larry king now the one the only. some musicians want to change the world. sometimes the head of the curve. at the same time when you get right being black in. first. grade this is a country so rich you know. this being labeled. pressure i mean i always expect. more myself than anybody expect

plus see good talent. great luck. larry king. king now back to the studio with us one of our favorites ice cube the legendary rock producer an actor can now also call themselves a basketball. with the formation of a big three a new three on three basketball league used to play that his kids will talk about that later cuba has also recently released the twenty fifth anniversary edition of his seven the album death certificate and he's producing a number of projects including v h one game show hip hop squares and ride along three you. you like doing

a lot of things right i love it you know. they say you can sleep when you do. wilkie work and it's why were we releasing it's out now death certificate was when twenty five years you know it was a powerful album made a lot of noise. and you know we thought that you know rerelease and was is the proper time for a record like that now the way things are going and it is a good way to add new music or you could new music get to a couple new songs we've got a powerful song called good cop bad cop which is talking about the responsibility of the good cops to police the bad cops and so you know that idea is a great it's a great song and it's perfect for the death certificate album do you still feel inspiration all the time are you writing songs in the ed all the time. i don't i don't know how artists can live and not be inspired. because life is full of

aspiration everywhere you look. especially you know a person who feels like you know this is a great way to to get out of frustration and great weight is to you know tell the world how you feel you know when music or art or anything you don't i don't see how you can just sit around retired to what yet without a doubt and you became famous for politically charged music do you see parallels between what's going on now and when n.w.a. first came out. you know they're still in awe of the great divide why. i just think in some ways it's the nature of capitalism you know it's. what you take advantage of as well i mean i use it as a tool to survive you know that that that's the structure that we got

a little joyce and you know but you know it's a shame that a country is so rich you know has so many people wanting you know for bare necessities so it's a little you know it can get ugly as a black man do you understand because i've never understood why people don't like people because of the pigment of their skin what on earth does that have to do with anything i have no idea you not think it's really the fear of the unknown because usually when you get a chance to know some yeah you might not even like their politics you mind not like you know where they come from you might think you know have your preconceived notions but when you get a chance to sit around one on one talk it out we're all like we're all alive we are looking for the same as we all want you know our family to be comfortable how did you feel when trump ran and how do you feel with about him now well you know when

you first ran in. i didn't take it serious you know. i felt like it was a publicity stunt you know. i've never felt like a guy who was so into his self could ever run the country and and spend his day worried about other people's problems as proven correct to you. in most cases here you know but there's some some ways you know he's surprised me in you know. you know sitting down with workers and you know here in the mountain you know that's kind of cool but for the most part i think you know. it's just the wrong direction it's a lot of. backwards i see a lot i see a lot of us a lot of the country going backwards instead of four you said in a recent interview it's important for our mental health to remember that not everything is bleak if you try to be optimistic yeah i think you know

being black in america it's a survival mechanism being optimistic because if you really. concentrate on all the obstacles that's that's there and some of them are you know this is was crazy some of them are real and some of them are illusions that are made up because you believe data there because of so many things that's happened to you in the past you've been taught yes so that can hurt you just as much as a real obstacle you know express if you don't think you can get over it so the invisible obstacle is just as damaging as the real obstacle that are turning gen jeff sessions is toughening sentencing for drug users and drug crimes you. know you know i don't think you you know punish a person for you know their vices you know to the fullest extent you

know everybody has a vice and it depends on. you know the congress the laws the legislation to say whether your advice is legal or illegal and they may say coffee is illegal drink coffee is illegal in years and then bust to me too so. you know i think you need to help people who have problems i think you need to really try to deal with the drug problem at the root supply is not really you know trying to stomp out demand and arrest demand as you teach demand not not arrested use it generally certainly rap music reflects the times will we see a lot of music that will deal with trump i hope so you know it. is funny because you know some musicians want to. change the world and

some musicians want to entertain the world so when you want to change the world sometimes you can be ahead of the curve world line i want to change at that point in time. and when you want to entertain a world you khana see what everybody likes and try to do that. the dart is the try to change the world to me has courage because you can put out some people are not ready for it can't you change and then detained at the same time when you get it right. is there a young rapper today who's doing what n.w.a. was doing in the eighty's i hear you know what i mean i love you know. rappers like kendrick lamar who is attempting to so put consciousness in the music. i love some of the music. i think he really attempts to to be provocative the chance the rapper if it's good to sell my son's name it's chance to see him in

chance one of the greatest things ever happen to me derek jeter came over to me and said there are a lot of fun. the legends you are a true legend stay with me for a while you are a true legend thank you that's going to stay with me what is the title mean to you means you're old. it means. you stood the test of time. you know to me that's what it means you stood the test of time you know people have their peak moments and the year the fall off the peak all the way down the mountain or you have or near the top is being labeled a legend or an icon put more pressure on you. know we expect more from you know you know i mean i always expect you know more myself than didn't anybody could expect me the way i feel but it really you know shows me that in a still got work to do even though they call you ike i think you know you after you

need to spend the rest of your days proving it can't rest on laurels you know ok tell me about the big three and this is as a fan this is a dream come true is professional three on three basketball with some of your favorite players who've retired from the n.b.a. you know just because they retired from the m.b.a. don't mean they can still do it you saw him play three on three different court half court we got a four point shot we got some of the biggest names in basketball supporting his i mean our coaches our hall of famers we had dr j. we got the iceman we got rick barry so you know glide is a lot art this summer we start on june twenty fifth our first game is in brooklyn park the block we're in yeah so it's going to be pretty good on these teams as a team you know one ticket a good shoot for game so you see forty year your favorite n.b.a.

players you know like allen iverson and chauncey billups and martin how long are they how much time is the game take each game first to sixty when halftime at thirty saying like we used to play him as the same thing just bring it to a pro level bring in the indoors into the big arenas if you score you take the ball out of losers take out if you can score if you get if you. for now the team take it out because you get the idea to do this great idea yes just as a fan you know seeing a guy like kobe score sixty points in and his n.b.a. career is over you know that to me is crazy it's like just because these guys retire from the n.b.a. a lot i'm go overseas the ball and they're still household names. why not bring them all together have him play with a piers and and a good old fashioned thrown through many teams eighteen different cities no not is no cities connected to teams just the players we don't barnstorm around the country

are going to give them names or just the three today it's this three against this now we've got names we've got we've got we've got the goals ballers we've got trilogy we've got three is company we've got the three headed monster put this all the all the logs mia i mean some great people work with amy travis who used to be c.e.o. of the raiders he's terrific jeff kline and so who's been my long time manager and partner since ninety seven and roger mason jr who was the number two over at the n.b.a. and you got the coaches hired everything now they get paid based on the crowds or yeah well you know to get paid a base salary and it's like this you know you win the championship you get more money of the revenue sharing commission know roger mason jr the commissioner i'm just a founder in the background just trying to make sure we set the stage for the first

games when people watching can get information how can they go to a website go to big three dot com big story dot com sounds terrific going to play in l.a. don't play at staples center or a big arenas yes big arenas three on three have court yes sixty points win yes for games one ticket straight out of compton was dubbed the oscars did you react poorly to that. no. i never did that movie. i was just happy to be able to put together our story on that level with people like universal pictures to have the press the really what i dreamed of for the movie and that's what we got and got that made a lot of money and a lot of money and made a lot of people understand our story in attention was a bittersweet that didn't get the us there was more. i think we

i think we. invoked change anyway you know just like with the record in one nine hundred eighty nine we've changed a lot of opinions a lot of attitudes and with the movie. we didn't get that but it's a is a lot of change a lot of and. a little more closely than they were before straight out of telling of cuban his secret talent strange fan and countless plus how he's changed over the years we'll be right back. watch the hawks founded by three young americans who love their country but we have to costly question our government watching the hawks brings the stories the give voice to the voice as we dig a little deeper we get the stories of an average one else is afraid to touch is

afraid to talk about because they don't want to upset their corporate sponsors or interrupt their government access now is the time more than ever but we need to question more. we're in this post truth world or world words have to matter to about educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them what to make dialogue is far far more valuable than to be. welcomed to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin through my body gets and support is that i cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity knowing does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that it has this. book burning it put the money

on your car immediately you get half of all plasma based drugs today come from private companies and are produced. from paid plasma. come from your own motor car. what are the risks of a donation. there is proof that the frequency of pathologies is much higher in pay donations. if i was. over two years old he would go over to get the money from the federal and who runs the blood business. but would i still can't wait for the big three is going to go all former n.b.a. and college players to i don't know just all n.b.a. you have to be retired from the n.b.a. you have to be over thirty and ready to go big three dot com for one is coming to

your city and for more information you're only says continue to be played on the radio can you do you appreciate do you like the fact that you these still hang around oh yeah you know it's a great thing i wish they play some of my latest hits you know what i mean when you artists they always like to go to you know the oldies but goodies so to speak so you know we had new music so we want to play that is new music in the death certificate yes we got three new songs we think they fit that record a previously on release good cop bad cop that's a video and. you know we. you know introduce a whole new generation to their records oh you changed over the years. i think i got to have a little more patience in not think i have a little more understanding of how things are in the world and i can kind of deal with them oh my level. you know so i was you music changed.

i don't think it has that much you know my music is still a great form of expression for me. i still do what i feel i don't do what i think i need to do i'll follow radio trains or nothing like that i just try to be my own art it was your son doing you played you in the movie i mean he's he's actually working you know he's working more to me nowadays he did a movie called a den of thieves. another movie that's coming out is a great in deep independent movie. and he is going to go to godzilla to write we play a little game of if you only knew i just fire some questions. who was your childhood celebrity crush man i was in love with vanity she was presides vanity six

secret talent. i mean all my talents out there nope and i guess you know and i guess i'm a great lover. but as you no longer a person you'd trade places with for one day man bron james right now where this job you've ever had i used to park cars man used to wear polyester wear slacks downtown on sunset yeah guilty pleasure licorice i love like i lack the liquor i really. like black a lot of the rapper you'd most like to collaborate with man rapper most likely. chuck d. still my favorite for a musician who is the director that you'd like to collaborate with dead or alive yeah ok man michael jackson who never fails to make you laugh. never fails to make me laugh. i got to say eddie murphy never knows what

super power would you like to have. i like to fly this piece of advice you ever got. mine your own business your live longer. was the worst piece of advice you ever got. what you're doing is hip hop style format. something you wish you were better at i wish i was better at like handyman stuff you know i can't do anything if you know i started rapping when i was fifteen the same thing yeah i'm not that bad but you know i like to be able to you know tear down a wall and build a room an audit kind of stuff i like to really be able to. do that man's man stuff biggest perk of being a celebrity of. i guess being recognized as being strangest fan encounter man i had

a stalker fan who tattooed my room name on her forehead. was your real name o'shea and she she stalked you she wanted romance with you i don't know if she wanted larry. i don't know was anyone how was you how did she confront you well you know we we just seen are in a few strange places showed up manager's office stuff like this and yeah i had it my name on her forehead went to court what did she say to you nothing. nothing i won't bring this up larry ok i might be out there. who've something you long believed to be true but realize this isn't a. man and i will god that is hard question that is a hard question. i live forever and that's not true

has not. told me something we don't know about you. something that we don't know about me. i like all kinds of music you know like i like you know like i said i was sure that you know i love some natural you know he's great. i love all kind of music people do things not to corrupt yeah you do yeah i do because i just you know he has the time and. he has it and he has a rhythm in the time you go to big three dot com and death certificate has now been released with three new songs some social media questions were on a g.l. can you confirm if you are or not working on a new friday movie yes we are when very preliminary stages of it we still get all of our ideas together but it's coming ok daniel course of

a thomas what three hip hop artist best represent the genre right now man i would say. kendrick lamar. i would say i guess you know you got to say drake. and. pryor lowing if you sum it up john reilly you're a pro at all you've accomplished your music change the industry as well as society what do you think the next big revolution in music will be consist of. that's coming. while you know if a new ad out is. make a whole lot of money you know that's the thing about everything goes around comes around you thinking groups come back i think that's that's what's needed and i think you know whenever it is there's an absence music usually fills that void so you know you have so many solo artists it's time to swing back to groups brother

maybe a band you know i mean then and so again of the new music would instruct the instruments that they're really capture everybody's imagination and mine in a girl arts game and you know so i think music always finds a way and you know it's like water you can't really hold it you can only you know roll with it evolving either. what's your role in mentoring the upcoming generation of entertainers and just obama example you know i'm not somebody who's no mine you know i'm i'm a business so i want to live longer but i just hope i'm example hope guys see the past that i've taken in and and say i you know q. can do it hey i can do it why not good point do you. get your sheet i think do you know if there will be a twenty three jump street or was twenty two jump street the last one hoped as

a twenty three jump street you know in the movie they talked about twenty i mean like thirty seven jump street so. we've got to do twenty three to get to thirty seven so i'm hoping that we start you know knocking these out just so on or will you ever be in a movie with your son o'shea oh yeah hope so mike sewers do you know while making it that the death certificate would be one of the greatest albums of all time no i don't think anybody who's really making a record can't proceed at predict and you just hope that you know your fans like it you know as that's really want to do our more to you really just hope your fans dig king of the memos what's your favorite genre of music other than hip hop man soul. and just meat zero nine zero nine will you be working on any sequel or spinoff just straight outta compton oh you know it was such a horror movie to make. i think people had to decompress but you never know you

know it's really all about getting those creative minds together again and seeing if it can happen but you know to the thing about it is if it can happen i won't do it you know if it's not supposed to be done i won't force it one more time seventy five how do you mentally handle the changes in the world and still manage to focus on all your projects well i love what i do. i look at it as the next day from from the day to day monotony so you know my my work is my hobby you know it's my pleasure so it's it's never too sever burden you know all of d.m.c. h one eighty seven excluding your movies what is your pursuit of your movies what's your go to comedy film oh man my go to comedy film and i got to say.

train places. yes. then z. nineteen ninety two your favorite hip hop album of all time it takes a nation of laws to hold as a public enemy record there are great guests. good see you too thanks to my guess the ice cube the first big three game is on june twenty fifth at barclays center in brooklyn and tickets for the full season are available on ticket master and you go to ice cube more information and the twenty fifth anniversary of death certificate is available now on his own was good find me on twitter of kings things that i'll see you next.

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