Ice Cube

"Movies aren't real," Ice Cube expertly explained, while discussing his new film 'Rampart,' where he plays a dirty L.A. cop. " basically comes out of that. It's just a movie. If I want people to take me serious as an actor, I got to take myself serious as an actor...

Call him one of the godfathers of rap, but Cali's own Ice Cube is arguably the king of rappers with successful acting and production gigs on the side. While it's easy to bestow LL Cool J or Ice-T with the thespian crown, O'Shea Jackson has not only consistently lit up the silver screen in hood classics like 'Friday' and 'Boyz n the Hood,' but with his upcoming small screen adaptation of his 2005 h

T.I.'s 'F--- a Mixtape' will be released at 8PM on Thursday night, May 27, and hip-hop fans can expect a little West Coast tribute from the Atlanta rapper. In addition to his new material, TIP took on the remake of Ice Cube's classic 1990 song, 'Once Upon a Time in the Projects,' for his new street album...

Please forgive Ice Cube if he gets a little misty-eyed at the premiere of the new N.W.A. biopic. "A song can take you back, but nothing takes you back to the time and place like footage," said Cube of viewing old footage of his former group...

West Coast gangsta rap legend Ice Cube will be appearing in 'Rampart,' a new film about the scandal-ridden 1990s Los Angeles Police Department. 'Rampart' is based on a screenplay by revered Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy, and is set in the mid-90's, when the LAPD was rumored to have had ties to the murders of Biggie and Tupac...

Ice Cube was just in New York City at the Tribeca Film Festival, but that doesn't mean he wasn't representing his native Los Angeles. The superstar rapper/actor/director and producer was on hand to premiere a documentary called 'Straight Outta L...

Who's the best of the best? Over the past few months, Touré, host of Fuse's 'Hip-Hop Shop,' has given us his top five Southern MCs, West Coast MCs and female MCs. But this week he tosses aside gender, genre, region and everything else and simply asks, who are the five best MCs... eve...

Del tha Funkee Homosapien had just one solo album to his name when he decided to take the biggest risk of his young career. As Ice Cube's cousin, he got a break most teen rappers could only dream of, joining Cube's backing band, Da Lench Mob, with a short resume...

From California to ... well, mostly just California ... the West Coast has given birth to some of hip-hop's most vital scenes and important voices. Touré, host of Fuse's 'Hip-Hop Shop,' takes a trip this week to the land of gin and juice in search of the very best of the West. Here ...

Ice Cube has generated a lot of controversy as he pieces together his new record 'I Am the West,' particularly on a track called 'Drink the Kool-Aid' where he airs out a lot of his music industry hatreds. Yet one big relationship on the mend is between Cube and former NWA partner Dr...