"When I was about 12," rapper Ice Cube once recalled, "I used to talk to my older brother's female friends. He was always saying that I was trying to act cool. One day he was sweatin' me, sayin,' 'You think you're an ice cube! You ain't no ice cube!' I stuck it on me like a badge."
[Ice Cube wrote his first rap in a ninth-grade typing class.]
Sources
Esquire, Jan. 2003
