What Next: How Trump Got Ice Cube

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Once one of the most politically confrontational artists in music, Ice Cube has become a surprising asset to Donald Trump. Guest: Joel Anderson, staff writer for Slate and the host of Seasons 3, 6, and 8 of Slow Burn. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Public.com+Public Investing: All investing involves risk. Brokerage services for US listed securities, options and bonds in a self-directed brokerage account are offered by Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Not investment advice. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank.Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1828849), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. . See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.0	Slates Joel Anderson, still remembers how he first caught a glimpse of the rapper Ice Cube.
0:47.6	It was the late 80s.
0:49.0	Joel was like 11 or 12 years old, living in the suburbs of Houston.
0:53.0	So what you want me to do.
0:55.0	Do. I can't remember first 88 or 89
1:00.0	when I first saw the Express Yourself video by NWA.
1:04.0	It used to come on YoM TV wraps pretty regularly.
1:15.0	This video was like nothing Joel had seen before.
1:18.0	Like I think the way it starts off like the opening images or some people picking cotton and then all of a sudden you see Dr.
1:26.4	Dre and Ice Cube bust through this banner.
1:29.6	The banner actually reads, I Have a Dream. The NWA crew demolishes it.
1:35.0	And from the moment I saw that and Ice Cube, I don't know, like he just looked like one of the toughest people in the world.
1:48.0	He had you at hello. He had me at hello. Actually, it was more like, I'm expressing with my full capabilities, you know what I'm saying? But that was
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