Ice Cube

Ice Cube, whose real name is O'Shea Jackson and who was not only a successful actor during his career but also a member of the rap institution N.W.A., was born in L.A. on June 15, 1969. As a teenager, he met the living hip-hop legend Dr. Dre, who would later become an integral part of N.W.A.. With the MC clique, which also included Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren, Jackson celebrated colossal success in the late 1980s, making his standing in the hip-hop cosmos unquestionable at a very early stage. But Ice Cube also knows how to make a name for himself as a solo artist: in 1990, he released his first album on his own with AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, which promptly achieved platinum status in the USA. the second album Death Certificate followed in 1991, which shot up to number 2 in the US Billboard 200 and firmly anchored the rapper, who also earned his first Hollywood merits in the same year with an acting role in Boyz n the Hood , in the mainstream. The number 1 opus The Predator (1992) and Lethal Injection (1993) were followed by a break from music, which Jackson filled by continuing to strengthen his acting profile. in 1998, War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) was released, with which Ice Cube returned to the Billboard 200 with a respectable seventh place. The sequel War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc), which was based on its predecessor in terms of content, was released in 2000, with Jackson not only achieving third place in the US charts, but also his best position to date (29th place) in the German album charts. Ice Cube, who now also runs a graphic design agency, concentrates more on his acting career for films such as All About the Money (2002), Hart am Limit (2004) or the blockbuster xXx - The Next Level , which is released in cinemas in 2005, before the multi-talented American's fourth musical studio work, Laugh Now, Cry Later , is released in 2006, which not only receives a gold record in the USA, but also occupies number 4 on the Billboard 200 . Raw Footage (2008) and I Am the West (2010) were followed by various single releases such as "Everythang's Corrupt" (2012) and "Sic Them Youngins on 'Em" (2014). in 2015, Jackson then shines in Straight Outta Compton, a biopic that portrays the story of his artistic origins with N.W.A. Everythang's Corrupt, which bears the same name as the single dropped six years earlier, adds a tenth studio album to Ice Cube's LP oeuvre in 2018. Another six years would pass before the release of Man Down in 2024, bringing together a host of guests including Snoop Dogg, E-40, Too $hort and October London, Kurupt, B-Real, Xzibit, Mike Epps, J-Dee Lench Mob, Busta Rhymes and Killer Mike.