Ice Cube Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It Wiki

After a couple kid-friendly flicks and years of red carpet treatment, O'Shea Jackson isn't the same angry black man that made critical music in rap's golden era. But, he can still act like it. In 'Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It, Ice Cube facetiously lays the blame for the majority of America's problems at the feet of the genre he helped propel to the mainstream.

Violence, rape, murder, theft, arson, war? All the fault of rap music, according to the Nazi-ed up classroom teacher tells a classroom of kids in the year 2020. Deft edits of stock footage from natural and political disasters follow, intercut with a shadow boxing Ice Cube. It's a gripping visual for a song that confronts the hypocrisy of rap's pop culture critics and should provoke discussion for months to come.

Director: Jonathan Silver Producer: Giovani Hidalgo D.P.: Colin Watkinson Art Dir.: Arnie Knudsen Editor: Jonathan Silver Colorist: Dave Hussey Label: Lynch Mobb Records.

O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group and later joined the seminal rap group (Niggaz Wit Attitudes). After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music and films such as a role in drama.

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Additionally, he has served as one of the producers of the television series and the series, both of which are based upon films in which he portrayed the main character. Ice Cube is one of the founding artists of, and much of his musical output has contained harsh commentary. He was ranked number 8 on 's list of the 10 Greatest of All Time, while fellow rapper ranked Ice Cube as the greatest MC of all time. Has called him one of hip-hop's best and most controversial artists, as well as 'one of rap's greatest storytellers'.

Kartochka esli moya mashina vam meshaet pozvonite shablon. In 2012, ranked him number 14 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time. In 2014, ranked him number 11 on their list of the '50 Greatest MCs of All Time'. Contents [] Early life O'Shea Jackson was born on June 15, 1969, in Baldwin Hills, South Central, the son of Doris, a hospital clerk and custodian, and Hosea Jackson, who worked as a groundskeeper at and a machinist. He has an older brother as well as a half-sister who was killed when Ice Cube was 12. His cousin is Teren Delvon Jones, also known as, who is a part of the rap group and who has also worked with; another cousin is of rap group. In his early teens, Ice Cube developed an interest in hip hop music, and began writing raps in Los Angeles 's typewriting class. Jackson penned his first rap song in the ninth grade after a friend, whom Jackson names 'Kiddo', challenged him to write a song during a typewriting class.

He claims Kiddo lost the challenge. On the origins of his rapper name, Ice Cube says that it came from his older brother. He is quoted as saying 'He threatened to slam me into a freezer and pull me out when I was an ice cube. I just started using that name, and it just caught on.' At the age of 16, Jackson sold his first song to future N.W.A.

Jackson also attended in Woodland Hills, California. He enrolled at the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall of 1987 in Arizona. Being passionate about architecture, he studied architectural drafting. He completed his diploma within one year and returned to Los Angeles to pursue a rap career. Not sure of whether his rap career would work out, he would turn to become an architecture draftsman as a career backup. With friend, Ice Cube formed the, and they performed at parties hosted. Dre soon entered the recording industry as a member of the.

Dre saw Cube's potential as a writer and had him assist with writing Wreckin Cru's big L.A. Hit track, 'Cabbage Patch' as well as joining Cube on a side partnership which the duo called Stereo Crew. Stereo Crew produced a twelve-inch record, 'She's a Skag' released on in 1986. Dre was DJing at L.A. Dance club Eve After Dark, Ice Cube would rap over his music, often parodying songs by other artists.