'Friday' was released 25 years ago today. Here, Ice Cube looks back at a stoner-comedy classic: “It’s the movie you check out when you’re baked'
, and all of them show the horrors of living where we lived. But growing up in South Central, we feel like, damn, we was having fun. Wait, what did we miss? We know it had its bad moments, but for the most part, there’s no place I would rather grow up.
It was like some shit you just roll with, and you knew how to adapt. You knew how to laugh instead of cry. We wanted to put it in a movie and show that the neighborhood we grew up in wasn’t this terror zone, it was just this place that had good days, and it had bad days. It was very unpredictable, which made it dangerous – but for the most part, we had fun growing up. So I was like,”Yo, we need to show how we do on our street,” and not make it a horror story., about your days in N.W.
Damn near all of it, man. You just think of Lil Chris knocking down the trashcan, and me chasing him down the street and wanting to whoop his ass. That’s definitely real. And my brother is the one who got fired on his day off; he was working for UPS. So it’s like the little tidbits out of life. I just put them all in a movie.Just like the Deebo in the movie. Cool sometimes, but it depends on what he was on and what he was after, or who he knew orknow, or how well he knew you. Things like that.
In a way, totally. Pooh was a big-time producer with a rapper by the name of King Tee, and they were kind of a dynamic duo in early LA. I started working with Pooh on my second album. He helped produce a lot of the tracks with a group called the Boogiemen, so I would go and hang with him – and if anybody knows Pooh, he’s one of the most creative people I’ve ever met. He’s, like, 1,000 ideas coming out at once, so what I would do was try to harness those ideas so they could be potent.
He was always cracking jokes and always smoking weed, and we’re in the studio making music, but we’re laughing the whole time. He’s a jokester. We were fans of movies like, and Robert Townsend had a lot of specials on HBO back then, which were funny. A few characters like John Witherspoon’s [Craig’s dad], I got them from watching those comedies. So we just started talking about how we needed to do a movie that shows the neighborhood that we grew up in, and how it is for real.
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