PROJECT

Class: aVI-a F
Team:
Molie Ciotir Nicholas Gabriel
Podaras Andreas
Bortea Luca
Ice Cube
1. Physical description
O'Shea Jackson Sr. is known professionally as Ice Cube.
He is 53 years old.
Ice Cube is 1.8 m tall and weighs 80 kg.
He is black, African-american ethnicity, and has a beard. He dresses like a rapper, with baggy clothes,
preferring the color black and big chains around his neck.

2. Early life
He grew up on Van Wick Street in the Westmont section of South Los Angeles.
In ninth grade at George Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles, Cube began writing
raps after being challenged by his friend "Kiddo" in typewriting class. Kiddo lost. Explaining his stage
name, Cube implicates his older brother: "He threatened to slam me into a freezer and pull me out
when I was an ice cube. I just started using that name, and it just caught on."
A native of Los Angeles, Jackson formed his first rap group called C.I.A. in 1986.
In 1987, with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, he formed the pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A.
As its lead rapper, he wrote some of lyrics on Straight Outta Compton, a landmark album that
shaped West Coast hip hop's early identity and helped differentiate it from East Coast rap.
N.W.A was also known for their violent lyrics, threatening to attack abusive police and innocent
civilians alike, which stirred controversy.
After a monetary dispute over the group's management by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, Cube left N.W.A
in late 1989, teaming with New York artists and launching a solo rap career.
3. Proffesional life / career
Ice Cube is an American rapper, actor, and filmmaker.
His lyrics on 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity.
He has also had an active film career since the early 1990s.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of N.W.A in 2016.
Ice Cube entered cinema by playing Doughboy in Boyz n the Hood, a 1991 drama named after a 1987
rap song that Ice Cube wrote.
Ice Cube also cowrote and starred in the 1995 comedy film Friday; it premised a successful franchise
and reshaped his persona into a bankable movie star.
His directorial debut was the 1998 film The Players Club.
As of 2020, he has appeared in about 40 films, including the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, family
comedies like the Barbershop series, and buddy cop comedies 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street,
and Ride Along.
He was an executive producer of many of these films, as well as of the 2015 biopic Straight Outta
Compton.
4. Personal life
O'Shea Jackson Sr. was born June 15, 1969.
He has an older brother, and they had a half-sister who was murdered when Cube was 12.
In 1992 he married Kimberly Woodruff and together they have four children.
Also in 1992 he converted to Islam.
5. Quote of her most memorable words
“Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you”.
“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.”
“I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.”
“Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.”
“I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.”
“The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you
love.”
6. Personal Opinion
We chose Ice Cube becaouse of the way he expresses his opinions and life experiences in music and
acting.
He also started the gangster rap.
We listen to his songs with pleasure and will watch his movies in the future.

Bibliografie:
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/ice-cube-quotes