Ice Cube Is Taking It Old School

According to usatoday.com, Ice Cube, aka O'Shea Jackson, is disappointed in today's rap music and is in hopes that his new album, Raw Footage, will bring back rap to its beginnings where the music actually said something.

Ice Cube knows that there was a time back in the '90s that the music connected with and reflected the life and times of the inner city. He misses the feel of the old music.

Cube says, "That kind of music got put on the back burner and it became about what I call escapism rap. That's where all you talk about is money, jewelry, clubs and women and don't talk about the problems around you."

Ice Cube says of his eighth album, though, "This is uncut hip-hop for the brain, not the booty."

Reportedly, Raw Footage will also cover multiple topics such as random violence through a victim's viewpoint, along with challenging the mentality in poor neighborhoods.

He also has a thing or two to say on the album about rap music being blamed for things that he feels it shouldn't be, as the music is a reflection of life. "I just wanted to show how hypocritical it is to think like that. Rap is a mirror. And if you're ugly, you can't blame the mirror," Ice Cube said.