"I Should Be Dead" - Ice Cube's Untold Stories: Impact of Hip Hop on Society, Surviving L.A. Gangs | PBD Podcast | Ep. 438
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Bet-David interviews Ice Cube, a rap legend known for his influence on music, film, and culture.
He rose to fame with the pioneering rap group N.W.A., then found success as a solo artist, and became a prolific actor and filmmaker.
Cube is known for his candid reflections on social issues and for speaking truth to power.
This powerful conversation is no exception! ---
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| 0:00.0 | First of all, Hollywood Walk of Fame, groundbreaking songs straight out of Compton, |
| 0:04.1 | fuck the police, boys in a hood, players club, ride along, straight out of Compton, |
| 0:08.4 | 21 Jump Street, three Kings. |
| 0:09.9 | It is a pleasure to have you here, man. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm trying to be like you when I grow up. |
| 0:13.2 | No, man. |
| 0:14.0 | I come up private. |
| 0:15.3 | I wanted to do movies. |
| 0:16.3 | I was discovered. |
| 0:17.9 | Now, I really want to find that who took Pac out or who took Big Yava. |
| 0:20.9 | Mind your own business and you live longer. Who has the most power in the entertainment industry? |
| 0:27.2 | You know, gotta have balance. You know, gotta have a little R&B with your hip-hop, gotta have a little |
| 0:32.3 | funk with it. Mix it in a little funk with it. |
| 0:33.2 | Mix it a little soul. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah, you know what I mean? |
| 0:36.2 | How much they are invested in all these big labels and the prison industry. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm not saying that the CIA is sitting there writing |
| 0:44.2 | rhymes. Talked about some things that I've never talked about in the interview |
| 0:48.3 | so. As a kid who grew up in LA I follow his story very closely Cube and I've seen a lot of the podcast. At the end of the |
| 1:03.4 | podcast he said, I shared certain stories today I've never shared before. The |
| 1:06.8 | three close calls he had as a kid almost died. The story I said, why did you |
| 1:10.8 | leave the life and why did you not go become a gangster? |
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