Ice Cube confirmed final yr’s stories that he misplaced out on a $9 million performing gig as a result of he wouldn’t get vaccinated towards COVID-19. As The Los Angeles Times notes, the rapper talked about it in a brand new episode of the “Million Dollaz Worth Of Game” podcast.
“I turned down a movie because I didn’t wanna get the motherfucking jab,” he mentioned. “I turned down $9 million because I didn’t want to get the jab. Fuck that jab and fuck y’all for trying to make me get it. I don’t know how Hollywood feel about me right now.” He went on to make clear: “I didn’t turn [$9 million] down. Them motherfuckers wouldn’t give it to me because I wouldn’t get the shot. I didn’t turn it down. They just didn’t give it to me.”
Ice Cube was up for a starring function alongside Jack Black in a comedy that was referred to as Oh Hell No, which was set to shoot in Hawaii just a few weeks earlier than he left the undertaking. The movie has been delayed. Earlier this month, it was introduced that Eric Appel, the writer-director of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, can be taking up the undertaking, which is seemingly referred to as Stepdude now.
Ice Cube has sometimes taken to social media to specific his vaccine skepticism, and a pair years in the past he was criticized for sharing anti-Semitic memes and Russian propaganda. Earlier this yr, he linked up with Snoop Dogg, E-40, and Too $hort to premiere an album from their supergroup Mount Westmore within the metaverse.