LOS ANGELES (LifeSiteNews) — In an interview with Tucker Carlson, the well-known rapper and actor Ice Cube explained why he surrendered a $9 million deal to star in a Hollywood comedy film due to the producers’ requirement that every cast member be injected with a COVID “vaccine.”
The injection “wasn’t ready. It was six months, kind of a rush job, and I didn’t feel safe,” said the artist, whose birth name is O’Shea Jackson.
This interview, released Tuesday evening, was the 10th episode of Carlson’s new mini-show Tucker on Twitter, which he entitled “Stay in your lane” as it was conducted while driving with the music star through his “tough” childhood neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Ep. 10 Stay in your lane: our drive through South Central LA with Ice Cube.
(next episode: Ice Cube sits down with us at his studio) pic.twitter.com/cUgCh2xccH
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 25, 2023
“Why wouldn’t you take the vax? You had a direct order to take it. You were told to take it” Carlson inquired. And with some laughter, he added, “I mean, I’m sorry, they told you, they couldn’t have been clearer about it.”
Ice Cube responded amusingly, “I’m not real good with direct orders.” He added, for the producers of the show at Sony, “there’s no repercussions if they’re wrong [about the safety of the shot], but I get all the repercussions if they’re wrong.”
Yet forgoing the significant pay day “wasn’t a tough call” for the musical artist. “I wanted to be an example for my kids [to] really make sure they didn’t take it either. [And] show them that I’m going to stand on my convictions. And I was willing to lose $9 million and more, because we probably lost more since then.”
Carlson recalled the old adage of how “people who stand on their convictions are [considered] heroes, they’re brave, they have principles” and “they are the people we look to for inspiration.”
“But in this case, with this decision and these principles, you were not hailed as a hero,” the former Fox News rating king told Ice Cube. Instead, “you were attacked,” he said, showing a Saturday Night Live clip ridiculing the artist.
“I never told anyone not to get vaccinated, publicly,” Ice Cube replied. “That was never my message to the world. I didn’t even want people to know whether I got vaccinated or not.
The rapper said he was “pretty upset” when his vaccination status became public because he “was just going to quietly not take [the shot] and deal with the consequences as they came.”
He also mentioned that he knows people who have been injured by the vaccine.
“They suffer every day, and it’s hard to watch,” he said.
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The interview also touched upon the rapper’s judgment that politicians, including Barack Obama, have been a disappointment regarding making life better for the people in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
He said he “felt proud America took that step” in electing Obama, but “then you look around, years go by, and not much changed for people I know, people I care about.”
Ice Cube has also started what he and a partner call the “BIG3,” a 3-on-3 professional basketball league which incorporates former NBA and international players amongst its 12 teams.
Carlson points out that while the NBA has recently embraced and promoted ideas of “black empowerment,” the BIG3 is something “the NBA doesn’t seem to like.”
“The NBA is run by a cringing neo-liberal called Adam Silver,” Carlson explained. Despite once publicly proclaiming the league’s complete commitment “to standing for social justice and racial equality,” the former television host reported, “Silver has done his best to strangle the black-owned BIG3 in its crib.”
Mocking how the NBA commissioner never played the game of basketball at any significant level, Carlson asked Ice Cube, “What team did [Silver] play on during his career?”
The musician quipped back, “The New York lawyers.”
According to Wikipedia, Jackson and his wife Kimberly have been married for 31 years and have four children.
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