larry king now the one the only. some musicians want to change the world some musicians want to entertain. sometimes the head of the curve want to. change and entertained at the same time when you get right being black in america it's a survival. between what's going on now. and first. grade is a shame that a country is so rich you know. this being labeled a legend or i could put more pressure on i mean i always expect. more of myself than anybody expects of plus see good talent. i guess i'm a great lover. that's no longer. larry

king. larry king now back in the studio with us one of our favorites ice cube the legendary rock producer an actor can now also call themselves a basketball entrepreneur 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 like doing a lot of things right i love it you know. they say you can sleep when you do. why we were leasing it's out now. that's sort of it 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 it 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 caps and so you know that idea is a great it's a great song and it's perfect for the death certificate i do 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 inspiration 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 total world how you feel you know with music or art or anything you don't i'll see how you can just sit around you're tired or 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 there are still you know 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'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 if 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 you know 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 all look for the sign 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 whoa 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. in most cases here you know but in 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. this is 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 are.

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 allusions 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 of our turning general 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 by now want to change at that point in time. and when you want to entertain

a world you khana seaward by lags 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 the game 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's attempting to so put consciousness in the music. i love some of the music kanye does 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 be and said there are a lot of phony 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 for what is the title mean to you about it means you're old. it means. you've 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 need the you the fall off the peak all the way down a 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 to 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 i. 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 man 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 name 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 gliders a lot this summer we start 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 seemed like we used to play him as the same thing just bringing it to

a pro level bringing it indoors into the big arenas if you score to take the ball out of losers take out if you get 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 peers and and a good old fashioned through and through many teams eight teams 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 got three s. company we've got the three headed monster put this all the all the logs mia and me and some great people working with amy travis who used to be c.e.o. of the raiders he's terrific if 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. you get the coaches hired everything now they get paid based on the crowds 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 share commission no 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 are people watching to 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 four games one ticket straight out of compton was 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 to press the really what i dreamed of for the movie and that's what we got and you got that and 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 your but it says

a lot that changed a lot of and. a little more inclusive than they were before straight out of telling of cuban his secret tell of the strange fan encounters plus how he's changed over the years we'll be right back. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. preparations from washington to washington the media the media the. voters elected to run this country business it. must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before.

i'm larry king and you're watching our america question and more. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that our critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create

change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth artie's able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical that chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. bad with ice cube the big three is going to go all former n.b.a. and college players to just get 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 down tom 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 do you still hang around oh yeah you know it's a great thing i wish to play some of my latest hits you know i mean you when you are it is they always like to go to you know the oldies but goodies so to speak so you know we have 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 unreleased good cop bad cop that's a video to us out and. you know we. you know introduce a whole new generation to their records oh you changed over the years. i think i got i 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 don't follow radio trains or nothing like that i just try to be my own artist 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 now days he did a movie called a den of thieves. another movie that's coming out is a great and deep independent movie. and he's and is going to guzzle to godzilla to all right we play a little game of if you only knew i just fire some questions such as 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 i guess

i'm a great lover. but that's no longer a person you'd trade places with for one day a man of the bron james right now where this job you've ever had used to park cars man used to wear polyester slacks down town on sunset yeah guilty pleasure licorice i love i 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 musician who is in direct 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 and of those what superpower would you like to have. i like to fly best piece of advice you ever

got. mine your own business your live longer. was the worst piece of advice you ever got. which you're doing as hip hop stuff for me. 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 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 know 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 get nothing. nothing i won't bring this up larry might be out there. who is 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. to live forever. and that's not true has not. told me something we don't know about you.

something that we don't know bombing. i like all kinds of music you know like like you know like i said i was sure that you know i love sinatra you know he's great i love all kind of music people do things not to get over apt yet you do yeah i do because i just you know he has the time and. yes if it 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 common ok daniel course of a thomas what three hip hop artists 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. if you sum it up john reilly you're a pro at all you've accomplished your music changed 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 i knew that it. did 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 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 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 ego what's your role in mentoring the upcoming generation of entertainers 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 i hope guys see the past that i've taken in and and said 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 hope there's a twenty three jump street you know in the movie they talked about twenty i mean like thirty seven jump street so. we have to do twenty three to get to thirty seven

some 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 you're over 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 proceed at predict that you just hope you know your fans like you not 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 at 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 you sever burden you know all 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 for i got to say. train places. say. yes.

then z. nineteen ninety two your favorite hip hop album of all time it takes a nation of laws to hold us back public and the record of your great guests i said see you too thanks tim i guess the ice cube the first big three game is on june twenty fifth the barclays center in brooklyn and tickets for the full season are available on ticket master and you go to ice cube dot com for 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 i'll see you next.

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