Hello and welcome two ways to change the world. I'm Krushing Gary Murphy and this is the

podcast in which we talk to extraordinary people about the big ideas and their lives and

the events that have helped shape them. We're on location this week just by the O2 in Grennich

because my guest has got a big show here that he's promoting which is to do with basketball

which we'll be talking about but he's also performing here himself because Ice Cube is one of

the godfathers of hip hop but a time that we've been talking about 50 years of this remarkable

art form. He was of course one of the founding members of NWA. He left and worked on his own and

with people from public enemy and he went into Hollywood and he spent years and years making

hugely successful movies and now he is the entrepreneur behind the big three which is a new

basketball league trying to break into an industry that is largely sewn up by the NBA so welcome

to the podcast. Nice to see you here. I mean how did you go from that 14 year old boy who starts

wrapping with friends to that you know the birth of NWA just a few years later what happened?

I mean I met Dr. Dre that doesn't hurt. He ended up you know moving down the street from me

and we became friends he liked you know my flavor my style my enthusiasm my skills and took me

under his wing you know as a youngster and I started to hang out with him and he was with a

group called the wrecking crew and we you know I would carry crates and speakers to the parties

for Dre I would be in the booth sometime he'd be DJing for the party he'd let us wrap some time

you know and and then we met easy and easy it was like y'all want to put money behind us you know

everybody else is scared of it but I'm not and so that's how you know the ball started to roll.

But were you always a writer? You know in school I used to get awards for having the best

you know you ask what you do for your summer vacation and I would you know be able to articulate

exactly what happened during the summer when I was you know 12 6 grade I did a you know I did

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