The second Dr Dre met Ice Cube for the primary time

Ice Cube is a West Coast legend who has been not solely on the forefront of music but in addition a outstanding actor and filmmaker. The emcee (actual identify O’Shea Jackson) is thought for his iconic albums, resembling AmeriKKKa’s Most Needed and Dying Certificates.

Nonetheless, earlier than he launched into a solo profession, he was a part of the epic gangster rap group N.W.A. alongside Dr Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren. As a part of the group, he made historical past and put California on the map.

All through the Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties, Ice Cube was the face of LA, and from ‘F**k Da Police’ to ‘It Was A Good Day’, the West Coast rapper was unmatched throughout his heyday.

Nonetheless, opposite to the narrative that surrounds N.W.A, Ice Cube didn’t develop up in the identical a part of Los Angeles as the remainder of the group’s members. Whereas figures resembling Dr Dre and Eazy-E grew up in Compton, Jackson was raised in Crenshaw. As such, he didn’t develop up alongside Dr Dre.

Throughout an interview with music journalist Touré Neblett for the Fuse YouTube sequence On The Document, Ice Cube recalled first assembly his former N.W.A counterpart. Opening up in regards to the first assembly, Jackson defined, “I met Dre over at Sir Jinx’s house. Sir Jinx is a producer that we grew up as friends.”

He continued, “We would hang out, he had DJ equipment, he moved over into our hood like when he was in the fifth grade, I was in the sixth grade. His cousin was Dr Dre. [Me and Dre] were pretty much fans until I started rapping, he started DJing and then one-day Dre came over.”

After Dr Dre started DJing as a part of the World Class Wreckin’ Cru, he gained a whole lot of buzz within the metropolis. Talking about this, Jackson added, “I remember meeting him, he was already the man in LA. I lived about four houses down from Jinx. So I grabbed my notebook we was tryna get him to come see us rap. It was a barbecue, so Dre was eating!”

Jackson concluded by detailing the second Dr Dre knew they need to kind a crew, disclosing, “The last thing Dre wanted to do was hear his little cousin’s friends rap, but finally, we caught him we had him come in the backyard; Jinx had his equipment set up in the garage, and he heard me flow and you could see a lightbulb go off in his head like ‘Yep I want other people in the Wreckin Cru to hear you!”