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Ice Cube Takes Center Stage, Preps Raw Footage

by JOKESTA

TUESDAY MARCH 11, 2008

West Coast rapper Ice Cube is ready to take center stage once again with his ninth solo effort, "Raw Footage." The highly anticipated album will officially hit stores on June 17th courtesy of his own independent imprint, Lench Mob Records.

Raw Footage is expected to include guest features by artists such as Musiq Soulchild, Nas, Scarface and Dub C. The hip hop legend also collaborated with producers Maestro, Emile, DJ Crazy Toones, Fred Wreck, Palumbo Beats, Teak “Da Beatsmith” Underdue and Dee Underdue to name a few.

Currently in the studio, putting the final touches on Raw Footage, Cube is also gearing up for his own headlining concert at this year’s South by Southwest (SxSW) festival in Austin, TX on March 15th.

Performing for an expected crowd of 20,000 plus fans, Cube will carry out crowd pleasing, classic material along with current hits, which includes the controversial, breakout record, “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” featured on his forthcoming new album.

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For those not able to attend the free event, Cube has partnered up with Microsoft Corp. to live stream the performance exclusively on UVNTV.com.

Co-created by Cube and hip hop legend DJ Pooh, UVNTV is the world’s first real-time streaming television network online, complete with individual channels broadcasting unique content, a TV channel guide and broadband social network.

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opoo52

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opoo52
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— 4 months ago

Do Ya Thing Cube

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wizard

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wizard
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— 4 months ago

I am Back Bitches!!!

Jokesta you aint got shit on me Nigga !!!!

I run Defsounds like 50 run NY BITCHEZ !!!!

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Oso Polar

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^^so what ur sayin is you don't run defsounds at all^^ and you mostly be on rapgodfathers or somewhere else instead.

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frank_white

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frank_white
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Been a fan since I heard a "Bitch is a Bitch" and never looked back ghost writting most of N.W.A.'s 7 Eazy's early songs (with the exception of MC Ren verses he was always nice with the pen) from Amerikkka's most wanted to Raw Footage he is one of the only 3 artist that I own complete entire catalogs from. It's not so much the production but the lyrics that they say. These brothas used no ghostwritting when in fact the were ghost writters them selves...
P.S. The other 2 that i was reffering to are the late great Mr. Christopher Wallace & My boy Nas!
Wait till Nigger Drops man Nas SHALL BRING NY-LA-CHI-ATL-MIA All HIP HOP Coast BACK!

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DamnCam

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DamnCam
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— 4 months ago

thats whats up...that albums already a classic, the single is fire...his last album, laugh now cry later was on point too, but nobody bought that shit. i hope people support this one...

=Cam=

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BK_London

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BK_London
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Co-sign, it was a good album, the bad thing is he might struggle to go platinum for this.
You guys noticed how hard he works, i dont ever remember him being on hiatus.

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Piff Me

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Piff Me
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VET. IN DIS GANGSTA RAP SHIT PURE HUSTLER MUCH RESPECT TA CUBE DAS HOW U DO RIDE DAT SHIT TA DA WHEELS FALL OFF MOVIES MUSIC RECORD LABEL PRODUCTION COMP. ETC. DO DA DAMN THING

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$ ANT $ Steelas

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$ ANT $ Steelas
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i hope its a different collabo with nas instead of the gangsta rap made me do it remix...cuz that was hot...another would be good

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EAzyy

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EAzyy
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cube stilll be that nigga....gangsta ap made me do it is raw, so i can fuck with the name of the album being called raw footage...plus that remix with nas and scarface is just crazy (best remix in 08 so far)

i should be copping this 1...this album should be successful cuz i know the nigga is gonna kick knowlegde on this 1
this nigga is still in my top 10....

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datniggab

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datniggab
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His last album wuz definitely slept on, and that album wuz banging so I know this one will go harder than that one. I hope everybody includin me actually go out and support these vets cuz they not gonna be around forever.

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BigSteve

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BigSteve
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Mayne IceCube hittin'em with heat for the summer, him n nas gonna sound nice..

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second son

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second son
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ice cube is a legend.

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DaRealNoreagga

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DaRealNoreagga
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— 4 months ago

Cube got sum maja shyt goin on and catz would neva expect for him to be doin things cuz he so slept on. i'mma try to checc that joint out on that website. make sure i don't forget. SCREAM AT ME,1..

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C^ha$e Tha DON

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C^ha$e Tha DON
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damn wut this nigga tryna compete with L.L. cool j on being tha oldest nigga recordin albums lol. cube weve had enough of you

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second son

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second son
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why everybody think hip hop is just for the young. the only thing young niggas have done for hip hop is fuck it up. keep doing ya thing cube.

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icebergChien

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icebergChien
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Chase niggaz like you hurt hip hop as a whole B. why is it only hip hop fans want there artist to quit after a certain age? You don’t see that shit in Country Music do you? well some of you smart mouth niggas will say;”hip hop is aggressive, we don’t need old men to die with heart attacks”,…my response to that will be NIGGA is you high? What about Rock N Roll cats? Them cat’s bang out heavy, stays on more drugs then lil Wayne can think of. These Dudes stay on the road more for years, that more then your neighbor hood pot holes nigga. Young & Old cat I might add,…Look at Ozzy, son has Oz fest every year, Now how old is that dirt bag? Huh? Well When Rock was at it’s heights (kinda what hip hop is today) it came a time Rock was steady declining, in the late 80s early 90s? It was a lot of reasons, 2 in particular that hip hop is facing today.
1) Rock N roll made a mistake to let borrow hip-hop swaggers, clothing & even rappers,..RUN DMC, LL, ICE T,…smell me. Then lil did they know Hip-Hop build it’s own fan base & they scooped them fans. Why I’m bringing this up, well here’s why,…What’s really good with the whole Rock Star mentality? I mean y’all helping Rock n Roll now, y’all done folded on Hip-Hop,..rolling around with rock start tees, skulls, moto bike chains, Screaming party like a rock star,…Oh my I REST MY CASE.
2) Rock was Big in the 80s y’all, the Whole MTV shit was put together for this movement. b/c a lot rock n roll cats was coming out, everybody had a band & no respect was given to the cats that did it before them. The art took a hit, a lot no name, one hit one wonder artists were born. Now if this doesn’t scare you nigga I don’t know what will. Look again, This were hip hop might be heading, if y’all keep this up. Both LL & Cube alone have contribute 1000 times more to this culture then you young cheezy’s & co. Nigga, wake Up & smell the coffee. What would you rather bump too, Ice Cube or them Party like a rock star bum niggaz,…yeah I said bum niggaz where they at now?
I’ll tell you where Cube at,…he dropping his 9th solo album, ask No offense to Papoose , I fux with son, but ask him when he droping,…what Now? Never-mber 32nd ? WOW.
Remember w/out Dr J there’s no MJ, w/ out MJ there’s No Kobe,…

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pSmurf954

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pSmurf954
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damn thats the most hating shit i have ever seen^^^^^^^.so i'm guessing u finna go get the new soulja boi or dat new tiffany evans. dogg i don't..........man fuck u

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pSmurf954

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pSmurf954
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C^ha$e Tha DON disgrace to hip-hop

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lozajaime

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lozajaime
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— 4 months ago

chase are u effin serius? u must be one of them guys that hates on someone just cuz they can do it better than some of the young guys in the game huh? I bet u were hating when jordan came back to the nba too.. no respect whatsoever for a legend.

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Youngchitown

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Youngchitown
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Shout out to lozajaime, yeah i'm wit cha, these lil muthaphuckers don't know nothing about NWA, Ice Cube & the rest of the creators of this thing called gangsta rap. They think it started with T.I., Lil Wayne or Young Jeezy. What people is not understanding is he's independant now. I heard the people that one top of this forum say nobody brought laugh now & cry later but that album went gold & Cube made more off of that than going platnum with a major label. He did it the way you suppose to do it. He became a household name on a major then went independent where he would see more profit & don't need as much marketing because he's Ice Cube (he can sell 300,000 based off that).

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Piff Me

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Piff Me
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SCREAM LOX NOT DA DUDE ON BOARD MY DDDDDDDDDDDDD-BLOCK DIPSET SOME INDY. KOCH SHIT $5-$8 BUCK A CD TRY GET DAT MONEY STOP DA HATE D-BLOCK BYRDGANG DATS DA TEAM ITS A HOLIDAY FUCKERS

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Sewamouf

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Sewamouf
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I agree all day, Youngchitown! U and the 3 guys above u are absolutely correct! But youngchitown, check out ya boy music on www.myspac.com/sewamouf. From one brother from the chi to the next, check me out and let me know what u think. I come from that Ice Cube, NWA, Above the Law, Compton's Most Wanted, Top Authority, Geto Boys, Gang Starr, EPMD, Nas, MOP, AZ, Kool G. Rap, Alkaholiks, Mobb Deep, Wu tang, Group Home, Jeru the Damaja era! I'm trying to bring that era back, along with Cube and Nas! Peace!

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icebergChien

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icebergChien
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— 4 months ago

Chase niggaz like you hurt hip hop as a whole B. why is it only hip hop fans want there artist to quit after a certain age? You don’t see that shit in Country Music do you? well some of you smart mouth niggas will say;”hip hop is aggressive, we don’t need old men to die with heart attacks”,…my response to that will be NIGGA is you high? What about Rock N Roll cats? Them cat’s bang out heavy, stays on more drugs then lil Wayne can think of. These Dudes stay on the road more for years, that more then your neighbor hood pot holes nigga. Young & Old cat I might add,…Look at Ozzy, son has Oz fest every year, Now how old is that dirt bag? Huh? Well When Rock was at it’s heights (kinda what hip hop is today) it came a time Rock was steady declining, in the late 80s early 90s? It was a lot of reasons, 2 in particular that hip hop is facing today.
1) Rock N roll made a mistake to let borrow hip-hop swaggers, clothing & even rappers,..RUN DMC, LL, ICE T,…smell me. Then lil did they know Hip-Hop build it’s own fan base & they scooped them fans. Why I’m bringing this up, well here’s why,…What’s really good with the whole Rock Star mentality? I mean y’all helping Rock n Roll now, y’all done folded on Hip-Hop,..rolling around with rock start tees, skulls, moto bike chains, Screaming party like a rock star,…Oh my I REST MY CASE.
2) Rock was Big in the 80s y’all, the Whole MTV shit was put together for this movement. b/c a lot rock n roll cats was coming out, everybody had a band & no respect was given to the cats that did it before them. The art took a hit, a lot no name, one hit one wonder artists were born. Now if this doesn’t scare you nigga I don’t know what will. Look again, This were hip hop might be heading, if y’all keep this up. Both LL & Cube alone have contribute 1000 times more to this culture then you young cheezy’s & co. Nigga, wake Up & smell the coffee. What would you rather bump too, Ice Cube or them Party like a rock star bum niggaz,…yeah I said bum niggaz where they at now?
I’ll tell you where Cube at,…he dropping his 9th solo album, ask No offense to Papoose , I fux with son, but ask him when he droping,…what Now? Never-mber 32nd ? WOW.
Remember w/out Dr J there’s no MJ, w/ out MJ there’s No Kobe,…

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YounG TimothY

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YounG TimothY
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— 4 months ago

NWA is LENGENDARY. Cube is a living legend. Show some fuckin respect. Period.

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EHYPE25
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CHASE THE DON YOU ARE A WASTE OF SPERM!

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Youngchitown

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Youngchitown
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Yo Shout out to Sewamouf! I check out your site, that Last Night song is dope & that beat is crazy.

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SuppaFly
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Dis shit is gonna pop, cube and nas on the same track, fiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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SouthEastLA

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SouthEastLA
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LMAO.... MAN THESE DUDES DON'T KNOW WHAT REAL GANGSTA RAP IS? HEAR YOU GOT THESE LITTLE BUSTERS LIKE BOW WOW ACTING LIKE THEY'RE A BUNCH OF GANGSTERS AND THEY AIN'T IN NO PARTS OF THE STREETS!!!!!! MOST OF THESE DUDES ARE SO AFRAID TO GET CUBE ON A TRACK BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE'LL OUTSHINE THEM..... LOOK AT THAT LIL JON TRACK WITH NAS, BUN'B, T.I., JADAKISS & CUBE.... MAN CUBE HAD THE RAWEST LYRICS AND HE MAKES YOU FEEL WHATS ON HIS MINE.... AND I AGREE WITH ALL THESE DUDES UP IN HERE TALKING ABOUT THESE LIL FUCKS DON'T KNOW MUSIC... THATS WHY ALL WE GOT IS THESE ONE HIT WONDERS AND CUBE IS STILL KEEPING IT GOING!!!!!!!!!!! I SAY FUCK ALL THIS LAFFY TAFFY SHIT AND EVERYBODY BITTING OFF EACHOTHER LIKE ITS THE THING TO DO!!!!!!!!!

MUCH LOVE & RESPECT TO ALL THOSE IN HERE THAT KNOW THAT REAL GANGSTA SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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bigrosey
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probz cube do ya shyt

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driverboy

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driverboy
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im glad cube iz still makin classic muzik. da game need him really bad.

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Xavier23
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RESPECT. Keep doing your thing Cube, and spitting that lava on dem hatas.

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cube alwayz gona b relevant no matta how old he iz he one of da GOAT n diz albumz gona b fire

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DCintheSouth
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Have yall seen the cover to the album??? woo, Ice Cube is back again.

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lADi5BiZZy
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iCE CUBE iS RAW! HAHA && THAT PiCTURE HE GOT iS PRiCElESS...lOl...<333 MUCH lOVE

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str8 outta tx

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str8 outta tx
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cube is cool, but i just don't see how he can do kids movies and gangsta rap at tha same time

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akuma94
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ice cube bang he hella tight he touches base on everything

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dwink_po
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i know back in da day he was considered an gangster rapper but come on now really after ("are we there yet" and the part 2 of dat what eva dat bull shit is) he caint be considered a gangster rapper lol but dont get me wrong ice cube done a lot 4 hiphop throughout his carrer and when its all said and done he'll be ranked in top 15 og all time or somewhere round there ya dig

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I love ice cube.

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