August 17, 2024 • 7 mins
Ice Cube brings the heat to DJ Pup Dawg's show! The legendary rapper and basketball mogul talks all things Big3, especially the excitement surrounding the championship win in Boston. Plus, Cube gives fans a sneak peek into his upcoming music projects. Don't miss this exclusive interview!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, straight from Bucky's Sun to La to Boston legendary
iconic a Q ice cube in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What I'm cute? Yeah? What's happing? How you doing? Welcome
in man, I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Pretty fair for a square.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yo, Bro, all these years of doing zooms and phone
is the first time in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
The first time here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well we come in, man, congratulations on everything. Big Three
is going down tomorrow in the garden. It's the finals.
It's all starts talking about it real quick.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Man. You know, we're the only league that can do
our celebrity game, all Star Game, and championship game all
in one day. So you're gonna see the best the
Big Three has to offer them.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Arow, Bro, I mean with that everything going on, I
know you've always been a basketball head, and you know,
obviously we've clearest day that you're the biggest Laker fan
and we've always talked about this, but this year's got
to be a little special coming into this this arena today.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, I mean tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Well, you know, Boston just won a championship, and look,
I wanted Boston to win because we knew, Look, our
championship is gonna be there and people be more in
the move for better basketball if the Celtics win, then
if they didn't. So you know, we we were saying, like,
you know, the cebjects winning, that's a good sign for
(01:07):
our championship.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That's gonna be lit.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's a great time for everything you've done.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Bro. I've been with you guys since the beginning. And
how many years are we going now?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
This is uh, it's actually eight.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
This is our seventh on paper because we had to
we had a down year for COVID, but but yeah,
eight years.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So talk about how big this has got, not only
obviously for you as basketball three on three. We heard
it in big rap lines right now. And you know
we've acknowledged that the Olympics. Bro, So now next year,
are you going to get a team together for that?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I know they need to have me on it, Like
we all know that we could have a better team
than they showed in Paris, right, so they better call
me up, man. I think everybody gonna be mad at them.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And you put up a challenge. Shoot, did that challenge
ever come through? Fruias?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We made a challenge to the Netherlands. Yeah, we said,
you know, whoever win the gold medal. You know, we
want them to play our All Stars to see who's
the best in the world. And so they they accepted
the challenge. But FEBA, which is their governing body, they
the ones who, uh yeah, they hated on it. You know,
(02:15):
they vetoed it talking about they needed three weeks to
make a decision. This was only ten days, so they
you know, they had a little technicality that got them
out of it. So we think they scared. We're telling them,
you know, let's do it in January. You know what
I'm saying that get y'all more than three weeks to
figure out if y'all scared or not.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So we'll see what they say.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But you did it so quick, like when that happened,
I saw the challenge come out. That's how confident you
are in this whole.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Thing, not even just your team, but like overall, I know,
without a doubt, we have the best Big three is
the best three on three league in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We have the best three on three players in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
We've had, you know, gold medalists and bronze medalists from
the token your Olympics play in our league. And you
know they they got sent home. They didn't dominate, you know,
they didn't even win, So we know we got the
best in the world, man, and it's not even close.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, come see it tomorrow night at the TV garden
hold of the champions Man. Last year you had some
of the boys pull up to and and I love
the pricing and we always talk about this. Let's talk
about that real quick. Why is it again so important
for you to keep it so fair priced.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Because we're family friendly sport, and family friendly starts with
the price.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You know what I'm saying. Don't say you family.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Friendly if you're gonna charge you know, somebody of mortgage
to get in. So we family friendly. You know, we
want people in there, We want families in there. We
want we want you to be able to bring all
the kids, the neighbors, kids, the cousins, you know, bring everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And so it's important.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Last year, I remember we gave out a lot of
tickets to all ot of the inner city kids too,
and they've never even touched foot near the garden. So
thank you for doing that. I know they're going to
do it again this year to you. Yeah, yeah, that's
part of.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It, you know, being able to spread the love.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You know, we do a lot of uh you know,
we're doing the Young Three right now, which is you know,
helping the underserved, you know, youngsters in the community, and
we want to help the underprivileged families be able to
have a night out. You know a lot of them,
like you said, have never been in the garden, and
you know we're giving them excuse to come on down
and hang out and have some fun.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I love it, man, Ice Cubes in here right now.
The Big Three going down at the TV Garden tomorrow.
You can always pull up last minute. There's always tickets
there too. We got some tickets. You want to give
it away a pair right now, you just give it them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Come on, man, let's come with it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Let's make it happen right now. Call it twenty five six, one, seven,
nine five. These are directly coming from Cube. He's here
in the building. Yes, let's make it happen right now.
Call it twenty five Cube. You know I grew up
on you, bro. I grew up right there in La
I remember my brother was listening to you know, the
Lakers radio at that time, and they uhould do this
freestyle contest like you know, call in and like try
to win some Laker tickets. Yeah, I think I tell
(04:56):
you the story every time, but I'm gonna tell you
in person again.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
My brother just had me the phone. I was not
even working in radio yet, and I won.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Mcm or tickets see tickets because I did your I
had the boots, she had the chronic. The Lakers beat
the super Sonics. But they cut me out because I
said boot, she had the chronic. At that time, you
couldn't really say that on air. And I remember winning
tickets though, sweet sweet, all right, what classic record are
we going to get it to right now?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What's one of your favorite records to do?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Man?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
One of my favorite records to do? I just mentioned it.
You know how we do it?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We gotta do that. Go it and introduce it while
you're here.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Bro Yo, what a Boston is your homeboy ice Q
straight from Pakistan to La to Boston. You live in
the mix with my homeboy DJ Bubby Dog.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You know what it is? What's called? You know how
we do it on yours? Truly? Yeah? Yany side?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I said, I don't know what side?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know how GM ninety four or five?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know how we do it?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Classic ice Cube on a Saturday. He's actually in the
studio right now. Now, got the Big Three going down tomorrow.
I gotta we gotta talk about music real quick. Anything
coming because a lot of the legends and the ogs
are starting to come back out and you've been on
the road. It's not like you haven't stopped. You just
did a show for our sister station, you know, so
talk about is there more music.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Coming to Yeah, I'm dropping the album right after the
season called a Man Down Quintessential ice Que.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know what I mean. If you like what I've
been doing over the years, you love this record, and
I'm real proud of it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
More soulful than than you know, normal you know it'd
be you know, more rough hip hop beats. But you know,
we put a little more more grooves on this one.
You know, we think that's missing in hip hop right now.
You know, those classic grooves like uh, you know how
we do it and good day? You know, so little
of that little of this. It's a it's a great record.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We'll get you back on there for all of that.
The Big Three going down tomorrow at the TV Garden.
Thank you so much for coming in man always jumping
on there with me. You've been rocking me since I
was an intern man back in LA growing up on
Julio and then all those guys out there.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Appreciate it man, you know, appreciate everybody, all the support
that we've gotten Boston, you know, for the Big Three.
Much love, much respect, and we'll be back, you know
what I'm saying. This is gonna be lit, but we're
gonna be back too, for sure.
Yeah, straight from Bucky's Sun to La to Boston legendary
iconic a Q ice cube in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What I'm cute? Yeah? What's happing? How you doing? Welcome
in man, I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Pretty fair for a square.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yo, Bro, all these years of doing zooms and phone
is the first time in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
The first time here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well we come in, man, congratulations on everything. Big Three
is going down tomorrow in the garden. It's the finals.
It's all starts talking about it real quick.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Man. You know, we're the only league that can do
our celebrity game, all Star Game, and championship game all
in one day. So you're gonna see the best the
Big Three has to offer them.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Arow, Bro, I mean with that everything going on, I
know you've always been a basketball head, and you know,
obviously we've clearest day that you're the biggest Laker fan
and we've always talked about this, but this year's got
to be a little special coming into this this arena today.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, I mean tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Well, you know, Boston just won a championship, and look,
I wanted Boston to win because we knew, Look, our
championship is gonna be there and people be more in
the move for better basketball if the Celtics win, then
if they didn't. So you know, we we were saying, like,
you know, the cebjects winning, that's a good sign for
(01:07):
our championship.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That's gonna be lit.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's a great time for everything you've done.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Bro. I've been with you guys since the beginning. And
how many years are we going now?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
This is uh, it's actually eight.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
This is our seventh on paper because we had to
we had a down year for COVID, but but yeah,
eight years.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So talk about how big this has got, not only
obviously for you as basketball three on three. We heard
it in big rap lines right now. And you know
we've acknowledged that the Olympics. Bro, So now next year,
are you going to get a team together for that?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I know they need to have me on it, Like
we all know that we could have a better team
than they showed in Paris, right, so they better call
me up, man. I think everybody gonna be mad at them.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And you put up a challenge. Shoot, did that challenge
ever come through? Fruias?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We made a challenge to the Netherlands. Yeah, we said,
you know, whoever win the gold medal. You know, we
want them to play our All Stars to see who's
the best in the world. And so they they accepted
the challenge. But FEBA, which is their governing body, they
the ones who, uh yeah, they hated on it. You know,
(02:15):
they vetoed it talking about they needed three weeks to
make a decision. This was only ten days, so they
you know, they had a little technicality that got them
out of it. So we think they scared. We're telling them,
you know, let's do it in January. You know what
I'm saying that get y'all more than three weeks to
figure out if y'all scared or not.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So we'll see what they say.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But you did it so quick, like when that happened,
I saw the challenge come out. That's how confident you
are in this whole.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Thing, not even just your team, but like overall, I know,
without a doubt, we have the best Big three is
the best three on three league in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We have the best three on three players in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
We've had, you know, gold medalists and bronze medalists from
the token your Olympics play in our league. And you
know they they got sent home. They didn't dominate, you know,
they didn't even win, So we know we got the
best in the world, man, and it's not even close.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, come see it tomorrow night at the TV garden
hold of the champions Man. Last year you had some
of the boys pull up to and and I love
the pricing and we always talk about this. Let's talk
about that real quick. Why is it again so important
for you to keep it so fair priced.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Because we're family friendly sport, and family friendly starts with
the price.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You know what I'm saying. Don't say you family.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Friendly if you're gonna charge you know, somebody of mortgage
to get in. So we family friendly. You know, we
want people in there, We want families in there. We
want we want you to be able to bring all
the kids, the neighbors, kids, the cousins, you know, bring everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And so it's important.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Last year, I remember we gave out a lot of
tickets to all ot of the inner city kids too,
and they've never even touched foot near the garden. So
thank you for doing that. I know they're going to
do it again this year to you. Yeah, yeah, that's
part of.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It, you know, being able to spread the love.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You know, we do a lot of uh you know,
we're doing the Young Three right now, which is you know,
helping the underserved, you know, youngsters in the community, and
we want to help the underprivileged families be able to
have a night out. You know a lot of them,
like you said, have never been in the garden, and
you know we're giving them excuse to come on down
and hang out and have some fun.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I love it, man, Ice Cubes in here right now.
The Big Three going down at the TV Garden tomorrow.
You can always pull up last minute. There's always tickets
there too. We got some tickets. You want to give
it away a pair right now, you just give it them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Come on, man, let's come with it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Let's make it happen right now. Call it twenty five six, one, seven,
nine five. These are directly coming from Cube. He's here
in the building. Yes, let's make it happen right now.
Call it twenty five Cube. You know I grew up
on you, bro. I grew up right there in La
I remember my brother was listening to you know, the
Lakers radio at that time, and they uhould do this
freestyle contest like you know, call in and like try
to win some Laker tickets. Yeah, I think I tell
(04:56):
you the story every time, but I'm gonna tell you
in person again.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
My brother just had me the phone. I was not
even working in radio yet, and I won.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Mcm or tickets see tickets because I did your I
had the boots, she had the chronic. The Lakers beat
the super Sonics. But they cut me out because I
said boot, she had the chronic. At that time, you
couldn't really say that on air. And I remember winning
tickets though, sweet sweet, all right, what classic record are
we going to get it to right now?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What's one of your favorite records to do?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Man?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
One of my favorite records to do? I just mentioned it.
You know how we do it?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We gotta do that. Go it and introduce it while
you're here.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Bro Yo, what a Boston is your homeboy ice Q
straight from Pakistan to La to Boston. You live in
the mix with my homeboy DJ Bubby Dog.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You know what it is? What's called? You know how
we do it on yours? Truly? Yeah? Yany side?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I said, I don't know what side?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know how GM ninety four or five?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know how we do it?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Classic ice Cube on a Saturday. He's actually in the
studio right now. Now, got the Big Three going down tomorrow.
I gotta we gotta talk about music real quick. Anything
coming because a lot of the legends and the ogs
are starting to come back out and you've been on
the road. It's not like you haven't stopped. You just
did a show for our sister station, you know, so
talk about is there more music.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Coming to Yeah, I'm dropping the album right after the
season called a Man Down Quintessential ice Que.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know what I mean. If you like what I've
been doing over the years, you love this record, and
I'm real proud of it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
More soulful than than you know, normal you know it'd
be you know, more rough hip hop beats. But you know,
we put a little more more grooves on this one.
You know, we think that's missing in hip hop right now.
You know, those classic grooves like uh, you know how
we do it and good day? You know, so little
of that little of this. It's a it's a great record.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We'll get you back on there for all of that.
The Big Three going down tomorrow at the TV Garden.
Thank you so much for coming in man always jumping
on there with me. You've been rocking me since I
was an intern man back in LA growing up on
Julio and then all those guys out there.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Appreciate it man, you know, appreciate everybody, all the support
that we've gotten Boston, you know, for the Big Three.
Much love, much respect, and we'll be back, you know
what I'm saying. This is gonna be lit, but we're
gonna be back too, for sure.
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