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"Cars are a status symbol from the neighbourhood that I come from," explains O"Shea Jackson, in that trademark drawl. You might know him better as the one and only Ice Cube; one of the founding members of NWA, a hugely successful solo artist in his own right, and now of course, a bona-fide film star.He"s sat in front of TG, smiling, and waxing lyrical about cars. Though now immortalised in recent biopic Straight Outta Compton and soon to appear on your screens in Ride Along 2, Ice that"s Mr Cube to you likes his motors very much."A lot of people will spend more on their car than they would on their house," he laughs. "It starts with sneakers, then maybe bikes and then cars. They"re a big status symbol, and a big signature on your personality."By his own admission, he"s not what you"d consider a typical petrolhead or gearhead. "I always consider a guy like that as a go-fast" guy, a guy who knows everything about everything under the hood," he says."I"m a guy who likes the look of a car obviously I"d rather for it to have some muscle in it than not but I"m not the type who"ll go and change the carbs, or change the exhaust. I just don"t get into it like that."I just buy them how I want them," he says.And he wants them fast, and luxurious, it seems. He"s certainly got an enviable collection. "I"ve got the new Corvette the Stingray which is nice," he says, half smiling. That, a Rolls-Royce Ghost "there"s nothing like a Rolls, it"s the feel it gives you" a couple of Bentleys (an Arnage and Flying Spur for his wife) along with a Porsche Panamera and a Cadillac Escalade. A far cry from his very first car: a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle."Those were the cool cars when you didn"t have any money," he says, laughing. "You can fix them up easy, while some guys would put on dual carbs, nice wheels, Porsche nipples [wheeltrims] it was a cool first car to have, because your style points didn"t go out the window."Did it fall under the first-car" curse, then, and fall apart? "The block was cracked," he says. "It would leak oil. I didn"t know about cracked blocks until I got that car."Also, the petrol gauge didn"t work, which proved particularly difficult during his Prom night. "I ran out of gas," he laughs, "I was running, I went to the cleaners to get my suit, and I remember running half a mile with my suit because my car stopped on me. I told my father, go get it, I"ve gotta get to the prom""
Date written: 22 Jan 2016
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ID: 1815
"Cars are a status symbol from the neighbourhood that I come from," explains O"Shea Jackson, in that trademark drawl. You might know him better as the one and only Ice Cube; one of the founding members of NWA, a hugely successful solo artist in his own right, and now of course, a bona-fide film star.He"s sat in front of TG, smiling, and waxing lyrical about cars. Though now immortalised in recent biopic Straight Outta Compton and soon to appear on your screens in Ride Along 2, Ice that"s Mr Cube to you likes his motors very much."A lot of people will spend more on their car than they would on their house," he laughs. "It starts with sneakers, then maybe bikes and then cars. They"re a big status symbol, and a big signature on your personality."By his own admission, he"s not what you"d consider a typical petrolhead or gearhead. "I always consider a guy like that as a go-fast" guy, a guy who knows everything about everything under the hood," he says."I"m a guy who likes the look of a car obviously I"d rather for it to have some muscle in it than not but I"m not the type who"ll go and change the carbs, or change the exhaust. I just don"t get into it like that."I just buy them how I want them," he says.And he wants them fast, and luxurious, it seems. He"s certainly got an enviable collection. "I"ve got the new Corvette the Stingray which is nice," he says, half smiling. That, a Rolls-Royce Ghost "there"s nothing like a Rolls, it"s the feel it gives you" a couple of Bentleys (an Arnage and Flying Spur for his wife) along with a Porsche Panamera and a Cadillac Escalade. A far cry from his very first car: a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle."Those were the cool cars when you didn"t have any money," he says, laughing. "You can fix them up easy, while some guys would put on dual carbs, nice wheels, Porsche nipples [wheeltrims] it was a cool first car to have, because your style points didn"t go out the window."Did it fall under the first-car" curse, then, and fall apart? "The block was cracked," he says. "It would leak oil. I didn"t know about cracked blocks until I got that car."Also, the petrol gauge didn"t work, which proved particularly difficult during his Prom night. "I ran out of gas," he laughs, "I was running, I went to the cleaners to get my suit, and I remember running half a mile with my suit because my car stopped on me. I told my father, go get it, I"ve gotta get to the prom""
Date written: 22 Jan 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1815
