The cause Ice Cube rejected 2Pac’s ‘Poetic Justice’ position

The late director John Singleton was accountable for many legendary movies. Nonetheless, two of his most famed movies are Boyz n the Hood and Poetic Justice, each launched within the early Nineties. The latter is iconic on account of its forged that includes Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur. Nonetheless, few know that previous to Shakur, Singleton had requested Crenshaw emcee Ice Cube (actual identify O’Shea Jackson) to star within the film.

Jackson has performed a number of roles throughout his profession and has at all times regarded again fondly on his varied roles. From Friday to Ride Along and Are We There Yet?, the rapper and actor is without doubt one of the solely MCs in historical past who has dominated each hip-hop and Hollywood concurrently.

Nonetheless, in 1992, when John Singleton approached him to play the position of Fortunate in Poetic Justice, Jackson wasn’t ready to just accept the supply, even with the data that the director had secured Janet Jackson to play his counterpart within the film.

In an interview with The Tv Academy Basis, previous to his passing, Singleton defined that Jackson couldn’t get into it, stating, “Ice Cube was supposed to play opposite her, and he was like, ‘Nah, I can’t do romance’.”

Nonetheless, in a 2021 interview with Huge Boy for the radio present ‘Big Boy’s Neighborhood’ on LA’s Actual 92.3, Ice Cube informed a special story, unveiling it was the script that put him off. Elaborating, Jackson defined, “So, when I read it, I only had one problem with it, and he didn’t want to change it.

He continued, “The problem was I didn’t think me playing Tupac that I would kick my homeboy out the car for a girl I just met when we got to Oakland. I didn’t think that was cool. To me, it made the character kind of a sucker.”

Ice Cube revealed that 2Pac did an excellent job with Poetic Justice and “killed” the position. Moreover, he insisted he was glad that Shakur obtained the half following his rejection. Poetic Justice dropped in July 1993, marking Tupac’s second function movie. 

In a 1993 interview with E Information!, 2Pac disclosed that enjoying Fortunate was therapeutic for him, stating, “It was therapeutic for this period in my life. I needed to do a part like this. It would let me look inward to see where I was as a person—as a human being. And it left me with some good foundation to move on. I like to think that I do my thing for the young Black man. This is just another way since my rapping is geared mostly toward a certain crowd.”

You may watch Ice Cube discuss his Poetic Justice rejection within the video under.