Not ‘Pretty in Pink’
Compton rap artist Ice Cube, a member of the group N.W.A. before making his controversial solo debut album, “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted,” is in the movies.
He’s currently co-starring in Columbia’s “Boys in the ‘Hood,” which began shooting Oct. 1, playing a drug-dealing gang member in the coming-of-age drama that explores the dilemmas inner-city teen-agers face as they try to remain unscathed in a gang- and drug-ridden environment.
Larry Fishburne stars as an angry father with a strong political consciousness in the first feature from writer-director John Singleton, 23, a USC film school graduate and award-winning student screenwriter.
Pat Charbonette, who manages Ice Cube (real name: Oshea Jackson), tells us her client stopped touring recently to prepare for his role, including taking acting lessons.
“It’s something he’s been looking forward to for a long time,” she says. “It could be a whole new wrinkle in his career.”
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