Ice Cube Puts Off Recording With Dre To Focus On Harassing Kids

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Ice Cube Puts Off Recording With Dre To Focus On Harassing Kids

Rapper's newest flick, 'Are We There Yet?,' is helmed by 'Snow Dogs' director Brian Levant.

by Corey Moss, with additional reporting by Sway Calloway


Ice Cube (Photo: MTV News)  

A rapper who postpones studio time with Dr. Dre is either insane or has something else damn good going. Since it's safe to assume Ice Cube is not crazy, he must be fairly pleased with the way his acting career has turned out.

"Every time I do a movie, people ask for a record, and every time I do a record, people ask for a movie, [but] I'm becoming a big-time actor here," Cube said recently on the set of "Barbershop 2." "I'm going to go with the flow, I'm not going to fight it. I'm going be what I am."

That explains why the two former N.W.A rappers have yet to collaborate in the studio, despite announcing the project more than a year ago (see "Dr. Dre To Produce Next Ice Cube Record"). Dre and Cube, however, have been discussing ideas and the latter has no concerns about his follow-up to 2000's War & Peace, Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc).

"I always look at a record like a game — you're worried about the lyrics and the music, kind of like worrying about offense and defense," Cube explained. "When you're with Dre you know the music is going to be right, the production is going to be right. So all you have to worry about is the lyrics and making sure that you're ready to get in the booth and do what you have to do to make a hot record."

Cube has been writing and said the results are similar to his early material, even though his life as a movie star is far different from his childhood in the ghetto.

"I rap about things I have in my heart, stuff that troubles me, things that I've done, seen or heard, like most rappers," Cube said. "Ain't nothing changed — I'm still the same person."

Hip-hop fans will have to wait awhile for the highly anticipated tag-team, but Cube has been kind enough to record something to tide them over, a second Westside Connection album, due December 9 and titled Terrorist Threats (see "Westside Connection To Drop Threats In December"). He will also likely have material on the "Barbershop 2" soundtrack, which, so far, includes an Eve and Mary J. Blige collaboration.

And speaking of movies, Cube has several lined up. After "Barbershop 2," he is scheduled to star in and produce three other films, plus produce and make a cameo in the "Barbershop" spin-off, "Beauty Shop."

"It's showing the women's point of view in a two-hour movie, not just a few scenes like in ours," he said of the Queen Latifah project.

His next starring vehicle will be "Are We There Yet?" with "Snow Dogs" director Brian Levant. "It's me basically with two kids, driving them from one part of the country to another and they can't stand me and I hate them too," he explained. "By the end of it we end up kicking it with each other and digging each other, but I would not call it a family movie ... 'cause I don't want to just do movies that kids love. I want to do movies that everybody loves, from 8 to 80."

Cube will then move on to the inspirational "Willie" (see "Ice Cube Armed With Windex And A Whistle In Next Film Role") and follow that up with an action movie he said is still a big surprise.

As for the former, it's "a true story about a custodian in Louisiana, who ... started coaching the [basketball] team and went 34-0," Cube explained. "It's about all the haterism he got from the other coaches and the town."

Cube has said there will be no more "Friday" movies, but is unsure about making "Barbershop" a trilogy.

"It's all about the people, man," he said. "We'll see how this one does. I don't want to think too far into the future, but if everybody comes back and it's the right script, why not?"


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[Dr._Funkenstein]

Cube has been writing and said the results are similar to his early material, even though his life as a movie star is far different from his childhood in the ghetto.

YEAH!

[Trauma-san]

The best thing of this is he finally decided not to desecrate the genius that was the first Friday movie anymore....

[LyRiCaL_G]

wot the fuck is dre doin in the studio from 3pm till 3 in the mornin? waitin fo eminem to bring hm a artist so his beats will actually get heard by niggaz?

rakims gone, cube aint even started work on his joint, anit no one cumin out of aftermath.............shits gettin boring

[Lincoln]

I doubt he's gonna drop a dope album, he said War & Peace were his best since Death Certificate. We don't want another wack album to tarnish his legacy, I hope he comes with an early days one.

[The Watcher]

Dre will be going into retirement before Cube's ready to get back in the studio

[ecrazy]

CUBE SHOULD Make His Next Movie "Saturday" Where he sees smokey on tv, all pimped out and rich, because he's now a huge Rap star, and him and dayday are hired as his bodyguards. Then smokey gets into trouble or sumthin and .......well add on, cuz im makin this up as i go....I just think if they bring back smokey, it would be soo tight.

[CRAFTY]

Thanks for the article.

[OpTiCaL]

Thanks for the news....


...not really what i wanted to hear but nevermind

[smerlus]

Thanks for the news....


...not really what i wanted to hear but nevermind