Mack 10 and Ice Cube were once as big as thieves; not only as collaboration partners in Westside Connection, but also as friends. In fact, Ice Cube mentions it in the 1995 single “Friday,” rapping, “Mack 10 just got out of court/Rollin’ through the hood in his super sport bumping Too $hort.” But times have changed. […]
Mack 10 and Ice Cube were once as big as thieves; not only as collaboration partners in Westside Connection, but also as friends. In fact, Ice Cube mentions it in the 1995 single “Friday,” rapping, “Mack 10 just got out of court/Rollin’ through the hood in his super sport bumping Too $hort.”
But times have changed. In a recent interview with The Bootleg Kev PodcastMack 10 opened up about their relationship and admitted they haven’t spoken in almost two decades.
“I f### with who f### with me, you dig? ” he said. “That’s where I’m at. If you fuck with me, I fuck with you. But if it’s f### me, it’s f### you. I haven’t seen or spoken to him in almost 20 years, so here goes.
For all intents and purposes, it doesn’t look like Ice Cube is “f ######” with Mack 10. The 51-year-old shed some light on the situation during a 2020 interview with Vlad TV. He said the fallout boiled down to a financial dispute with Ice Cube’s brother-in-law.
“It was just an unfortunate situation, in terms of what came out of it all,” he said. “It’s not like it just happened…I went to Cube about four or five times before the conflict broke out and told him to make it right. This is the part that everyone leaves out.
“If it was my wife’s brother, I would have told him he can’t f### my money and he can’t be irrelevant to anyone I’m bored with. What if you have such a big deal with him, stay home. My wife’s brother wouldn’t have stopped s### for me, with him.
Ice Cube formed Westside Connection in 1995 alongside Mack 10 and WC. The trio released their debut album, Bow down, in 1996 on Priority Records. The project landed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the RIAA. The band’s second album, Terrorist threats, arrived in 2002 via Mack’s label, Hoo-Bangin’/Capitol. It eventually went gold. Westside Connection disbanded in 2005 after Mack 10 left.