Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday

Uh And we love Hollywood Shuffle by Robert Townsend . And uh we was like , let's , let's write a movie about the neighborhood , like , because everything that was coming out was depressing . You know , it was , it was colors boys in the hood Minister Society South Central .

Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday

Yeah , it's , it's uh it's a movie that I get commented on more than any other , like people quote it love it . The , the characters are iconic . Uh People dress up when you know you got a line like you got knocked the fuck out that gets repeated for decades .

Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday

Or don't we laugh around here all the time ? Like let's , let's show how it really is for us around here . And so that's how Friday kinda terminated and became like , yo , we gonna show our version of what , how we have fun in South Central .

Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday

Yeah . You know , you know , that's as , as an artist . That's all you want is to have a couple of classics that people remember you for , you know , when you 80 in a cafe , you know , drinking coffee , somebody run up and be like , yo , Craig , what's up ?

Ice Cube on the Legacy of Friday

The Joe Rogan experience when I found out that you wrote Friday , I was like , that's insane . That's incredible . Yeah .