...if you got a ghost writer, I’m not fucking with you anyway— period. I don’t care how many records you sell, if y’all doin’ lyrics by committee I’m not fucking with that because that ain’t emceeing to me.
WORDS BY N. Ali EARLY
Ice Cube never changed. The game did. If you were him you would have had the
vision too. You would have seen how shady it was becoming and would have opted for the silver screen. You would have had your cake and ate it too. You would have gone from the no nonsense thug Dough Boy to the fun loving sports fanatic Nick Persons and you still would have come home. That’s because home is where the heart is and no matter how many movies you made and how many roles you pretended to be, you would always yearn for that homecooked meal. Figuratively speaking, Ice Cube’s had the ability to eat off rap since he was a teenager and by all accounts, he loves it just the same now as he did then. So with his album Raw Footage due next June, he’s opted to test the waters and deliver an Internet friendly EP before the official release date. That’s just to see if it’s something you’re interested in hearing. But you are, because you can appreciate mature Hip Hop. That’s why you’re here. He knows. You’re one and the same. 12 // OZONE WEST