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Topics: Celebrity Net Worth, Music, TV and Film, Ice Cube
Joe Lynch
O’Shea Jackson, better known as Ice Cube, has been a prolific artist since he first rose to fame as a teenager in the mid 1980s and has accumulated significant wealth during this long career.
As a founding member of the rap group N.W.A., Ice Cube was the catalyst for the rise in gangster rap’s popularity.
Ice Cube’s departure from the group, his solo career and his eventual reconciliation with N.W.A. was portrayed in the hugely successful 2015 film Straight Outta Compton. Ice Cube’s son, also named O’Shea Jackson, played the role of his father.
Ice Cube has also had a successful career as an actor, starring alongside the likes of Laurence Fishburne in Boyz n the Hood.
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In the last decade Ice Cube has predominantly appeared in comedies; he starred alongside Kevin Hart in Ride Along and featured in 21 Jump Street with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
Ice Cube has attracted controversy with many criticising his use of misogynistic and antisemitic language during his rap career. Last year he made headlines after exiting the production of comedy film Oh Hell No due to the producers’ recommendation that he receive the Covid vaccination.
Ice Cube’s net worth is $160 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Whilst this wealth has predominantly been earned due to the success of his rapping and acting career, Ice Cube has also earned a substantial sum from his advertising ventures which include being a spokesperson for Coors Light Beer since 2011.
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He’s used this wealth to set up his own clothing line, 'Solo by Cube', which sells hoodies with built-in headphones.
Ice Cube owns two Californian mansions; a $7.25 million home in Marina Del Rey and a mansion in Enico which he bought for $2.36 million in 1996.
Ice Cube’s decision to leave the Oh Hell No production cost him a $9 million pay cheque, but I think he’ll be okay without it.