O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Pod Meets World
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
We’ve heard some awkward teen stories - but when your dad is Ice Cube, the stakes are just a little higher.
O’Shea Jackson Jr. opens up about the highs, the lows, and the very real downside of having a rap legend for a father - including a short-lived music career…and an even shorter-lived stage name.
Since then, he’s gone on to share the screen with Michael B. Jordan, Charlize Theron and Gerard Butler - a journey that somehow all traces back to his kitchen.
Plus, we uncover how his entire career might be rooted in a deep hatred of sedimentary rocks…and more, on an all-new, WrestleMania weekend edition of, Teen Beat!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.3 | Give me money for cigarettes. |
| 0:14.9 | I'll never leave your filthy bed. |
| 0:19.8 | I spend the night and one night be able to three years. |
| 0:24.6 | The kids are not all right. |
| 0:26.9 | But that's okay because no one here is Teen Beat. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Teen Beat. |
| 0:35.3 | The weekly podcast that revives our awkward teenage years, |
| 0:39.0 | the same way Dr. John Hammond resurrected dinosaurs for a theme park and with similar results. |
| 0:45.9 | And this week, I'm recording a special episode live from Las Vegas for WrestleMania 42 weekend, |
| 0:52.0 | an epicenter for headlocks and RKO's, but more than anything |
| 0:56.3 | else, a place where we can all feel like kids again. |
| 1:00.1 | So, we're better to sit with an interesting person who does interesting things to talk about |
| 1:05.2 | their upbringing, tapping into the glorious and awkward journey of being a teenager, |
| 1:11.2 | years that were chronicled for me in front of a live studio audience, then on DVD, now on a |
| 1:16.8 | worldwide streaming service. |
| 1:18.6 | I look at it this way. |
| 1:20.1 | I gave you my childhood. |
| 1:21.8 | It's time we hear yours. |
| 1:23.7 | And this week, I'm excited to chat with someone whose childhood may have existed outside the spotlight, |
| 1:29.5 | but the glow around him was bright enough to light a thousand caves. |
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