Editing Ice Cube (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Ice Cube HS Yearbook.jpeg|thumb|175px|right|Ice Cube as a high school senior in 1987]]
O'Shea Jackson was born in [[Los Angeles]] on June 15, 1969, to hospital clerk and custodian Doris and machinist and [[UCLA]] groundskeeper Hosea Jackson.<ref name="Jessie Carney Smith 2006">{{cite book | title=Encyclopedia of African American Business, Volume 1 | publisher=Greenwood | first=Jessie Carney|last=Smith | year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books|-VYN_LWZwf4C|page=PA403|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |last=Muhammad |first=Baiyina W. |chapter=O'Shea 'Ice Cube' Jackson (1965– ), Rapper, Lyricst, Producer, Actor, ScreenWriter, Director, Film Producer and Businessman |title=Encyclopedia of African American Business |volume=1 |pages=403–5 |editor-first=Jessie Carney|editor-last=Smith |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |location=Westport, Connecticut|year=2006 |isbn=9780313331107}}</ref><ref name="hiphop.sh">{{cite web|url=http://hiphop.sh/cube|title=Ice Cube|publisher=Hiphop.sh|access-date=December 12, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016060405/http://hiphop.sh/cube|archive-date=October 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Nashawaty|first=Chris|date=November 15, 2002|title=They call him Mister Cube|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/11/15/they-call-him-mister-cube/|access-date=June 1, 2010|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|archive-date=December 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205120704/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,388411,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He has an older brother,<ref>{{cite web|author=Mark Armstrong |url=http://blog.longreads.com/2014/08/13/the-believer-interview-ice-cube/ |title=The Believer Interview: Ice Cube : Longreads Blog |publisher=Blog.longreads.com |date=August 13, 2014 |access-date=August 15, 2015}}</ref> and they had a half-sister who was murdered when Cube was 12.<ref>[http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/interviews/article/5368/Ice-Cube-Actor-Musician Ice Cube – Actor/Musician | Teen Interview]. Teen nick. Retrieved on December 31, 2011.</ref> He is a cousin of fellow rappers [[Del tha Funky Homosapien]] and [[Kam (rapper)|Kam]]. He grew up on Van Wick Street in the [[Westmont, California|Westmont]] section of [[South Los Angeles]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Parental Discretion Iz Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap|last=Kennedy|first=Gerrick D.|year=2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/cuepoint/ice-cube-check-the-technique-202d2a794008|title=The Making of Ice Cube's "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"|last=Coleman|first=Brian|date=October 13, 2014|website=Cuepoint|access-date=December 7, 2018}}</ref> In ninth grade at [[George Washington Preparatory High School]] in Los Angeles,<ref name="Fresh Air">{{cite news|title=Actor and Musician Ice Cube: 'Are We There Yet?'|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4276517|publisher=NPR|access-date=December 12, 2012}}</ref> Cube began writing raps after being challenged by his friend "Kiddo" in typewriting class. Kiddo lost.<ref name="under">{{cite web|title=Ice Cube Goes Undercover on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and Wikipedia {{!}} GQ|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st9sc-ZdhxY&t=334s| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/st9sc-ZdhxY| archive-date=October 28, 2021|via=YouTube| date=February 16, 2017 |access-date=April 7, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He has said that his stage name came from his older brother, who "threatened to slam [him] into a freezer and pull [him] out when [he] was an ice cube".<ref name="under" /><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWUrDKKlNUU&t=2m19s Ice Cube Explains His Moniker And Gives One To Stephen], interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (aired June 20, 2017, published to YouTube on June 21, 2017)</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvPsBd14OG0&t=2m59s Ice Cube's Google Autocomplete Interview] (''Wired'', published to YouTube on April 11, 2016)</ref>

Cube also attended [[William Howard Taft Charter High School (Los Angeles)|William Howard Taft High School]] in the [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles|Woodland Hills]] area of Los Angeles.<ref name="Jessie Carney Smith 2006" /> He was bused {{convert|40|mi}} to the suburban school from his home in a high-crime neighborhood.<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 27, 2015|title=Summer movie preview: O'Shea Jackson Jr. plays dad Ice Cube in 'Straight Outta Compton'|url=https://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150427/summer-movie-preview-oshea-jackson-jr-plays-dad-ice-cube-in-straight-outta-compton|access-date=October 30, 2021|newspaper=Los Angeles Daily News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Ice Cube |magazine=Exclaim!|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/five_noteworthy_facts_you_may_not_know_about_ice_cube|access-date=October 30, 2021}}</ref> In the fall of 1987, soon after he wrote and recorded a few locally successful rap songs with [[N.W.A]], he enrolled at the Phoenix Institute of Technology [[Phoenix, Arizona]].<ref name="Jessie Carney Smith 2006" /><ref name="BlackCollegian">{{cite news|author=Jefferson, Jevaillier|date=February 2004|title=Ice Cube: Building On His Vision|work=Black Collegian|url=http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/2ndsem04/icecube2004-2nd.shtml|url-status=dead|access-date=December 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126171147/http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/2ndsem04/icecube2004-2nd.shtml|archive-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref> In 1988, with a diploma in [[Architectural drawing|architectural drafting]], he returned to Los Angeles and rejoined N.W.A, but kept a career in architecture drafting as a backup plan.<ref name="Jessie Carney Smith 2006" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2011/12/08/ice-cube-celebrates-the-eames/|date=December 8, 2011|publisher=Dezeen|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref>