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Former Westside Connection member Mack 10 has opened up about breaking apart from Ice Cube and explained how the rapper's wife may have played a key role in their fall out.
According to Mack, an argument led to their falling out.
“Basically, I didn’t do anything to him and he didn’t do anything to me,” Mack said in an interview. “We had an argument and I guess it was taken the wrong way because his wife was present. If she wasn’t there, we would probably still be doing records. His brother-in-law was disrespectful in a certain way. I don’t know what kind of dude he is now, but back then he was disrespectful. It was brought to Cube about 3 or 4 times before the bullsh*t happened. If I bring something to you 3 or 4 times and you don’t do anything about it – I mean just because a kid is your kid doesn’t mean he has the right to go spitting about anybody. The argument and the brother-in-law wasn’t worth throwing away The Westside Connection over in my opinion. When I heard the ‘kiss the ring’ comment I just had to laugh because that’s comedy. That’s where I’m at with it. I don’t know what he’s tripping off of.” (All Hip Hop)
As of late, Cube has been blogging about Westside Connection and Mack.
“New Westside Connection? Nothing planned. But just for the record. I own the rights. I put Mack-10 in the Connect gang, he didn’t put me in. That’s my sh*t.,” he wrote in a posting last month. (Ice Cube’s Blog)
Initial speculation on their falling out began to spread online around 2007.
After the last album something went wrong between one time friends Ice Cube and Mack 10. The two artists who in the past supported each others careers to the fullest are no longer on speaking terms. According to MG Insiders after their last WSC release, Mack became upset that Cube wouldn’t go on a second tour to support the album and the two artists clashed! Others have stated Cube felt slighted by Mack’s disrespect after going out of his way to secure him a deal for Hoo Bangin’ via Capitol Records. So much so that he has performed WSC songs without Mack 10, even when he’s at the same venue at the same time. Ice Cube has even gone as far as to remove Mack 10’s name from his lyrics when he’s performing songs. (Mahogany Girl)
Westside Connection is known for coming together as a rap crew around the mid-1990’s.
The rap supergroup Westside Connection came together in late 1996, comprising Ice Cube, Mack 10, and WC (of WC & the Madd Circle). The trio released the single “Bow Down” in September, and it reached number 21 on the singles charts. The subsequent album, also titled Bow Down, hit number two and quickly achieved gold status. Subsequent work, like 1998’s The Shadiest One, appeared under WC’s name. (All Music)
Listen to West Side Connection’s “Bow Down” below:
gay word is worst than N word to a black men
Nigga you gay….
Because we know whites are nigs as well.
LMFAO!
lmao
wiggas
a nigga is a nigga is a nigga is a nigga, the word really transcends race at this point….
Faggot,faggot,faggot ,faggot .
Negus mean black king google it
fucc fucc
fucc
Not what I was expecting. Good for him
Spike lee is an old ass now
whats his age got to do with it cocksucker?
he older wiser and richer than u will ever be.
peace!
get of that old guy’s nuts. old walking out the retirement home smelling like man booty type mother fucker.
run along PENIS breath
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surely you can do better than that. you’re not even worth my time.
if dick gregory aint got a problem with the movie. then nobody should.
I think Dick ws wrong about what he said about Spike.
Spike Lee didn’t criticize this film for its use of the word ‘nigger’. People are misrepresenting what he said and that’s some bullshit.
Going forty thousand feet up/reclining wit my feet up/air NIKES/airlife/feel like heaven [email protected]
Negus
On point words from god son..
Spike Lee: ” Damn I wish I would of came up with this first!”
Black people have become what white people have always characterized them as “Ignorant”. Spike Lee is entitled to his opinion and is partly right. Black people so ignorant that they accept any and everything, even being called a NIGGER. SMH – Thats why our race gets not a drop of respect from any other ethnic group on the face of the planet. Because we don’t know how to respect our ancestors or ourselves. Love the desentitization of the N-word, niggers. Fuck context. Thats exactly what I meant. And fuck Dick Gregory hypocritical old ass
already feeling the reprocussions of this movie….They are using the terms house and field nigga everywhere. This is sensitive to me still and I will still kick a devils ass if he calls me this….promise
Our people are so dayum ignorant and have been. Willie Lynch all day. He was so dayum right. Break the fucking cycle. Black people get some dayum respect about your selves as a community. That’s why NO ETHNIC GROUP on the face of the earth respects black people. I’m truly surprised by Dick Gregory, but then again, I’m not. Anybody who stands up and says that the black community is a joke and f’d up is either labeled racist if their white or a uncle tom sellout if black. Ignorance
You’re the one who’s ignorant. The movie depicts the usage of a word that is (and has been) used in every context, since the beginning of black slavery came into existence. He (Tarantino) is also demonstrating how extremely ignorant, stupid, hateful, inhumane and demonic the white slave owners/traders were at that time. He’s not glorifying the word, you fucking moron, just keeping it all the way real. So fuck you too, and stop your fuckin’ whinin’… bitch!
Wow, the only response to match your level of ignorance and lack of vocabulary is, Your mamma. Is that on your level enough. Good, go read a book and learn some facts. And you sir much like the rest of those like you are the reason that black race is laughed at. But as the saying goes, you don’t share your jewels with swine ..
movie was fuckin garbage… sad how many people need to comment with their feet in their mouths just to get some shine…
Here’s the thing…Spike Lee has had two decades to tell the story of slavery in North America from whatever perspective he wanted to, and no one would’ve dared question him(well, except for Krauthammer), and he NEVER did. Why, if it’s so dear to him, didn’t he tell that story. Because he doesn’t understand it and cannot tell it.
i really don’t understand why people are bashing spike lee especially the brothers. i can expect bashing from the white society but just as tarantino uses the n word excessively in his movies, spike lee who is the only “black conscious” director i know who makes conscious films about his own people has a right to state his opinion and i don’t care what anyone says I agree with his comment whole heartedly. to someone who doesn’t use the “n” word even in heartfelt terms to acknowledge my own brothers I see lees point of view more clearly than the brothas who use the “n” word on a daily basis. I respect tarantino for his artistry and i like alot of his movies but i myself don’t know if i will watch django because as i get older it especially makes me uncomfortable hearing a caucasian saying the “n” word. if you’re against spike then you might as well be for a white person saying the “n” word and that imo is plain sad. its a big difference hearing my people say it versus a white person saying on screen or off and im not pretending to be blind to the fact that white people actually laugh in theaters at night when the “n” word is being said. i will also honor my ancestors. and for the record there hasn’t been many directors that make movies for black society like spike lee that you make you think. Are we so ignorant that we bash one of the the only brothas who makes conscious movies of ourselves that holds us in high esteem without making a mockery of us. Spike Lee is probably the best “black filmmaker” of our generation and he deserves respect for breaking barriers. im not trying to bash quarantino but i agree with spikes opinion.
So, you’re defending a basher by bashing his bashers?
You know why black folks are bashing Spike. Because of apathy and acceptance of degredation. Thats why. The love of ignorance and delusion. Anybody who speak the truth on what the problem is with the black race, whether black or white is quickly called either racist or an uncle tom. Our race wollows in generations of ignorance and apathy but no one wants to break free from it but a few. Our race is like a bastard child with no home training who needs The FATHER to yolk us up by our neck and put a foot up our azz.
If you make a movie about slavery using the N word comes with the territory. However this is truly not about the use of the N word. It’s about the double standard when making movie about race. Do you think a black filmaker could make a movie such as this one and not get told they are race baiting or pulling the race card? You’ll have white men crying about character assassination and vilification. Meanwhile the black filmmaker will get no investors to produce films of this nature. George Lucas said in an interview that it took over a decade to make Red Tails because no one would invest in the movie. Finally he had to raise the money himself and the movie lost over 8 million dollar. If George Lucas can’t get money to make movies with a black cast and black theme want makes you think Spike Lee can doing it? The last movie he made (Red Hook Summer) only grossed 388 thousand. The financials were not released on the move so we don’t know how much money it lost. Black people want to support black filmmakers and we do. Only if it’s about Madea doing something ridiculous. Why all the support for Tarantino? Isn’t he vilifying white men? That’s the issue right there.
@zylone:disqus your comment makes you ignorant or the “n” word for several reasons. Let me also state that I am 100% african american. The fact that it makes you uncomfortable to hear the “n” word, is a personal problem as it is nothing but factual history that this is the word they used for us blacks. More disturbing in your post then that, is saying something as ignorant that “if you’re against spike you might as well be for a white saying the “n” word.” Do I have to tell you how stupid that sounds. I love Spike Lee and what he has accomplished as a black man in the film making industry, but what is he supposed to be, the face of black people? We’re not talking Martin Luther King Jr. and still I wouldn’t label even him as the face of black people. It’s 2013 dude it’s people like you who continue to make sure the race gap is an issue in today’s society. I just don’t get it. Would this movie be acceptable if a black man filmed and directed it? Another good question, what were they supposed to refer to us as in that time period. We still weren’t “colored” at that time and damn sure wasn’t “african american”. Please smarten up, siding with a black person doesn’t make you black or pro black. It is such an insult for you to expect “brothers” to stick with “brothers” just because, as if we are mindless uneducated beings who can’t have our own opinion. There’s completely nothing wrong with Spike having his own opinion but it is his opinion, not black peoples opinion. What I will say about this movie and what makes it such a great movie that at least deserves a chance is that it takes a very serious subject and time and makes humor of it but not in a way that demoralizes black people it is simple history.
Wurd!
I would let yall know that blacks traded blacks to the whites in Africa and they traded them. They didn’t steal anyone, the people who were our so called leaders agreed for us to be traded all because of greed. The history is not outlined how it happened. Most African American don;t even know their dammn history but here fighting about slavery and N word. ” Man Give Words Power” I AM BLACK, Where im from is dominant black but we are a Different breed of people, one with a sense of Peace And Forgiveness. We were part of the slaves, some escaped some was sold. But we Hold nothing against the whites. Let go of the past and build as a nation. #LOVE
I vouched for Tarantino spike lee is the suck ass director ever that film/directed a movie so tell him yo keep attending badketball game and let the real director’s make movie his cause he never make it. …
Nas is dumb as fuck for saying he aint gat problem with that white bitch using the N-word.