Name: Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday
Uploaded: 2023-06-29T20:23:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-29. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- When I found out that you wrote "Friday,"
I was like, that's insane.
That's incredible.
- Yeah, me and DJ Pooh.
- That's a funny fucking movie.
- Yeah.
Yeah, it is, you know?
I mean, DJ Pooh, he's one of those,
he's like one of those undercover geniuses
that been involved in a lot of hip-hop.
I mean, he helped LL do "Going Back to Cali."
You know what I mean? - Wow.
- He been around forever, and we're all fans of Pooh.
You know what I'm saying?
And Pooh is funny, he technical.
He's the one who got rockstar to do
the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas,
that whole, you know, like take it from Miami
and put it in LA, you know what I mean?
Take it from the Miami dope culture to the LA gang culture.
So, he's the one who's behind the scenes
with stuff like that, and he helped me write "Friday."
He produced "It Was a Good Day," the song.
So, whenever we together, it's just magic.
And we wrote "Friday" because we were watching
"In Living Color," and we loved "Hollywood Shuffle"
by Robert Townsend, and we was like,
"Let's write a movie about the neighborhood."
Like, 'cause everything that was coming out was depressing.
You know, it was colors, "Boys in the Hood,"
and then it's the society, South Central.
It was like, "Yo, this is a hell zone."
And we was like, "Did you remember it like that?"
Or, "Don't we laugh around here all the time?"
Like, "Let's show how it really is for us around here."
And so, that's how "Friday" kinda germinated
and became like, "Yo, we gonna show our version
of how we have fun at South Central."
And it's an all-time classic.
Yeah, it's a movie that I get commented on
more than any other, like, people quote it, love it.
The characters are iconic, people dress up.
When you know you got a line like,
"You got knocked the fuck out,"
that gets repeated for decades.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I knew it was one of those lines
because I had never heard it in a movie before
when somebody got knocked out.
And I'm like, "Yeah, this is what he gonna say
when he jump over 'em and look down on 'em."
Like, "You got knocked the fuck out."
How many times you seen that on a World?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How many times you seen that on World Star Hip Hop now, though?
All the time.
It's just that everybody yells.
Yeah.
When someone goes down, it's automatic.
It's automatic.
Yeah.
You know, that's, as an artist,
that's all you want is to have a couple classics
that people remember you for, you know,
when you're 80 in a cafe, you know,
drinking coffee, somebody would run up and be like,
"Yo, Craig, what's up?"
You know what I mean?
That's all you want.