His collaborative effort with Mack-10 and WC formed the group Westside Connection, whose second album, Terrorist Threats, was released in December 2003 and marks the follow-up effort to their 1996 double-platinum seller, Bow Down. As a solo artist, Cube has recorded such hit albums as Lethal Injection, Bootlegs & B-Sides, The Predator, and Amerikkka's Most Wanted. LisaRaye also starred in the famous The Players Club as Diamond, which movie was written and directed by the hip hop icon Ice Cube. ANTHONY AJ Johnson, who was known for portraying Ezal in the movie Friday, as well as roles in House Party, The Players Club and Menace II Society, passed away on Monday, according to his representative. His thriving music career includes the double-platinum success of Volumes 1 and 2 of his double album, War and Peace. He has also starred in movies that are deemed cult-classic films within the Black American community, like 'The Players Club' and 'I Got the Hook Up,' per News One. Most of us know her from the comedy Single Ladies, in which she starred as Keisha Greene, a troubled wife to a silent gangster drug dealer husband.
Cube made his feature film debut in John Singleton's classic Boyz n the Hood.Ĭube continues to be one of the most recognized hip-hop artists in the recording industry.
His other film credits include the critically acclaimed Three Kings, opposite George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, Trespass and Higher Learning. In 1998 he directed, produced, wrote and starred in 'The Players Club.' Other Ice Cube movies include 'Are We There Yet' and its sequel, '21 Jump Street' and '22 Jump Street,' 'Straight Outta. In Are We Done Yet?, Cube again starred as Nick Persons, a role he created in Revolution Studios' sleeper-hit family comedy Are We There Yet?, which he also produced through Cube Vision. He also starred in and executive produced the back-to-back box office hits Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business. Cube Vision was also responsible for The Players Club, in which Cube made his directorial debut. As head of the production company Cube Vision, Ice Cube (Durell Washington) has written, produced, and starred in the cult hit Friday and its successful sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next.