When Ice Cube famously rapped, “Put your ass into it,” he most likely wasn’t referring to Dave Roberts, the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Cube was joined on the Dodger Stadium field by Roberts, who oddly leaned over and twerked on the rap superstar while serving as a backing dancer and hypeman at the Dodgers’ World Series title celebrations last week following the team’s 4-1 triumph over the New York Yankees.
The West Coast rap icon rapped the lyrics, “I gotta go ’cause I got me a drop-top / And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop,” while singing his iconic hit song “It Was a Good Day.” This scene went viral and was captured on tape.
“I think I blacked out,” Roberts said, recalling the crazy moment on Dodgers star Mookie Betts’ On Base podcast.
Roberts acknowledged that he would “love” to tour with the N.W.A. legend as a backup dancer, but he “knows his limits” because of a bad knee after Betts made fun of him for it.
“This reminded me of 1988,” he continued, “when I had a red Nissan Sentra and my two 10s in a wood box. Back then, that’s what you did. Your license plate would get battered [from] all that noise when you used to get a box manufactured and put your woofers in the trunk.
“Dude, I could spend my entire day listening to Ice Cube and N.W.A.”
Ice Cube recently claimed to have cleared the path for artists like Kendrick Lamar, but he hasn’t yet responded to the viral moment.
“I minister this pimp shit / I’ve been a minister since an infant / I was Kendrick before Kendrick / Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, like Jimi Hendrix,” Cube raps on his most recent track, “It’s My Ego,” which is culled from his upcoming album Man Down, which is out on November 22.
“Just a provocative artist — an artist that said what I felt, put it all out there, very critical of the system and the government and what we have to go through as Black people in this country,” Torae said on the bar during his appearance on his SiriusXM radio show last month.
And he seems to be the same sort of artist—one who provokes contemplation. I was therefore that before he was.
In addition, Cube is working diligently on a new film in his Friday movie series, which started in 1995.
“It’s coming back,” the rapper and actor stated in a recent appearance on Gillie Da Kid and Wallo’s Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. We’re going to do it. We’re going to change it up, make it humorous, add new characters, bring back old ones, and make it feel like a genuine movie.
Since the release of the last Friday film in 2002, fans have been waiting for a follow-up.
