Ice Cube

Ice Cube is one of those rare artists who made the jump from genuinely dangerous to genuinely beloved without losing an ounce of credibility, and I find that fascinating. He came out of Compton as a teenager writing rhymes for N.W.A that felt like dispatches from a war zone, helped define gangsta rap with Straight Outta Compton, then went solo and kept the fury dialed up on AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Death Certificate. But somewhere along the way he also became the funniest guy in the room — Friday is a legitimate comedy classic — and somehow both versions of him feel completely authentic. The scowl never really went away, but the wit underneath it got sharper. Getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017 felt like the city that shaped all that anger finally tipping its hat back.

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Name (English)

Ice Cube

Name (Japanese)

アイス・キューブ

Reading

あいす・きゅーぶ

Born

June 15, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

rapper / songwriter / actor / record producer / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

High school

William Howard Taft Charter High School

Awards & achievements

• 2017 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2023 Ice Cube Impact Award

• Official sitehttps://icecube.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/icecube/
• Xhttps://x.com/icecube
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Cube
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173637

Tags

• California
• rapper
• songwriter
• actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.