Ice Cube (Rapper)

Backstreet Boys, Steely Dan, Cold War Kids and More Top Show Announcements

You know, this seldom happens, but I can say without a doubt that I have every single one of these artists in my iPod. Maybe I'll make it into a playlist. This'd be a good playlist, right? Either way, here are your top show announcements this week, and if you're like me, you're flabbergasted by th ... More >>

20 Years Later: The 15 Best Albums of 1991

​In last week's edition of our regular feature, The Conversation, Pete Freedman and Daniel Hopkins debated on whether 1991 or 1994 was the greatest music year of the '90s. It was an interesting read for sure. And, since this week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of both Nevermind and The ... More >>

Booty Shaking and Big Bumpers

The Conversation: When is Music Too Negative, Too Hateful? Is There a Line?

Tyler, The Creator seems like a nice young man.​Just last week, DC9 ran a review for the Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival that took place at the Granada Theater. The show, which featured 10 acts -- from Shabazz Palaces to Preteen Zenith -- was pretty great. But a big hot-button topic surrounded the venue ... More >>

Vanilla Ice To Bring "Earthquakes With Aftershakes" at Gathering of the Juggalos '11

iTz VaNiLla IcE, y'ALl!​It's coming: This weekend, in a video starring Dallas' Own Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), the Insane Clown Posse announced the lineup for its annual Gathering of The Juggalos event, which this year will run August 11 - 14 in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.What's kind of crazy, t ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Big K.R.I.T., Freddie Gibbs and A.Dd at Trees

Big K.R.I.T., Freddie Gibbs and A.Dd Trees April 2, 2011Better Than: Staying at home on a Saturday night?Big K.R.I.T.​The headlining performers on Saturday night's bill at Trees were supposed to be big draws. And rightfully so: Big KR.I.T. and Freddie Gibbs are two of the bigger names to emerge in ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Del The Funky Homosapien Sunday Night at The Loft

Teren Delvon Jones is hardly new to the hip-hop business. The man who goes by the name of Del the Funky Homosapien got his start back in the early '90s, when he was writing rap lyrics for his cousin Ice Cube's band, Da Lench Mob.Since striking out on his own, Del has had his share of troubles with r ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Elephant Six Holiday Extravaganza at The Loft, Ice Cube at House of Blues, Eisley at Good Records and Kevin So at Poor David's Pub

A very eclectic Tuesday evening of music is on hand tonight -- one that features some serious old-school rap and an all-star band nearly too big for its venue, along with a local favorite playing a free show and a quality Nashville songwriter stopping by for the night.

Listomania: The 15 Best NFL Team Anthems

​This whole "Super Bowl" thing has been pretty unavoidable this year -- and, for obvious reasons, infinitely more so in these parts than in years past. Then again, with media all over the place, thousands of out-of-town-guests, and an alleged 100,000 hookers (or not) converging in the metroplex ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Scott Beggs

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk. Scott Beggs​Scott Beggs, once one of the kids in the punk rock crowds back in the day, has been assembling live concerts in DFW since the mid-'9 ... More >>

Picture Show: Epic Cars and Rap at 97.9 The Beat's Custom Car Show & Concert

Roderick PullumThoughts on making a Ice Cube pun when it's so hot outside? Nah, we'll skip it.​KBFB-97.9 FM The Beat's sixth annual custom car show and concert jam-packed a massive lineup of rap stars and souped-up cars at the Dallas Convention Center Sunday, August 22. The event's headliners were ... More >>

Good Friday: KBFB-97.9 FM The Beat's Custom Car Show, Analog Rebellion, Dead Twins, Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, Green River Ordinance, The Budos Band, Tanya Morgan, Brave Combo, More!

​This weekend marks 97.9 The Beat's sixth annual custom car show, which will take place on Sunday, August 22, at the Dallas Convention Center. This year, the event's headliners are Gucci Mane, Ice Cube, Waka Flocka Flame, Plies, Bun B, Trina, Slim Thug and a man who will definitely show off his ic ... More >>

Lottery Ticket: Mo' Money, No Problems in This Happy Fantasy.

Explosive Laughs

Good Friday: Danielson, Black Eyed Peas, Dokken, Faster Pussycat, Venus Flytrap, Robert Deeble, Josh Alan Friedman, Mark Growden, Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, B.J. Thomas, Shannon McNully, Matthew Good, Automatic Loveletter, Off With Their Heads

​With Pete down in Austin attending to all things SXSW, it falls to me to come up with some show recommendations for our area. And there's a lot of stuff going on. Tomorrow brings a Dillinger Escape Plan show to The Granada Theater, and Sunday is especially busy with 97.9's Car Show in Fair Park ... More >>

Joke Joke

Enroll in the Rap Institute of Acting Today!

Today In Music News: Jackson Pepsi Video Unearthed, Ice Cube Gets Serialized and The Nuge Gets Political

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... Leave it to Us Weekly to unearth the video of Michael Jackson's infamous Pepsi ad from 1984. Ice Cube has partnered with TBS to produce his family friendly Are We There Yet? as a series. Leave it to Cube to keep it faux-ga ... More >>

Comedic Crapper

Consider Yourself Entertained

Cedric hits the stage at Nokia

Oh, And Tonight's Ice Cube Show? Canceled.

  Hope you watched Barbershop on Comedy Central this afternoon (no joke, it just finished up a few minutes ago), as that's the closest you'll get to seeing Ice Cube today. The Prophet Bar's Web site is now reporting that the show has been canceled. No word yet on any reschedules. --Pete Freedm ... More >>

Ice Cube, Trick Trick, AwkQuarius

Saturday, December 13, at The Door Dallas

Writing on the Wall

We try—with very little luck—to get to the bottom of why Del Tha Funkee Homosapien isn't touring with his old cats in Hieroglyphics

Del the Funky Homosapien

11th Hour (Definitive Jux)

Satan's Playlist

Never fear—we've got your Halloween mixtape here

The Prince of Tideland

Is it the best of the worst?

Devil's Day

This Tuesday, Satan's gaping black mouth shall spit forth...the new Ice Cube CD

Ice Cube, Tha Dogg Pound, Clipse

Tuesday, May 23, at Gypsy Tea Room

Atmosphere

Wednesday, October 26, at Gypsy Tea Room

Is It Over Yet?

Ice Cube's family movie may make you long for the 'hood

Steal These Albums

The 10 most radical hip-hop albums of all time, featuring Public Enemy, NWA and...Mos Def?

Still Doing It Better

The D.O.C. is the best coach in the rap game

Cube Attitude

Plus: Folked Up and Holiday Graft Guide

After Schlock

Ice Cube coasts through another middling comedy

Not Quite Famous

Plus: Booty-licious

Cut Rate

The intentions outweigh the execution in Ice Cube's Barbershop

Straight Outta Left Field

The Dallas Morning News says N.W.A. was "militant." The real answer? N.O.

Paul Oakenfold

Bunkka (Maverick/Warner Bros.)

Benjamins Goes Bankrupt

Fast pace not quick enough to gloss over film's plot problems

Consider This…

Even music journalists have ethics

Cowboys and Martians

John Carpenter stages a spooky showdown on the red planet

What's that smell?

Cube changes 'hoods, but this Friday is like any other

War is heck

The revisionism of Three Kings kicks the Vietnam rut

No guts, no glory

David O. Russell gets to the heart of the matter, down to the last detail

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Mean streets

Ice Cube's The Players Club takes African-American film to a new, deeply sexist low point

No Great Snakes

Anaconda gives new meaning to the phrase disaster movie

The Dr. is out

Dre and Snoop Dogg, the boys who cried wolf, cancel yet another Dallas show

Auteur, auteur!

Burnt by the Sun and The Glass Shield illustrates the pitfalls of total artistic control

B.S. 101

John Singleton's college melodrama Higher Learning is a baffling misfire