#2: Ice Cube
O’Shea Jackson, also known as Ice Cube, was a founding member of the hip-hop group N*ggas With Attitude. The NWA were pioneers in the hip-hop industry for their invention of the Gangsta Rap genre and have been as destructive or more to the black community as anything else in modern times in doing so. It wasn’t only the glamorization of street-gang lifestyle, drug sales, and black on black violence – NWA normalized and encouraged attacks against police officers with lyrics like “A young n*gga on a warpath, and when I’m finished it’s gonna be a bloodbath of cops dying in LA”.
Of course, Ice Cube would go on to completely sell out his own hateful side’s views on police officers by playing Internal Affairs Investigator Kyle Timpkins in the movie Rampart, as well as a stereotypically belligerent police Captain in 21 Jump Street. Cube’s hypocrisy is alive and well with his latest track self-described to be a “F*ck the Police of 2017”.
