Editing Ice Cube (section)

=== Conspiracy theories and antisemitism ===
At a 1991 press conference promoting his album ''[[Death Certificate (album)|Death Certificate]]'', Cube endorsed the Nation of Islam's [[Pseudo-scholarship|pseudo-scholarly]] book ''[[The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews]]'', which falsely claims that European Jews dominated the [[Atlantic slave trade]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Woldu |first=Gail Hilson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrUYZm3xZQgC |title=The Words and Music of Ice Cube |date=2008-10-30 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-08078-4 |pages=37 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Adler |first=Bill |date=2020 |title=An Open Letter to Ari Melber About Ice Cube |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/bill-adler-ice-cube-ari-melber |access-date=16 April 2023 |website=Tablet Magazine}}</ref> ''Death Certificate'' also contains the song "[[No Vaseline]]",<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":0">JTA, [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/rapper-ice-cube-scuffles-with-rabbi-outside-casino-hit-with-2ml-law-suit-404511 "Rapper Ice Cube scuffles with rabbi outside casino, hit with $2ml lawsuit"], ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', JPost.com, Jpost Inc., May 30, 2015.</ref> which uses racial slurs against the other former members of N.W.A and refers to the group's manager [[Jerry Heller]] as "[[Wiktionary:white devil|devil]]" and "[[cracker (slur)|cracker]]".<ref name=":10">{{cite book|first=Soren|last=Baker|title=The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form|publisher=[[Abrams Image]]|location=New York City|date=2018|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wIFnDwAAQBAJ&q=Vaseline+Eazy+house+nigga+Heller+Jew|quote=...'No Vaseline', specifically its treatment of its two main targets, N.W.A's leader Eazy-E and N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller, whom Ice Cube depicts as teaming to financially molest N.W.A's other members.|isbn=9781683352358}}</ref><ref>[https://www.metrolyrics.com/no-vaseline-lyrics-ice-cube.html "Ice Cube—'No Vaseline' lyrics"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801192648/https://www.metrolyrics.com/no-vaseline-lyrics-ice-cube.html |date=August 1, 2020 }}, ''[[MetroLyrics.com]]'', CBS Interactive Inc., 2020.</ref>

In response to accusations of racism and [[anti-Semitism]], Cube said in 2008, "I ain't got time to be fuckin' anti-Semitic, anti-this, anti-that, [[Anti-Korean sentiment|anti-Korean]]. I ain't got time for that shit. I'm too busy bein' pro-black, you know what I'm saying?"<ref name=":12" /> In 2015, Cube expressed regret at including the word "Jew" in the lyrics of "No Vaseline" and explained that he intended to attack only Heller and not "the whole Jewish race".<ref name=":10" />

In 2020, Marlow Stern wrote an article in the ''[[Daily Beast]]'' addressing Cube's "long, disturbing history" of anti-Semitism.<ref name=":7">{{cite web|first=Marlow|last=Stern|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-cubes-long-disturbing-history-of-anti-semitism|title=Ice Cube's long, disturbing history of anti-Semitism|website=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=June 11, 2020}}</ref> The article was a response to Cube's day-long Twitter posting spree the day before, during which he promoted Nation of Islam leader [[Louis Farrakhan]].<ref name=":9" /> He also shared various disproven anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.<ref name=":1">{{cite magazine|first=Gil|last=Kaufman|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9400472/ice-cube-criticized-anti-semitic-images-conspiracy-theories|title=Ice Cube criticized for posting string of anti-semitic images and conspiracy theories|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=June 2020}}</ref> Again calling himself "just pro-black" and not "anti-anybody", he dismissed "the hype" and professed that he was just "telling [his] truth".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |date=2020-06-11 |title=Ice Cube Criticized For Posting String of Anti-Semitic Images and Conspiracy Theories |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/ice-cube-criticized-anti-semitic-images-conspiracy-theories-9400472/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>