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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Stephen Hill

"I dug the record 'cause it was incorporating hip hop into rock. I was like, 'This is cool!'" How one rap legend joined the unlikeliest tour ever to help bring hip hop to the nu metal generation

Ice Cube on stage and Korn.

The 90s truly was an era where the boundaries between genres began to really blur, with rock, rap, electronic music and metal all coexisting and cross-pollinating in ways that had never been seen before.

One individual that played a massive part in this happening was unquestionably Ice Cube. The former N.W.A. man had already caused enough of a storm in the mainstream with his previous band to make him appeal to rock fans, but when Cube went solo it seemed he was actively making a point to try and ingratiate himself with the metal world.

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