Ice Cube then
O'She Jackson was born in 1969, although he is better known for his stage name Ice Cube. He is an actor, producer, screenwriter, and rapper who was born in South Central Los Angeles, California. When Ice Cube was sixteen years old he developed his interest in Hip-Hop and began writing raps while skipping class at his local high school. He later attended the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall of 1987 and studied ARchitectural design. Ice Cube is very well known for his career with N.W.A.
Ice Cube dropped out of college in the winter of 1987 and joined N.W.A. Ice Cube and Dr. Dre released the EP My Posse, under the alias of CIA in 1987. Ice Cube wrote for Dr. Dre and Eazy-E' for the N.W.A groups landmark album, Straight Outta Compton, which was released in 1988. Once 1990 hit, Ice Cude found himself constantly arguing with the groups manager, Jerry Heller. Ice Cube and Heller had many financial disputes. Ice Cube explains about Heller, "Heller gave me this contract, and I said I wanted a lawyer to see it. He almost fell out of his chair. I guess he figured, how this young muthafucka turn down all this money? [$75,000] Everybody else signed. I told them I wanted to make sure my shit was right first."
In 2004 Ice Cube rapped his hit singles "Check Yo Self", "It Was a Good Day" and affiliated song "Guerrillas in tha Mist". Then in 2005 Ice Cube teamed up with and Emmy Award winning film maker R. J. Cutler, they created a six part documentary called "Black. White." Then in October of 2006 Ice Cube was honored by VH1 for his Hip-Hop career. However, I do not look up to Ice Cube as much as I do to other stars of the Black Arts Movement. However, I might just be bias because I hated his movie "Are We There Yet?". Which is his most recent movie and I feel that it shows that his career has just gone downhill since the Black Art's Movement.
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