O’shea Jackson was a good student that was very passionate about football and music. When O’shea reached his teen years his parents decided to move their son to a different school. So they bussed him too a suburban high school in San Fernando Valley. For O’shea who hadn’t known …show more content…
Some of the songs that he released during his time as a solo artist include “Make Way for the Motherload,” “Death Certificate” released 1991, which was regarded as “more focused,” and “anti-white, misogynist, and racist,” yet it was one of his most controversial songs of his entire career, the record was divided into two sides, the “Death Side”(a vision of where we are today) and the “Life Side” (a vision of where we need to go).The album includes a very powerful response to N.W.A’s “100 Mile Runnin”,called “No Vaseline”. Other songs and albums that he released include “The Predator” released November of 1992, that specifically referred to the Los Angeles riots. In his single he rapped “April 29th was power to the people, and we might just see a sequel.” The album reached number 1 on both Pop and R&B charts, which at the time was the first to do so. Cubes fourth album “Lethal Injection” was released at the end of 1993 and showed Ice Cubes first attempt at imitating the G-Funk sound of Dr.Dre’s “The Chronic,” but was not well received by critics. The main success came from “Lethal Injections” “Really Doe,” “Bop Gun,“ You Know How We Do It,” and “What Can I …show more content…
Adults should never hear you use these words,” and he said that,” If you want to use these words around your friends, that’s really all on you.” Two of O’sheas sons, O’shea Jr. and Darrell are rappers like their dad, under the names OMG, and Doughboy. They were featured in their dad’s album “I Am The West.” O’shea is also the cousin of fellow rapper Del the Funky Homosapien, in which he started his rapping career writing for Cube’s group Da Lench Mob. Del released his first album “I Wish My Brother George Was Here” when he was eighteen with some help from Cube.
In the mid-1990’s Ice Cube converted his religion to Islam and associated himself with the nation of Islam at that time. He doesn't regularly attend services at the mosque though. Throughout his life Ice Cube has been in movies and Tv shows such as “The Sinbad Show,” the “Bernie Mac Show,” he was in “Are We There Yet,” as Nick Persons, and was in the “Friday” movies as Craig Jones, which was one of the many, many movies that he has acted in or produced