Ice Cube to Prez: “Put ‘em up”

Ice Cubeanswers questions about his new album and calling out George W. Bush in a recent interview with the prestigious King Magazine:

You’re calling the new Lench Mob album Raw Footage. Sounds like a Hollywood sex tape.
I just wanted to do hip-hop for the brain. I’m not really worried about the club and the things that most people are worrying about right now. I’ve always prided myself on making the streets understand the politics of the day and, hopefully, making the politicians understand the streets a little bit.

On “Take a Nation,” you declare yourself “the only rapper who wanna fistfight the president.” Our money is on you.
Of course The hook is, “It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back”—a statement in itself. Forces outside of hip-hop are starting to dictate what’s hot and what’s not. I wanted a record to talk about it: “That’s bullshit, we need to take it back.” We need to dictate what’s hot—not Viacom. I did Lench Mob to be able to do records how I wanted to do them, when I wanted to do them, and to promote them how I want to without nobody having nothing to say.

Another old-skool cat trying ‘reclaim‘ hip-hop? This should be interesting. The album is set to drop on August 18th. Click here to read the entire article.