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Published 18:11 14 Apr 2023 GMT+1

Ice Cube explains how he and Dre became friends again after their beef

Ice Cube and Dre are back on good terms.

Ali Condon

Ali Condon

Ice Cube has revealed how he and Dr Dre patched things over years after years of beef.

Things got messy between Dre and Cube toward the end of N.W.A, but, years later, the two finally managed to make amends.

It all went down in 1989, when Ice Cube - real name O'Shea Jackson - decided to leave the chart-topping hip-hop group over bitter royalty disputes.

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Not long after he ditched the group, Cube launched his own solo career, releasing his first album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted in 1990.

N.W.A's next few releases had a few disses directed at Cube, including the lyric: "We started with five, but yo one couldn't make it. So now it's four cuz the fifth couldn't make it" in the track '100 Miles and Runnin'.

This went back and forth for a while until it escalated to Ice Cube's absolutely scathing track 'No Vaseline', calling out his former bandmates.

Dr Dre and Ice Cube were a part of N.W.A.
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In one particularly aggressive verse, he rapped: "You lookin' like straight bozos, I saw it comin' that's why I went solo, kept on stompin.

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"When y'all Muthaf**kas moved Straight outta Compton, you got jealous when I got my own company. But I'm a man, and ain't nobody humpin' me."

So... in case it wasn't clear, Cube was not on good terms with N.W.A.

But years later, Cube and Dre agreed to settle their beef once and for all.

In an interview with Howard Stern, Ice Cube revealed that when he first reunited with Dre all those years later, it was like they had never fallen out at all.

"It was a little awkward because he had a house in West Lake and he was producing a record called 'Natural Born Killaz' and he just wanted me on it.

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"That was during the Death Row [Records] years. He called me and I hadn't heard from him in forever, so I was excited to go over there.

Ice Cube explained how he and Dr Dre made amends.
The Howard Stern Show

"And I go over there and he's got a room full of motherf**kers in the house and I'm just like, 'Where's Dre?'"

Eventually, he found Dre in the back room working on beats by himself.

"I go back there and it's just him in the room... we hugged and it's like, we never even talked about the past. We just went forward."

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And from then, the history-making hip-hop icons were back in business.

During the interview, which was recorded in 2016, Ice Cube assured Howard that he and Dre still hang out often, and were more than happy to work together on the hit 2015 film Straight Outta Compton.

Don't you just love a happy ending?

Featured Image Credit: REUTERS / Alamy Everett Collection Inc / Alamy

Topics: Music, Ice Cube, Celebrity

Ali Condon
Ali Condon

Ali is a journalist for LADbible Group, writing on all things film, music, and entertainment across Tyla, LADbible and UNILAD. You can contact Ali at [email protected].

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