Ice Cube

**O'Shea Jackson Sr.** (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage name **Ice Cube**, is an American rapper and actor. He was a member of the well-known rap group N.W.A. He is best known for popularising the gangsta rap genre with the album "_Straight Outta Compton"_ in 1988. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he began his solo work.

## Discography

- Studio albums
- _AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted_ (1990)
- _Death Certificate_ (1991)
- _The Predator_ (1992)
- _Lethal Injection_ (1993)
- _War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc)_ (1998)
- _War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc)_ (2000)
- _Laugh Now, Cry Later_ (2006)
- _Raw Footage_ (2008)
- _I Am the West_ (2010)
- _Everythang's Corrupt_ (2018)

### Films

|rowspan="2" style="width:33px;"|Year|rowspan="2" style="width:200px;"|Film|colspan="4"|Functioned as|rowspan="2"|Role|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1991|_Boyz n the Hood_|||||Darin "Doughboy" Baker||
|1992|_Trespass_|||||Savon||
|1993|_CB4_|||||Himself <small>_(cameo)_</small>||
|1994|_The Glass Shield_|||||Teddy Woods||
|rowspan="2"|1995|_Higher Learning_|||||Fudge|
|_Friday_|||||Craig Jones|||
|rowspan="2"|1997|_Dangerous Ground_|||||Vusi Madlazi|
|_Anaconda_|||||Danny Rich|||
|rowspan="2"|1998|_The Players Club_|||||Reggie|
|_I Got the Hook Up_|||||Gun runner|||
|rowspan="2"|1999|_Three Kings_|||||Sgt. Chief Elgin|
|_Thicker Than Water_|||||Slink|||
|2000|_Next Friday_|||||Craig Jones||
|2001|_Ghosts of Mars_|||||James 'Desolation' Williams||
|rowspan="3"|2002|_All About The Benjamins_|||||Bucum|
|_Barbershop_|||||Calvin Palmer|||
|_Friday After Next_|||||Craig Jones|||
|rowspan="3"|2004|_Torque_|||||Trey Wallace|
|_The N-Word_|||||Himself|||
|_Barbershop 2: Back in Business_|||||Calvin Palmer|||
|rowspan="4"|2005|_Are We There Yet?_|||||Nick Persons|
|_Beauty Shop_||||||||
|_Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars_||||||||
|_XXX: State of the Union_|||||Darius Stone / XXX|||
|2007|_Are We Done Yet?_|||||Nick Persons||
|rowspan="2"|2008|_First Sunday_|||||Durell Washington|
|_The Longshots_|||||Curtis Plummer|||
|2009|_Janky Promoters_|||||Russell Redds||
|2010|_Lottery Ticket_|||||Jerome "Thump" Washington||
|2011|_Rampart_|||||Kyle Timkins||
|2012|_21 Jump Street_|||||Capt. Dickson||
|rowspan="3"|2014|_Ride Along_|||||Detective James Payton|
|_22 Jump Street_|||||Capt. Dickson|||
|_The Book of Life_|||||The Candle Maker <small>(voice role)</small>|||
|2015|_Straight Outta Compton_|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2016|_Ride Along 2_|||||Detective James Payton|
|_Barbershop: The Next Cut_|||||Calvin Palmer|||
|rowspan="2"|2017|_XXX: Return of Xander Cage_|||||Darius Stone / XXX|
|_Fist Fight_|||||Strickland|||
|2020|_The High Note_|||||Jack Robertson||

### Television

|rowspan="2" style="width:33px;"|Year|rowspan="2" style="width:200px;"|Film|colspan="4"|Functioned as|rowspan="2"|Role|rowspan="2"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1994|_The Sinbad Show_|||||Himself|Episode: The Mr. Science Show|||
|2002|_The Bernie Mac Show_|||||Himself|Episode: Goodbye Dolly|||
|rowspan="2"|2005|_BarberShop: The Series_||||||||
|_WrestleMania 21_|||||Himself|||||
|2006|_Black. White._|||||||||
|2007|_Friday: The Animated Series_|||||||||
|2010|_30 for 30_||||||Episode: Straight Outta L.A.|||
|2010–2013|_Are We There Yet?_|||||Terrence Kingston|Recurring Role; 20 Episodes|||
|2014|_The Rebels_||||||Pilot of unproduced series|||
|2017|_The Defiant Ones_|||||Himself|Documentary|||

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **embed**: yes
- **current member of**: Mount Westmore, Mt. Westmore


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Ice Cube
- **image**: Ice-Cube 2014-01-09-Chicago-photoby-Adam-Bielawski.jpg
- **caption**: Ice Cube in 2014
- **birth name**: O'Shea Jackson Sr.
- **birth place**: Los Angeles, California, US
- **organization**: Cube Vision
Lench Mob Records
- **years active**: 1986–present
- **children**: 4, including O'Shea Jackson Jr.
- **relatives**: Del tha Funky Homosapien (cousin)
Kam (rapper), Kam (cousin)