Ice cube

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

South Central is just who I am.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well...

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your...

When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.