Ice Cube recently spoke to MTV about his signing with Dr Dre’s Aftermath Records, here is what he had to say:
“Two of the biggest masterminds in West Coast hip-hop are together again. I think that’s something exciting.
Me signing to Aftermath was something that was kind of in the back in our minds for a while as far as Ice Cube’s camp,” Cube said. “We kind of felt around and saw if Dre would be interested in something like that. He was all the way with it. Once he was all the way with it, we just started working on putting the deal in place. We’re in the process of making it work. Hopefully next year you’ll see an album by Cube produced by Dr. Dre. For me it’s exciting because my next album could be the best album I ever released. To me that’s something that turned me on to where I just want to get on the mic.”
Not too long ago, Cube said that he was feeling burnt out from making music and was more likely to focus on movies and not music.
“Not really burnt out on making music, it’s just the routine of doing it year after year after year. What works out for me now at this point in my career is to take breaks in between the records and it builds up my hunger to kinda get back in there. That’s what I been doing. Dre coming on and me not having to worry about musically what’s going to happen on the record — I just focus on lyrics and songs and content — that excites me, to be able to take a little of that pressure off myself and let the master, which is Dre, handle it.”
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So when will we see an album from the two legends?
“I’m writing,” Cube said. “[Dre’s] doing music. He’s also working on his album. We’re trying to get [both albums] to come out around the same time. Tour together. Make it a big, full circle.”
