to death row

If yall remember that Vibe interview he talks bout he tired of tha thug life and his relationship with Madonna

 

[Samuel Jackson]

 

[smokeurobinson]

In the end....The Black militancy was all a gimmick to sell records.

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

i think it was timing....cube stop rapping about race towards the early 2000s and got into movies and a whole new generation got to see him before as an actor only...then social media came and ppl embraced him was a blockbuster actor and his past just got erased......its funny because the young generation dont understand how much cube was feared...he had america shook in the early 90s....

He's been in big movies since 1991

 

[Rakim Allah]

In the end....The Black militancy was all a gimmick to sell records.

It may have been a gimmick to Cube , but Black militancy didn't sell records like that

Cube was going to sell regardless.

 

[smokeurobinson]

It may have been a gimmick to Cube , but Black militancy didn't sell records like that

Cube was going to sell regardless.

Public Enemy was selling before Cube jumped on the bandwagon. But u are correct, Cube was gonna sell regardless because of his hype.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Cube predicted the LA riots on Death Certificate

shyt played out just the way he said it would

 

[D.C Young]

ahh man yeah well basically cube had white america shook.....not only was he a angry young black man into street life but he had a militant twist....where he was talking about killing cacs and jews....and he influenced alotta other anry young black men....and that was the time when crack had murder rates sky high everywhere....like if u thing chiraq is bad now, it was a playground compared to the chiraq of the 80s and 90s


anyway





NWA had white america shook...its normal now too see guns in videos but this was brand new...and cacs were @ the thought of an uprising

yeah I was looking up old Ice Cube videos and I found a video of him speaking at a NOI function

and this dude was openly speaking out against the White man lol

I can't imagine picturing anyone doing that today lol

 

[Robbie3000]

Surprises me too. The funny thing is, he always had a lot of white fans. He was performing at Lollapalooza with Cypress Hill to mostly white crowds. Jonah Hill sought him out for Jump Street. In an interview, he said his heroes growing up were Magic Johnson and Ice Cube.

 

[daboywonder2002]

ice cube transformation wasnt over night. remember he was doing purely black movies like boyz n the hood, friday, higher learning, barbershop, then kids movies like are we there yet. so this was a long long process. What i actually learned about cube was how diverse he actually is and this is rapping and music. I never thought cube would do club songs but then he does you can do it and we be clubbing. Then with movies for him to do a kids movie surprised me as well.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Cee-lo is another good one, but he didnt exist to them before gnarls Barkley, they knew cube

cee-lo took the "weird nikka from the south" torch from Andre 3k. There always has to be one.

the shyt with Cube and white folks....

I dunno, man. I wanna say look at all those old videos of Fred Hampton and the Weather Underground.

Even I feel kinda squeamish when talking about "white sympathizers", even though the shyt DOES exist.

Ice Cube made Cave bytch....

Got white sympathizers.

 

[Robbie3000]

ice cube transformation wasnt over night. remember he was doing purely black movies like boyz n the hood, friday, higher learning, barbershop, then kids movies like are we there yet. so this was a long long process. What i actually learned about cube was how diverse he actually is and this is rapping and music. I never thought cube would do club songs but then he does you can do it and we be clubbing. Then with movies for him to do a kids movie surprised me as well.

shyt Friday was a surprise. His image was so hardcore, you didn't expect him to star in a comedy. Even though in retrospect, his rhymes had some humor to them.

 

[Still Benefited]

Don't think that I hate you,cuz I wont date you.
bytch I gotta stay true.
You can be a fan,but don't expand,and try to get my dikk in ya hand"

Cube cant help it nikkas thought he wanted to see all white people dead,maybe as a kid that was hard to understand but yall grown now...smh at this being a gimmick,as if gangsta rap aint what made NWA blow the fukk up....as if he wouldn't have sold records rapping the most gangsta most ignant shyt ever if he decided too

Cube was a young nikka who wanted some knowledge of self,he got it and gave us some great albums....Stop acting like this nikka is the first nikka yall ever knew to get heavy on that militant/religious tip for a minute then decide it aint for them....Cube is still a muslim by the way,he just don't have the NOI in his pockets or using him as a puppet no more

I don't think its crazy when you think about it,its not like he has a new fanbase of 60 year old white people....Most of his fanbase would be people of the hiphop generation,and people who don't know him musically but know him from the Fridays....Cube didn't cross over matter of fact,if anything its crazy Cube was so goat as a musician,and put out movies so goat that he made cacs cross over to him

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Cube was so goat as a musician,and put out movies so goat that he made cacs cross over to him

 

[DrX]

Idk cube was sponsoring malt liquor back then also which was hypocritical. But I think he was young and angry and over time he soften up once he got Rich