*Cultural icon Ice Cube chopped it up on “People’s Party With Talib Kweli” about his 30-year career in music and film, his basketball league, his films, and how he and rapper Common once had beef.
Cube previously claimed their old feud began when he thought Common’s “I Used To Be H.E.R.” track was a diss to West Coast rappers. Minister Louis Farrakhan reportedly intervened and helped cool the tension during a gathering for Cube and Common at the Nation Of Islam headquarters in Chicago in 1997.
“Sometimes, you have a beef with somebody and you squash it but it’s not really squashed,” Cube explained on Talib’s podcast. “It’s still that thing in the back of your head, saying, ‘Man, f**k that…’ It wasn’t that way with Common and myself. It was truly squashed.”
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Cube also details how he ended up casting Common in “Barbershop 3.”
“We needed these different characters for Barbershop,” he said. “We knew we wasn’t going to get Michael Ealy back and we was looking for a guy who could be that and bring a different presence. When [Common’s] name came up, I was like, ‘Hell yeah.’”
Cube added, “He’s a Chicago dude, a good dude, he’s for the culture. He’s improved it over and over. He not into beefing with nobody and we need to show the world that no matter what happened in the past that we could still work together and be brothers… It was just a misunderstanding.”
Looking back on the beef with Common, Cube described it as “a dark moment” in his career, adding, “Common was a good dude, I don’t think he deserved it. I was just in my feelings.”
Scroll up and watch Ice Cube tell it via the clip above.
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