Ice Cube Explained Why He Didn't Want To Be 'O-Dog' In 'Menace II Society' !! 🤔🔥

[@raidermanic872]

Larenz Tate killed that role

[@ARSENICKMUSIC]

Facts. Ice Cube trusted his gut and knew that the Universe had other plans for him.

[@user-ex7xc4ql1x]

In turn for Lorenz it was a different character too

[@gunzroses5435]

Nobody could've did it like Larenz ❤

[@raleighexperts5554]

Cube would have murdered that role

[@raidermanic872]

@@raleighexperts5554 things worked out

[@Tealflamez]

"But we had fun too," this quote sums up my childhood

[@BroKhalidMuhammad]

mine too

[@el.mas.buscado7221]

Hell yeah the hood was dangerous but we had fun too, best years of my life😂😂😂😂

[@ikembaojore3877]

💯

[@gtamenace9743]

Somebody had to say It. Alot of "Hood" rappers too scared to say that nowadays. Too Hard for themselves. Tryna act like their life was just radical from birth 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@natefordham7768]

Facts! Growing up in Detroit was dangerous, but it was fun too!

[@geraldpope3779]

And that's partly why Friday is so loved. It was a breath of fresh air.

[@joshuaellis2482]

it was

[@tremelhoward5656]

Yup Tru

[@prayermadepatna8439]

💯🎯

[@SamuelMokuoane]

Still is

[@andrewhudsonthegreatest9923]

💯💯💯💯

[@Hegottalent_]

Like how even in Friday movies cube made sure pops and Betty were married and employed, unlike most black hood films, there’s always a single mother and bachelor dad. This was Kind of like the Cosby show marital status .

[@Schneek]

Cept Cosby was diddling in the end...kinda fucked up that whole image

[@ErnestJ-xe2um]

After all these years I never knew her name

[@ErnestJ-xe2um]

After all these years I never knew Craig's mom name

[@nf3982]

@@ErnestJ-xe2um🤣🤣🤣

[@Hegottalent_]

@@ErnestJ-xe2um me either 😆 until uncle Elroy told pops “send Betty my love!” 😅

[@dmcintosh851]

Give Cube his flowers. This Brotha has made his mark in both the music and film industry.

[@RealOne-qn4kk]

YOU GOTTA BE WHITE

[@puritanave313]

And BIG 3 even competes with NBA

[@laymonsavage2825]

And let the kids know that it's just a movie, reality is way more strange

[@jordanpierre6775]

Lowkey with basketball too BIG 3 brings back lots of former NBA players and talent.

[@Lettys_Son]

Cube always gets his flowers.

[@BLASTOISE__]

Higher learning is underrated cube role

[@anyright8683]

Facts 🔥

[@Blacksword404]

The smile he had on his face when he caught up to those racist was funny as hell. "Nigga I been looking for you all week."

[@usoloh2omusic]

I thought you was one of the smart ones but I see you not. Now you gotsa go - Coldest line in the movie

[@sherriearrington6830]

RIP Mr. John Singleton🦾

[@KiddSwagification]

fr

[@elliot2177]

Him turning down O-Dog was the best thing to ever happen to my favorite hood flick of all time,Menace to Society..

[@3rdworldgwaming467]

He was in the Anaconda movie too....& He was one of the characters that survived too....as in didn't get killed by the snake.

[@dremunoz2600]

Love how Cube took charge of the trajectory of his film career.

[@3Rayfire]

I mean if you look at how he took charge of his music career, that's just who he is.

[@MicahMane]

Nah he snapped too because bro was as big in the action movie scene as Vin Diesel when I was a kid. Seeing Ice Cube in movies used to be hype! Going from Friday to Triple X to Are We There yet just have been a long journey for him.

[@Uneke]

He had the money and time (since nwa fell apart and he had been producing more at the time) and was one of the most creative people in the spotlight back in the 90s

[@Wizznilliam]

He did a pretty good job too! Luckily for him he had some leverage from already being a successful and very famous rapper already. He for sure worked the system in the right way.

[@Wizznilliam]

​@@Uneke He was also already pretty successful going solo. And his writing was on another level than almost everyone else at the time. He knocked it out the park.

[@mr.bandcamp8148]

“But we had fun too” man hit hard

[@Bruss813]

But he isn't even from California. He grew up in Arizona, so he doesn't know how it was growing up in Cali.

[@viewmaster617]

💯

[@viewmaster617]

​@Bruss813 The hood the hood no matter the state ur from

[@JyMierCrawford]

@@Bruss813he js talm bout the hood in general

[@G4ndolfTheGr4y]

​​@@Bruss813 I'm from Phoenix AZ, Cali ain't much different, just the roads look tighter, drivers in Cali are always on your ass. I've been to California several times. I hate Cali and AZ equally for the same reasons, they're both ghetto af lol

[@skyykenyan1493]

& this is why I fw Ice Cube. He literally too good at being a gangsta it’s what he KNOWS cuz it’s what he’s lived. But you can see it in his eyes & hear it in his voice that he deadass didn’t want that for himself anymore & wanted to move on. Him saying he made Friday to show the fun side of his life literally shows you the wholesome individual he is inspite of any harsh living he’s grown up into💯mad respect for bro fr

[@marshallartsentertainment3741]

He was never a "gangsta" 😂

[@ll2323]

But he never grew up in the hood. Maybe he had friends in the hood but he himself ain’t from there.

[@g187um]

🤦🏾‍♂️fans dont know shit lol ... Cube was never a gangsta

[@impacc4182]

@@g187umhere you know it all groupies go😂nobody in nwa but easy was a gangsta but they still put a lot of them on from la

[@l9ikjam]

​@g187um he was too smart to get caught up with the gansta life. By the way, I'm from the hood. I have known guys who were from middle-class neighborhoods and went to college and was more gansta than guys that was born in the hood. Guys from the hood are not the only ones getting in the game

[@amonbrown5964]

Much Respect For Cube Seeing His Worth !!! All Brothers Are Not Thugs And Streets Guys!!! We’ve Got Legit Business Men!!!💪🏾

[@preplocc]

"Sometimes....but, we had fun too" True. True....

[@RaShonShannon-yf3yu]

Like Tyrin Turner's character Caine said in Menace II Society: you never knew what was gonna happen or when..

[@Turin_Turumba]

Cube a real OG

[@newmexicoballer3867]

I agree with cube. I grew up in the hood and it wasn't all that bad. Most of the time i had fun hanging out with friends, family and those block parties we had was fun. If you get around the right people you can have some good memories.

[@blahblah6497]

I grew up in mostly "bad" neighborhoods. Granted sometimes things got crazy, but otherwise there's actually a stronger sense of community in many ways than typical suburban neighborhoods. Probably because everyone has to kinda look out for each other far more than nice quiet neighborhoods. Where the madness is kept hidden indoors and people are petty and vindictive towards each other. In a way, the rougher neighborhoods have more in common with rural areas in that neighbors gotta count on helping and looking out for each other more than suburbs or cities

[@zenith8417]

The way the ghetto is almost sounds the same as when soldier described a warzone. Mundane with some occasional oddness, then extremely terrifying when the guns start going off

[@simpled5755]

Same, I grew up in a ghetto neighborhood filled with meth heads, but I still had fun sometimes, granted I saw some whacky crap (as one does growing up in a tweaker neighborhood), but it wasn't how it's portrayed in movies.

[@paulapii1761]

I grew up in the suburbs but enjoyed handling with my bestie in the projects. Best memories

[@Gildhattie]

​@@zenith8417 total facts... I grew up in New York in the 80's/90's and I was in the military and spent time in literally war zones in the middle east, and it's TRUE... Yes there are some bad times, VERY bad times, but usually the times are pretty good and chill.. it's just that the bad stands out more than the good

[@Gosprez]

ICECUBE IS OFFICIAL. MANY TIMES I FELT THE SAME WAY. COMING FROM THE HOOD DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN YOU GOTTA STAY THERE. SALUTE! LET'S GET A ICECUBE AND GOSPREZ HIT SONG

[@user-og1id6xc8b]

My Respect to this Legend 🍻

[@haha-lj5sq]

Exactly why Friday needed to be made. South central LA wasn’t just a battleground, it was where they lived and grew up and formed childhood experiences.

[@rickoldham7971]

History repeats. Good thing we have stupid to teach off of! 😜

[@user-xk7ob4zo2h]

It didn't need to be written. Humor is good when things said about movie Street only quotes.

[@Wizznilliam]

​@@user-xk7ob4zo2h This bot is broken 😂

[@RudolphManor]

In other words, he didn't want to be type casted. 💯

[@sweetsweet81]

That

[@vinnydeville4675]

He blatantly said that

[@johnwebb2442]

Exactly.

[@theoutlawking9123]

Word.

[@stephenfragoso7328]

Like Hector, who plays a Hector in every movie from fast and the furious 🤣

[@VeeMan-300]

That last part where says "we had good times too" I immediately thought about his song "today was good day" growing up in the hood (township) in South Africa 🇿🇦 We had fun even though sometimes it seems like it's a war zone but we had fun ....being black in this world is a blessing blessing ...shout out to everyone on this planet, keep on living, life is blessing even if it doesn't seem like that sometimes

[@unphadableresilience91]

Ice Cube is highly underrated he's a real Revolutionary, & an overall good man!

[@davewylie654]

Friday was the shit!!!!!

[@TylerPerryIsADragQueen]

IS

[@eddienlynn1]

I watch next Friday and Friday after next pretty much 3 times a month

[@azucenaroman4613]

​@@eddienlynn1 the Christmas Friday hits the bets on Christmas

[@deadskinnation1411]

A urban classic it's so good

[@johnwebb2442]

Classic movie.

[@kg6987]

Ice cube the ultimate hood narrator, just like he painted a picture with his rhymes he did the same with movies.

[@PsychoticFruitfly]

as he famously told a news reporter "i'm a reporter just like you, only i report on the places you don't go"

[@ryanhammonds919]

Puts a smile on my face to know that this man didn’t want that image put on him. Makes me appreciate “are we there yet” and “are we done yet” even more.🙏🏽

[@Suge8263]

But we had fun too.... thanks ice cube for the Friday movies man they mean so much to the culture

[@GhillieSuitGang]

A man who rejected being a stereotype 💯

[@grimmpoetics313]

He is a living stereotype

[@Treaxvour]

No, he just put a pause on it

[@jazzprince4447]

Larenz had the role of his lifetime because of that movie

[@thomasbrown3356]

Larenz would have gotten an Oscar, same as Pesci-, for playing the same type of Psychopath, as Goodfellas, if he had played O-Dog, later in his career. We didn't see his range, until after. Hollywood wanted him to keep playing more 'O-dogs'.

[@ybe7541]

​@@thomasbrown3356 No

[@Hxted_mitt_.]

First time I seen them have a legit conversation without Kevin bein Kevin

[@aaronstatzer4570]

Wish you wouldve continued acting man. All about the benjamins was fucking gold. Alot of your early 2000s work was awesome.

[@truthdealer99]

Love his transparency

[@LoneWolfHustle]

Glad he didn't cause Larenz killed that role.

[@elmachin8766]

I was about to post that.

[@ShantinooO]

But Cube and Pac in that movie would have been f🔥

[@Gods_son7]

NOBODY else could’ve been O Dog not even PAC

[@owencoleman1420]

Cube still wouldve did it justice but i respect the choice plus i can't see no other way now😂😂😂

[@Curtoonstv]

@@owencoleman1420nah, his wife, his brother-in-law (manager) and his parents would’ve told him hell no.

[@1sttobylopez]

From Doug boy to Savon to o dog to Ice cube it was just one character after another.

[@Johnny55671]

Ice cube is a good man. And one who learned a lot and passed it to everyone through his movies and interviews and life

[@SouthPlaya]

His role in ghost of mars is underrated af

[@jaycasado5029]

Was thinking the same thing. That movie is a cult classic ❤

[@deshawnpayne6096]

Bruh, I tried so hard looking for this movie

[@ramonhenderson7484]

🎯💯💯💯​@@jaycasado5029

[@tictoc3738]

One movie I can watch over and over

[@blakelewis5476]

Cause if you mean Desolation Williams ……

[@LennyTenkaichi]

Cube is definitely a real and humble mf fr

[@jakebaldwin7172]

Yeah every interview I see he's thoughtful and honest. Easy to see why he's had success and avoided a lot of the pitfalls that come with fame.

[@4EverILoveHalloween]

Yeah, I could see Ice Cube playing the role of O-Dog, but I understand why he turned that role down, though. Like, Chris Tucker, he didn't want to continue playing a specific role using a same character. Chris Tucker wanted roles to where he plays a much serious character. So, I can see why Ice Cube turned that role down.

[@quintinrobinson89]

I love that statement “damn was it that bad”. It takes u to grow up and realize all the fun u had in yo neck of the woods

[@howardwayne8288]

That "But we had fun too" is what I used to have to explain to my college roommate... When he found out where I grew up... He acted like I was supposed to have tattoos and a pistol in my waisband lol I told him... "You watch too much tv.... Was it dangerous?.... Yeah.... When it was bad... It was crazy bad.... But most days, it was just like any other neighborhood...."🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@PuffinPass]

Probably the hardest thing to explain to someone who hasn't grown up in a neighborhood like that.

[@averagejoe17769]

Compton?

[@PuffinPass]

@@averagejoe17769 There are a ton of neighborhoods like that all across the country that aren't Compton. Compton was rough through the 80s and into the late 90s but while still wild by most standards had calmed down quite a bit by the late 90s early 2ks

[@averagejoe17769]

@@PuffinPass I was talking to howardwayne

[@atrimus]

St. Louis, north side. This describes my upbringing to a tee.

[@TheHEROFamily]

I grew up in Watts. And like he said, we had fun to. It's a weird feeling to always be ready for when something pops off. Sure you're having fun but you can never fully let that guard down and truly relax.

[@j.wright3888]

We. Are. Taught. To. Survive

[@RougeMaster]

Same... I grew up in Nickerson Gardens off imperial. Shit was WILD lol but......we had fun too. Just 13, 14, 15,16 17 years old . There were good and bad times. Whenever I got back to Cali I still go visit my hood and yeah it's changed I grew up there in the 90s ....it nice to reminisce

[@Muzikalmizz_]

​@@RougeMasterI'm from the Wood lived on 104th between Hawthorne and Crenshaw Blvd off of Le Brea but I left Cali because I wanted a different environment

[@Ediblesz]

Respect to Cube. He saw the bigger picture and it paid off.

[@theluckyguy763]

Very smart individual respect for ice cube and the way he cares about his people reputation

[@gilbertlopez2943]

I think his role Boyz N The Hood, he was way calmer than O Dog, O Dog was too energetic for I’ve Cube lol Larenz Tate killed that shit

[@zakmukhtar8672]

I think they missed out on Pac for that role, ODog was the perfect role for Pac, especially how energetic and erratic he was. And Jada was in there too! Oh lord 🙉🙈🤷‍♂️😂😂😂😂

[@majik31401]

​@@zakmukhtar8672 2PAC WAS CALLED ON TO PORTRAY SHAREEF THE MUSLIM ORIGINALLY NOT O-DOG ALSO THERE WAS A TOSS UP BOUT PAC PLAYIN KAIN BUT TYRIN TURNER WAS CHOSEN

[@GoldenMean743]

@@zakmukhtar8672 Pac didn't have the cute babyface Tate did. Tate's energy complemented his youthful look. They needed someone young looking, and Tate looked the role which made the theme of urban dehumanization more potent. Make the youngest looking kid the craziest killer in the movie; that's genius whether intended or not.

[@SeanTheDon-vj4kw]

​@@zakmukhtar8672 2Pac played Bishop in 'Juice' the year before M2S came out, so he basically would've been playing the crazy trigger-happy gangster role all over again had he taken the role of O-Dog!

[@augustinelark9638]

O-dog is the definition of the dumbest guy from the streets of the ghetto in every hood

[@TallnLankee]

Trespass was one of his most underrated performances.

[@spiderklanblaze3124]

Yep tht whole crew was ill 🔥

[@jaymoplex12]

Da crew was crazyyy,,am gonna watch it again

[@brandonbates9259]

The actor that plays the homeless man in that movie was in everything back then lol

[@whoodyGPonder-fj6hq]

Tres pass is #Classic 🫡

[@antoniosavere6433]

He played the fawk out of savon he was definitely a savage in that movie ready to smoke everything

[@trufacts8934]

I'm Glad Larenz Tate Had That Role .. Boom 💥 Another Star Was Born .. That Movie 🎥 Raised Me Including Boyz N Tha Hood .. And Other Gangster Movies .. Damn Them Was The Dayz ..

[@lilray7210]

That's real it doesn't matter what hood you from it was like that everywhere in the 90's. I can vouch for that. 💯

[@Godwin00007]

Friday is top notch movie Chris Tucker nailed everything....

[@NotEvenOverThere]

Ice cube gotta be one of the realest dudes out there, class act whenever you see him.

[@JohnWilliams-wm7dy]

Cube is one of the smartest to ever come from the rap game. He understood where he was trying to go

[@K0NY718]

Ironically Ice Cube plays the exact same person in every movie.

[@jamesgibson3716]

No he doesn't. Him in that Keke Palmer movie was different

[@K0NY718]

@@jamesgibson3716 lol ok. 1 movie out of the 30 he’s been in

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

Nobody else could’ve played O Dog better than Larenz Tate. That’s how good of a job Larenz did as O Dog. Same goes for Tyrin Turner as Caine. They did such a good job that I never thought about anybody else playing those 2 roles

[@hackquanwilliams6613]

Sounds good until u gotta realistically imagine if PAC ain’t beat up dat director since it was actually meant 4 him 2 be O dog. Larenz definitely killed it but PAC was also a phenomenal actor and his real life at da time I think related even more to the role being a “gangsta” rapper. RIP him, congrats to Tate !

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

@@hackquanwilliams6613 Naw you got it wrong my man respectfully. Pac never was going to be O Dog. They gave him the role of Sharif. And let MC Eiht tell it, they never really wanted Pac in the movie but they needed a name for the movie in order to get the bag for the budget. Pac didn’t want to be Sharif because he was the voice of reason with no backstory. They never showed why he became Muslim. Pac was indeed a great actor but that doesn’t mean that every role was meant for him. I just don’t see him playing O Dog or Caine better than Larenz and Tyrin

[@Clivetinker]

Feel the same way with Tyrese as Jody. He hit that immaturity just right, and I feel like Tupac would’ve played it the character too straight.

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

@@Clivetinker I agree 100%. I can’t see Pac being Jody at all

[@COG4L]

@@TheRealLeonardWashingtonyou say that about anybody 😂

[@shawnmorris1929]

Lanez Tate killed that O dog role Cube would have did good but Tate embodied that role

[@lanaejames]

I fucks with Tate 😂😂😂😂 cube funny reminds me of my brother in lots of ways

[@Jaylou88]

“We had fun too” sums up Friday perfectly.

[@aaronhutchcraft2288]

Cube didnt want to get trapped, nor pigeonholed into"that guy"...smart man...and my favorite Rapper ever...ppl talk Tupac,Biggie...etc...they only get the glory bc of their death...Cube was and probably still is the greatest lyricists that ever lived.

[@dasprofi12]

You know you made it when you can decline main character movie roles at ease.

[@seriousstevegaming2090]

O dog wasn’t a main character though. Caine was.

[@ja2415]

​@@seriousstevegaming2090O dog took the THEATER

[@NoName-cq7gy]

​@@ja2415So what. O dog was not a main character. Doesn't matter what you feel. Facts are facts

[@iamtheculturetv7380]

Ol dawg was a supporting character. Still a big part but not main character. But cube wasn't really established fr at that time. So him turning it down showed he believe in himself

[@wakeup833]

How old are you?

[@user-zz9gb3rq2d]

Nah that role was meant for larenz Tate he killed it 😊

[@GlorifyGod777]

He's a very intelligent man. He deserves the recognition, Ice Cube, and all the others who stood strong and didn't fold for money or fame. 👏💪💪👏

[@daneelderozan263]

This man did so much for the culture from movies to film and now sports. Put people in position. Gotta salute him

[@kimberlycanales916]

It's never as bad when you're looking back.

[@ems901]

Exactly I deal with this myself. And I wonder why I couldn’t just hold on a little longer. I held on for as long as I could and now I beat myself up for it.

[@Erik-op2hy]

It was never as bad as in the movies.. in movies they have to show as much action as possible and show everything in an hour and a half. it is always exaggerated

[@ExclusiveRecluse]

💪🏾

[@Erik-op2hy]

@@JaiAnt-ry1dw the "hood".. Jesus.. grow up. Grown man talking about a "hood".. 😂🤦🏻

[@aloominknottyheadtap900]

lies

[@giovannigasolini9577]

He said its a good day in Anaconda and john voight called j lo little bird in his best tony montana accent. That was the best cube movie

[@OGkush69x]

Ice cube is a legend! Love music and movies growing up🔥 give this legend his flowers while he still here fam. SC LA STAND UP🔥

[@billdelfera8580]

My favorite Hood movie is baby boy. It's a shame Tupac didn't get to play the main character like he was supposed to but Tyrese did a great job and the dude that plays his best friend in the movie and Moe from smart guy is the best character in that movie in my opinion

[@quintonhamilton2484]

Facts but I just can’t picture Pac playing as Jody living in his mama house getting punked by Melvin 😂😂😂

[@Atlas365247]

Pac would've played that well. Closer to life. He wasn't gangsta. I thought Baby boy was a very negative movie but also reflective of nd predictive

[@billdelfera8580]

@@quintonhamilton2484 until you remember Tupac was a backup dancer for Humpty Hump LOL

[@quintonhamilton2484]

@@Atlas365247 If they made the movie a little more serious,I can definitely see him playing as Jody💯

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@billdelfera8580a rapper WITH Digital Underground.

[@6thElementComics]

Friday was WAY MORE accurate to growing up in the 90s than any of the Singleton (or any) of the hood flicks.💯

[@warmonger_365]

If u not from l.a then that's why,they do stuff different out there

[@charliebrown795]

@@warmonger_365he can’t be from l.a. menace to society was on point

[@warmonger_365]

@@charliebrown795 facts

[@KenLahne2]

It was The Wood for me.

[@charliebrown795]

All of them was accurate, I’m from L.A. and I can relate to all of them hood movies

[@consbeats7894]

I honestly don't understand why Hip Hop dont praise Ice Cube more... Look to Snoop... This man deserves even more, but then again Cube never sold out himself.

[@DM-sj4vu]

It’s like that when it’s your home. It never seems as bad to you. It’s really knowing how to move but when it’s home, you do it subconsciously so it’s not like you’re taking extra steps to stay safe

[@davidjones595]

Looking back Friday was the more iconic hood movie because it felt more real compared to the others

[@festo512]

Friday was liked only because of chris tucker.

[@truffle6082]

Very down to earth Friday highlighted the other side of hood movies we don’t see a lot and that is the fun good lucky kind. The market was not saturated yet with this kind of movie yet which is why it resonated with a lot of people.

[@jrnew1970]

@@festo512🤡

[@ImtooFuturistic]

True I had a dude on my grandma block that looked exactly like Deebo but bigger and he was autistic and actually nice 😂

[@wooterrackz2699]

Friday was a day in the hood. Boyz n tha hood was growing up in the hood, n menace just hood life. Friday was good cuz it wasnt street dudes, we were watching hood dudes not street dudes. Friday shows 1 block, of one street, for one day. Now xs that by the whole hood, every hood in the city xs every hood in in the country

[@brandwest592]

Facts. It’s not always a war zone in any hood. Kids still have fun it’s not how they paint it out to be in the movies or the news. I done been to hoods in NY, Chicago, Miami and Cali. It’s not non stop shoot outs all the time

[@mm-wt7sj]

I love cube he talked about the hood but he also had wisdom

[@kuruptzZz]

Exactly. I grew up poor AF, and I had no idea as a kid...it was like, this is life, make the most of it. We need more movies reflecting that reality, instead of focusing on the horrible parts

[@samgordon9988]

Ice Cube was my first rapper that I connected with!

[@91Definite]

The most darkest character he played was Reggie from The Players Club 💯

[@Dmoney1980]

No it wasn’t lol his character didn’t have enough storyline but you talking about how he set Ebony up to get graped maybe you’re right

[@ladennayoung2939]

He was SO annoying in that.

[@OsirisXXX]

I believe it was his character in Trespass, although I agree he was slimey in Players Club honestly I never understood his characters role in Players Club they were all over the place in the movie. I thought they were spying on Dolla Bill

[@josephallen9088]

​@WilliamHMacnoy-ts8kq no no no yu tripping

[@belizeangal3409]

@WilliamHMacy-ts8kqnot everyone only Ice Cube Bernie Mac Tiny Lester and Aj Johnson

[@EliHank]

Happy AF Cube didn't take that role. Tate owned that role...should've won an Oscar for his performance fr

[@aGwEENapple]

I love Friday because everyone has good times. It's one of my most favorite movies. And the ones after too.

[@vincentmedley5091]

Cube is always thinking and envisioning the future.

[@incognegro2315]

Ice Cube is natural talent. The man could act. Not too many rappers become good actors

[@ralphharrison6622]

thats what i like about cube. dudes realistic, nit trying to over exaggerate shit.

[@ChiCityOG_067]

Menace 2 society is in the top 10 of all movies. It captured everything we were going thru in Chicago at the time.

[@quan5648]

Ice Cube Is A National Treasure

[@sidcarver9076]

Hell yeah! I’m glad he’s out here being real and honest about stuff too!

[@discojelly]

I'm glad he wrote Friday. Seriously, cause up until that point movies must made it out to look like its a warzone everyday. In Friday, we get to see the comical side of "the hood", we get to know neighbors, the different characters that live in that neighborhood and their relationship with each other both good and bad. It seemed like a little town in a big city. It was a classic. Thank you Cube!

[@mikehonda7934]

Most people, like myself from the “hood” where I’m from, we called it our “village” and not the “hood,” spoke with joy about the bad and being bad ass, but not the same if not more joy about the good times. We were amongst the 1st to have a water fight shoot out with the police during a summer day. Once over, back to daily business and chores.

[@YNS4L2344]

Larenz Tate doesn't even look 30 years old when I got older and I noticed that was him that played Frankie lymon he gained all my respect as an actor 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 GOD BLESS🙏🏽

[@Big..Rank..52]

Factz 💯🔥 all hoods was the same now they took all the fun out of it man it's use to be so real out Here the money 💰 the times the bad times the good times felt like family out Here it's was codes to live by it was real out Here the streets was way more than just murder it's the whole way of life really felt like hood starz for real Factz 🔥 the old streets was better

[@kingdre7492]

Still like that everywhere of your really in it

[@GenkiTheGod]

Menace II Society is a movie that I don't know how I watched so much without feeling what I do now. I don't know what was wrong with me back then, because I wasn't affected by it like I am today. It's in the group of movies and shows I can't really watch again because of how emotionally hard they are for me, others including Breaking Bad, American History X, Boyz n the Hood, Titanic, and ironically, loads of older Disney movies like The Lion King. So with that said, I understand where Ice Cube is coming from, in addition to not wanting to be typecast, because most actors get roped into that once they have a certain kind of iconic role.

[@Monster-ed4rp]

No one could have done that role better than Larenz Tate. It was his before he was born 😂.

[@tommychingas4609]

Who else grew up in So Cal in late 80's / early 90's?

[@Young-Steve]

LA was a war zone back then im from that area and it was on everyday

[@tommychingas4609]

I agree..I moved out of there and moved to AZ....people in az always asking me" why you always looking behind your back?"..

[@georgemclane1472]

No it wasn't

[@Gemneye6]

But there were definitely more fun times, if you left block!? Meaning going to Fox Hills Westwood, World on Wheels Venice on Sunday Occasional Magic Mountain The Valley (Sherman Oaks)

[@vicvega24]

Rodney King riots were worse back in 1992.

[@itdonotmatter9361]

@@georgemclane1472stfu everybody got different experiences

[@richierich3541]

He did Friday for some comedy relief.

[@prfu1222]

Growing up in Brooklyn was a warzone. But as kids we had mad fun. Especially when it use to snow in NYC. We had breakdancing and graffiti. Plug up the park and pull out the turntables. It was tough and fun at the same time. It built character and growth. God bless Cube and the Big 3.

[@andreplayboi22moneymaker]

Also fun fact ice cube was even offered to play lucky (2pac’s Character) on poetic justice but he rejected the offer because he felt like lucky has kick his homeboy out the truck for a girl he met

[@livefromthemotherland]

Lmfao. That was always silly to me

[@andreplayboi22moneymaker]

@@livefromthemotherland yea & I didn’t even know that

[@user-he2qj3go2o]

​@@livefromthemotherlandagreed they tried to make lucky look like a hero for that but in reality he was a chump and more than likely would of got dealt with when he got back

[@livefromthemotherland]

@@user-he2qj3go2o facts. Leaving yo man’s stranded ? In the desert? Over a chick you just met? Cornball behavior

[@dwaynejpeterkin]

@@livefromthemotherlandhe put hands on two women plus he dissed lucky earlier lucky was justified

[@broncoscountry7667]

Spice 1 could have been O Dogg as well

[@user-it4yn9vz6c]

Spice was posed ta play dat w Pac as Shareef

[@broncoscountry7667]

@@user-it4yn9vz6c True

[@roderickstockdale1678]

He’d have been better as A-Wax

[@AllikRellik]

It just goes to show you a lot of the guys and girls in the streets who ARE real or pretending to be gangsters, most of the time only do it because they have to. And if they had a choice, would've chosen a better path for themselves. I know what the street-life is like, and I pray for all of my brothers and sisters from any color, background, and ethnicity who are lost, like I was, to find a new genuine, and unconditional love, to fill the void of feeling empty with hatred and anger.

[@anncodec]

Menace is a brilliantly casted movie, however Friday is fun and Sunny and I still watch them..Thank you Ice cube.

[@giftedx1391]

I tell people this all the time. It may be a messed up environment, but when youre a kid growing up, youre making the best of the situation not even grasping theres a whole world out there thats better. You're just making fun with what little you have. Anytime im talking to someone and all there doing is focusing on how negative/hard it was, I know 9 times outta 10 they didnt really grow up like that. They just watched a movie.

[@dthompson0790]

Facts. I didn’t realize it was actually bad until I became an adult.

[@shermanrobinson3390]

We know is was all good in the hood back in 90's.

[@nikkosan5420]

Sometimes but we had fun too 💯

[@michaelharvey6740]

Movie would've been crazy with ice cube and 2pac

[@user-pe9kp2fu6j]

He made the right choice no disrespect but odog is legendary

[@jackofallgames3097]

But we had fun too. Truest words ever

[@PsychoticFruitfly]

you'd be surprised what constitutes Fun in those kinda places.

[@snoophugg4748]

Ice cube a stand up guy

[@Mz2Much2You]

Tate Ate That Role 💯

[@homunculusgrey2921]

He says that like he hasn't been playing the same character his entire career.

[@grittobefit4712]

Cube legit is the realest out of all the ogs, and one of the smartest

[@salinasfinest8245]

He is a smart mofo

[@lilzae4848]

Ice cube OG underrated