Ice Cube launches a new three-on-three basketball league for retired NBA players. The league named BIG3, will include former NBA stars Jason Williams, Rashard Lewis, Jermaine O’Neal and more. Cube founded the league, will be in charge of its planning, development and execution. “I thought of this concept as a fan who got sick of seeing his heroes retire and […]
A new four-part documentary, The Defiant Ones, on the partnership between hip-hop game-changers Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine is currently in the works, courtesy of HBO. The film will feature in-depth interviews from both Iovine and Dre, as well as Bono, Nas, Ice Cube, Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dogg, according to Billboard reports. It was filmed over a three […]
Ice Cube hits the big screen once again and gets into a “Fist Fight” as a high school teacher looking for revenge after getting fired. The movie also stars Charlie Day, from Horrible Bosses and Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame, playing Mr. Campbell, a colleague of Ice Cube’s character who gets Cube fired. Fist Fight is […]
John Witherspoon talks about getting visits from Richard Pryor when he was MCing at a club, and learning to convince him to get on stage and do a comedy-set. He talks about Richard Pryor’s TV show, and explains why it only lasted only four episodes. John also discusses his work as Grandad on the hit […]
Cube and Hart are back! Recent reports shows actor Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are working on a new installment in the “Ride Along” movie series. Variety reports screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi will handle the script, while the film which will be developed by Universal. The director will be the same director who worked […]
Dr. Dre is threatening to sue Sony Pictures if they air Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le. The film is the story of singer and Dre’s ex-girlfriend Michel’le. The film will depict the singer’s abusive relationships with Dr. Dre and Suge Knight — and according to TMZ, there are scenes where the producer punches her […]
Ice Cube returned to Conan last night (Wednesday, September 9th) and brought something new and old to the late night show. Cube brought a new trailer for his latest project called Fist Fight. The movie puts co-star Charlie Day against a very imposing Cube as two teachers on the last day of school who get roped into […]
Even though new rumors of an OutKast reunion were shot down by Andre 3000, their performance over the weekend will surely be talked about for days to come. Three Stacks and Big Boi ran through a list of their greatest hits at the ONE Musicfest in Atlanta as part of the Dungeon Family reunion that […]
Jerry Heller, Ruthless Records founder and former manager of N.W.A. passed away recently after a car accident caused by a “medical emergency” the he suffered as he was driving in California. With last year’s insanely popular release of N.W.A.’s biopic, “Straight Out Of Compton,” it became public knowledge that Ice Cube and Jerry’s business relationship […]
It’s hard to believe that Eazy-E would be 52 years old today. He was one of the pioneers of “Gangsta Rap” with the groundbreaking group N.W.A. For Eazy-E, the concept of gangsta rap was fully formed in his mind. By 1986, the genre, which nobody then called “gangsta rap” had begun to sprout in L.A. […]
After the news of the loss of veteran music manager and executive Jerry Heller, Ice Cube had some words about the co-founder of Ruthless Records. Cube spoke with our sister station in Detroit Hot 107.5, the question about Heller’s death came up during the interview. Of course, Cube kept it 100: In the N.W.A. movie Straight […]
Ice Cube is never afraid to speak his mind. Over the weekend, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer checked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. In an attempt to speak to the African-American community, an off-shoot Trump Twitter account edited a soundbite that makes Cube seem to praise the billionaire real estate tycoon as someone who […]