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Home » Ice Cube

Tag: Ice Cube

Posted inOn Politics

MAGA delusion

by Ben Joravsky April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Republican strategists think they can win over the Black vote by trashing Justice Jackson.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

We survived!

by Ben Joravsky November 11, 2020August 18, 2021

Trump’s MAGA and other tales of the last week’s election

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Politics is wrestling

by Leonard C. Goodman September 16, 2020August 18, 2021

The fights are fake but the folks pulling the strings behind the scenes are real.

Posted inFilm

Money Talks is the Friday sequel we all deserved

by Princess McDowell January 16, 2019August 18, 2021

Now we know what really happened to Smokey: he befriended Charlie Sheen to make a bad buddy movie.

Posted inBlogs

In Original Gangstas, Ben Westhoff digs into the messy histories of the west-coast rappers who transformed hip-hop

by Leor Galil September 16, 2016August 18, 2021

The new book Original Gangstas examines the lives of Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and Snoop Dogg in uncompromising detail.

Posted inMusic

Riot Fest’s hip-hop undercard

by Leor Galil September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Even if you ignore the festival’s marquee names, you can find plenty of rappers with top-shelf skills.

Posted inMusic

A ridiculous and occasionally useful guide to Riot Fest 2015

by Chicago Reader September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

The festival has been a punching bag so far this year, but with luck it’ll turn out more like a piñata—and either way, the Reader is getting in a few swings.

Posted inMusic

A dozen Riot Fest acts in doughnut form

by Leor Galil, Philip Montoro and Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

You can blame Drive Like Jehu drummer Mark Trombino and his punny pastry shop for inspiring this foolishness.

Posted inFilm

Straight Outta Compton plays it safe by sticking to interpersonal drama

by Tyler Daswick August 14, 2015August 18, 2021

The N.W.A. biopic devolves into trash talk and diss tracks.

Posted inBlogs

Straight Outta content: N.W.A’s legacy and Chicago’s newest rap group, W.W.A

by Leor Galil August 12, 2015August 18, 2021

Four Chicago rappers form a supergroup that pays homage to N.W.A as the iconic LA group’s biopic rolls into theaters.

Posted inBlogs

Adolf Hitler, Charles Dickens, Tom Clancy, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones January 24, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Ride Along and the pissed-off ghost of Joseph L. Mankiewicz

by Ben Sachs January 16, 2014August 18, 2021

The new Ice Cube action comedy is a movie without a skeleton.

Posted inBlogs

Win a Closed Sessions CIMMfest prize pack

by Leor Galil April 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Try your hand at rap-related movie trivia and win a pair of tickets to Closed Sessions’ CIMMfest showcase and a limited label T-shirt.

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: Kendrick Lamar, “Swimming Pools (Drank) (Mano 93 Nostalgia remix)”

by Miles Raymer December 11, 2012August 19, 2021

A familiar sample flipped for a new jam

Posted inBlogs

Early Warnings Roundup

by Kevin Warwick February 3, 2011August 19, 2021

This week’s Early Warnings include the Black Angels, Elvis Costello, the Fleshtones, Human Eye, Ice Cube, Kamelot, Low, Willie Nelson, Phosphorescent, Pinback, and Urge Overkill.

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