Cube is taking it back to his roots and dissing cats on wax again. Cube really hasn’t had a beef since Common in 96. Things are a little different this time around though, he is dissing an actor. Namely, Samuel L. Jackson. Really an indication of how his career has changed, no? The song is called “Lights Out” and Cube also has some remarks for Jesse Jackson.
The song appears as a Westside Connection track on the “Ghetto, Gutta, Gangsta” soundtrack. The only lines targeting Samuel state; “You can tell Samuel L. I’ma keep actin.” And he tells the Reverend Jesse Jackson, “You can even tell that muthafuckin’ Jesse Jackson/Pay your child support, keep your payments up, put a rubber on.”
It was Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who heavily criticized Cube’s “Barbershop.” They were upset about jokes that were made in regard to Rosa Parks’ civil rights contributions. They went so far as to demand the scene be deleted.
