to flood threat is a society. that. on larry king ice cube the rapper turned producer and actor on his new film i'm always a little funnier than the character is written so i always know that i could take it there if i need to and n.w.a. it was really our only weapon of protest and that's what we saw plus that it would be you know iced tea yeah nice to see a real coup so we had to get it out i could be a rap on the ice coffee no problem and we could do a group all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now he's one of the originators of the gangster rap group an original member of seven zero rap group n.w.a.

he's made a name for himself as a producer and an actor with films like barbershop and friday and his new movie ride along in theaters now is the number one movie in america he also has a new album everything's corrupt it'll be out on may thirteenth that kind of wild title he's i still have to get that name oh everything's corowa ice cube well starwood ice cube ice cube my brother gave me the name while well you know he's about nine years older than me so it was a period where he would be often gone but he would have his girlfriends calling all the time and i would pick up the phone and try to you know put my b.d. and he he's got mad at me one day said maybe you're not to cool you just always think you are too cool i'll tell you in a freezer you'll be ice cube and i say well i'll be ice cube fan from now on now that's stuck yes stuck you not took it outside you know my new nickname was ice cube so we had to when you get to a hotel the check in is ice cube nine nine now used to have

a few other aliases. you know. quickly find me if i go in his ice cube. tell me about right along this movie is done through the roof the number one movie in america real funny movie you know star me and kevin hart. directed by tim storey who directed me in barbershop produced by will packer who's a great producer is you know was funny right away and it was funny right away you know from the script it was funny and i know was kevin agreed to do the movie and it was me and him that you know we would have to try rule hard to miss because the funny was on the page and i knew once we got a hold of it we could take it to the next now how funny is he man he's one of the sharpest doods are now on me as far as comedians he's a master i mean i have seen him. make a meeting room laugh i've seen him make cruel laugh the camera when you're doing scenes that he break you up none night and break me up because you know being

a producer you realize that if he breaks me we can lose a match you know what i mean money and some money we could definitely lose. the magic that we paid him to bring us you know sometimes when you get into a comedic bit we go to a place that you can't script you can't recreate you can't. reproduce it it happens that moment and you want to capture it without breaking you prefer comedic roles. they're there is easy for me the comedic roles because you know i'm usually. star as the straight man which is you know my perfect lane but i am always a little funnier than the character is written so i always know that i could take it there if i need to why do you like produce me your performer and you've made

a major success as a performer why do you like producing so out action is larry you know producing is where the action is where you know if it was a teen you would be the g.m. so the producer sometimes picks the director picks the actors picks this you know he's has a say in set design he has a say market and he has a say in where the camera goes who's the d.p. you like that i love that that's that we don't mind behind the scenes sometimes you know i have you don't have to be on camera not on you know i'm just as comfortable behind the scenes as in front of the cam boys in the hood was your first hit that take off right away to oh yeah you know boys another was a major success you know my first time in a movie john singleton he was in turn over it arsenio hall show and he just he saw some in me a new movie i can do it in pursue me for about two years to be in

a movie when when when how do you go from movies from music to movies i said john singleton you know it was it was that simple he saw something in me some of like being discover you know he saw some in me and i never saw myself and he he knew i could do it and he he helped me along in that process him you know lawrence fish burn cuba gooding jr r. help me you know do well as doughboy and he was comfortable with that right away did you like the camera well i was comfortable with the camera i was uncomfortable with the acting process you know it's harder than it looks as far as you know hit me in marks remember in. yeah actions for a whole day you know as a music video you can kind of just be free can not remember nine you just freeflow it but but in a movie you have to remember well why you put the cut down and you got to remember

one line you stood up on and it's a lot of moving parts that you just take for granted when you watch a movie if i put the profession next to your name what would you list. entertainer i think that's about sums it all yeah it sums it up and not i love i love in return i love creating no noise level you know when i was young i used to i used to be the one who was the best drawer you know my artwork we would get nice grades and you know i was really into the creative arts and crafts and parts of school and. got into architecture drafting a little bit in and you know so i love creating and to create musically is one thing but to create. on a film level you know there's no bigger stage for artists no bigger canvas than the moon did things change for you when you started making money. a little bit you know

it changed in things you know i wasn't so you aren't you weren't a rich kid where you know not grew up in south central los angeles you know middle class home dodger fan dodger fan laker fan. and you know so when i when i started to give money it just made my life a little more comfortable but with money comes other problems you know you know a lot of people who try to take which got access to god and you got to learn how to say no real quick what was it like to grow up in south central everybody in beverly hills goes by south central l.a. they don't know south we went to gang you know we ran a little bit here and there. you know i wasn't really tough in the gang bang and you know i don't really see the value in it. and i was because my father was a was there at the home you not i come from a two parent home you know my father was the biggest gang banger my house what did he do well when he came. said in a strange make

a shorter we you know had our priorities straight and was trying to sidestep and look for a better avenues to express ourselves what did your father. do for a living here he worked at western brass works for men and he was a machinist over here and they closed down handed up doing ground keeping that u.c.l.a. so really yeah did you go through school yeah i want to finish school yeah i want to and i'm going to taft in women heels i hear in after school i went to phoenix institute of technology for a year and then this ran music took off and how did you come direct. you know i was just a fan you know as a young sea looking for things to do things. that keep you away from trouble you know it was playing sports at first and hip hop came in in eighty's and it just you know i fell in love with the music dr dre who's you know

a big time producer his cousin lived down the street from me so it was just a stroke of luck that i had a chance to mean he liked how rhymed took me under his wing and the rest is history what was your first hit my first hit was it was a hit that i wrote for somebody else a rope easy and it was called boys and i heard it was the record proceed at the movie and it was our first major major hit and it really kind of solidified what we were going to do and how was going to approach it i'm going to get a lot of rap people have interviewed you think dog and wiz khalifa and. what are rappers singers i mean because that really singing i mean you can't hum it not you know i can't say but some of them can you not think you know between with khalif you know drake's new can hold you know somebody is guys have talent to sing how would you

describe your talent you say you can't sing what is your talent my talent is is is reiman and to get a message over. pretty much you know just well my vocals you know with my will my voice you know it's not really a harmony thing it's more of a cadence it's more of a feeling that you gave when you were at what do you sing about mostly i rap about everything that's around me was going on you know from from politics to what's going on in history. to me and everything in between you know writing all the time all the time yeah it's all about you know speaking for people who can speak for themselves and a lot of ways to do you enjoy it i mean do you do you do you is it a fun thing to do to write because it seems like hard work to me to keep thinking in terms of rhyme it's extremely fun you know i love it better than anything else i'm doing because i can be creative as i want to be i could pretty much rap about

whatever i want to rap about you know when you do a movie you just got to be part of attained you got to be a team player it's like building a building you can't do it by yourself you need a lot of skill people to help you you know bring it. to life another rabid fans all young. now i we just did this king of my tour we was maybe l.l. cool j. public enemy they last we saw fans and they're from. nineteen so probably sixty sixty to sixty three yeah now we had a rock a rap concert must be mind boggling all these rappers come out they're all running they're all doing about different things right and what's the crowd do on their credit dance to rap can you oh yeah definitely you definitely could dance to rap you know you can participate sing along a lot of the guys not aware you know hooks and raps are very catchy so people are

singing the hooks and having a ball you know rap concert is pretty exciting what was the toughest part about south central. how unpredictable it is growing up the now you can have days weeks where nothing happened and then you hear about somebody getting shot him last minute hurt and about somebody. you know losing a bout with drugs and you know was is you never know what the neighbor who was going to was going to serve to how did you stay away from drugs and things like that you know just. i would mean this is another people were you tempted well you know you always tempted by you know the pot and the drinkin and this or the hard drugs when it comes to crack and cocaine never tempted by you not always saw the devastation how devastated people in my neighborhood and all over

the country so it was someone never even went to us or your brother do my brother he used to work for you p.s. for a while now he's a mail carrier. you take care of him and he don't need you. he act like he needs me you know. i don't know if i take care of or not i'm going to take credit for that but he definitely has a lot of cool gifts. when we come back we'll talk about n.w.a. and ice cubes thoughts on rap music today stay with us. that. would make.

i've got a quote for you. that's pretty tough. stay with substory. get this guy like you but smear that guy stead of working for the people all the tissues in the mainstream media for each other right bribes data.

they did rather well. he stars in that of one movie in america right along his ice cube you said the world's most dangerous group was n.w.a. tell me about n.w.a. and sauce how did that whole story well you know n.w.a. what it stands for it stands for but out of tunes. it was really are our only weapon protests again it's what we saw you know what was happening to our neighborhood you know you know come in in an era of gang banging crack in you know

police brutality and reaganomics and you know this whole mixture of things forged n.w.a. and the neighborhood that we come from made in w a m a n w a influenced the neighborhood is so those the only people in the group it started off with sakes ended up with five. and the group you know really only lasted one strong out of them you know really yeah you know they went on to do a second album but it was never the original members song when do you why did you leave it was money reasons. you know i found out that you know we were in really good pay what we supposed to get paid and nobody wanted to correct the situation with me so i had to leave but let's discuss some of the people in the group dr dre yeah well i think like james is you know he's. you know perfectionist producer.

and he knows a hit when he hears when he knows a good artist when he hears one and you know he's he's one of the biggest producers of rap music easy died yes what was he like mastermind you know easy is the reason why we had to start and we had a hardcore gangster rap he had a jovial the i died of aids. you know bloody get it through blood transfusions while believe it was just protected sex you know. and you know but he was a very smart dude in n.w.a. and you know i wouldn't be here without easy d.j. ella d.j. yellow was more of our you know he's more of our tech guy he was a guy who really knew his way around a quick man and can really help us do you stay in touch yeah a little bit you know when we are so grown and we all got our own lives but

whenever we can you know get on the phone every now and then we get on the phone and mc ran into the ring and you know he was he was my age you know wanted to best represent a group. very ferocious that straight out of compton now that album was one of the in rap history i was one of most stand for until right straight out of compton yes what was the inspiration behind that album well you know look like i said that the neighborhood that we come from. forged n.w.a. and really was the reason it was our protest music it was a way for us to tell the world what was going on and how we were living in and. to try to make some kind of sense of it you know we can sometimes we made light of it sometimes we were super hardcore way but it was really you know it was really our only way to tell the world how we grew up you done some controversial things right yes anything you regret. any lyrics you regret. no no

lyrics i regret it because you know these these breakers are time capsules you know these records are moments in time and you know the records have a feeling you know you can fill the air or you know sometimes when you hear a record from the sixty's you know it's from the sixty's here record from the seventies you know it's from the seventy's so you know that's the way i was feeling at that time so i wouldn't want to change and so you never think of it as bad role models for kids could have been couldn't well yeah you know i never you know it all raps the same no not all raps the same you know rabs has this degree has this measure some rap is totally unsuited for kids piri you know and some rap is exactly what kids need to hear you know so it's a form in a time in like movies where you can get you know from a documentary to card to talk horror story you know you can really get everything

in between rap music has all these different shades you been enormous success where you live now living in ca no you have a house and yeah nice family yeah family wife or kids beautiful life when you look back to where you came from the influence had to be that you had a strong family home right yes that's what was the difference that's the difference in not have someone there that cared about you know when i came home has somebody out there that cared about my grades you know has somebody out there to care to buy my kind i don't want to disappoint them i didn't want to bring shame to the name so. these are the reasons why i'm here today because of a strong foundation or did your father think of you being a rapper he loved it anything that kept me from being a trip. you know he was in so anything that kept me from from.

you know running with the wrong cry. going to jail getting shot it was constructive you know you might not agree with our lyrics on a song but he definitely was happy that i was doing some constructive you good father yes definitely now it's not out till may everything's corrupt yes what is what is. that me is everything. seems like it's it's fallen into corruption you know all parts of our lives and we really need to combat corruption because it's really a poison and imaginative here that can really take down a lot of good things so corruption is everywhere the record kind of speaks for us now but it would be no ice-t. yeah nice to see a real coup to get together i could be a wrap of the iced coffee no problem and we could do a group i love ice coffee ok maybe i'll do your next rap album no problem all right we got many social media questions we're all of the whatever tweets does he like

the direction that hip hop is taking a what are his thoughts on it being a respected genre now. in all hip hop came from the streets it's come a long way i'm happy with anything that's happening with hip hop you know it's been thirty forty years of trying to really let the world know what the music is all about i think the world does know. you know the music business has taken a hit on all levels you know with within and then download men and the loss of record stores all over the country so you know it's an it's in a tough place like all music but as far as hip hop is still you know the best lyricists when the best music usually floats to the top and that's how it should be as divine rojas on facebook has he ever broken the law in the past because you have any regrets from his past that have had

a negative effect on him and even still haunt you well in. i've definitely broken the law before but nothing has haunted me nothing from my past that's follow me or anything you know what what we did in the past we took care of it is it's in our rear view mirror i stole the oil from wool. allies are still voters gallagher aligarh the guy you're walking from facebook wants to know who introduced you to the rap game. the rob game i was introduced to by my uncle he was taking me to the dentist when dad chipped my tooth and he play rapper's delight which is one of the first rap songs ever produced and it blew my mind you know the song is about eight nine minutes and i made him play that thing about ten times he was so he was so tired of me and rappers allowed by the time we got home that's what introduced started with a trip to start a woodchip to hear the rest of the ramos thirteen asked how do you monitor the

media your children are exposed to how do you explain your early rapport and your way to your kids well you know what i do is explain to him before the media get him you know i'm always talking to my kids about. reality i always talk some about was expected of him. that they definitely can't take what they see on t.v. and try to emulate it that it's only music it's entertainment and they've been they've turned out a real good kid is a whole the whole of the dave list i got i want twenty seven twenty two nineteen parity you know look twenty seven year old in forty four. and finally jess wyden from facebook wants to know what do you like better making music or making movies music without a doubt you know it's the freedom i can go in with my producer and just do as many records as i want how i want to do it with a movie you need over one hundred people to really pull it off you know from from

promotion and marketing to you know add it in this so you know it's just a different there's there's different but down to it you like music music yes ok we play a game called if you only knew you member the first girl you kissed yes on the first girl i quote was her name her name was. iris iris was where was it in school was it was in school and i was iris davis in school i was in the fourth grade for fifth graders the first real real oh you know if i would have been iris she moved to paris california when i went to sixth grade and never seen again she made a mistake she should have hung on to you yeah favorite food my favorite food is got to be steak biggest regret biggest regret. whom biggest regret i don't have a lot. i guess. i guess not now not been able

to work with dr dre more that's my biggest regret favored travel destination malady . if you hadn't become a rapper what would you have been i would probably be you know somewhere around music you know might be doing what you do in their sin down reporting on music you've been good style of music people would be surprised that you enjoy classical you like classical you know a little bit of it here in a tovan yes you know very good live sinatra yes yes who doesn't like fred yeah no frank you got to love. if you were stuck on a desert island one of the three items you want to have with you. a plane. just. playing my wife. and you know i guess a. lot of gas a lot of. biggest splurge biggest splurge on cars now you have many

i have too many many cars you have i got about. six to seven. favorite i mean i just bought this corvette stingray. just bess tried to tesla haven't tried my son he tried a full full minute while car yeah. you are the best thank you to the best way to do this thanks to my guests ice cube and remember you can find me on twitter at kings thing. i know c.n.n. m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be

accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the right think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side with joe is actually on here. at our team we have a different price. for the phone because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not gonna. let. you guys talk to the jokes while handling me that i'm. no cholesterol p.m.s. depression. these efforts to work.

to improve your life. are you fat. pharma knows that. runs in your. heart. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia. the future are covered. what's really good folks i'm mental rob lowe filling in for abby martin welcome to breaking the set so by now we all know their phone calls emails text messages gaming tendencies and even porn habits are no longer private things were friendly neighborhood and essay but the one area that still appeared to be safe from the prying eyes of uncle peeping sam was attorney client privilege well thanks to the

latest edward snowden leak that broke over the weekend we know that even this most hollowed and protective of relationships is subject to surveillance to get out according to a top secret document obtained by the new york times a us law firm representing the government of indonesia for assistance with the international trade talks was selected for monitoring in february of last year the n.s.a. was working directly with its counterpart agency in australia to gather information about the law firm and its dealings with indonesia and yes this went far beyond just gathering for metadata straightly a signals directorate explicitly told the n.s.a. that quote information covered by attorney client privilege may be included in intelligence gathering well that's sure to make americans feel a whole lot better about the fairness of the u.s. justice system. from the wiretapping of western leaders to the industrial espionage of brazilian oil companies it's becoming increasingly clear that the so-called national security mandate is a complete joke the agency has shown.