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Please, welcome O'Shea Jackson better known as Ice Cube! |
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How you doin'? |
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[Ice Cube:] How you doin'? |
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[Female Interviewer (male):] |
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Good to see you. |
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Well known that the Crips and the Bloods are allegedly coming together. |
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Yeah, you've been alot in the media lately than other rappers, we'd mentioned earlier Cube, that uhm... |
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You know? You have been labelled a lota thing. |
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What do you say to the people with the causal being anti-semitic, (fuck 'em!) |
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Or anti-careerist? |
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And, basically a portrait of the violence because of your lyrics, what do you say to them? (fuck 'em!) |
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It's probably the reason why they say that it's beacause some of the lyrics were... |
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Aimed at the women, bitches and hoes, and all that. |
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I wanna talk a little bit about that, too. |
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Because we saw the parents' discussion about this last time and... (yeah!) |
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So and brothers, uhm... folks walkin' around, totin' guns, uuuuhm... |
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All that kinda stuff, do you think that sometimes those images and those lyrics... |
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Help white folks justify their continual racism againts us, or continue racism against us? (nah!) |
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[Ice Cube:] |
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I-I speak... in a perpective as uh... brothers on,.. |
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What we need to do is look in the mirror. |
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I-I, I do want the white community to understand our community more... |
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And see what's going on, and see what, what uh... the things they've done to us in the past... |
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Are still affectin' us now... mentally, you know? |
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And,.. the reason I said it's because, I mean everything I said about, uh, uuuhm... you know? |
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Everything I said on records before the riots, you know? Uuuh... (uh-hmm!) |
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Anything you want to know about the riots... |
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Was in the records before the riots! All you had to do was go... |
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To the Ice Cube library and, and, and... |
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[Female Interviewer:] In, in, in... |
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[Ice Cube:] |
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Pick a record and it would have told you. |
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You know? I've given warnings... |
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[Female Interviewer:] |
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So in other words, it's almost like a... war-warning or prophecy? |
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[Ice Cube:] |
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I-I've, I've given... |
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I've given so many warnings on what's going to happen. |
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If we don't get these, uuh... |
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These, these things straight in our lives, the clashes the-then, you know? |
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Armageddon is-is-is, is near! Eheh! [beat stops] |
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[Movie Bites from "Scarface (1981) ", Al Pacino as Tony Montana speaks:] |
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This here... |
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These words all about money. |