Ice Cube details turning down Verzuz battles against LL Cool J and Scarface.
Mount Westmore’s debut album “Snoop Cube 40 Short” is out now, and as part of the promo run, Ice Cube, Too Short and E-40 made a visit to Bootleg Kev Podcast for a new interview. During the conversation, Ice Cube revealed that he turned down Verzuz battle offers against LL Cool J and Scarface.
“I think they was talking LL at one point, they was talking Scarface at one point,” he said. “I said, ‘No.’ Verzuz is good, but my concept would have been, ‘Yo, I’m a fan. You do this song for me.’ Like, okay, I get to have LL do my favorite LL songs and he gon’ have me do my favorite Ice Cube songs.” “And it’s not Verzuz, but it’s love. It’s like, ‘Yo, do this, and he do ‘Rock the Bells,’ and he asks me, ‘Yo, do ‘Once Upon a Time in the Projects.” That would have been my concept.”
He continued, “I can’t go against people I admire. LL is an OG to me in the game, so I can’t see it. Me and Scarface love each other, but we don’t communicate enough to do a Verzuz together. I don’t want it to be competition.”
Although he didn’t have anything against Verzuz, Ice Cube earlier said to The Breakfast Club that it wasn’t on his wishlist. “It’s a great idea, a great concept, but it’s nothing that’s on my bucket list, wish list or nothing like that,” he said. “It started off on an adversary tip and then it showed a lot of love in Verzuz. So I like how it’s evolved because guys shouldn’t be really going up there putting catalogue against catalogue. That right there, to me, ain’t what it’s about. It’s about showing love.”
Check out the interview below.
