48 Facts About Ice Cube

Ice Cube has had an active film career since the early 1990s.

Ice Cube 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 co-wrote and starred in the 1995 comedy film Friday, which spawned a successful franchise and reshaped his public image into a bankable movie star.

Ice Cube made his directorial debut with the 1998 film The Players Club, and produced and curated the film's accompanying soundtrack.

Ice Cube was an executive producer of many of these films, as well as of the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton.

Ice Cube has an older brother, and they had a half-sister who was murdered when Cube was 12.

Ice Cube is a cousin of fellow rappers Del tha Funky Homosapien and Kam.

Ice Cube grew up on Van Wick Street in the Westmont section of South Los Angeles.

Ice Cube has said that his stage name came from his older brother, who "threatened to slam [him] into a freezer and pull [him] out when [he] was an ice cube".

Ice Cube was bused 40 miles to the suburban school from his home in a high-crime neighborhood.

Dre had Ice Cube help write the Wreckin Cru's hit song "Cabbage Patch".

In one instance, Ice Cube's rendition was "My Penis", parodying Run-DMC's "My Adidas".

Ice Cube appointed Yo-Yo, a female rapper and guest on the album, to be the head of his record label, and helped produce her debut album, Make Way for the Motherlode.

Ice Cube contended that he mentioned Heller's ethnicity merely incidentally, not to premise attack, but as news media mention nonwhite assailants' races.

In 1992, Ice Cube appeared on Del the Funky Homosapien's debut album I Wish My Brother George Was Here, on Da Lench Mob's debut Guerillas in tha Mist, which he produced, and on the Kool G Rap and DJ Polo song "Two to the Head".

The result was the Ice Cube and Dre song "Natural Born Killaz", on the Murder Was The Case soundtrack, released by Dre's then-new label, Death Row Records.

In 1995, Ice Cube joined Mack 10 and WC in forming a side trio, the Westside Connection.

In 1998, Ice Cube was featured on the band Korn's song "Children of the Korn", and joined them on their Family Values Tour 1998.

In 2000, Ice Cube joined Dr Dre, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg for the Up in Smoke Tour.

In 2002, Ice Cube appeared on British DJ Paul Oakenfold's solo debut album, Bunkka, on the track "Get Em Up".

In 2006, Ice Cube released his seventh solo album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, selling 144,000 units in the first week.

Also in 2008, Ice Cube helped on Tech N9ne's song "Blackboy", and was featured on The Game's song "State of Emergency".

In 2009, Ice Cube performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos, and returned to perform at the 2011 festival.

On September 28,2010, his ninth solo album, I Am the West, arrived with, Ice Cube says, a direction different from any one of his other albums.

Also in 2010, Ice Cube signed up-and-coming recording artist named 7Tre The Ghost, deemed likely to be either skipped or given the cookie-cutter treatment by most record companies.

In 2011, Ice Cube featured on Daz Dillinger's song "Iz You Ready to Die" and on DJ Quik's song "Boogie Till You Conk Out".

In September 2012, during Pepsi's NFL Anthems campaign, Ice Cube released his second Raiders anthem "Come and Get It".

In November 2012, Ice Cube released more details on his forthcoming, tenth studio album, Everythang's Corrupt.

In 2020, Ice Cube joined rappers Snoop Dogg, E-40, Too Short and formed the supergroup Mt.

Since 1991, Ice Cube has acted in nearly 40 films, several of which are highly regarded.

John Singleton's seminal film Boyz n the Hood, released in July 1991, debuted the actor Ice Cube playing Doughboy, a persona that Cube played convincingly.

Later, Cube starred with Ice-T and Bill Paxton in Walter Hill's 1992 thriller film Trespass, and in Charles Burnett's 1995 film The Glass Shield.

Meanwhile, Cube declined to costar with Janet Jackson in Singleton's 1993 romance Poetic Justice, a role that Tupac Shakur then played.

Ice Cube starred as the university student Fudge in Singleton's 1995 film Higher Learning.

In 1997, playing a South African exiled to America who returns 15 years later, Ice Cube starred in the action thriller Dangerous Ground, and had a supporting role in Anaconda.

In 1998, writing again, the director Ice Cube debuted in The Players Club.

In 2002, Ice Cube starred in Kevin Bray's All About the Benjamins, and in Tim Story's comedy film Barbershop.

Ice Cube appeared in its sequel, 22 Jump Street, in 2014.

Also in 2016, Ice Cube returned for the third entry in the Barbershop series.

In October 2021, Ice Cube was set to star in the comedy film Oh Hell No alongside Jack Black, but left the project after refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

In front of the television cameras, rather, Ice Cube appeared with Elmo as a 2014 guest on the PBS children's show Sesame Street.

Ice Cube converted to Islam, though he denied membership in the NOI, whose ideology against white people and especially Jews led to its categorization as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Ice Cube nevertheless has claimed to listen to his own conscience as a "natural Muslim", claiming to do so because "it's just [him] and God".

Ice Cube has been married to Kimberly Woodruff since April 26,1992.

Ice Cube is a notable fan of the Las Vegas Raiders, originally supporting the team during their tenure in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994.

Ice Cube is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers of the MLB, performing a pregame show before game 2 of the 2024 World Series and later at the team's World Series win celebration at Dodger Stadium, and has equally been a devout fan of the Los Angeles Lakers.

At a 1991 press conference promoting his album Death Certificate, Ice Cube endorsed the Nation of Islam's pseudo-scholarly book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, which falsely claims that European Jews dominated the Atlantic slave trade.

Ice Cube has received nominations for several films in the past.