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Ice Cube recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast where he discussed a story that broke late last year.
The story in question came from The Hollywood Reporter who wrote that the former NWA rapper had dropped out of the 2020 movie Oh Hell No because he “declined” to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Enraged about losing the role, and the story getting out, Ice Cube explained he “didn’t go out telling everybody what happened”.
He added that he suspected the story got “leaked to put pressure on him” in the first place.
“I thought it was chicken sh*t,” Ice Cube said. “It’s like what happened to the HIPAA laws you know?” (Via Washington Examiner)
Ice Cube reportedly lost $9 million when he bowed out of the Sony movie.
He went on: “They try to, you know, put my business in the street, put pressure on me, everybody around me tell me how stupid I am so I can go get vaxxed and say you know: ‘Please let me do the movie.'”
The 54-year-old added that getting the vaccine was “never going to happen”.
Ice Cube continued: “I don’t care if it was 20 million. That was never gonna happen.”
Rogan, who has been sceptical about the Covid vaccines in the past, agreed wholeheartedly with the rapper.
“And if you got injured from that vaccine,” he chimed in. “You would have paid that 20 million to be healthy again.”
Ice Cube hasn’t been in a film since 2020’s The High Note.
He is due to star in the upcoming animated movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
He’ll play the voice role of Superfly opposite Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who wrote and produced the picture.
