How Did O'shea Jackson Change Around The World

O’shea Jackson or more widely known as Ice Cube was born June 15, 1969, in the South Central area of Los Angeles. He is son of Doris, a hospital clerk/custodian, and Hosea Jackson, who worked as a groundskeeper at UCLA. He went to William Howard Taft Charter high school and studied at the Phoenix Institute of Technology, and with the help of his parents he was able to navigate the tricky streets of South Central L.A that were getting shaped by drugs, guns, and violence.
O’shea Jackson was a good student that was very passionate about football and music. When O’shea reached his teen years his parents decided to move their son to a different school. So they bussed him too a suburban high school in San Fernando Valley. For O’shea who hadn’t known
much more than the deteriorating South Central L.A area that he knew so well so the new affluence and stability that had become his new home left a very deep impression that he would carry for the rest of his adult life. While he saw his friends and family get killed or go to jail, O’shea was determined to give himself a better life. So after high school he enrolled at The Phoenix Institute of Technology, where he earned a two year degree in Drafting in 1988. Around this time O’shea got more involved with music which is where he got his stage name Ice Cube, and with the help of some friends they created the rap group C.I.A, which eventually caught the attention of up-and-coming rapper Andre Romelle Young, better known as Dr.Dre. Together they teamed up with another small group of young rappers known as Eazy-E(Eric Lynn Wright), DJ Yella(Antoine Carraby), and MC Ren(Lorenzo Jerald Patterson), to form N.W.A.That are now considered the pioneers of gangsta rap. With their hard hitting sound and lyrics they jolted the music industry, all the while selling millions of records. Their second album “Straight Outta Compton” rocketed the young men to fame. Anchored by the controversial hit “Fuck the Police” which made them one of the most famous and controversial group of their time, while at the same time creating divides between law enforcement and the young black youth, which contributed to the L.A riots during 1992. But sadly Cubes involvement with N.W.A came to an abrupt ending when Cube rejected Jerry Heller's proposed contract terms(N.W.A’s manager at the time). Since he was basically a full time member of N.W.A and wrote about half of both “Straight Outta Compton” and Eazy-E’s solo album “Eazy-Duz-It,” he was advised the amount he was truly owed by Heller from an unknown source, and took legal action soon after leaving the group and label. In response the N.W.A’s members attacked him on the EP “100 Miles Runnin.” This led to Cube and his former group to have a temporary musical “Hip Hop war” between cube and his former rap group.Cube eventually teamed up with “The Bomb Squad” (Public Enemy’s production team) and together they released the the album “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted.” Which is his first of the several critically acclaimed albums that he had released. With all of this going on he enjoyed success with his collaborations as a rapper and producer.
Some of the songs that he released during his time as a solo artist include “Make Way for the Motherload,” “Death Certificate” released 1991, which was regarded as “more focused,” and “anti-white, misogynist, and racist,” yet it was one of his most controversial songs of his entire career, the record was divided into two sides, the “Death Side”(a vision of where we are today) and the “Life Side” (a vision of where we need to go).The album includes a very powerful response to N.W.A’s “100 Mile Runnin”,called “No Vaseline”. Other songs and albums that he released include “The Predator” released November of 1992, that specifically referred to the Los Angeles riots. In his single he rapped “April 29th was power to the people, and we might just see a sequel.” The album reached number 1 on both Pop and R&B charts, which at the time was the first to do so. Cubes fourth album “Lethal Injection” was released at the end of 1993 and showed Ice Cubes first attempt at imitating the G-Funk sound of Dr.Dre’s “The Chronic,” but was not well received by critics. The main success came from “Lethal Injections” “Really Doe,” “Bop Gun,“ You Know How We Do It,” and “What Can I
Do?” After 1994 he took a break from the music industry and moved into the film work, and developing the careers of other rap musicians, such as Mach 10, Mr. Short Khop, and Da Lench Mob. But later in the same year Dr.Dre and Ice Cube reunited to make a duet called “Natural Born Killaz.” And in 1995 tragedy struck when Ice Cubes friend Eazy-E died from AIDs, which affected Cube very much, so in 1998 he released his long awaited fifth album “War and Peace Vol. 1” and the delayed Vol. 2 was released in 2000. Both of the albums featured Westside Connection as well as a reunion from fellow N.W.A members, Dr.Dre, and MC Ren. But many fans thought that the two albums were not as good as Cubes past work especially volume 2. Cube also joined Dr.Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem on an Up in Smoke Tour in 2000. In 2006 Cube released his his seventh solo album “Laugh Now, Cry Later,” on his Lench Mob Record Label, debuting as number four on the Billboard Charts selling over 144,000 units in the first week. The album had featured production from Lil Jon, and Scott Storch, who produced the lead single “Why We Thugs.” He released his eighth studio album, Raw Footage, on August 19, 2008. Which also featured his controversial single “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It.” In October 12, 2009 he released a non-album track that was called “Raider Nation” in tribute to the Oakland Raiders. On May 11, 2010, Ice Cube released a 30 for 30 documentary called “Straight Outta L.A” for the television program ESPN, to show the relationship between the gangsta rap scene in Los Angeles and the tenure of the Raiders there. On September 28, 2010, Ice Cube released his ninth solo album titled “I Am the West”. Which featured a single called “I Rep the West”, that debuted at #22 on the Billboard 200, and sold over 22,000 copies in its first week of release. On Monday February 11, 2014 he released a new single off of “Everythang’s Corrupt” called “Sic them Youngins On Em’”. Ice Cube stated that he would be pushing back on the unfinished album “Everythang's Corrupt” due to a movie that is called “Straight Outta Compton”, which has now been released and is available to view. On April 26, 1992 Ice Cube married Kimberly Woodruff, and together made five children. Their names and birthdays are the following: O’shea Jr. (February 24,1991), Darrell (December 29, 1992), Karima( February 17, 1994), Deja, and Shareef (November 27, 1995). In the movie Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube's son O’shea Jr. played his father in the N.W.A biopic. In 2005 Ice Cube was asked on NPR by Fresh Air’s Terry Gross if he had allowed for his children to listen to his music, his response to the question was by saying,”What’s worked for me is installing in my kids a level of self-respect.” When asked about what he tells his kids about profanity he, he remembered telling his children that there are,”appropriate times to use any kinds of language...
Adults should never hear you use these words,” and he said that,” If you want to use these words around your friends, that’s really all on you.” Two of O’sheas sons, O’shea Jr. and Darrell are rappers like their dad, under the names OMG, and Doughboy. They were featured in their dad’s album “I Am The West.” O’shea is also the cousin of fellow rapper Del the Funky Homosapien, in which he started his rapping career writing for Cube’s group Da Lench Mob. Del released his first album “I Wish My Brother George Was Here” when he was eighteen with some help from Cube.
In the mid-1990’s Ice Cube converted his religion to Islam and associated himself with the nation of Islam at that time. He doesn't regularly attend services at the mosque though. Throughout his life Ice Cube has been in movies and Tv shows such as “The Sinbad Show,” the “Bernie Mac Show,” he was in “Are We There Yet,” as Nick Persons, and was in the “Friday” movies as Craig Jones, which was one of the many, many movies that he has acted in or produced
for.
Ice Cube has had a very successful career as a musician and an actor which he is still adding onto. He has been in some of the most controversial movies of his time and has made songs so powerful that it created riots so people to stand up for themselves and those who couldn’t. Ice Cube has changed what people used to think about gangsta rap by making it mean something, by showing people that they don’t have to back down under the influence of corruption, but to stand up and fight for what you believe in and now that he has done that he will be known forever as one of the few men who changed the ghetto.