It was a good day for music mogul Ice Cube.
The Los Angeles native is now a part of Hollywood history after he dipped his hands and feet in cement outside of Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre.
His family, including his son, actor O’Shea Jackson Jr., actor Mike Epps, fellow rapper WC and more were in attendance for the honor.
“As much as my father’s known for his iconic scowl, our family is filled with more laughter than most,” Jackson Jr. told the crowd. “He and my mother both have loved to laugh and passed that down to their children and we kept that tradition alive. We always make sure to end every conversation, no matter how long, with an ‘I love you.’”
Cube, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, then took to the mic.
“I know a lot of people are on the Walk of Fame, but the true movie stars are in front of the (TCL) Chinese Theatre,” he said before thanking his fans and supporters. “Thank you to everybody who showed up to hear a young dude from South Central Los Angeles get a chance to express how I’m appreciative, and I’m living the dream.”
Later, he told KTLA 5 that the honor was “more than a dream come true.”
“This is bigger than a dream, this is like stuff that you’d think would never happen to you,” he explained.
Ice Cube’s four-decade career spans music, film and sports, with hit albums, billion-dollar box office franchises and his groundbreaking Big3 basketball league.
The West Coast hip-hop pioneer was raised in South Central Los Angeles. He first burst onto the scene in the ’80s as a part of the hip-hop group N.W.A., which featured Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, MC Ren and Arabian Prince. They’re considered one of the founders of the gangsta rap subgenre and are one of the greatest and most influential groups in hip-hop music.
In 2015, he served as the executive producer of “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the group.
In the early ’90s, he appeared in films like John Singleton’s “Boyz n the Hood.” In 1995, he co-wrote and starred in the first of the “Friday” films, which spawned into a successful franchise with 2000’s “Next Friday” and 2002’s “Friday After Next.”
During the ceremony, he teased that a fourth film titled “Last Friday” is in the works.
He also starred in popular movies like “The Players Club,” the “Barbershop” series, Three Kings, “21 Jump Street,” “22 Jump Street,” “Ride Along” and more.
In addition to the huge honor, Cube announced he’s hitting the road for his first coast-to-coast tour in over a decade. The “Truth To Power: 4 Decades of Attitude” Tour will kick off Sept. 4 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Cube will boogie his way to the West Coast for a show at the Crypto.com Arena on Sept. 28.
General on-sale tickets will be available via icecube.com on April 18 at 10 a.m. local time. The exclusive fan club presale begins on April 16 at 10 a.m. local time.
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