While doing promotion for his upcoming and highly anticipated film,Straight Outta Compton, rapper Ice Cube and fellow cast members sat down for a livestream Q&A at the YouTube Space hosted by MC Lyte. The conversation naturally turned the most recent deadly incidents involving police brutality and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movements. Ice Cube shared the advice he gives to his own children and recommends to all children about encounters with police, while DJ Yella explains the song F- the Police is still extremely relevant today.
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Ice Cube said his advice to his own children and any kids having to deal with police, is just to get home. He said,
“My instructions to all my kids is ‘make it home.’ That’s your only order, and that’s your only instruction. That means do whatever it takes to make it to the house. The fact that we live in a world where we have to remind people that that black lives matter is terrible in itself. I tell my kids, ‘make it home.’ That’s the most important thing. Nothing else matters. Not to me.”
DJ Yella reminded the audience that police brutality is nothing new however, it’s more documented. He said, “Before we came along it was already going on. It was deep in the ghetto back then. We’d go to places (and it would be) ‘Get on the ground! Face down!’ But nowadays, 26 years later, it’s like the same thing still going on. It’s like (F— tha Police) is brand new again.”
Check out more of what he had to say starting at 38:40.
Do you agree with Ice Cube’s advice? Sound off in the comments. Straight Outta Compton primers in theaters Friday.
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