Best Ice Cube Quotes

Ice Cube Quotes About Songs, Life, Love, Funny, Friday, Boyz n the Hood, 21 Jump Street & Inspirational! One of the top A-list hip-hop artists in today’s music industry, Ice Cube is known for his work in gangsta rap. Ice Cube has made his name as a controversial and versatile hip-hop artist. On June 15, 1969, Ice Cube was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. From early on in his teenage years, he was passionate about hip-hop music, and he also composed rap songs for a keyboarding class at his high school in Los Angeles.

After enrolling at Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall of 1987, he studied architectural drafting. AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted was his debut solo hip-hop album released on May 16, 1990. There was a critical and commercial success for the album. Kill at Will, a seven-track extended play (EP), was one of his acclaimed and bestselling albums in December 1990. There was a remixed version of Endangered Species on the album.

Death Certificate was his second studio album, released in 1991. He sold more than one million copies of it in advance, making it one of his best-selling albums. Dangerous Ground was his first film starring Elizabeth Hurley, released in 1997. Despite the bad reviews, Darrell Roodt directed the movie.

In 1998, he released his fifth studio album, War & Peace Vol 1, better known as The War Disc. In addition to featuring on many music charts, the album was one of his best-selling albums. For his work in Boyz n the Hood, Ice Cube won the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actor in 1992. He was awarded the BET Hip-Hop Award in 2009. In the 1990s, this well-known American hip-hop singer and actor became a Muslim.

Best Ice Cube Quotes

1. “I can’t believe, today was a good day.” – Ice Cube

2. “Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” – Ice Cube

3. “Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.” – Ice Cube

4. “I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.” – Ice Cube

5. “If it was all about me, I’d do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it’s never been all about me. It’s all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can’t speak for themselves, who don’t have a mic, don’t have a say.” – Ice Cube

6. “I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.” – Ice Cube

7. “The best thing I’ve done with my money is buying a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.” – Ice Cube

8. “I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.” – Ice Cube

9. “You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.” – Ice Cube

10. “Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.” – Ice Cube

11. “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

12. “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

13. “I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.” – Ice Cube

14. “If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.” – Ice Cube

15. “I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.” – Ice Cube

16. “Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.” – Ice Cube

17. “I think I’m unique to the game ’cause of my versatility.” – Ice Cube

18. “The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.” – Ice Cube

19. “Sometimes when you’re relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there’s more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.” – Ice Cube

20. “With film, I have to be a team player; it’s a whole different thing. I can’t just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.” – Ice Cube

21. “I been all around the world and I haven’t found a city that I’d rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.” – Ice Cube

22. “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

23. “Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” – Ice Cube

24. “I’m just an entertainer, man. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.” – Ice Cube

25. “Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.” – Ice Cube

26. “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

27. “I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.” – Ice Cube

28. “But with rap music – not just N.W.A. – but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.” – Ice Cube

29. “I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.” – Ice Cube

30. “I really appreciate family. I really can’t imagine life without them!” – Ice Cube