Where would West Coast hip-hop be without Ice Cube?
I think it would be stuck in a very small box. They’re still trying to force us into a box, but without the contributions that Ice Cube made, there would be a much smaller box for them to want to put us in. You can’t even imagine getting to this point without the contributions that Ice Cube made in film and music. Up until when he got more family-oriented, he kept it hip-hop-based. There was always a hip-hop feel. Of course he’s graduated from that now, but he still has it. Everything that he did was hip-hop-based. “All I Know” is one of the most introspective songs on West Kept Secret. What inspired you to write “All I Know”? Well, the lyrics came to me as thoughts and I chopped them down to verses. That’s how I got the verses. It’s like the music was talking to me. I might not know a lot about a whole lot, but some of the things that I’m sure of are the things I said in that record. I might not be able to tell you how deep the ocean is, but I can tell you that I’m that nigga and then
