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Ice Cube Talks Being Inspired By Public Enemy, Reality Rap Vs. Gangsta Rap, N.W.A + More On The Flavor Flav Show

Ice Cube Talks Being Inspired By Public Enemy, Reality Rap Vs. Gangsta Rap, N.W.A + More On The Flavor Flav Show

The West Coast warlord Ice Cube was recently the featured guest on the 13th episode of The Flavor Flav Show with legendary Public Enemy hype-man Flavor Flav to discuss a number of topics.

Cube and Flav reminisced on how Public Enemy inspired N.W.A, being on tour together, how the media taking reality rap and giving it the label of “Gangsta Rap”, why Cube went solo and cut ties from Ruthless Records and N.W.A and much, much more.

Check out Ice Cube on The Flavor Flav Show below:

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Chad Kiser

Chad M. Kiser is a veteran writer of 15 years with interviews, bylines, and content featured in top media outlets including TMZ, ESPN, Fox News, XXL Magazine, HipHopDX, AllHipHop, The Wall Street Journal, DubCNN, Playboy Magazine, BBC4 Music, VH-1, MTV, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Billboard Magazine, and numerous others. Several of his in-depth interviews have been cited in critically acclaimed books such as "The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form", "Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap", "Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap", "Sounding Race In Rap Songs", "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America".

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