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Ice Cube Wanted Dr. Dre to Produce His Debut Album [Video]

According to a new interview, Ice Cube still wanted to be cool with his friends in N.W.A after he left the legendary group in 1989 and even wanted Dr. Dre to produce his debut album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted.

Cube sat down with Complex’s Idea Generation and spoke on how he tried to keep his business relationship with the group separate from his personal relationship with them. “I still tried to be friends with the guys who had nothing to do with the business,” he admitted. “Me and Eazy was shaky, and I didn’t care about [manager] Jerry Heller at all, so it wasn’t no love lost there. But I tried to keep it together with Dre. I even wanted Dre to produce my solo record, and we was talking about it, but Eazy and Jerry vetoed it.”

Instead, the West Coast rapper tapped Public Enemy’s in-house production team The Bomb Squad to produce his 1990 solo debut and eventually dropped one of the most scathing …

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Likelihood of Trump abuse draws opponents to bill that would facilitate shutting down non-profits [Video]

Rachel Maddow reports on the return of a bill that would make it possible to punish a non-profit organization by labeling them as being in support of terrorism. While many lawmakers were ok with the idea initially, the return of Donald Trump to the White House is causing second thoughts about how the law could be abused by someone looking to eliminate opposition to their power.

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Shadow cabinet: Democratic lawmaker proposes idea [Video]

Coming off of Donald Trumps decisive victory in the 2024 election, were starting to see how his second term administration is shaping up. One question on the minds of many, what do the Democrats do now? One Democratic Congressman from North Carolina Rep. Wiley Nickel is proposing a shadow cabinet. He joined LiveNOW's Andy Mac to us explain what that means and how it could look.