Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

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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[TheGrerex]

I'd loved to see him do Paris. "Shit, dees buttresses be flyin', yo."

[Protector0ne]

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together." -Carl Sagan

[renaissancewriter]

@mallix2000 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.

[Kfinck89]

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

[2tiago7]

GTA SAN ANDREAS

[Trinity5722]

...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!!!....

[Trinity5722]

@TheGrerex ...heh,heh!!...

[kugellehr]

Ice cube! Can we get you to do an architecture show? Travel the world? Could bring some intellectualism into the ghetto!

[jaypzl]

Love the lines - "So What???" "The 110? That's gangsta traffic. Gotta know where u at." and "Maybe they're just mad that they don't live here."

That's right Cube... 110 South baby... City of Carson.

jp

[310Ren]

@azzzberg BIRD IN THE HAND - DEATH CERTIFICATE ALBUM ...