An interesting juxtaposition of politics, culture and commercial pressure to comply with a specific brand of social acceptances permeates the discussion between pundit Tucker Carlson and actor-musician Ice Cube during a drive through Los Angeles. {Direct Rumble Link}
Our memories have been f’d w. Hard to find truth, get that perspective to balance what’s real, what our minds should remember. Here’s something, Ice T, what it is to NOT BE PAID OFF.
re: “Hard to find truth”
Go into engineering. Test things. Make them break, vibration, temperature – hot and cold – find out where it ‘fails’ … these are truths … as a kid I discovered that voltage can deliver a shock – that was reality too, another ‘limit’ to respect.
VERY few ppl today let alone ‘pols’ (political creatures) have OR understand ‘limits’, limits to behavior or science or nature.
Us engineers do. Our careers and livelihoods depend on it.
I used to say “The proof is in the pudding.” I’m sure anyone who bakes can relate too.
oh cynikill thug be on the upside of so sye atee now im sorry aint buying it. Sell your soul for notearioteey So many children suffer while you rake it in.. Ice cubes melt in da sun. In hell they dont even know what an ice cube is. I hope you suffer sucker. Like all the kids you passed bye..
Yep, another side-effect…illiteracy and deliberate (or non-deliberate) misspelling — and mispronunciation –is now “cool” —
Phenomenal, thank you!
While I despise hip hop rap, whatever, the interview was pretty good. Ice is fine for bourbon but I’m a Scotch drinker and no Ice please.
He didn’t take the clot shot so he’s not stupid. I give ‘em that …
i know i lean younger than the average on this board, but i DID grow up with this music, and always respected its brutal honesty. It is a strange thing to see so many of these guys find themselves in a strange and disillusioned place as many of us are once we started peering behind the curtain.
it is not necessary for us to “like” the music or art or whatever it is they produce. everyone comes to realizations at their own pace and time.
we dismiss or belittle them at our own risk, rather than welcome unlikely alliances for just causes. this is what used to pass as AMERICAN – not purity tests.
My long hair, and listening to hard rock and heavy metal when I was young. Did little to hide my red (conservative) neck.
Gimme an F !
What I hear in some of today’s Rap. Is no different than music like, I-Feel-Like -I’m-Fixin -to-die, from the 60s. Just set to a modern beat and no Kazoo
Best post in a long while!
At our own risk…..
In a sentence IceCube:
The demonRAT’s took Black America from Southern Plantation slavery to Welfare Plantation slavery.
Example: Maxine Waters lives in a white, gated & guarded neighborhood … far away from her constituents who live in her filthy, crime infested, District.
Intentional RAT destruction of families & cities, in exchange for the RATS personal wealth & permanent power.
And the black community enthusiastically followed, condemning any who questioned to Uncle Tom status.
Because many have been mislead and lied too. Then their children have no fathers adn are told they can’t be anything because of their skin color. Rinse and repeat.
The irony- it’s the liberals doing this….
And here we are now.
Truth always stands. Lies (eventually) get trampled.
People need to realize, black America has been completely brainwashed by the left for hundreds of years. They have them convinced WE are the bad guys. When in reality WE are the ones telling them to come join us. WE believe in them, that they can get out and do things for themselves and succeed in America, instead of playing the “whoa is me” card looking for hand outs.
The left treats them like pathetic little pets. As if they can’t get out and do things for themselves. And the left teaches it to them in schools, instead of teaching them Math, Science, History, etc. We have to break the spell and get them to join our side.
I literally had some stupid little snowflake neighbor of my buddy, say to my face “Oh, me and my mom both have causes that we support and try to better the country with. My mom is poor people, and mine is the blacks.” I said, “Do you understand how insulting, demeaning, and ignorant your line of thinking is??” It’s disgusting how the left views black Americans.
100% this.
YES ONE OF THE BEST SUMMATIONS OF FACT IVE EVER READ. WELLL SAID FRIEND.
Interesting that his father is still there. I believe he said since 1962. Probably stays because it is his and doesn’t want to live off his son. I imagine Ice Cube has made it clear to the neighborhood to leave his dad alone.
Notice how they showed earlier pictures of the home without the safety bars on the doors and windows without comment. They only commented on the lack of trees because they shielded criminals – as if shielding criminals is a good thing.
Why should people have to have yards without trees so the pd can spy on them? I get that it’s a crime ridden area but cutting down the trees did nothing to stop that. I’d be ticked off if someone made me cut my trees so they could monitor me better.
I believe Ice Cube was one of many black celebrities who endorsed Trump.
he is very astute
True – “truth hurts”
Great interview, thanks for sharing
my favorite was the clip from his older interview:
“if the truth hurts, say ouch.”
No change since Reagan and it doesn’t occur to Ice Cube that the problem is the pathology in the black community’s to solve? In the meanwhile, Viet Namese, HMung, Asian Indian and Hispanics – all clearly not white and most not speaking English and without special public funds and affirmative action, came to the US, focused on working hard, supporting their families and emphasized the importance of education with their children not only exceeded black performance but Asian and Indians exceed white income.
Time to stop faulting others for not doing for you what you won’t do for yourself.
Rap artists glorify violence, hatred and anti-social behavior. Start there.
Yes. That’s why it pains me to hear people comparing it to Hendrix, Led Zep, or the like…Iit’s not the same. People like to do the “Oh, people have always complained about their children’s music,” but this is a deliberated coarsening (understatement of the year) of the culture (planned out and from the left) that has brutalized generations of children. If you have spent time in MS or HS’s at any time from from the 1980s on — you’ve seen the changes that have taken place. It’s not all caused by “commie teachers.” The culture is largely to blame and thug rap is a huge part of it. These kids idolize the rappers (why do we think they changed the “rap” name to “hip-hop” when articles started appearing tying it to urban violence?)
Every kid running from the cops is an “aspiring rapper.” Why is that? Hmmm…..And now we have the cartoon-style female rappers, so heavily-sexualized that close t0 a quarter of adolescent girls claim to be gay or transgender — they don’t want to have anything to do w/ the weirdly-shaped twerking dolls they see on MTV and BET…
None of those other ethnic groups have a similar history as Black Americans. Even African immigrants have a very different heritage so it’s not a fair comparison. Dependency is the culprit. Just look at Native Americans on reservations.
I’ve never listened to his music but I do think he has talent, I liked at least one movie he was in.
If you listen to him, he doesn’t want anything different from you and me. Just to be left alone to live his own life, not hurting anyone else. I respect that. I also respect that he recognized the fraud of the Hussein presidency if only after the fact.
The battle is pro-American vs anti-American.
We the People are ALL Americans.
We have very different backgrounds but we share something in common. We have a common enemy who is anti-American.
Whether it’s drawing us into a fight between fellow citizens or a fight between citizens and our government. It’s not organic. There are forces trying to draw us into the fight.
Doesn’t matter if it’s Compton or a small country town, Main Street or Wall Street.
Keep the focus on pro-American vs anti-American and everything else takes care of itself.
I don’t think I ever knew that Tucker didn’t take the Vax. Good on him.
Thanks for linking this Sundance….some of us are still not welcome on Twitter🙄. This allows us to see Tucker.
Fantastic interview! Thank you Sundance. I wouldn’t have seen this otherwise.
It’s also good to know that Tucker did not take the clot shot either.
It gives me great joy that so many people, from different walks of life, felt like I did.
It was an experimental injection, not a true “vaccine”, and it was heinous to threaten people with their livlihoods for refusing. Criminal.
And millions of people are vaccine injured and many, many, many, people died as a result – most likely more died from the injection than the disease.
I detest the way these these thugs entered the mainstream by having “cultural critics” sing their praises. I remember during the 80s stopping subscriptions to both the Sunday LA Times and USA Today because they insisted on having these guys on the cover of their entertainment sections with glowing reviews/articles while the yrics were always, always described as edgy or maybe graphic, but never as profane or pornographic —
–and because they WERE profane and pornographic — not to mention sexist, racist, anti-semitic, anti-white, anti-police, etc., the lyrics were never printed…so parents (and teachers) were made to think they were not just acceptable but something GOOD for young kids to be listening to…I remember working in schools when teachers would let kids listen to headphones during seat work…
…I’d be horrified, knowing what they were listening to…sometimes, I’d try to bring it up with parents, but it was so hard…the only thing you could do was hand them a sheet filled with the words from a top-selling song…otherwise, of course, you’d be tagged with the “racist” label…
Now we have these guys on cereal boxes and doing voice work for Disney films…whole generations growing up on this and of course, the knock-out game didn’t come out of nowhere, and neither did urban violence –all glorified for decades, as was gang membership (all those “kids” who were running away from the police when they were shot had FB pages showing them holding up fistfuls of cash and/or throwing gang signs..)
Sorry-hit a sore spot…
I thought this was a really good interview. Ice is a lower class guy who rose above it all and is successful and stayed true to his self. I really liked him. Maybe because i grew up in a lower working class town so i just naturally understand where he is coming from. Only thing i wish he had been asked about is trump.
Apologies for lack of caps in places but i am on my tablet and it is a pain to cap and not cap.
Unfortunately many people from black culture have taught the idea that they sell a persona that’s depraved and degrading but it’s just entertainment. Somehow getting rich off of it is ok. They end up playing a role. I think hip hop has been a big part of the cultural rot. I then find out they don’t live that life but having higher standards for their own kids. He seems to have grown in his outlook.
So…what’s the…consensus?
Interview good?
Interview bad?
…or…is that just too simplistic of a query?
I wasn’t quite sure where to post this. But I’m helping my 69 yr old brother in law search for answers. Long story short – He had a massive heart attack one week ago, was on ventilator for heavy sedation to keep him from moving, had an impella device inserted into his damaged heart to assist pumping. Now has been extubated and is able to talk. He needs a transplant and they tell him he cannot get one because he was never vaccinated for covid! He needs to be vaccinated first!
My brother in law is very anti vac and when he did get covid (along with his wife) last year, his symptoms were mild and lasted about 6 days – no lingering.
All the research I’ve been able to do so far is that transplant centers ALL require a vaccination series before going on the transplant list. Is this STILL the case? After all the cardio adverse events with the jab?
I thought this morning, that here would be the place to find out as y’all are so savvy.