Mack 10 has revealed he hasn’t seen or spoken to Ice Cube in almost two decades since their falling-out.
The West Coast rap veteran was asked about his long-running rift with Cube in an interview with Bootleg Kev, admitting their relationship has remained frosty since they parted ways back in the mid 2000s.
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“I fuck with who fuck with me, you dig? That’s where I’m at with it. If you fuck with me, I fuck with you. But if it’s fuck me, it’s fuck you,” Mack said.
“I ain’t seen him or talked to him in damn near 20 years, so there it is.”
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Their bad blood has even deterred Mack from listening to Cube’s Mount Westmore album with Snoop Dogg, Too $hort and E-40, which dropped in December.
“I’ve heard bits and pieces of it, but not really,” he replied when asked if he’s heard the West Coast supergroup’s debut project. “Westside Connection was a movement. It was a little different.”
Mack 10 and Ice Cube joined forces alongside WC in the mid 1990s to form the supergroup Westside Connection, who released their critically acclaimed and commercially successful debut album Bow Down in ’96.
The California trio regrouped in 2003 for their second and final project Terrorist Threats, before Mack quit the group just a few years later after a falling-out with Cube.
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In an interview with VladTV in 2020, Mack confirmed his departure stemmed from him getting into an altercation with Cube’s brother-in-law, who he alluded to “fuck[ing] my money up.”
“It was just an unfortunate situation, as far as what came out of all that,” he said. “It ain’t like that just happened … I went to Cube about four or five times before the conflict jumped off and told him to correct the situation. That’s the part that everybody leaves out.”
He added: “If it was my wife’s brother, I would’ve told him he can’t fuck my money up and he can’t be out of line with nobody I’m getting down with. And if you got that big of a problem with him, stay at home. My wife’s brother wouldn’t have stopped shit for me, with him.”
Mack clarified that his and Cube’s disagreement didn’t escalate beyond a verbal argument, saying: “Me and Cube didn’t have no fight or nothing like that. We had an argument, but okay, I thought that was it.”
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When Bootleg Kev lamented Westside Connection’s breakup, reflecting on the “classics” they made together, Mack 10 replied: “I totally understand, I totally get it. But you know, I’m just the kinda guy that rock with who rock with me.”
Mack did, however, offer a glimpse of hope that for the right price, the supergroup could reunite — although any efforts to prevent that from happening up to now haven’t come from him.
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“I mean, I’m a business man. And it ain’t never been me with the hold-up,” he said. “It ain’t never been my personality or who I am with the hold-up of us doing something. But I fuck with who fuck with me. It is what it is.”
