Ice Cube

Recording artist, songwriter, record producer, actor and filmmaker Ice Cube was born O'Shea Jackson Sr. on June 15th,1969 in South Los Angeles, California. He is best known for being apart of the legendary Hip-Hop/Rap Group N.W.A with artists consisting of Eazy-E, DJ Yella, MC Ren, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube during the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Cube is also known for releasing several platinum solo albums such as AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Death Certificate, The Predator, and Lethal Injection among other great albums. Ice Cube is also known for directing, producing and starring in classic such as Boyz N-The Hood with Cuba Gooding Jr., Anaconda, First Sunday with Tracy Morgan, All About the Benjamins with Mike Epps, Ride Along with Kevin Hart, Straight Outta Compton the N.W.A. Biopic in which he Produced and his son O'Shea Jackson Jr starred in the film as his father, and Friday which is argued to be one of the best hood movies ever made.

Before Ice Cube became one of the most famous black actors/film directors/rappers of all time he was apart of one of the most controversial rap groups of all time N.W.A. While he was a member of this group he was said to be the one that wrote most of the lyrics for the group. He was also known for leaving the group first due to the fact that he was being treated unfairly, and that he wasn't getting paid.

Ice Cube is said to be one of the West Coast's Hip-Hop/Rap pioneers. As a solo artist, Cube released nine studio albums and six of those went Platinum. Ice Cube is known for recording hit singles It Was a Good Day, Check Yo Self, You Know How We Do It, and Go to Church.

As an actor he played in several great films. One of my favorites had to be Friday. I say that because in the movie while it taught me several different life lessons it was also well written.

In Conclusion, Ice Cube is one of the most influential people in my eyes mainly because he's come a long way from the bottom to the top of his game.