A biography for Ice Cubehasn’t been written yet.
“You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.”
“Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.”
“Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'”
“Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.”
“I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!”
“I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.”
“South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.”
“Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.”
“I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.”
“We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.”
“I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.”
“There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.”
“If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.”
“I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.”
“I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.”
“Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.”
“Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.”
“I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.”
“Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!”
“My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.”