Dr. Dre To Produce Next Ice Cube Record

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"Two of the biggest masterminds in West Coast hip-hop are together again," Ice Cube said with a rare smile Tuesday on the Los Angeles set of his latest film, "Torque." "I think that's something exciting."

As if Cube didn't have enough to be excited about with his movie "Barbershop" opening at #1 (see "Ice Cube's 'Barbershop' A Cut Above The Rest At Box Office"), the stone cold MC has once again aligned himself with Dr. Dre and is in the process of becoming an official member of the Doc's Aftermath label.

Cube and Dre rose to notoriety in the groundbreaking gangsta-rap group N.W.A, first appearing together on 1988's classic Straight Outta Compton. When Cube left the outfit in 1989, the two engaged in a war of words on wax only to squash their differences years later. Over the past few years, Cube and Dre have worked together on an occasional cut such as "Natural Born Killaz," "Hello" and "Chin Check," and also toured together as part of the 2000 Up in Smoke tour.

"[Me signing to Aftermath] was something that was kind of in the back in our minds for a while as far as Ice Cube's camp," Cube said. "We kind of felt around and saw if Dre would be interested in something like that. He was all the way with it. Once he was all the way with it, we just started working on putting the deal in place. We're in the process of making it work. Hopefully next year you'll see an album by Cube produced by Dr. Dre. For me it's exciting because my next album could be the best album I ever released. To me that's something that turned me on to where I just want to get on the mic."

In November, while promoting his film "All About the Benjamins" and about a month before releasing his greatest-hits album, Cube told MTV News that 15 years of the music grind was taking its toll on him and that he was leaning more toward Hollywood as a creative outlet.

"Not really burnt out on making music, it's just the routine of doing it year after year after year," he clarified. "What works out for me now at this point in my career is to take breaks in between the records and it builds up my hunger to kinda get back in there. That's what I been doing. Dre coming on and me not having to worry about musically what's going to happen on the record — I just focus on lyrics and songs and content — that excites me, to be able to take a little of that pressure off myself and let the master, which is Dre, handle it."

The pioneers haven't hit the studio yet, but Cube is already penning songs.

"I'm writing," Cube said. "[Dre's] doing music. He's also working on his album. We're trying to get [both albums] to come out around the same time. Tour together. Make it a big, full circle."

Cube said he and Dre probably won't be taking their careers a full 360 degrees by participating in a N.W.A reunion.

"As far as I know, that's not gonna happen no time soon," he said. "I don't even know if I want it to happen now because I don't want to mess up what we've already put together, our legacy. Why even tamper with it if it can't be a smooth thing? If it has to be forced it shouldn't be done."

Cube did do a little tinkering with the "Friday" franchise. He's bringing a little holiday cheer to the next installment, "Friday After Next," which hits theaters November 22. That film centers around the misadventures of Ice Cube and Mike Epps, who star as security guards at a mall around Christmas time. There's already talk of a sequel to "Barbershop," and with its $21 million opening weekend, fans can probably look forward to seeing Cube pick up a pair of clippers again.

"It feels good," he said of the film's success, beaming another smile. "It feels like movie audiences are finally getting comfortable with Ice Cube all the way, where they understand I'm gonna only be involved with good projects if I can help it."

"'Barbershop is a hell of movie," he added. "People that thought they was going in to see a comedy might have got sucked into the story. One thing about 'Barbershop,' when you leave, you just feel better about yourself."

Everything but the good times will be rolling in "Torque," in which Cube plays a biker gang leader out to avenge the death of his brother. The project is the first feature film from music video director Joseph Kahn.


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[Lil Jay]

hell muthapuckin yeaaa....daaaamn cant wait for that album...sheeeeeeeeeiiit...cube album produced by dre....







sikotic, i bet your're missing your pink shirt

[.: God Is One :.]

Hopefully next year you'll see an album by Cube produced by Dr. Dre.

I hope this means that Dre will produce the shit ALL BY HIMSELF!!!

Shit! this could turn out to be the next "Doggystyle" an album produced all by Dre himself!

Peace (+ i got a hard-on)

[Funkadelic]

hell muthapuckin yeaaa....daaaamn cant wait for that album...sheeeeeeeeeiiit...cube album produced by dre....

As long as Dre won't producer that much

[gFuNkA]

cube always comes hot over dre beats...dre is the right one for cube. im sure this album will be hot and i hope dre will produce all or most of the tracks.

[=[Euthanasia]=]

Oooo Weeee   Cube sounds hungry, i've got big expectations for this record!

[Myrealname]

I hope to "see" another snoop album produced by dre after the cube's one.

[ExZit]

nice... could be dope as fuuuck..  

[EastsideLBC]

Cube said, Hopefully youll see a Cube album produced by Dr. Dre by next year.......then he also said later in the read, that they are wantin' to release both his and Dre's album around the same time......I highly doubt he will get both of this albums out around the same time......wit Rakim's album......Truth said Dres workin' on her next album.....then thrownin' in beats for other catz......I just dont see "both" of these albums droppin' by next year........I hope Dre surprises me tho......... ........if not then I wouldnt doubt Cube and Dre's album not to drop for 2-3 years...... :-/

[Trauma-san]

Man.  I love ice cube to death.  But man, this guy has said TONS of stuff before that never even happened.  He said back before the NWA reunion that Dre wouldn't give him a beat, then went so far as to beg dre for a beat on television.  Dre later clarified that he had given Ice Cube 5 beats months ago, and Cube never even called him.  Tons of stuff like that has happened before.  So i'm gonna have to wait to make sure this one is legit, Cube changes his mind too much.  

If it DOES happen, it might be the greatest of all time.  Cube has the potential to be the greatest on Wax, in my opinion.  He's tighter than snoop on his good day, and he's already said his next album is gonna be more political.  

[Hatesrats™]

Being an Ice Cube fan since the jump....I can honestly tell you that this new's is fucken wack as fuck to me. Honestly man, Cube just cheapen's his statis by signing to Aftermath record's. It make's Cube look pathetic and forced to run under Dre's skirt for a hit record....

I was pissed When Ra signed aswell...cause the same went for him, it seem's like he had to get at Dre for a hit...makes him look desperate.

A couple of track's by Dre would be tight, but not an entire lp.....that would be boring ImO.
And of course all the "Aftermath" fan's will say this is Cube's best cd ever....and it will sell million's & million's cause it's so much better cause of Dre....Fuck all that.

Legend's don't need beat's....PERIOD.

Hatesrats 2oo2

[Trauma-san]

I present the "Peace" album as evidence of where Cube is now.  Come on now.  He doesn't need Dre, but Dre would definately help.  All this means, anyways, is that dre is gonna do a couple beats on his album, and he's been doing that anyways.  Don't get so pissed off.  

[Fate-iLL619]

tha album that cube is doin should stick with his production all dre needs to do is fix tha small errors and clean it up as only he knows how

[Soopafly]

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Legends don't need beats LMAO okay buddy here's some examples of legends who have been criticzed and put out wack albums without high quality beats or former legends who have failed to slsect quality beats and thus been criticised for it ,

Rakim - either of his last albums

Ice Cube - Peace Disc

Nas - Nastradamus

LL Cool J - 14 shots to the dome produced by Marley Marl by the way


Run DMC


Krs One



Snoop Dogg


I can understand you not liking some producers but to blantently saying Legends don't need beats is plain stupid and ignorant, even the legendary Dr Dre needed quality beats to save himself from people saying he was falling off before 2001 had dropped  !!!!!!!  

[teecee]

Ya, fuck whoever said legends don't need beats!  That is CRAZY!  The bottom line is mc's albums aren't shit unless they got great production....you can rap your ass off, but if the beats and production are not top notch than most ignorant fans don't care about you.....

As for Dre and Cube, how could any real Ice Cube fan trip on this?  I mean, Cube actually sounds motivated  and i don't think he has been motivated since lethal injection.