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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Hey, what's up. I've never felt more disrespectful leaving
somebody on hold for a few seconds in my life.
Moving you on hold for a few seconds, ice Cube,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm good man.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm gonna like geek out a little bit because never
did I think I was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Like high ice Cube? What's going on? And so you're
starting a tour. You'll be here next Thursday at the
Angel the Wins Casino. Make sure everybody gets tickets for that. Also,
we're gonna be where you're at on Friday because you're
doing a show for Jammy one O seventy five in Portland,
which is the radio station we're also on in Portland,
and so we will be down there at the venue.
I don't know if we'll be able to see you,
(00:38):
if you allow people around you to work at the
radio station or not, but we will be there and
probably announcing you before you get on stage. But anyway,
it's honor to talk to you. Man. What's been going
on with you?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh man, It's all good, you know, just uh still
love touring. I'm in Freshmo tonight and we got Alaska,
then we hit Everett and then he hit Borton. We
rolled it in. I got the Big Three the next
day after Portland. So if you want to hang out
and you know, come to the games the next.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Day, yeah, I would love to. I've been wanting to
go to one of the Big Three tournaments.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah. Yeah. We play on Saturday at the same spot,
so it's gonna be fun. It's a high Q weekend
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And I know that you tried to get Kaitlyn Clark
to play in the Big Three. I would just like
to throw this out there, ice cube and you will
know the area. So I actually attended ac Greens Basketball
camp in Englewood when I was a little kid, right,
and I won the MVP. So would you like to
draft me on twenty of your teams? That is also
(01:46):
a very smart decision because I think that's the last
time I balled. Really, But yeah, did you try to
get Kaitlyn Clark to play? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you know, uh, we took a big swing. You know.
It would have unlocked millions of dollars for US as
far as sponsors. Definitely, viewership would have been at an
all time high. It didn't happen, but it's all good
because our ratings still at all time high, you know,
for the Big Three, and hey, it's it's a great season.
(02:16):
We got a game this Sunday, Ana High on CBS
if y'all want to check it out, okay, and we'll
be in Portland next week.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
But so for those people who don't know what the
Big Three is, so it's a basketball tournament.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, it's professional three on three. It's a league professional
for them pay basketball and play it at the highest level.
By some of the names, you know, some of the
guys used to play in the NBA, some guys from overseas.
We are Hall of Fame coaches, you know, like Doctor
J and Iceman and then it's leaving me in. You know,
(02:49):
it's just a it's a great league, you know for
the summer when we all have a basketball hangover waiting
for football to start. So here we go.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Do you play basketball?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I retired.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I've seen some of my friends who are amateurs get
pro injuries. So I was like, I really want to
tear acl Nah, I'm cool. So I just uh, I
went to the podium and just retired.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What's your goal with the whole thing? I mean, what
did the end all be all for you?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
B to be here as long as the NBA to
be bigger and to have the best athletes in the
world playing in the summer. You know, that's the goal.
It was really to fill a void.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I used to hibernate after the NBA finals, and you know,
I have people wake me up when when the NFL started.
Now I don't have to hibernate. You know, I could
just stay awake for those twelve weeks, you know where
there's really nothing to watch. That great. Yeah, now you've
got the Big Three.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well mean you got that and touring, So does that
give you energy? Feed you to keep going to all
of these places without a doubt?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know, I love performing like that, right, there's my hobby.
So I still have fun. I've been doing this since
I was fourteen. Yeah, so I love it. You know,
it's still fun. And you know it's cool. I got
fans that's been down with me almost forty years, and
it's cool that they get a chance to you know,
sing me live.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Maybe I can keep them another forty years.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And then they teach their kids and all that kind
of stuff, so it becomes a family affair. How have
the shows changed though over the last forty years, from
when you first started touring to now, not even just you,
but like being there, the audience, everything, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It hasn't really changed much. But the cell phones. You
know what I'm saying. Before you wouldn't find nobody filming
the show, like you may see one red guy in
the audience. A guy had a camcorder on the show,
you know, for now everybody, and he got a cell phone.
So now when you first come out, all you see
(05:03):
your cell phones up looking at you instead of highs.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Is that get in the ways, that get in your
head at all?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't care, you know, however, you want to enjoy it.
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Rock.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You know I got forty years of hit. You know
I'm at you. So you want to film it however
you want to absorb it. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That's dope. Man, Are you going to release a new
album soon?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, I'm I'm gonna drop a record called Man Damn.
It'll be out this summer. We're just doing the finish touches,
doing the paperwork, all the foreign stuff, you know, to
get ready to drop this record. And you know, I
might do a song or two when I get out there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's cool, that's that's awesome. Yeah, I mean the last album,
but I was dope. I loved it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Man, every album I put out, you better, you better
say it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's very true. You're you're right on that. Thank you
for correcting me. But like some guys stop putting out
new albums or something like that, or they put it
out and because they've been putting out music forever, it
gets slept on because people forget about it. I don't
think that happened to you. But it was really good though.
Like the things that you said, and the things you
say are always like so actful, yeah, you know, and
(06:15):
your take on society and all that kind of stuff. Man,
I love the things you say, and so I'm glad
that you continue to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Appreciate it, you know. To me, that's what it's all
about it. If you want to be an MC, you
want to be a rapper, can't just talk about yourself.
You got to talk about what everybody's going through and
then they bless you in longevity, you know. So I'm
always stick with that style, you know, we call the
street knowledge.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, have other artists, younger artists, I would say, I
guess trying to emulate your career, reached out to you
and asking you to kind of be like a mentor
or is there anybody that you'd be willing to bless
your skills on one of their tracks?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, you know, I love to get a youngster's game,
you know, especially when they recept it and they acts.
Whenever I see different than see here and there, different
artists you know, been in the game at different stages,
and you know, to me, it's always better to share,
you know, the knowledge and not you know, I mean
(07:11):
to kind of hold up, hold on it. But the
more you share, the more more blessing you get. So
every time I see them, I'm trying to trying to
give them game, you know, on how to keep going
and keep the longevity in the game.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The Northwest has a budding kind of like hip hop scene.
What's one piece of advice you've give to anybody listening.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
To this, I mean, listen to your inner self, you know,
listen to the voice that's inside you, you know, before
anybody else. You know that intuition is very valuable, and
never silence your intuition, I mean always, you know, kind
of depend on it to navigate this crazy business. It's crazy.
(07:55):
Got an instincts in your guts, and you know, don't
do you know in the music business something you wouldn't
do in the streets, you know what I mean. So
that's just that's.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Just yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Apparently that's how you go forty years without a miss.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I can't think of an ice c miss, to be
honest with you, and so I mean that that's great advice.
Thanks man.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I don't think it goes even farther than the music industry.
I think just in life, listening to your intuition, I mean,
that's really powerful.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Got to you know, it's our voice, our inner voice
knows a lot more than all these voices come from
the outside.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Absolutely sure. Yeah, definitely. Kendrick Lamar, Drake Beef.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I've been checking it out or I mean, you know,
I'm a ride with the West Coast. But at the
end of the day, you know, I was just checking
out the show. It's seeing it go back and yeah,
it seemed like Kendrick just landed the knockout blow. But
let's see what Drake come back with. You know, yeah, real, real, quicky,
(09:02):
what are you gonna say? Man?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Thank you for calling in and we'll make sure everybody
checks out your show and the Big Three. Also you said,
so it's gonna be on CBS this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This Sunday on Seay say okay, yeah, noon. We got
three games. Then we go to x for our last
three games, and next Saturday we'll be right there in Portland.
So if you're in the area, you know, see me
at the show and they content the.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Game there you go.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I love it and I have to do this before
we let you go. Thank you for making today a
good day, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Man, have a good see later anytime. Take care,