- Give it up for my buddy, one and only Ice Cube.
(audience applauding)
Now I heard that you just became a grandpa.
- Yeah yeah
(audience cheering)
- Really
- Don't call me Grandpa though.
- Nah
- Don't call me Grandpa.
Call me Big Daddy Cube.
I'll take that.
- Big Daddy Cube
I'll take that.
- See that's what I been...you know Cube
I been tryna work that out man.
Cuz see I had granddaughters first.
- Oh oh
- But my wife made em call me Paw Paw.
- Mm hm
- And I want them to call me Big Pimpin
(audience laughing)
- Yeah. I don't think Big Daddy Cube
gone go over too much either so.
- No
- I'm probably gone end being Papa too.
- Naw man your wife gone probably shut that down.
- (laughs)
- Ey man, you and your girl man,
y'all been married 26 years Cube.
(audience cheering)
- Yeah yeah we been down
She been holding me down forever.
- Yeah you got a good one man.
- Yeah I do man. I'm lucky.
- You got a good one.
What advice do you give your son about parenting?
- Be good to your kids cuz you gone get old one day and
they gone have to take care of you.
(laughin)
Be good to your kids.
You know that's what it's all about.
I say you communicate they'll respect you
a lot more, trust me.
- Yeah
- Yeah. They'll respect you a lot more.
(applause)
- Yeah. I mean look...
- It's all about about discipline now.
I'm not Mr. Hang out and be friends with my kids.
- Yeah
- I'm still Daddy.
I'm still Pops.
And I know how to be that.
But also know how to treat em like humans and
know that they got feelings and they got
wants and needs and desires
- Exactly
- And they might see things different than I do sometime.
And let's talk about it and
let's come up with the right solution.
- Yeah
(audience cheering)
- Yeah
- Too many people... Too many people have forgotten
it's not your job...It's not my job be
your friend and your pal.
Love and guidance is my number one job with you.
Love and guidance.
(applause)
- Mm hm
- And sometimes man I can't be your friend
cuz you ain't gone like what I'm telling you.
- You know the thing is not to forget how it
was when we were they age.
- Yeah
- That's the key a lot of us won't even think about when
we were ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen
And we should and we should remember cuz
you know they go through real stuff.
We think we're parents, our stuff is bigger
than what they gotta go through.
But in their world what they going through is just as big as
- It's huge
- Huge, yeah so to me what they going though is way
more important than what you going through.
(applause)
- Ey Cube man let's talk about this.
Your last album you released, man, was eight years ago.
Why did you wait so long to release "Everythangs Corrupt"?
- Well you know I vowed to myself
that I wouldn't mix too many projects
even though it look like I do a lot of stuff.
But uh, I really focus when I'm on something
I focus just on that.
So I was working on music and then
This little movie called "Straight Outta Compton" came along
(cheering)
and uh
- Lil somethin something
- Lil somethin
I had to put lazer focus into it
You know I had to really concentrate
So I put the music down.
And then The Big Three came around, my basketball league
- You had a league.
- So it's perfect timing for an album like this
and it's been getting great reviews.
(audience cheering)
People love it.
You know people believe real hip hop is back .
And it's just talkin bout corruption.
Not just corruption in the government but
corruptions in our bodies you know
Lot of youngsters on pills now you know
And they uh... it's corruptions in our neighborhoods
- Yeah
- We should really examine this stuff and make sure we
movin in the right direction because
nobody got a plan for us we gotta have a plan for ourself.
- Yeah, that's right man
(audience applauding)
- Now Cube, you got another new venture
you're working on man.
You bringing back Celebrity Death Match on MTV.
- Yeah
(audience cheering)
Yep
It's a lot of Twitter beefs and stuff that's going.
Let's have some fun.
Let's bring it back, put it on tv instead with it
Instead of, you know, things happening in the streets.
You know, that ain't cool.
- Yeah I got some people I want you to match me up with.
(audience laughter)
- I think uh, that Trump-Mueller fight is gone be amazing.
(cheering)
(laughing)
- Yeah
OK one more question cause a lot of
millennials come to this show.
What piece of advice would you give to them as a young
person that's trying to find they way?
- Where you wanna be somebody's went there.
And they can show you how to get there faster than you can
think it up yourself so you know
respect the people that came before you
Take they advice
Uh, and you know, believe in yourself
because people are gonna try to deter you from your dreams
- Yeah
- And believe in yourself.
(audience clapping)
- My man, that's the truth.
You my man boy.
- You mine too man.
(audience cheering)
- Ladies and gentlemen, the legend, The Cube.
Ice Cube's album
- Thank you
- Is called "Everythangs Corrupt"
- Thank you
- Everythang is corrupt
It's in stores now.
We'll be right back.
Everythangs Corrupt
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