Added: Dec 7, 2011
From: pacificstandardtime
Duration: 2:16
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene. For more info on Ice Cube The Eames visit http://pacificstandardtime.org. Ice Cube drives Inglewood blvd. describing the Los Angeles that he knows. He talks of landmarks like The Forum, Five Torches, Cockatoo Inn, Brolly Hut, and Watts Towers. He refers to the 110 as "Gangsta Highway". Cube says coming from South Central LA teaches you how to be resourceful. The video cuts to Cube walking the Eames House perimeter, through the Eames living room, and sitting in the Eames lounge chair. He brings us back to his NWA years when he studied architectural drafting before launching his rap career. One thing he learned that translates is to always have a plan. Cube describes the modern, green and resourceful building design of Charles and Ray Eames. Visionaries of connecting nature and structure. Cube ends by saying "Who are these people who got a problem with LA? Maybe they mad cuz they don't live here." Song during intro is "A Bird in the Hand" off of Death Certificate.
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Rating: 4.985049' max='5' min='1' numRaters='3478' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 528039 Comments: 219
kugellehr Says:
Feb 29, 2012 - Ice cube! Can we get you to do an architecture show? Travel the world? Could bring some intellectualism into the ghetto!
Trinity5722 Says:
Mar 2, 2012 - ...heh,heh!!...
Trinity5722 Says:
Mar 2, 2012 - ...Hip Hop is a "Culture". Music is a very "Small part of it". The media exploits that small percentage or maybe, "They really don't know" that Hip Hop is a "Culture"....Its The Movement that Changed America FOREVER!!!....
2tiago7 Says:
Mar 4, 2012 - GTA SAN ANDREAS
Kfinck89 Says:
Mar 6, 2012 - hehehe "he was doing mash-ups before mash-ups even existed!" But seriously, he's got an eye for spatial appreciation detail! "Its not about the pieces, its how the pieces work together" - in a straightforward way, post-modernism, phenomenology and tectonics all at once , coolest rapper ever! Never heard of him till i hear someone reference him at an architecture talk in Melbourne, Australia :P
renaissancewriter Says:
Mar 9, 2012 - I don't know much about Ice Cube, truly, so I'm not really defending him. And yes, maybe it was a promotional gig for him (I'm cynical and concerned about that kind of, for lack of a better term, product placement, too - but I'm not really sure that's the case here). Anyway. Thanks for the reply. Peace.
BigDogMne Says:
Mar 11, 2012 - thumbs up for old school hip hop! /watch?v=ry6teqqB_EA
professorbananas Says:
Mar 16, 2012 - damn i hadn't expected this from ice cube!
HitAndRunChannel Says:
Mar 17, 2012 - Ayo Hiphop listeners! Check out ma Hiphop channel, I'm uploading NEW Hiphop songs almost EVERYDAY! Would be nice if you could take a look at ma channel and tell what ya think, I'm sure theres songs that you maybe havent heard yet... P'z out!
2paczfan Says:
Mar 18, 2012 - expect the unexpected, that's hip-hop
nbmufc94 Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - When im in ya neigbourhood ya better duck coz Ice crube is crazy as fuck!
MrAmerica117 Says:
Mar 24, 2012 - stfu idiot
zecxixo Says:
Mar 27, 2012 - mad respect to Ice Cube!
smitg10 Says:
Apr 7, 2012 - Ice Cube respects Design, My respect for Ice Cube: +10
Radu287 Says:
Apr 8, 2012 - 1:36 "Kinda like sampling" That's exactly what I thought before he said it. :)
larryngocn Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - "Before I did rap music, I studied architectural drafting..." incredible
90loneeagle Says:
Apr 13, 2012 - this is going green 1949 style bitch....lmfaoooo
David Basskin Says:
Apr 20, 2012 - Well done! This man needs his own show on architecture and design. He's smart, articulate, funny and unafraid to have a point of view. L.A.'s Sir Kenneth Clark for the new century, maybe. Oh, and I like his taste in cars. Q
KittyKattyYukiLvr Says:
Apr 28, 2012 - I know, as a LA girl, I just laughed because he is 100 % correct! lol.
GooDHooDThug Says:
Apr 28, 2012 - The Best Real Gangsta Raper
Reno Buchstaber Says:
May 8, 2012 - Hell Yea! Ice Cube inspires - making something out of what you've got - resourcefulness - cooool. How the pieces fit together.
jeffreychantin Says:
May 13, 2012 - Shiiiiiiiiet. Who did he rape!
theilokana Says:
May 14, 2012 - This is thoroughly entertaining and surprising.
TheMrSteady Says:
May 17, 2012 - can anybody tell me from wich song is the melody from the start?
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
KrisMCW Says:
Feb 26, 2012 - I invite for verification ! /watch?v=neeyoYK1QQcfeature=channel_video_title