Ice Cube

CTL-E-5698 · Person · musician · 1986–present

STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-02590 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-0801 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5698. Master record source: Soul Train Awards build 2026-10-16 — sourced from Wikipedia ceremony pages.

Ice Cube (born O'Shea Jackson on June 15, 1969, in Los Angeles, California) is the rapper, songwriter, actor and producer who wrote much of N.W.A's landmark work and then built one of hip-hop's most durable solo and film careers. After the group C.I.A. (1986), he co-founded N.W.A in 1987 with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre and wrote most of the lyrics on Straight Outta Compton (1988), the album that carried gangsta rap to a national audience. Following a dispute over the group's management and his earnings, he left N.W.A — reference works differ on whether the departure falls in late 1989 or 1990; the record prints the variance — and released the solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991) and The Predator (1992). On screen he debuted as Doughboy in Boyz n the Hood (1991) and co-wrote and starred in Friday (1995), which grew into a franchise. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of N.W.A in 2016.

The record

• Also known as: O'Shea Jackson, O'Shea Jackson Sr.
• Role(s): recording artist

Notes

STAGED 2026-10-16 (747 Program, Shorts Reverse-Gap Wave 6) — not merged; awaits founder merge go. Gate A: no match in the live graph (3,409 entities) under exact, normalized, alias, or token-containment screening, 2026-10-16. Supply: Named further gap — Wave 4 + Wave 5 packets (Yo-Yo's blocked mentor edge). Vital status: Living; active at staging (verified October 2026). Photo HELD — candidate requires file-page-level license verification. Project ID: PPL-001 per wave precedent (staged 'CULTGRAPH' ID is not registered). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No CTL Short bills this subject in the Shorts Link Map catalog — full-catalog title sweep for the subject name) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Relationships

• Dr. Dre — collaborated with
  Cube and Dr. Dre were N.W.A bandmates (1987–1989) and recorded the duet 'Natural Born Killaz' (1994) after Cube's departure.
• Friday — starred in
  Ice Cube co-wrote Friday (1995) with DJ Pooh and starred in it as Craig Jones.
• N.W.A — related to
  Ice Cube was an original member of N.W.A, in the lineup formed in early 1987, and left in December 1989 after the debut album. Membership is stated here because the schema's member_of_organization type does not take a Person target; the group is typed Person/group.
• Soul Train Music Awards 2005 — honored by
  STRONG EVIDENCE

Referenced by

• Friday — authored by → this record

Sources

• EBSCO Research Starters, 'Ice Cube' biography — birth, C.I.A. and N.W.A formation, lyric authorship, solo albums, departure year 1990 [primary] (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Ice Cube' — cross-checked against EBSCO, October 2026 (Boyz n the Hood, Friday co-authorship, 2016 induction; carries the late-1989 departure variant) (build store)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Soul_Train_Music_Awards (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Won Quincy Jones Award for Outstanding Career Achievements at the Soul Train Music Awards 2005 — per the published Soul Train Music Awards winners lists (per-year lists fetched in full during recovery Phase C, 2026-10-17)

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