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With a set of strong parents behind him, Cube was able to navigate the tricky landscape that was his neighborhood, which became increasingly shaped by drugs, guns and violence. Ice Cube was raised by his mother-Doris-who worked as a hospital clerk, while his father-Hosea-was a groundskeeper at the University of California, Los Angeles. Rapper, actor and producer Ice Cube was born O'Shea Jackson on June 15, 1969, in South Central Los Angeles, California. After breaking off on his own in '89, Cube has put together a successful recording and acting career, having appeared in the films Friday (1995), Barbershop (2002) and Are We There Yet? Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren, he rocketed to fame in the late 1980s as a member of the hard-hitting gangsta rap group, N.W.A.

You never know when you could wind up back there."Īctor and rapper Ice Cube was born in South Central Los Angeles in 1969. You gotta be able to survive in whatever environment you find yourself in.
