Q&A With Detroit’s Very Own TNV

Hey TNV! Please tell us how many years you’ve been making music? I’ve been making music over 25 years. I started off writing lyrics when I was 13 yrs old. From there I started to dabble in beat production and I was heavily influenced by underground Hip Hop, till this day it is the foundation of everything I make. Tell us about your first ever debut track you put out? When was this? Wow that’s was back in 2000. I was part of this rap group called the Driftas, the song was named Drifting. It was ...
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R.I.P. Tommy “Tiny” Lister (Deebo) Dead at 62 | PHOTOS + VIDEO

Sadly the world has lost another iconic actor as Tommy “Tiny” Lister, famous for his role in films like “Friday,” has suddenly passed away. Details below… (more…) Related Posts Comedic Actor John Witherspoon of ‘Friday’ Dead at 77… (PHOTOS + VIDEO)Chris Tucker & Ice Cube Celebrate 20th Anniversary of ?Friday? + Ice Cube Makes Special Announcement… (VIDEO)SPOTTED: Craig & Smokey 2012! Ice Cube & Chris Tucker Back For Last Friday Sequel… [PHOTOS]Ice Cube & Mike Epps Tease Final ‘Friday...
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Ice Cube on Trump backlash: ‘N—-s mad at me, have a nice life’

As the country and most of the world awaits the final tally from the 2020 presidential election, this week rapper Ice Cube took time out of his busy schedule to address all the people who have been dragging him for working with the Trump administration on the Platinum Plan. As theGrio previously reported, although he’s never come out to directly endorse Trump, the rapper/actor/producer faced backlash on Wednesday (by association) after Katrina Pierson, senior advisor to the Trump campaign, than...
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Watch The Strokes Perform On Saturday Night Live For Halloween

The Strokes were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live's Halloween night episode last night. They performed "The Adults Are Talking" and "Bad Decisions," both tracks from their most recent album The New Abnormal. It was the band's fourth time appearing on the show following performances in 2002, 2006, and 2011. Watch below. More »
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Ice Cube and 50 Cent highlight conservative faction among Black, male voters

The conservative leanings of public figures speak to part of the Black male electorate underrepresented in political conversationsAfter Ice Cube garnered headlines for his tweets announcing a collaboration with the Trump administration on what was called a Platinum Plan for Black America, the hip-hop mogul faced immediate backlash for supposed hypocrisy and misogyny.“Black men are breaking my heart with this caping for [Ice Cube and the president]. Apparently y’all want to be to 2020 what White ...
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The Batman Flies High and Rides Fast in New Set Photos

Bette Midler offers a tiny look at her one-off Hocus Pocus reunion. Get a glimpse at the reboot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Legends of Tomorrow adds a new character. Plus, John Boyega teases his clone action movie, and somehow the cast of the Avatar sequels just keeps growing. Spoilers now!Read more...
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Eva Longoria Joins Ice Cube in Universal’s Science Fiction Movie — Film News in Brief

MONDAY Oct. 19 Longoria Starring in Story of Sci-Fi Surveillance Eva Longoria has joined Ice Cube in an untitled science fiction movie for Universal Pictures with Patrick Aiello and Timur Bekmambetov producing. Rich Lee will direct from a Kenneth Golde script that contains themes of privacy and surveillance. Universal plans to go into production this […]
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"Democrats, too, were interested in cultivating the rapper.... But Ice Cube’s team left with the impression that Biden’s team was less committed."

"According to a person familiar with the discussion, Biden aides told the rapper they agreed with much of his plan but that they wouldn’t engage more fully until after the election.... As September wore on, Ice Cube and his advisers continued to lobby the White House during conference calls. On Sept. 14, the performer and his representatives — again not eager to be seen at the White House — quietly met in a Washington hotel with a group of Trump aides.... Ice Cube's group had prepped for the mee...
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Ice Cube isn't completely against Trump, which deeply troubles some people

I will advise anybody on the planet who has the power to help Black Americans close the enormous wealth gap. https://t.co/l0HylC5JCV— Ice Cube (@icecube) October 15, 2020 Every side is the Darkside for us here in America. They’re all the same until something changes for us. They all lie and they all cheat but we can’t afford not to negotiate with whoever is in power or our condition in this country will never change. Our justice is bipartisan. https://t.co/xFIXXpOs8B— Ice Cube (@icecube) Octob...
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Ice Cube is Making a Screen Capture Sci-Fi Thriller with the Director of ‘Wanted’

Just two years ago, Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov said he was developing no less than 14 movies that would use his Screenlife screen capture technology to tell stories that unfolded across the screens of computers, tablets, and phones. This narrative format has already been used with the likes of Host, Searching, Unfriended, and the sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web, which Bekmambetov produced. Now he’s got a new screen capture movie being fast-tracked at Univ...
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#ZimbabweanLivesMatter: celebrities join campaign against human rights abuses

Stars and politicians including Ice Cube and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf have spoken out adding to pressure on President Emmerson Mnanagwa’s regimeA campaign drawing attention to human rights abuses in Zimbabwe is attracting international celebrities and politicians as pressure mounts on President Emmerson Mnanagwa’s government to act.The #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign, which originated in South Africa this week, is currently No 1 on the list of trending topics on Twitter and prominent on other socia...
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Ice Cube Accused Of Tweeting Anti-Semitic Memes And Russian Propaganda

"Fuck Tha Police" has once again become an urgent rallying cry over the past couple of weeks. Streams of N.W.A.'s 1988 anti-cop anthem have surged nearly 300% across all platforms. So what is Ice Cube doing right now? Um, tweeting anti-Semitic memes and Russian propaganda, apparently. More »
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Ice Cube Cancels GMA Appearance After George Floyd’s Death: “I’m in No Mood to Tell America Good Morning”

Ice Cube was scheduled to appear on ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday morning (May 28) to promote his new movie The High Note. However, the 50-year-old rapper/actor took to Twitter to announce that he’d canceled his appearance on the ABC morning show because he’s just not in the mood following the death of George Floyd, who died in the custody of Minneapolis police on Monday. “I apologize to everyone expecting to see me on Good Morning America today, but after the events in Minnesota with Geor...
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Ice Cube Says Mr. Rogers Once Sued Him

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Ice Cube's debut solo album after leaving N.W.A., turned 30 years old over the weekend. To celebrate its anniversary, Cube hosted a digital listening party on Instagram Live. And during the session, he revealed that the late Mr. Rogers once sued him over the song "A Gangsta's Fairytale." … More »
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We’ve Got A File On You: Insane Clown Posse

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. This summer, every festival is cancelled. Most of the cancellation announcements have been brief and businesslike, but one was emotional. In April, the … More »
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Friday Soundtrack Released 25 Years Ago Today

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the Friday soundtrack. Friday is one of my all-time favorite movies. The movie is viewed by many as a classic and definite hood classic. With such an amazing movie, you know that the soundtrack had to be nice. With Ice Cube, one of the greatest rappers overseeing it you know it would be good. The Friday Soundtrack would debut as the top album and remained there for two weeks. Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Cypress Hill, Isley Brothers, Mack 10, Roger Trout...
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Rapper Scarface on Living With Coronavirus: ‘I’m Scared to Death’

Rapper Scarface gave an emotional account of his time in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus. Scarface, whose real name is Brad Jordan, was interviewed by Atlanta rapper Ludacris on Instagram Live on March 27. Some three thousand people tuned in for the 20-minute chat. “I’m scared to death,” said Scarface, who on Thursday […]
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Big3 Basketball Causes A Stir With Racially Charged Ad Against Madison Square Garden Head James Dolan

The Big3 basketball league has taken aim at James Dolan, the executive chairman and CEO of The Madison Square Garden Company and exec chair of MSG Networks, better known as the man who owns the New York Knicks. The Big3, owned by Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, issued a racially charged attack ad […]
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Watch Ice Cube, Diplo, & Tracee Ellis Ross As A Pop Star In The New The High Note Trailer

Last year, Nisha Ganatra directed the Mindy Kaling comedy Late Night. This year, as Vulture reports, she's exploring a different corner of the entertainment industry: music. More »
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Ice Cube to Star in Sports Drama ‘Flint Strong’

Ice Cube is set to co-star opposite Ryan Destiny in Universal’s biopic “Flint Strong.” The sports drama, based on the 2015 boxing documentary “T-Rex,” follows Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (Destiny), a 17-year-old Flint, Michigan native who dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Cube will play her […]
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Big3 introduces 'new global sport' Fireball3, lowers minimum age

The name is Fireball3, and it reflects just how different the Big3 version of three-on-three is from everything else. There are a lot of sports out there that require similar skill sets, like MMA and boxing, football and rugby, baseball and cricket,” Big3 co-founder Ice Cube said in a news release. Our fans let us know that we were playing something extremely unique, Fireball3, which is nothing like the typical three-on-three FIBA game coming to the Olympics.
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‘Friday’ Actor-Comedian John Witherspoon Dies At 77

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor-comedian John Witherspoon, who memorably played Ice Cube’s father in the “Friday” films, has died. He was 77. Witherspoon’s manager Alex Goodman confirmed late Tuesday that Witherspoon died in Los Angeles. No cause of death was released. The actor had a prolific career, co-starring in three “Friday” films, appearing on “The Wayans Bros.” television series and voicing the grandfather in “The Boondocks” animated series. His film roles included “Vampire in Brooklyn” and “Bo...
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Master Tapes of Beastie Boys’ Classic ‘License to Ill’ Have Disappeared, Mike D Says

Is the original recording of the Beastie Boys’ “License to Ill” lost forever? On Sunday night’s episode of his Beats 1 show “Echo Chamber,” Beastie Boys member Mike D revealed to Q-Tip that no one can find the masters to the hip-hop group’s debut album. “No, ‘License to Ill,’ we don’t have. ‘License to Ill,’ […]
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John Singleton: Stars pay tribute to Boyz N The Hood director

Stars including Janet Jackson, Ice Cube and Quincy Jones pay tribute to Oscar-nominated director who has died aged 51.
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Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton dies aged 51

Singleton, who was the first African American to be nominated for the best director Oscar, led a resurgence in mainstream black film-making in the 1990s Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton, who became both the first African American and the youngest-ever film-maker to be nominated for the best director Oscar, has died aged 51. Singleton had been hospitalised following a stroke on 17 April.Earlier on Monday, Singleton’s family announced that he would be taken off life support. “It is with hea...
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Hip-Hop Figure Dee Barnes Reveals She’s Homeless, Turns to GoFundMe

Dee Barnes has always been adamant in speaking her truth, as unpretty as that has often been. On March 15, the hip-hop journalist tweeted a link to a current GoFundMe page titled “Help Dee Barnes,” revealing she is facing homelessness. Barnes tweeted, “Thank you to everyone for your prayers, your support, your messages, phone calls […]
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New Ice Cube video: Ain’t Got No Haters

Video: Ice Cube – “Ain’t Got No Haters” (ft. Too Short) From Everythangs Corrupt, out now on Lench Mob/Interscope. Back in the day I bought a used copy of Short Dog’s In The House from my local record shop. Only when I got home did I realize it was the “clean” version. Which, on a … Continue reading New Ice Cube video: Ain’t Got No Haters → Read more at Glorious Noise...
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New Video: Ice Cube Feat. Too $hort “Ain’t Got No Haters”

Confession: I haven’t listened to Ice Cube’s latest album (which is a less egregious thing for a rap fan to say in 2019 than it was 25 years ago.) But this joint right here is funky. Taken from his aforementioned LP, Everythang’s Corrupt, Cube teams up with director Alan Del Rio Ortiz to give his Too $hort-assisted, DJ Pooh-produced “Ain’t Got No Haters” a visual makeover. Cube and Short Dog’s chemistry makes it a fun, feel-good affair, but this one really deserved a mid-summer cookout in th...
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"You don’t have to kink-shame or say that people are creepy because of what they enjoy doing," said Charlotte Taillor, who had hoped "to have a nice relationship with a nice community of woke people."

The hoped-for "nice community" was Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Taillor had moved in with her "kink collective," which runs "bondage workshops and other fetish events for the B.D.S.M. (bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism) community." The quoted article is "When the Dominatrix Moved In Next Door/A 'kink collective' in a residential area of Brooklyn has upset longtime residents and resulted in a culture clash and gentrification struggle all wrapped up into one fight" (NYT).But the battle on Quincy...
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