August 6, 2025 • 14 mins
Ice Cube joins Gary and Shannon to discuss – BIG3 Professional 3x on 3x Basketball League!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm beside myself, yourself. I'm very excited. You know, I'd
say that twelve year old me is really happy. You know,
ice Cube is with us, and this is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
This is real life that's happening to us right now.
And I'd say twelve year old me is super happy,
because I mean, nineteen ninety two is big for you
and I, both of us.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Do I call Do I call you Cube? Mister Cube?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Call me Cube?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, Cube?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Does anybody call you by your given name?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Yeah, family, yeah, pops, moms, wife, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're not there yet, but maybe by the end of the.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Day, call me Cube.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Or you know, if somebody say, oh, shay, I'm looking
for a family member, or check somebody's.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Lost, somebody's lost you in a crowded place.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm looking for you know, family member or
somebody got a check for I.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Love I love the description of you. Every time I
see you, or your name or any of the ventures
that you've gotten too. They always refer to you as
multi hyphen it. Ice Cube started as a rapper, obviously,
acting production, obviously in a movie producing straight out of Compton.
It's two hundred million dollars or something like the internationally. Right,
(01:14):
you saw all of that, right, you get to pocket
all of that?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Or I wish universal got something to say about that.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
But also a Big three basketball several years ago, eight
years ago or so? How did big three basketball even
become a thing?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Where did it come out of my brain? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Me and my partner Jeff Quin, it's we you know,
it wasn't enough basketball. Kobe had just scored sixty points
in his last game that I missed because I was
out of town shooting a movie. I was, yeah, I
was peeled about it, you know, and I couldn't see
(01:53):
him play no more.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Like whoa whoa, whoa whoa? What world was in?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I had saw this guy for twenty years, paid money
to see him play, And I said, man, I know
he could still play, score sixty points in his last game.
Definitely could still play. And it was like, no, now
he's done. He's done, And I'm like, got to be
a place where guys can play when they still got it.
They might not be able to play eighty two games
(02:20):
or one hundred games in the NBA back to backs
three or four, you know, three games of four nights,
but they can't still play and that's kind of how
the you know, the ideas started to kind of germinate
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
When did you fall in love with basketball?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I mean, we don't need to go back to you know,
not to bring back nineteen ninety two, but you know,
when the Lakers beat the SuperSonics, you know, I mean
the they had some good years. You forget about the
SuperSonics in the nineties. They had some good years. They
were able to contain Michael Jordan for a little bit there.
But when did you fall in love with the game?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I fell in love with basketball when I was five
years old and my brothers were playing in the backyard.
He's nine years older than me, so they were playing
in the backyard and I couldn't play, And you know,
my mother was like, you'll get big enough one day.
You'll get big enough one day. And you know, one
day I got big enough I could actually be on
(03:13):
the court with them and actually play, because they had
some super rough games back there. So that's when I
fell in love with the game. It was not being
able to play with the bigger kids in the backyard
is where it all started. And I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, what is that with older brothers and not being
able to be involved with all the.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Stuff there, even if it's stupid stuff, not cool stuff
like that. Want to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
When you're told no, you can't, that's what you want
more than anything. My brother was in Dungeons and Dragons.
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't want that, but I did
back then.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, just because you can't, they want, but yeah, they
you know. I used to come inside crying to my mother.
You're too little, You're knocked over, you know. And uh,
you know, one day I was big enough. Then I
was big enough to beat them. So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That was a good day.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, that was a good.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You guys are a Week nine is coming up this
weekend in the Big Three season for this and then
after that.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Is playoff playoffs championship.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Yeah, and this weekend all of the games are going
to be into it.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yes, we got four games for the price of one.
Get a chance to see the whole league. Everybody now
all fighting for you know, it's eight teams fighting for
those four spots to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It is a party.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I've heard the stories about Into it Dome I've heard
what goes on behind the scenes. I've heard about the
party suites. It is like the place to be in
Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
This is my first time going in, so I can't
wait to experience I haven't been in.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, have you heard my Have you heard the stories
that I've heard?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah? Few, Yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
You know, we were, you know, definitely grateful that the
arena was available, and you know, it's the this arena
in the city, so you know, that's what these players deserve.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You have an architecture background, Yes, is it cool to
you to see something like that?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Of course, you know, just to see you know, I'm
always in awe at, you know, the men that build
this kind of thing. You know, it's a you know,
it's it's always even when I'm on a movie. You know,
we do these big you know, stunts and these big
production set pieces, and I'm always amazed at the men
(05:30):
that put this up in one week and tear it
down the next day and put something up else up.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You know, It's it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Watching you come out of center field at Game two
of the Dodgers Yankees World Series. I get chills thinking
about it. That was a quintessential Los Angeles moment. There
are a few people that embody los Angeles. You're one
of those people. What was it like for you, even
being who you are, to be able to do that
(06:01):
and to represent the city like that on that day
living a dream?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You know, I grew up a Dodger fan. I remember.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
When Gibson hit the home run in the eighties, running
out the house screaming, you know, it's the trip. It
was like back then, it was me, it was Dre,
sir Jinks. You know, it was all down the street
from my block watching the game. We all ran out
the street. I just remember how how broke we were
(06:31):
back then compared to you know, when Freddie Freeman hit
the home run and everybody's excited. I'm like, it's a
whole new day. But you know, being injected into the game,
like you know, being able to actually you know, play
and perform and represent LA and you know, it's just
one of those things you don't even dream of.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It's so out there, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
And you also, this would have been a couple of
years ago to NASCAR at the Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, you did a show there too, very cool.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I had some friends that went and saw that, and
so that was the greatest just gathering of you know,
you got Nascar on one side, you got ice Cube
on the other, and they were just they love it.
They don't stop talking about it.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Was sweet, you know, in the coliseum. You never think
you're gonna see Nascar in the coliseum, and it was
just a special day. And you know, I think they
got a great reception from that, you know, and you know,
just another thing you never count on.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You know, it's just something that dream.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
You live in the dream though you Clyde Drexler as
a commissioner for the Big Three. Right now we're talking
with ice Cube, by the way, who's the founder of
the Big Three. Among that many other things that you've
done with your life, you've had the opportunity now to
meet some of the people. I mean, you mentioned Kobe.
You've met Kobe or you had met Kobe. You you
have this this life now where you get to see
(07:54):
these people that, like you said, you know, back in
the eighties, you watch Kirk Gibson hit this home run
and you're freaking out, And now you get to see
some of these.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
People that you grew up idolizing and what's that?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I mean, what's saying?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I just go up and give them they props and
let them know how much of a fan I am.
And you know, just like I would do if I
wasn't famous, you know, just give them they props, let
them know, you know, what they meant to me growing up.
And you know, just feeling great that I got a
chance to actually say that to them, you know, speak
to them.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
It's not just a feeling that I you know, have
in my heart, but I'm able to actually you know,
connect and I know some of these guys now, like
you know, we talked to Clyde Drexler almost every day,
you know, I see doctor j Iceman.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Every every week. You know, they you know, we know
each other's families.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
And it's it's real cool to be able to just get,
you know, into a working relationship and a working environment
with some of these heroes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Like I mentioned, I started listening to your music one
I started paying attention to music so like early nineties
and and and it opened my.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Eyes to a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, and so I feel like when I see you,
I feel like you've been in my whole life because
nobody stops listening to Ice Cubes music, you know, like
you just it's just it's one of those things that endoors.
It's it's I don't even want to say a cult
like following because it was just instant, instant hits and
then it's all stayed. You must always get the feeling
(09:28):
that or people must always have the feeling that they
know you because you have been a big figure their
whole lives. If you're my age, So what's that like
when people just feel like they know you and they don't.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I mean, it's a little strange, but it feels good.
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
It feels good that people feel like you part of
a family, like they've been knowing you forever, right, and.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You know, the reception is always warm.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So it's always cool to be able to to have
a conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
They they have things they want to say to me,
you know that they been harboring their whole life and
now they got a chance to say it. So it
feels good to be in that position. You know, it's
better than the other way around.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah, but it's also from from disparate communities, and we
were talking. The two of us are from you know,
super you know, north northern California, white, very white bread
northern California. But I remember who introduced me to Straight
out of Compton. I remember buying the cassette. I remember
driving around, yeah, delivering.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Chinese food, I mean more white than that.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
But listening to this, this whole new genre of music
and this whole new world opening up in front of.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Us, well, you know, we thought it was going to
be underground. You know, when we did the music, we
never thought that it would, you know, get into the
mainstream it's any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Was that because you didn't think it would get radio play.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yes, yeah, we thought it was Uh see, back then,
they used to make all kind of comedy records.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You know, you would have a.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Eddie Murphy, you know, comedy red Fox, Richard Prior, and
we thought, we thought our records would live in those
sections and never make it to even the rap section
or the you know, hip hop, R and B whatever
they wanted.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You were doing it for your friends.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah, we was basically trying to be neighborhood stars. You know,
we was like, nobody cares about what's going on around here,
so let's just wrap about it, and you know, maybe
we can get some love from our friends, you know,
on this style of music, and it was just a
total opposite.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It just blew up and we was on this.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Rise, like strapping yourself to a rocket, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You've been able to handle all the success. You have
kept your head on your shoulders. You're probably the same
guy that you were starting out. How do you do that?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I made a promise to myself when I was young
that I would always recognize myself, you know, when I
look in the mirror, I didn't want to ever see
a different person. So I always just like be myself
and let the chips fall what they may. You know,
sometimes it works out for me.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Sometimes it don't.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But I'm fine with that, you know, as long as
I I'm happy with who I am and I'm not.
You know, I live out here, so I can't when
you live in Hollywood, you shouldn't go Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Put it that way.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
You know, you should know you know how to sidestep
some of the stuff that's out here.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Despite all of the stuff that you've done up to
this point, I mean, your future is just as big.
What kind of stuff are you working on for the
for the next chapter, For you.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh man, you know, just you know, grow the league.
Want to grow the league.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Also, I have a major tour that that I'm about
to start in September called the Truth to Power for
four Decades of Attitude Tour. So it's great to be
in the game forty years and to you know, dig
into my catalog a little bit on stage. This is
(13:12):
the biggest production I've ever done in my life, so
I'm proud of it. We're working on Last Friday, which
is fourth installment of the Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Franch Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
And we got a lot of other movie projects in
different states of development.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Hell as they say.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah, well it's awesome. It's an honor to meet you.
It's just an absolute privilege. And like Shannon said, I
mean our knowledge of you goes back thirty years, which
is I mean crazy to think that we're that old.
You haven't aged at all.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I know, no, honestly, Like I've been sitting here thinking
the same thing.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Where did the time go?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
We heard that you were in the building, and we
heard we would have a shot at inner you and you,
And to be honest, I didn't let myself believe that
that was going to happen because I didn't want to
get excited and then real disappointed like a little kid.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
But then you came around the corner.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Yeah, I'm a fool ice cube again. Founder of Big
Three Basketball League and everything else. There's no time to
list it all back. Big three dot com the number
three Big three dot Com is where you're gonna find
the information, including the schedule for Saturday, those Big Four
games at into a Dome. The playoffs are next weekend.
It's going to be an absolute it's supposed to be
(14:30):
just an absolute party down.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it anytime, every time.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Thank you awesome, Thank you Cube.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You said it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Gary Enner will be right back right after this
I'm beside myself, yourself. I'm very excited. You know, I'd
say that twelve year old me is really happy. You know,
ice Cube is with us, and this is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
This is real life that's happening to us right now.
And I'd say twelve year old me is super happy,
because I mean, nineteen ninety two is big for you
and I, both of us.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Do I call Do I call you Cube? Mister Cube?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Call me Cube?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, Cube?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Does anybody call you by your given name?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Yeah, family, yeah, pops, moms, wife, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're not there yet, but maybe by the end of the.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Day, call me Cube.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Or you know, if somebody say, oh, shay, I'm looking
for a family member, or check somebody's.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Lost, somebody's lost you in a crowded place.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm looking for you know, family member or
somebody got a check for I.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Love I love the description of you. Every time I
see you, or your name or any of the ventures
that you've gotten too. They always refer to you as
multi hyphen it. Ice Cube started as a rapper, obviously,
acting production, obviously in a movie producing straight out of Compton.
It's two hundred million dollars or something like the internationally. Right,
(01:14):
you saw all of that, right, you get to pocket
all of that?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Or I wish universal got something to say about that.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
But also a Big three basketball several years ago, eight
years ago or so? How did big three basketball even
become a thing?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Where did it come out of my brain? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Me and my partner Jeff Quin, it's we you know,
it wasn't enough basketball. Kobe had just scored sixty points
in his last game that I missed because I was
out of town shooting a movie. I was, yeah, I
was peeled about it, you know, and I couldn't see
(01:53):
him play no more.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Like whoa whoa, whoa whoa? What world was in?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I had saw this guy for twenty years, paid money
to see him play, And I said, man, I know
he could still play, score sixty points in his last game.
Definitely could still play. And it was like, no, now
he's done. He's done, And I'm like, got to be
a place where guys can play when they still got it.
They might not be able to play eighty two games
(02:20):
or one hundred games in the NBA back to backs
three or four, you know, three games of four nights,
but they can't still play and that's kind of how
the you know, the ideas started to kind of germinate
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
When did you fall in love with basketball?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I mean, we don't need to go back to you know,
not to bring back nineteen ninety two, but you know,
when the Lakers beat the SuperSonics, you know, I mean
the they had some good years. You forget about the
SuperSonics in the nineties. They had some good years. They
were able to contain Michael Jordan for a little bit there.
But when did you fall in love with the game?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I fell in love with basketball when I was five
years old and my brothers were playing in the backyard.
He's nine years older than me, so they were playing
in the backyard and I couldn't play, And you know,
my mother was like, you'll get big enough one day.
You'll get big enough one day. And you know, one
day I got big enough I could actually be on
(03:13):
the court with them and actually play, because they had
some super rough games back there. So that's when I
fell in love with the game. It was not being
able to play with the bigger kids in the backyard
is where it all started. And I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, what is that with older brothers and not being
able to be involved with all the.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Stuff there, even if it's stupid stuff, not cool stuff
like that. Want to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
When you're told no, you can't, that's what you want
more than anything. My brother was in Dungeons and Dragons.
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't want that, but I did
back then.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, just because you can't, they want, but yeah, they
you know. I used to come inside crying to my mother.
You're too little, You're knocked over, you know. And uh,
you know, one day I was big enough. Then I
was big enough to beat them. So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That was a good day.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, that was a good.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You guys are a Week nine is coming up this
weekend in the Big Three season for this and then
after that.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Is playoff playoffs championship.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Yeah, and this weekend all of the games are going
to be into it.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yes, we got four games for the price of one.
Get a chance to see the whole league. Everybody now
all fighting for you know, it's eight teams fighting for
those four spots to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It is a party.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I've heard the stories about Into it Dome I've heard
what goes on behind the scenes. I've heard about the
party suites. It is like the place to be in
Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
This is my first time going in, so I can't
wait to experience I haven't been in.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, have you heard my Have you heard the stories
that I've heard?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah? Few, Yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
You know, we were, you know, definitely grateful that the
arena was available, and you know, it's the this arena
in the city, so you know, that's what these players deserve.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You have an architecture background, Yes, is it cool to
you to see something like that?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Of course, you know, just to see you know, I'm
always in awe at, you know, the men that build
this kind of thing. You know, it's a you know,
it's it's always even when I'm on a movie. You know,
we do these big you know, stunts and these big
production set pieces, and I'm always amazed at the men
(05:30):
that put this up in one week and tear it
down the next day and put something up else up.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You know, It's it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Watching you come out of center field at Game two
of the Dodgers Yankees World Series. I get chills thinking
about it. That was a quintessential Los Angeles moment. There
are a few people that embody los Angeles. You're one
of those people. What was it like for you, even
being who you are, to be able to do that
(06:01):
and to represent the city like that on that day
living a dream?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You know, I grew up a Dodger fan. I remember.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
When Gibson hit the home run in the eighties, running
out the house screaming, you know, it's the trip. It
was like back then, it was me, it was Dre,
sir Jinks. You know, it was all down the street
from my block watching the game. We all ran out
the street. I just remember how how broke we were
(06:31):
back then compared to you know, when Freddie Freeman hit
the home run and everybody's excited. I'm like, it's a
whole new day. But you know, being injected into the game,
like you know, being able to actually you know, play
and perform and represent LA and you know, it's just
one of those things you don't even dream of.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It's so out there, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
And you also, this would have been a couple of
years ago to NASCAR at the Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, you did a show there too, very cool.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I had some friends that went and saw that, and
so that was the greatest just gathering of you know,
you got Nascar on one side, you got ice Cube
on the other, and they were just they love it.
They don't stop talking about it.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Was sweet, you know, in the coliseum. You never think
you're gonna see Nascar in the coliseum, and it was
just a special day. And you know, I think they
got a great reception from that, you know, and you know,
just another thing you never count on.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You know, it's just something that dream.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
You live in the dream though you Clyde Drexler as
a commissioner for the Big Three. Right now we're talking
with ice Cube, by the way, who's the founder of
the Big Three. Among that many other things that you've
done with your life, you've had the opportunity now to
meet some of the people. I mean, you mentioned Kobe.
You've met Kobe or you had met Kobe. You you
have this this life now where you get to see
(07:54):
these people that, like you said, you know, back in
the eighties, you watch Kirk Gibson hit this home run
and you're freaking out, And now you get to see
some of these.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
People that you grew up idolizing and what's that?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I mean, what's saying?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I just go up and give them they props and
let them know how much of a fan I am.
And you know, just like I would do if I
wasn't famous, you know, just give them they props, let
them know, you know, what they meant to me growing up.
And you know, just feeling great that I got a
chance to actually say that to them, you know, speak
to them.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
It's not just a feeling that I you know, have
in my heart, but I'm able to actually you know,
connect and I know some of these guys now, like
you know, we talked to Clyde Drexler almost every day,
you know, I see doctor j Iceman.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Every every week. You know, they you know, we know
each other's families.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
And it's it's real cool to be able to just get,
you know, into a working relationship and a working environment
with some of these heroes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Like I mentioned, I started listening to your music one
I started paying attention to music so like early nineties
and and and it opened my.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Eyes to a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, and so I feel like when I see you,
I feel like you've been in my whole life because
nobody stops listening to Ice Cubes music, you know, like
you just it's just it's one of those things that endoors.
It's it's I don't even want to say a cult
like following because it was just instant, instant hits and
then it's all stayed. You must always get the feeling
(09:28):
that or people must always have the feeling that they
know you because you have been a big figure their
whole lives. If you're my age, So what's that like
when people just feel like they know you and they don't.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I mean, it's a little strange, but it feels good.
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
It feels good that people feel like you part of
a family, like they've been knowing you forever, right, and.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You know, the reception is always warm.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So it's always cool to be able to to have
a conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
They they have things they want to say to me,
you know that they been harboring their whole life and
now they got a chance to say it. So it
feels good to be in that position. You know, it's
better than the other way around.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah, but it's also from from disparate communities, and we
were talking. The two of us are from you know,
super you know, north northern California, white, very white bread
northern California. But I remember who introduced me to Straight
out of Compton. I remember buying the cassette. I remember
driving around, yeah, delivering.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Chinese food, I mean more white than that.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
But listening to this, this whole new genre of music
and this whole new world opening up in front of.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Us, well, you know, we thought it was going to
be underground. You know, when we did the music, we
never thought that it would, you know, get into the
mainstream it's any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Was that because you didn't think it would get radio play.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yes, yeah, we thought it was Uh see, back then,
they used to make all kind of comedy records.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You know, you would have a.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Eddie Murphy, you know, comedy red Fox, Richard Prior, and
we thought, we thought our records would live in those
sections and never make it to even the rap section
or the you know, hip hop, R and B whatever
they wanted.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You were doing it for your friends.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah, we was basically trying to be neighborhood stars. You know,
we was like, nobody cares about what's going on around here,
so let's just wrap about it, and you know, maybe
we can get some love from our friends, you know,
on this style of music, and it was just a
total opposite.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It just blew up and we was on this.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Rise, like strapping yourself to a rocket, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You've been able to handle all the success. You have
kept your head on your shoulders. You're probably the same
guy that you were starting out. How do you do that?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I made a promise to myself when I was young
that I would always recognize myself, you know, when I
look in the mirror, I didn't want to ever see
a different person. So I always just like be myself
and let the chips fall what they may. You know,
sometimes it works out for me.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Sometimes it don't.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But I'm fine with that, you know, as long as
I I'm happy with who I am and I'm not.
You know, I live out here, so I can't when
you live in Hollywood, you shouldn't go Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Put it that way.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
You know, you should know you know how to sidestep
some of the stuff that's out here.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Despite all of the stuff that you've done up to
this point, I mean, your future is just as big.
What kind of stuff are you working on for the
for the next chapter, For you.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh man, you know, just you know, grow the league.
Want to grow the league.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Also, I have a major tour that that I'm about
to start in September called the Truth to Power for
four Decades of Attitude Tour. So it's great to be
in the game forty years and to you know, dig
into my catalog a little bit on stage. This is
(13:12):
the biggest production I've ever done in my life, so
I'm proud of it. We're working on Last Friday, which
is fourth installment of the Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Franch Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
And we got a lot of other movie projects in
different states of development.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Hell as they say.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah, well it's awesome. It's an honor to meet you.
It's just an absolute privilege. And like Shannon said, I
mean our knowledge of you goes back thirty years, which
is I mean crazy to think that we're that old.
You haven't aged at all.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I know, no, honestly, Like I've been sitting here thinking
the same thing.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Where did the time go?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
We heard that you were in the building, and we
heard we would have a shot at inner you and you,
And to be honest, I didn't let myself believe that
that was going to happen because I didn't want to
get excited and then real disappointed like a little kid.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
But then you came around the corner.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Yeah, I'm a fool ice cube again. Founder of Big
Three Basketball League and everything else. There's no time to
list it all back. Big three dot com the number
three Big three dot Com is where you're gonna find
the information, including the schedule for Saturday, those Big Four
games at into a Dome. The playoffs are next weekend.
It's going to be an absolute it's supposed to be
(14:30):
just an absolute party down.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it anytime, every time.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Thank you awesome, Thank you Cube.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You said it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Gary Enner will be right back right after this
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