![]() In 1988, with a diploma in architectural drafting, he returned to the Los Angeles area and rejoined N.W.A, but kept a career in architecture drafting as a backup plan. Soon after he wrote and recorded a few locally successful rap songs with N.W.A, he left for Arizona to enroll in the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall 1987 semester. He was bused 40 miles to the suburban school from his home in a high-crime neighborhood. I just started using that name, and it just caught on." Ĭube also attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California. Explaining his stage name, Cube implicates his older brother: "He threatened to slam me into a freezer and pull me out when I was an ice cube. In ninth grade at George Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles, Cube began writing raps after being challenged by his friend "Kiddo" in typewriting class. ![]() He grew up on Van Wick Street in the Westmont section of South Los Angeles. ![]() He has an older brother, and they had a half-sister who was murdered when Cube was 12. Ice Cube was born on June 15, 1969, in Los Angeles, to Doris, a hospital clerk and custodian, and Hosea Jackson, a machinist and UCLA groundskeeper. Ice Cube as a senior in high school, 1987 He was an executive producer of many of these films, as well as of the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton. As of 2020, he has appeared in about 40 films, including the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, family comedies like the Barbershop series, and buddy cop comedies 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Ride Along. He made his directorial debut with the 1998 film The Players Club, and also produced and curated the film's accompanying soundtrack. He also co-wrote and starred in the 1995 comedy film Friday it premised a successful franchise and reshaped his persona into a bankable movie star. He entered cinema by playing Doughboy in director John Singleton's feature debut Boyz n the Hood, a 1991 drama named after a 1987 rap song that Ice Cube wrote. Ice Cube has also had an active film career since the early 1990s. After a monetary dispute over the group's management by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, Cube left N.W.A in late 1989, teaming with New York artists and launching a solo rap career. N.W.A was also known for their violent lyrics, threatening to attack abusive police and innocent civilians alike, which stirred controversy. As its lead rapper, he wrote some of Dre's and most of Eazy's lyrics on Straight Outta Compton, a landmark album that shaped West Coast hip hop's early identity and helped differentiate it from East Coast rap. Dre, he formed the gangsta rap group N.W.A. Ī native of Los Angeles, Jackson formed his first rap group called C.I.A. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of N.W.A in 2016. His lyrics on N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity, and his political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), and The Predator (1992) were all critically and commercially successful. ![]() (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor, and filmmaker. ![]()
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