Ice cube biography documentarys

This is a continuation of Rap Ratz&#; animated mini-series that pays tribute to hip hop legends and pioneers. We call them Rap Ratributes. This music video documentary is on Ice Cube.

Ice Cube&#;s History and Biography

• Ice Cube was born O&#;Shea Jackson on June 15,
• He was raised in South Central Los Angeles
• in the mids he started a group with two others called CIA
• Ice Cube rapped at parties hosted by Dr. Dre who later produced his first recordings
• Ice Cube met Eazy-E through Dre, and that trio, along with Arabian Prince, formed the first lineup of N.W.A. MC Ren and DJ Yella joined soon after.
• Eazy E co-founded Ruthless Records and launched later in with two releases: Eazy&#;s &#;Boyz-N-the-Hood,&#; and an EP from N.W.A.
• He worked on N.W.A&#;s Straight Outta Compton and Eazy-E&#;s Eazy-Duz-It, released by Ruthless in
• Straight Outta Compton peaked at number nine on Billboard&#;s R&B/hip-hop chart
• Conflicts with Jerry Heller prompted Cube to leave N.W.A in late
• He released his first solo album, AmeriKKKa&#;s Most Wanted, in
• The following year he released a follow-up EP Kill at Will
• In, he starred in the Academy Award-nominated crime drama film ‘Boyz n the Hood,’ directed by John Singleton
• In the same

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  Straight Outta L.A.

  Good Entry in the Series

  30 for Straight Outta L.A. ()
  
  *** (out of 4)
  
  Another entry in ESPN's series, this one here takes a look at how gangster rap and the Oakland Raiders went together and turned a popular team into one of the biggest merchandise sellers in the world. Director Ice Cube, who was there when most of this broke, explains how the violence of the city was just right for the violence of the Raiders. I was pretty surprised to see how many people Cube gathered for this documentary as we get members from the original NWA group, Ice-T, various Raiders players including Marcus Allen and we even get Al Davis. I was shocked to see Davis who is still hard as nails in terms of doing things his own way and it's still rather funny to hear him try to explain how he's doing stuff his way and how it's the best thing for everyone. I think, for the most part, this is a pretty good documentary, although at times it seems to be all over the place. Part of it wants to cover the Raiders. Part of it wants to cover the early explosion of gangster rap. Then we get into the more political stuff of the L.A. riots and whether or not rap was causing people to be killed. There's a lot of stuff that tries to get covered in minutes and at ti

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