Ice Cube

Known for ActingBorn 1969-06-15 (age 57)Los Angeles, California, USA

O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer. His work on N.W.A.'s 1989 album Straight Outta Compton helped boost gangsta rap's popularity. His political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), and The Predator (1992) were all critically and commercially successful. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of N.W.A in 2016. A native of Los Angeles, Ice Cube formed his first rap group, C.I.A., in 1986. In 1987, with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, he formed the gangsta rap group N.W.A. As its lead rapper, Ice Cube also wrote most of the lyrics on Straight Outta Compton. This landmark album shaped West Coast hip-hop's early violent and controversial identity. It helped differentiate it from East Coast rap. After a monetary dispute over the group's management by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, Ice Cube left N.W.A in late 1989 and embarked on a solo career, releasing eleven albums, with seven charting within the top-10 on the U.S. Billboard200. His singles "It Was a Good Day", "Check Yo Self", "You Know How We Do It", "Bop Gun (One Nation)", "Pushin' Weight", and "You Can Do It" all charted in the top-40 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Ice Cube has also had an active film career since the early 1990s. His first acting role was in the hood film Boyz n the Hood (1991), named after a 1987 N.W.A. song he wrote. He also co-wrote and starred in the 1995 comedy film Friday, which spawned a franchise and reshaped his public image into an actor. He made his directorial debut with the 1998 film The Players Club, and also produced and curated the film's accompanying soundtrack. His film credits include comedies Three Kings (1999), the Barbershop and Are We There Yet? franchises, 21 Jump Street (2012), 22 Jump Street (2014), Ride Along (2014) and Ride Along 2 (2016). He has also appeared in the XXX franchise (2005–2017), the crime drama Rampart (2012), the animated fantasy The Book of Life (2014), and the thriller War of the Worlds (2025). Ice Cube has also served as executive producer, including for the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ice Cube, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The DOC

Snacked

Hip Hop Don't Stop

Public Enemy - Burn Hollywood Burn feat. Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane

Family Values Tour '98

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

‘Friday’ Straight Up

Friday: The Animated Series

The Studio

The Fab Five

The Defiant Ones

Straight Outta Compton

20 Most Shocking Unsolved Crimes

Hip Hop Evolution

The Up in Smoke Tour

Africa Rising

Barbershop

The Book of Life

Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars

30 for 30

Boyz n the Hood

Korn: Deuce

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat

Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James

Yo! MTV Raps

Hart to Heart

Straight from the Streets

Conan

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Primetime Glick

The High Note

Beef

Friday

Katt Williams: 9 Lives

Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert

DJ SWB Volume 6 | This Is How We Do

NWA & Eazy-E: The Kings of Compton

Beef II

21 Jump Street

The Hip Hop Years

G-Funk

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

22 Jump Street

Birth of a Nation: 4.29.92

Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap