O’Shea Jackson Sr. is an American rapper, actor, and filmmaker best known by his stage name Ice Cube.
Best Ice Cube Quotes
The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. ~ Ice Cube.
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly everywhere. ~ Ice Cube.
You can do it, put your back into it. ~ Ice Cube.
I’m just an entertainer, man. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all. ~ Ice Cube.
I think, to me, reality is better than being fake. ~ Ice Cube.
If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever. ~ Ice Cube.
Sports without music, it’s nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. ~ Ice Cube.
Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else. ~ Ice Cube.
Anytime there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair. ~ Ice Cube.
For me, rappers and dancers are poets and artists, and oftentimes the most interesting performances are given by them. ~ Ice Cube.
Stop buying things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like with money you don’t have. ~ Ice Cube.
I still enjoy doing music. I’m not going to stop doing it and doing it the way that I feel it should be done. ~ Ice Cube.
Rap is always evolving. It’s easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it’s music that got a little stifled, I think, by the internet a little bit. ~ Ice Cube.
If you don’t wanna shake that hood mentality! How the f**k we suppose to change our reality? ~ Ice Cube.
If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there is nothing better than breaking through. There’s no better feeling than breaking through. ~ Ice Cube.
Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public. ~ Ice Cube.
Top Ice Cube Quotes
Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood. ~ Ice Cube.
There’s nothing wrong in starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box. ~ Ice Cube.
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that is how I started my career. ~ Ice Cube.
You don’t want to mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back. You’re scared to mess up the legacy. ~ Ice Cube.
I make a mean cup of coffee if you give me the right ingredients. ~ Ice Cube.
Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain’t eating. ~ Ice Cube.
Now, I believe you about the missing wallet, but the lotto, uh-uh. ~ Ice Cube.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball. ~ Ice Cube.
People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that’s where the shift started to happen. ~ Ice Cube.
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. ~ Ice Cube.
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what Black people do, what White people do, what women do, what men do. ~ Ice Cube.
I think I’m unique to the game ’cause of my versatility. ~ Ice Cube.
There’s never really been a real hood Christmas movie. ~ Ice Cube.
Don’t worry about being a star. Worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. ~ Ice Cube.
Inspirational Ice Cube Quotes
No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make ground-breaking hip-hop. ~ Ice Cube.
Usually, people who attack the rap are people who aren’t even fans. ~ Ice Cube.
It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He’s such a pro. He’s so good. ~ Ice Cube.
I’ve never really taken myself too seriously. That’s everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I’ve always said what I’ve felt, said what I thought was right, but I’ve always had a comedic bone. ~ Ice Cube.
Drink some coffee, put some gangsta rap on, and handle it. ~ Ice Cube.
Just waking up in the morning, got to thank God. ~ Ice Cube.
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles. ~ Ice Cube.
Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were. ~ Ice Cube.
There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A. A lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it. ~ Ice Cube.
Today, I didn’t even have to even use my AK! I got to say it was a good day. ~ Ice Cube.
Keep doing what you’re doing. Fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place. ~ Ice Cube.
I know that there are obstacles. I know that there are hills to climb. I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for. ~ Ice Cube.
I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward. ~ Ice Cube.
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant, and all you have in this world are the people you love. ~ Ice Cube.
Popular Ice Cube Quotes
The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow. ~ Ice Cube.
I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place before we tampered with it. ~ Ice Cube.
You better check yourself before you wreck yourself. ~ Ice Cube.
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is. ~ Ice Cube.
We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want. ~ Ice Cube.
Never question the size of Ice Cube’s balls! ~ Ice Cube.
I know I ain’t too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me. ~ Ice Cube.
I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it’s a yogurt, but a lot of times it’s leftovers from one of my wife’s dinners. ~ Ice Cube.
I always was like, ‘Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.’ ~ Ice Cube.
Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head, and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it. ~ Ice Cube.
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen. ~ Ice Cube.
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation, and all that. ~ Ice Cube.
Famous Ice Cube Quotes
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. ~ Ice Cube.
I don’t want to get rich and die trying. ~ Ice Cube.
I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m sticking with the people that stuck with me. ~ Ice Cube.
My son, O’Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. ~ Ice Cube.
Stop expecting people to support your dreams. It’s yours. ~ Ice Cube.
It’s always great when you’re able to give fans what they expect and even a little more. ~ Ice Cube.
There’s a whole lot of money out there. All I got to do is put my name on it. ~ Ice Cube.
Speak a little truth, and people lose their minds. ~ Ice Cube.
Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself. ~ Ice Cube.
Obama reminds me of the Black kid at a White school that don’t nobody want to play with. ~ Ice Cube.
Nothing wrong with being from the hood, but I’d rather my kids be visitors than residents. ~ Ice Cube.
Sometimes, you got to start somewhere, and it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing. ~ Ice Cube.
I can’t believe today was a good day. ~ Ice Cube.
When I was in N.W.A. and didn’t get paid all the money I was owed, that’s when the business side of showbiz hit me. ~ Ice Cube.
Tupac was one of the biggest thugs I know, and he always wore his seat belt. ~ Ice Cube.
You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy. ~ Ice Cube.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. ~ Ice Cube.
Inspiring Ice Cube Quotes
When I was six, God was a White man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps. ~ Ice Cube.
Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in. ~ Ice Cube.
I’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers. Not prove them wrong because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people. ~ Ice Cube.
You got to learn that you ain’t gonna react to everything, just let clowns do what clowns do and watch the show. ~ Ice Cube.
I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie. ~ Ice Cube.
The best thing I’ve done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love, and you feel like somebody. ~ Ice Cube.
You can do anything in the world if you say, ‘Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it.’ It’s an easy way to escape responsibility. ~ Ice Cube.
If you born in the mud, you going to be dirty, and people don’t understand that. ~ Ice Cube.
I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that. I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine. ~ Ice Cube.
I really appreciate family. I really can’t imagine life without them! ~ Ice Cube.
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. ~ Ice Cube.
I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. ~ Ice Cube.
They’re teenagers, man. They’re really stupid, so you should blend right in. ~ Ice Cube.
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