Rapper Ice Cube discusses racism, police brutality, what has changed – and what hasn’t – since his iconic song “F—The Police” in this extensive interview with MSNBC's Ari Melber. Melber also raises recent allegations of anti-Semitism against the rapper and actor; the history of hip hop and other music exposing racial injustice; and how politicians in both parties often attacked Black musicians rather than listening to their concerns about policing. The discussion also includes an appearance by historian Jon Meacham, who wrote about Ice Cube and other artists in his book "Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation." (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 7/24/2020.
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Calling Out Trump-Era Racism, Ice Cube Talks Police, Racial Justice And Anti-Semitism Allegations
Today was a good day, today I didn’t even have to use my AK I got to say it was a good day…ice cube
One of the lines I remember best from that song. That is a powerful line right there and it says so much.
Where Smokey at?
AKs are junk and so is Icicle.
@Dave Schultz
You’re a player hater.
AK is the most reliable assault rifle out there and easy to use
Oba*** Man ……..Dave is on this channel only to start 💩 because he ain’t 💩🥴✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
From Strange Fruit. to US mass incarceration AKA The NEW Plantation.
Joe Biden authored the 94 crime bill that cause a generation of mass incarceration and mandatory sentences.
@Dave Schultz and what’s your excuse for trump and his REPUBLICAN white nationalist authoritarian white populism party????,, so yiu actually think trump is not a racist supremacist white nationalist????,….you SIMP
Soren Ingram. The new PLANTATION. Whats real us the criminal justice reform act was not passes for minorities who in the 90s all black leaders from innercity metropolitan areas begged lawmakers to counter crime ridden neighborhoods of the crack epidemic to pas str3ct strict laws tocurb crime THAT ALL REPUBLICANS SUPPORTED AND HELPED BIDEN AUTHOR THAT CRIME BILL.ALL REPUBLICANS SUPPORTED THE AUTHOR OU IGNORANT FOOL… NOW THAT TRUMP AND MCCONNELL HAVE APPOINTED MASS CONSERVATIVE LIFETIME JUDGES TO FED APPOINTMENTS THEREWILL BE NO ADVANTAGE FOR MINORITIES WITH FIRST STEP BECAUSE ITEAS PASSED FOR ALL RACES NOT MINORITIES AND WHITES HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE ACT MORE THAN BLACKS TO DATE..FOOL
Cube what a legend still and always.
Man people taking a picture literally. It’s more of a metaphor then anything else.
Cube is totally doing live over LTE. No need to phuck with Comcast or major ISP corporations
Didn’t expect to hear anything intelligent, MSNBC never disappoints. 😵💫
I learned a lot from this interview. Thank you for a nuanced interview and for sharing Ice Cube’s lyrics. The Arts are important in ways you can’t put a dollar value on.
Never underestimate the power of music Ice Cube have a great song about Trump is called Arrest the President 👏👏👏👏👏👏
thank you.bhave to check that out
Heard it some time ago
I’m in tears here. We are coming together.
rickyhuff we are… and it feels amazing even in the midst of all the pain!
Same here. God Bless Ice Cube
The Genius of music must be used in the appropriate manner
and that is to “Oppose” the “Injustices” in this World !!
Well done “Ice Cube” as I commend you for standing up, against
the “Powers that Be” !!
The T R U M P D U M P Approaches. How will you celebrate?
I hope our firework stands open up and the City allows them! I want the night sky to light up!!
🎊🎉🇺🇸🎊🎉🇺🇸🎊🎉
“Music doesn’t lie. If there’s anything in the world that’s needs to be changed, it can only be done through music.”
Jimi Hendrix
going away from the racial aspect and back onto covid, this is most objectively true with mathematics. yet these folks refuse to believe the numbers.
We finally had a real chance to make a change but people decided to loot, shoot, paint, burn and destroy their neighborhoods once again. Not fair to Wallace and others.
What they need to remember is the laws they set for the minority today, will be the laws for them tomorrow(white people the soon to be new minority).
Yep.
Live by the sword, die by the sword
Sounds about racist. Government set those laws. White rich liberal men. The same ones black lies matter is throwing all those hundreds of millions of dollars.at. I hope that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling. The democrats are doing nothing more than pandering and letting democrat cities burn. They will promise anything for a black vote and give nothing in return in abundance.
You don’t need to be legislative to know the difference between right and wrong. Keep it up man✌️
I hope Eazy-E was looking down and watching.
Come on, police across the nation have been profiling
Brown and black skinned
Citizens long before Ice Cube came out with his song and lyrics !
He’s a powerful intelligent man trod is how you change the world
Ha I was just listening to Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come and another fave Win Your Love For Me ( a love song but still cool by Sam Cooke)
Ice cube comes from a good hard working family. His uncle Luther gave me a job as a single mother in Lancaster before I left for the Army. A family of entrepreneurs and independent thinkers.
Cube is ballin with his Windows Vista laptop connected to 3G internet and a 240p webcam.
“WE NEED SECURITY IN THE WORLD, CRAIG! NOT JUST THE HOOD…THE WORLD, CRAIG! TOP FLIGHT!”