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Ice Cube To Write & Produce Proposed NBC Cop Show!!
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Ice Cube, who wrote or co-wrote screenplays for New Line's three big-screen “Friday” comedies as well as “The Player’s Club,” will write and produce a cop series for NBC.
The former Niggaz with Attitude vocalist (he rapped on the NWA hit "Fuck Tha Police") and "Are We Done Yet?" star may or may not appear in any pilot or series that emerges from his efforts.
"As we continue to expand our roster of diverse talent both on-camera and behind the camera, a guy like Ice Cube, who’s multitalented, is someone we really wanted to be in business with," NBC co-chair Ben Silverman said. "He’s had an amazing career, to have gone from NWA to this."
Under Silverman’s leadership, NBC has over the last year shepherded “American Gladiators,” “Phenomenon,” “Celebrity Apprentice,” “America’s Toughest Jobs,” “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Crusoe,” “Kath & Kim” and “Knight Rider” to the small screen.
For almost a decade, NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" has starred Cube's fellow rapper and "Trespass" co-star Ice-T as detective Odafin Tutuola.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Didn't....see....that...one....coming.
You guys sure you weren't just jumbling us all together cause of course 'we all look alike'?
just kidding
well, kinda -
Or if the Cube from 1990 could get into a time machine and go visit the 2008 Cube. I wonder what he would say to him?
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Fuck Tha Police: Tha Series.
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could be a unique perspective on the normal cop show.
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weird.
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the days I could still get away with dating 17 year olds. Damn, I miss those days.
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Ice Cube is down with the PE
Now every single bitch wanna see me
Big Daddy is smooth word to muther
Let's check out a flick that exploits the color
Roamin' thru Hollywood late at night
Red and blue lights what a common sight
Pulled to the curb gettin' played like a sucker
Don't fight the power ... the mother fucker
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Oct 29, 2008 11:34:34 PM CDT
Time to give Vanilla Ice some love, NBC
by helpful electronic lab partner robot
You've already got T and Cube, complete the trifecta.
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Ice cube, what happened man?
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Oct 30, 2008 1:30:06 AM CDT
Theme = FUCK THA POLICE COMIN STRAIGHT FROM THE UNNAGROUN
by speed fricassee
Someone got it bad cuz he brown
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Because I've lived in a cave for 20 years, I've never seen one.
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NBC has over the last year shepherded “American Gladiators,” “Phenomenon,” “Celebrity Apprentice,” “America’s Toughest Jobs,” “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Crusoe,” “Kath & Kim” and “Knight Rider” to the small screen." -AND HE STILL HAS A JOB???
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Oct 30, 2008 6:08:48 AM CDT
"He’s had an amazing career, to have gone from NWA to this."
by birdys piano teacher
Hahahaha. That's one way to sum up the way his career has gone.
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...I think it's someone who makes money bashing cops with a song called "Copkiller" and then goes on to make money acting on/writing police dramas.Talk out of both sides of your mouth much?Wait, I'm sorry....I meant "Talk out bof sidez o' yo' mouf' much, foo?"
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Yes, I know it would make more sense for Hitler to do that than for a criminal rapper to do a police series, but still...
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Sellout was my second thought when I heard this. My first was who wants to watch another fucking cop show? Hasn't television caught all the criminals yet?
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It's been twenty years since he did that song! Perhaps the man has matured... (unlike some of you all apparently). I think if you were to call the man a sellout it would have been when he made any movie after Boyz In Tha Hood! Cut him some slack. He's not being a hyprocrite just cause he wants to write a cop show! Besides... we haven't seen it yet. Perhaps he wants to address some of the issues he used to rap about! Ya'll are tooo harsh!
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How original... burp.
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It'll be like Fame meets Best Dance Crew meets CSI.
Or in other words, a remake of cop rock that will actually do worse than cop rock. -
But, since T's also a big sellout involved w/ a cop show, I'll say no more. . .
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If it's not going to be as good as the three shows I mentioned, it isn't worth making or watching. Given the huge number of shitty films Cube has been making, I don't see this being a winner. So, fuck it.
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He tries to be a badass and then he makes a sequel to "Are We There Yet?" Nice try.
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fellow rapper?
It's really kind of a stretch to call Ice-T a rapper. Also, listen to Endangered Species for a good Ice Cube song. He fell off a long time ago. Good in Three Kings though. -
USA = United States of Action
Criminal scumbags on a rampage across the US of A.
Killing, raping, stealing. -
As long as it's set in Compton, I'm there. Is it just me or does anybody else find themselves humming 'Fuck tha Police' when they fly Northwest Airlines?
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Who's next? Rage Against the Machine to produce "COPS!" The Musical!
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NO MORE FUCKING SHOWS ABOUT LAWYERS! NO MORE FUCKING SHOWS ABOUT DOCTORS! NO MORE FUCKING LAW AND FUCKING ORDER! NO MORE FUCKING CSI! NO MORE FUCKING COP SHOWS! Its old, its as played out as Friends. In essence: CRAP! Now how about some quality TV?
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Man, that would be a good show...
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John Carpenter's the director. Ice Cube is undercover narc who gets knocked in the head by snoop dog and wakes up back in the 80's in Compton with his old jerry-curl and raiders cap. The chief of police is james gandolfini as the italian version of daryl gates. This is genius as soon as rodney king gets out of celebrity rehab 2 they can cast him as DEA agent.
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Used to be that was a thriving profession:
Mike Hammer
Frank Cannon
Joe Mannix
Jim Rockford
Peter Gunn
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No, it's not just you.
And kabong, Pushing Daisies is a private eye show. So was Veronica Mars when it was on. -
Oct 31, 2008 11:17:30 AM CDT
Nathan0774...would you call David Duke a hypocrite...
by cletus van damme
...if he suddenly got a contract to create/direct a sitcom about a black family for the Disney channel? I'm guessing yes.Hell, I'd call him a hypocrite if he even bought a single season of the Cosby Show on DVD!
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Ice Cube and Ice Tea? Is this like a cartoon show, written by a cartoon character or something? wtf?
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First Ice-T plays a cop after making Cop Killer, now Ice "Fuck Tha Po-lice" Cube wants to do a cop show. This is the very definition of hypocrite.
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thank fuckin god.
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Compairing David Duke's deap hearted racism to some young punk rappers upset at police because they can't walk down the street looking like hoodlums without being treated like hoodlums is hardly an argument for hypocricy. Ice Cube and Ice T have both grown out of those personas. And Ice T in particular I feel was just trying to sell records. They all wanted to sell records! David Duke is a racist pig and only wats to live among white people. He hates black people and jews! How can you compare??
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Remember Ice Cube's rap version of the 3 little pigs titled, "the Big Bad Wolf".
Maybe they could use that as the theme music for the cop show. Give a "Pushing Daisies" feel. ..... I should slap myself for think stuff like this.
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