Ice Cube On Filming Anaconda, Making The White Sox Hat Hip Hop, Diddy Parties & The Big 3 Basketball League (Ft. Chris Allen)
The Stretch
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Stretch we are joined by Ice Cube and Chris Allen of the Big 3. We kick things off by discussing the new city format of the Big 3 and Chris Allen promises us that Chicago will finally have a winning team to root for (2:22). Then we get into what it was like filming Anaconda in the Amazon Rainforest (8:46). Ice Cube tells us the story behind how he made the White Sox hat iconic (16:30) and his performance at the World Series last year (19:30). Next we talk the future of Big 3 and taking it international (26:12) and Chris Allen shares what it’s like playing in the league and tells some priceless Tom Izzo stories from his time at MSU (30:20). Cube gives us the secret to balancing being a rapper, movie star, and owner of a league (38:55). We close out the show by hearing about Diddy and Tupac v. Biggie (41:42).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Redline Radio listeners. You can find us every Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:06.9 | Prime members can listen to AdFree on Amazon Music. All right, guys, before we get in today's |
| 0:11.5 | episode with Ice Cube, we just got to say it was a good conversation, wasn't it, Dave? |
| 0:14.8 | It was an awesome conversation with Cube, him and I are on a first name basis like that now second time I've interviewed him I think you |
| 0:21.2 | guys really are yeah he's the man we're listen I know probably you guys uh in their podcast |
| 0:25.4 | videos like what's going on you guys just had Beijing on last week you guys mostly do |
| 0:29.0 | Chicago stuff why do you have ice cube well it's ice cube it's ice cube he's as a list as it gets |
| 0:34.0 | you talked anaconda we talked about NWA, his Big Three basketball league. |
| 0:39.6 | We talked a lot of it. So, |
| 0:41.2 | we hope you enjoy it. And |
| 0:43.4 | listen, talk about ice. |
| 0:45.9 | Listen, how about an ice cold |
| 0:47.3 | Miller light? I love an ice cold Miller light. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah. I know Chief does too. He's walking in here. |
| 0:51.5 | I bet he's going to have a couple ice cold Miller lights |
| 0:53.4 | this weekend. White Sox played double higher yesterday. I thought about going. I couldn't because |
| 0:58.1 | of the dozen. But I would have had a few Miller lights there if I could have. Nothing better than |
| 1:02.4 | Miller Light added baseball game, Ed. Dave, nothing better, except for a Miller Light pretty much |
| 1:06.7 | anywhere. Honestly, I was on the patio of Bellevue, is the old tavern on Rush. I was there this week. |
| 1:11.6 | I had nice lunch with Glennie Balls, had myself some nice Miller Lights. |
| 1:15.5 | They were sweating. |
| 1:16.2 | It was a nice hot day in Chicago. |
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