Who is Ice Cube?

Ice Cube is an American rapper, actor, producer, director, and writer. He initially gained recognition in 1984 as a member of the hip hop group C.I.A., which gained limited commercial success prior to disbanding three years later.

Ice alongside Dr. Dre and Eazy E then formed the group N.W.A, where he gained extreme notoriety as the group’s primary songwriter and performer.

Ice Cube: Age, Parents, Siblings, Nationality, Ethnicity

Ice Cube was born in Los Angeles, California, the United States on June 15, 1969. His birth name is O’Shea Jackson. His father’s name is Hosea Jackson (groundskeeper) and his mother’s name is Doris Jackson ( hospital clerk).

Since his early teenage years, he also had a keen interest in hip hop music and also wrote rap songs for a keyboarding class at his school.

He has a brother as well as a half-sister who was murdered when Cube was 12. Whereas, his cousin is Teren Delvon Jones, also known as Del Tha Funky Homosapien, who is a part of the rap group Hieroglyphics and who has also worked with Gorillaz; another cousin is Kam of the rap group The Warzone.

He holds American citizenship and mixed (African-American) ethnicity. His birth sign is Gemini.