-I want to say happy belated birthday to you.
Yeah, you had -- [ Cheers and applause ]
-Yeah. Thank you.
♪♪
June 15th. -June 15th.
Happy, happy birthday. -Yeah. Yeah.
-Did you -- How did you celebrate?
How does Ice Cube celebrate his birthday?
-I don't really want to do too much.
You know what I mean? Hang out with the family.
We went and ate Mexican food. You know what I mean?
-Oh, really? -Yeah, yeah.
-Yeah. -It was cool. We had --
-That's your jam? -Yeah, I love it.
-What do you order when you go to a Mexican restaurant?
-You know, I like quesadillas and...
-Yeah. -...burritos and chimichangas.
[ Light laughter ]
Tequila.
-Yeah! [ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, I'll -- I'll do -- I'll do a tequila or two.
What's the -- What is a chimichanga?
I always forget what is.
-Chimichanga is like -- it's like a burrito.
It got chicken in it. I get chicken chimichangas.
-Yeah. -And they --
-I mean, I love Mexican. -They deep fry it,
cut it in half, and give it to me.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -Deep-fried burrito. I'm in.
I was wondering, when you -- when you talk to your parents,
do they call you Ice Cube or no? [ Laughter ]
No, they don't do that. They call you Cube?
-No, they call me O'Shea, my real name.
-O'Shea. -That's my real name.
Yeah, O'Shea. [ Cheers and applause ]
-They do. -Unless...
Unless, like, it's a movie premiere or they want something.
Then they'll be like, "Hey, uh, Cube."
You know, my pops will be like,
"Hey, Cube, I want to go to Jamaica."
[ Laughter ]
I'm like, "All right." -Yeah, yeah, Cube.
-All right, yeah. -Yeah.
Do your kids throw your name around?
-No. You know what?
My kids do not use my name enough.
I'm, like, "Did you get in?"
"No, we didn't get in."
"Why? Why you didn't use my name?"
"Oh, man, I don't want to do that."
-Really? -I'm like, "Y'all are just..."
[ Scoffs ] Man, if I had a famous father,
I'd be using their name all the time.
[ Laughter ]
Like, for everything. You know what I mean?
It's like people will be calling me --
"Did your son -- Did you -- your son order a Maserati?"
"Yep." [ Laughter ]
-Is that right? -It'd be me.
-Dude, I got to say -- you did a really cool thing.
You went to Australia.
You performed at the Sydney Opera House?
-Yeah, yeah.
-And you're the first rapper ever to perform there.
-That's what they say. -A little history, man.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah, it's pretty cool.
-That's awesome. What was that like?
-It was great. You know, we did --
We did four nights in a row, so it was cool.
Sold out every night. So it was great, you know?
-Do you get to go to Australia much?
-I go about every couple years. -Yeah.
-You know, so...
I mean, the only person they can have now is The Roots.
You know, everybody else -- it's down from there.
You know what I'm saying? [ Cheers and applause ]
You need The Roots out there. Y'all would kill it.
-Yeah. -Kill it.
-The Roots go out there all the time.
You go -- -Y'all play the Opera House?
-Not Sydney Opera House. -Oh, yeah.
Y'all got to get it. -That's crazy. That's awesome.
-They finally not just playing opera up in there.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, I was gonna say.
Then you're like...
[ Operatically ] ♪ Today was a good day ♪
[ Laughter ] Yeah, yeah.
[ Laughter continues ]
[ Operatically ] ♪ Didn't have to use my AK ♪
-Yeah. -Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] Do they do --
Do you do BIG3 over there or no? -Not yet.
You know, we trying to get BIG3 all over the world.
-Show the back -- the back of the jacket.
-Oh, the back of the jacket? -Yeah, exactly.
-Oh, you know I got to advertise.
-BIG3. Come on. -You know?
[ Cheers and applause ] -I hit 'em up.
-'Cause this is -- this is a cool thing that I love about --
you came on the show to promote this --
I guess the first season of BIG3.
-Yeah. -And it was like...
-Year one. -...such a giant idea.
I go, "Oh" -- I mean,
I don't know how you can take on all this.
It's like -- Explain the idea of BIG3, just...
-The BIG3 is professional 3-on-3 basketball.
Now, anybody and everybody that's played basketball
usually played more three-on-three
than five-on-five.
So, I was like,
"Why hasn't this been elevated to the professional level?"
So, you know, we start thinking about that idea.
And we was like, "Yo, let's use former NBA players,
guys who still got the hunger in they heart,
the love for the game,
still in shape, and ready to play.
Let's use them as our players."
And it's been a big hit, man.
Big hit, yeah. -It's crushing. It's so good.
Because, well, there's a lot of factors to the whole thing.
One is, I think, it's affordable.
-Yes. Definitely an affordable ticket.
You get four games for the price of one.
You know what I mean?
And you get to see all these great NBA greats, you know?
-Did you go to games when you were a kid?
-I couldn't afford a lot of games, you know?
-Yeah. -But what was cool
is my next-door neighbor's big brother, like,
worked at The Forum,
the L.A. Forum where the Lakers play,
or used to play back in the day.
And he would -- he would, like, let us sneak in.
You know what I mean? [ Light laughter ]
-Oh, he'd run security? -Yeah, no, he was at the --
he was taking tickets -- ticket taker.
-Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-So we would walk around The Forum looking like,
"Is your brother -- Is he working? Is he working?
Which window? Which door? Which door? Which door?
Here you go. Boom!" [ Laughter ]
We'd go in -- We'd go in the door.
And I'd say, "Hi."
And he'd look at me like, "Get -- Get in here.
You're not even supposed to know me. Go."
[ Laughter ]
You know? So...
And we'd be in there, you know, walking around.
-Did you ever get to meet any of the Lakers?
-No, no. But -- But I did --
One time, I was -- We snuck down low.
It was a blowout. The Lakers was blowing them out.
We snuck down low.
And Magic -- after the game, they was leaving --
they was, like, leaving the court,
going in the tunnel, and I was right there.
And I was like, "Yo, Magic, what's up?"
He was like, "Hey, little dude."
And he hit my hand. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -And when I --
when I shook his hand, it felt --
it was soft as a baby's butt, man.
[ Laughter ]
I was like, "This man has never worked a day in his life."
[ Laughter ]
-I mean, he's got to grip the basketball or something.
-'Cause, yeah, my pop's hands feel like cheese graters.
You know what I'm saying? [ Laughter ]
Like... -He had soft hands.
That's fantas-- -It was like --
So, you know, that was my only encounter, you know?
But I'm a big basketball fan, and this league is special.
You know, we on every Friday night live.
-Well, now, you're on TV. -Yeah.
-'Cause at first, it was a couple specials.
-Yeah. It was -- We was tape-delayed.
So it was like we played on Sunday.
They would show it on Monday nights.
But now it's Friday nights live.
We on big Fox this week. And it's great, man. It's great.
-Where is it this -- this week? -We're in Chicago.
-Whoo! -So what's cool is the --
the league goes from city to city.
We started right here in Brooklyn
our first game last year. -Brooklyn!
-I know you did that. -Yeah. Yeah.
-Well, I -- 'Cause I saw a couple of things.
'Cause the players would actually go up to the fans, too,
and sign autographs and take -- -Yeah.
-I go, "This is insane." -It's like --
-This is so fun.
-It's like a basketball festival.
I mean, we got so much history.
You know, we got Hall of Fame coaches
like Dr. J and Iceman, Rick Barry, Gary Payton.
-Oh! -And our players -- you know,
it's like Chauncey Billups and Jermaine O'Neal
and Amar'e Stoudemire and Nate Robinson.
-Yeah.
-And, you know, it's like "Birdman," Chris Andersen.
You know, so we got some great players.
-Well, the championship is August 24th...
-Yep. -...back in Brooklyn.
-Right here in Brooklyn. -It comes back to Brooklyn.
-We're bringing the championship right here.
-Back to Brooklyn, New York.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yes.
-And Ice Cube has a special gift.
Everybody in the audience tonight
is getting a ticket to the championship August 24th...
-Yeah! -...here in Brooklyn!
That's the way to do it right there!
-BIG3, baby. -That's how you do it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
That's how to do it good. Come on!
That's how you do it right there!
-Yeah! -Ice Cube, everybody!
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