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Ice Cube celebrates the Eames -A tribute to LA architechture

submitted by sme4r

1 decade 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago

FYT:
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene. For more info on Ice Cube & The Eames visit http://pacificstandardtime.org.
Ice Cube drives Inglewood blvd. describing the Los Angeles that he knows. He talks of landmarks like The Forum, Five Torches, Cockatoo Inn, Brolly Hut, and Watts Towers. He refers to the 110 as "Gangsta Highway". Cube says coming from South Central LA teaches you how to be resourceful. The video cuts to Cube walking the Eames House perimeter, through the Eames living room, and sitting in the Eames lounge chair. He brings us back to his NWA years when he studied architectural drafting before launching his rap career. One thing he learned that translates is to always have a plan. Cube describes the modern, green and resourceful building design of Charles and Ray Eames. Visionaries of connecting nature and structure. Cube ends by saying "Who are these people who got a problem with LA? Maybe they mad cuz they don't live here." Song during intro is "A Bird in the Hand" off of Death Certificate.

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Sme4r is Numba one !

it is quite refreshing watching Mr cube do something other than perform.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Saturday, December 10th, 2011 2:06pm PST - promote requested by BoneRemake.

Who knew Cube studied Architecture? When did that happen, when he was producing License to Kill? Haha, anyway its true LA is not nearly as bad as people make it seem and if you or I could live nicely in LA I am sure itd be a blast... as long as we didnt live in one of those many/silly gated communities, ugh.

why does he have to put on that gangsta speak? it's clearly a put-on, and inauthentic at this point... bothers me.

Also, there's a new documentary about the Eames.. and one of my favorite films is a documentary about LA culture as it shows up in movies.

Many people in LA--non gangsters--actually talk like that.

Golden quote "This is going green, 1949 style, bitch. Believe that."

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