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Ice Cube (Rapper)

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2013

    Veteran Producer Sir Jinx is the Missing Link

    [Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Edward "Apple" Nelson Is a Legendary L.A. Drummer and 70-Year-Old Yoga Enthusiast Sir Jinx is the missing link. He is a vital nerve. Remove th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2012

    What the Dodgers' Musical Taste Says About Them

    [Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Forget phrenology, both the overrated Roots album and the 19th-century pseudo-science. Ignore palmistry, psychotherapy and Rick Warren. The best way to b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2012

    Let's Play 'Guess the Rapper'

    See also: KDAY, the Gangsta Rap Oldies Station, Breaks New Ground by Playing Music From the Bad Old Days Below are some illustrations of rappers. (The top is an example.) They also contain hints to help you guess who they are. There are 15 total. If you miss more than three, you lose and everyone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2012

    The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: The Complete List

    *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2012

    Top 20 Albums Not In The Canon: 20-11

    *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2012

    KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez on His New Album: "I Am Moved By Single Moms, Moved By Junkies"

    Each week as Monday night becomes Tuesday morning, KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez maintains a musical vigil over the airwaves. He mixes in everything from hip hop to house, along with smoothly articulated descriptions of these "samples and sounds." Today, sipping Intelligentsia coffee in broad daylight a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup Announced

    See also: Our review of Rock the Bells 2011 Last night Guerilla Union announced this year's Rock the Bells 2012 dates, headliners and lineup. Beginning in 2010, the hip-hop festival's headliners -- famous acts whose first few albums often outshine their later work -- have performed their classic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Ice Cube - KDAY Krush Groove - April 28, 2012

    Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, Mystikal and others KDAY Krush Groove Gibson Amphitheater April 28, 2012 An invitation to Ice Cube's gangsta nation is tough to decline, even for those on the right side of the law. Which is why at one point during the Krush Groove hip-hop concert on Saturday a yellow-shirte ... More >>

  • Music

    April 26, 2012

    Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White

    Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Bizarre Ride: Jeff Weiss's Five Los Angeles Music Archetypes

    [Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and Dr. Dre is a headphone g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Gangsta Sophisticate: Ice Cube Is Officially No Longer A Joke

    Ice Cube on his way to the Eames House in Pacic Palisades​See also: *Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round *Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies G's often age awkwardly. The cop killer became a TV lawman. The guy who cribbed his nam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round

    Ice Cube in the Pacific Standard Time promotional video about the Eameses​ Today was a good day for Ice Cube -- he kicked it in the Eames House. In a promotional video for Pacific Standard Time released yesterday, Cube discusses the work of husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Bud Bundy's Rap Career?! Hear David Faustino's Music

    In this week's cover story, "Bud Bundy, Original Gangsta," I delve into the remarkable hip-hop trajectory of David Faustino, who, while playing Bud Bundy on Married...with Children, threw one of the most influential rap parties the west coast has ever seen. In the early '90s, along with three of h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances: Who, Exactly, Is Allowed To Crip Walk?

    [Editor's Note: Writer Jessica A. Koslow is a USC master's student writing her thesis on krumping. Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances explores some of the most popular street dances in our city.] Crip Walk "I'm C-Walkin' on the mutherfuckin' concrete," raps Ice Cube on "Go To Church." Other Crip Walker ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Justin Bua's Paintings Of His Most Influential Rappers

    Justin Bua​Justin Bua is a hip-hop painter; you may have seen the print of his painting "The DJ" (see below), at Target, of all places. It's been out for over a decade, and has been selling ridiculous amounts of copies for years. He's done portraits of everyone from Nas to Kool Herc to Quee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Best Posts Of The Week

    ​How well do you know your L.A. hip-hop dances? For the debut of her column on the subject, Jessica A. Koslow ran down the controversial origin story of the Dougie this week. Turns out a rapper named Lil Wil was doing it first, and had some choice words for our Inglewood heroes Cali Swag Distr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Everlast's Top Five Most Influential West Coast Rap Albums

    ​See also: *Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit. *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List As a teenager, Everlast was a graf writer. He made a couple tapes with his buddies, and the next thing he knew he was part of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate crew. He, Dan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

    ​Editor's note: In conjunction with our music issue we rolled out the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time this week, as picked by Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff. But the list was broken up into four posts, which can get a bit unwieldy, so we've compiled the full list ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 15-11

    ​ See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Wanna Own a Legendary Record Label? Black Jazz Puts Itself Up for Sale

    ​Story by Brett Koshkin Neither John Coltrane nor Herbie Hancock ever recorded for the Bay Area-based Black Jazz label that flourished in the '70s West Coast jazz scene. Far from being a commercial powerhouse, the label concentrated on an epicurean selection of then-fresh faced soul-jazz musi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies

    Jennie Warren​Ice Cube may cut hair in the movies, but if you schedule a photo shoot with him, his people will request it be BYOB -- Bring Your Own Barber. You'll need to bring a makeup artist, too. After all, he's not the same man he was when Boyz n the Hood came out, 20 years ago last month ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Interview With The Guy Who Ranks Rich Rappers For Forbes; Dre and Snoop Are On The New List, But What About Black Eyed Peas?

    ​Zack O'Malley Greenburg is the Forbes writer who puts together the magazine's annual "Cash Kings" list, which estimates the earnings of the wealthiest rappers of the past year and ranks the top 20. Their newest version came out yesterday; Jay-Z topped the list with $37 million, and L.A. is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Carmageddon Playlist: 7 Songs that Namecheck the 405 Freeway

    ​ By Sheila Dichoso Carmageddon is coming! We thought we'd remind you again about the three-day 405 shutdown. The media warns that chaos will ensue, so stay at home and smoke weed or something. The San Diego freeway is notoriously loathed. Because of its congestion, we put up with way too ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Gwyneth Paltrow Rapping: Please Make It Stop

    The rapper formerly known as Gwyneth Paltrow​No need to express our feelings about Gwyenth Paltrow again; nothing's changed in two months. But for those of you who still disagree with us (even after she defiled Prince on Glee!?), we offer up this video of Gwyneth Paltrow rapping Ice Cube's v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    BREAKING: MTV Discovers L.A. Still Has a Hip-Hop Scene!

    In the beginning ... ​As announced in a trailer released this morning, MTV will air a weeklong look at L.A.'s hip-hop scene in a segment "we're calling 'The New West: An In-depth Look at L.A. Hip Hop.'" Though we're much obliged to them for referencing N.W.A.'s LA Weekly cover, we think the ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2011

    Music Picks: She Wants Revenge, Nilbog, Lady Gaga

    Also, Men, Ice Cube, OMD, the Aussie BBQ and others

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Rebecca Black's "Friday" Perfectly Mashed-Up with Ice Cube's "Friday"

    Ice Cube is getting ready for FUN FUN FUN cause it's FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY​ YouTuber Delinq did the obvious--mashing up the audio of Rebecca Black's surprise hit "Friday" with images from Ice Cube's movie Friday--but he/she/they/it did it really, really well. Happy weekend to y'all! You know ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2011

    Jocks Who (Don't) Rock: Top 10 Most Embarrassing Music Videos by Football Players

    Top 10 Embarrassing Videos of Football Team Rap Songs

  • Music

    November 4, 2010

    2Pac and Walt Whitman

    Two professors anthologize the best rap lyrics

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Urban Nomad: Aldo from Maldita Vecindad Talks Collectivism, Jane's Addiction at SmokeOut Festival

    Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD returns to Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival 2010 to commune with '80s rock en español collective Maldita Vecindad. Bassist Aldo talks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Oshea Jackson, AKA "Ice Cube," Wanted After Abducting Her Three Kids

    ​LAPD have put out an alert looking for a woman who allegedly abducted the three children she was ruled incapable of caring for in Arkansas. She's apparently brought them to L.A. Police lament that they have no photos, but they do offer a revealing clue to help find the woman. She's 39 years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Where Are They Now: N.W.A and the Posse Edition

    ​Graffiti, plain jeans and black ball caps, prop malt liquor bottles, and the hilariously understated warning "SOME SONGS CONTAIN EXPLICIT LYRICS": N.W.A's album cover for N.W.A. and the Posse is much more than the sum of its parts. In fact, Martin Cizmar, who wrote last week's story about th ... More >>

  • Music

    May 6, 2010

    Whatever Happened to N.W.A's Posse?

    The Eazy-E True Hollywood (or True Compton) Stories behind the legendary L.A. hip-hop cover

  • Film+TV

    May 6, 2010

    Commitment to the Raiders

    Ice Cube's new documentary chronicles the team's L.A. years

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Straight Outta Hollywood: N.W.A. Biopic in the Works

    Yes, *that* Jonathan Gold​The Hollywood Reporter (via MTV) has details of an announcement about an upcoming N.W.A. biopic currently in development at New Line. The film has the working title Straight Outta Compton and "will follow N.W.A (short for N---az With Attitude) from their early days i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Ice Cube at the House of Blues: From Compton to 'Cribs'

    View more photos in Timothy Norris' Ice Cube slideshow. Ice Cube @ House Of Blues, Dec 11 Twenty-plus years into the game, Ice Cube has figured out at least a few things about the rap performance. He's perfected the rapper-on-stage routine with minimal extras (no fire, video, bitches, or shirt-ri ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 29, 2009

    Lakers From Row 6: Homie, You're In My Seat

    View more photos in Timothy Norris' Ice Cube slideshow. Ice Cube @ House Of Blues, Dec 11 Twenty-plus years into the game, Ice Cube has figured out at least a few things about the rap performance. He's perfected the rapper-on-stage routine with minimal extras (no fire, video, bitches, or shirt-ri ... More >>

  • Music

    August 27, 2009

    Mack 10’s Hustler Handbook

    When in doubt, says the veteran rapper, heed the late Eazy-E’s advice: “Always stay about your money”

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Ice Cube Turns 40, Lakers Win the Championship: Today is a Good Day

    On this very special day, we at West Coast Sound want to wish Ice Cube a wonderful birthday. We hope that this morning you woke up and thanked God, and that the day felt kinda odd, perhaps because there was no barking from the dog, and there was no smog. We hope that right now your momma is cookin ... More >>

  • Music

    August 28, 2008

    Rock Picks: Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, Dog and Pony Show

    Also, Chuck Berry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Weller, and more

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008

    Want proof that L.A.'s in the middle of an astoundingly fertile period of musical expansion? See the list below. We're going to have our hands full this year. Expect around the clock coverage from Austin.

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2008

    10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

    From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed inevitable." Oh, how our collective pride in t ... More >>

  • Music

    December 6, 2007

    N.W.A: Compton's Most Vaunted a Hard Act to Follow

    Two decades later, Straight Outta Compton is as vital — and brutal — as ever

  • Music

    November 29, 2007

    N.W.A: A Hard Act to Follow

    Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Best Landlocked Treasure Island

    Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2006

    Music Picks

    For the week of June 1 - 7

  • Music

    September 1, 2005

    Live in LA

    Sunset Junction August 27-28 Snoop Dogg/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ice Cube at the Greek, August 25

  • Music

    December 18, 2003

    Is That a Threat?

    Sunset Junction August 27-28 Snoop Dogg/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ice Cube at the Greek, August 25

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    Eazy Does It

    Gangsta rap hits L.A.

  • Music

    January 20, 2000

    Word According to B.I.G.

    Gangsta rap hits L.A.

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