I guess it was a good day...since he didn't mention his A.K.

There was an unusual article in today’s Washington Post. I found an article that I thought was both interesting AND well written. A Style piece on Ice Cube as he hawks his new 'kid friendly' film “Are we there yet?”

The Warm and Fuzzy Side of Ice Cube
From the piece:

In the new slapstick flick "Are We There Yet?" the former mouthpiece of late '80s gangsta-rap progenitors N.W.A. -- a man whose braggadocio about women, guns and racism once had conservatives and rock critics condemning his rhetoric -- stars as a ladies' man who drives a would-be paramour's bratty tykes on a road trip through the Pacific Northwest. Along the way, his new Lincoln Navigator gets coated in juice, food, barf -- and eventually explodes.

That's nothing, however, compared with what his character's groin endures. A young boy kicks him, a runaway horse jostles him and, in perhaps the most inventive entry in cinematic emasculation, Paul Bunyan's ax wallops him.

"Kids love that stuff," says Cube (just Cube, never Ice -- fair warning), sitting in a suite in the Ritz-Carlton Washington. "And this one is for the kids."

Never thought you'd hear the man who infamously hollered "[Expletive] tha Police" ("They have the authority to kill a minority") and later threatened to burn down Korean-owned grocery stores say that, did you?

...snip...

(Nia) Long, who starred in last year's "Alfie" remake with Jude Law, says Cube's ability as a romantic leading man shouldn't be underestimated, either. In fact, in a fit of giggles, she admits that the rapper was a far better smoocher than the Brit: "Hands down, Cube is the better kisser. His lips are softer, fuller." (Cube never asked Long whether he was a better lip-locker than Law: "I know I am. I ain't got to ask her.)"

Ah, but did she call him " the Top Gun"?