All right, it is my honor and privilege to welcome Ice Cube into the zone, man.

Thank you, man. I've interviewed a lot of great people here, but it's, I'm truly honored to have you here, man.

Well, it's great to be here. You know, talk some basketball.

All right, let's do it.

Well, before we get to basketball, though, I heard, I know somebody that went to high school with you, played football, and he said you were a really good football player, running back.

He said you made like all league as a freshman in high school.

Yeah, yeah, I play fullback.

You know, I play outside linebacker too.

And yeah, you know, try to do my thing.

I thought, you know, that was the direction I was going to go in, you know, until I started

hanging really with Dr. Dre a lot.

Okay.

And then from there, I said I wanted to get get into music, so I just quit the team.

So you stopped playing?

Well, I just didn't play the next year.

I played the full season, but just didn't play the next year.

Was that tough to give that up?

Yeah, it was, you know, because I love football and, you know, it was like, you know, be up at the school playing football all day or go

hang when it's time to hang and try to you know dibble and dabble in music and I wanted to

I wanted to pursue music okay so you know quit the team who would you run like running back

who would you compare yourself you know football back you block it most of the time you know, I quit the team. Who would you run like running back? Who would you compare yourself?

You know, fullback, you're blocking most of the time.

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