Interview with Ice Cube
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Usually behind the camera, Michael Scherotter sat down with Hip Hop icon Ice Cube at
South by Southwest before he was scheduled to perform at a free live concert streamed to his new
UVNTV.com site using
Silverlight for high-quality video. Michael asked Cube questions about the intersection of technology with music, hip-hop and celebrity.
Here are some highlights:
1:00 Starting out in rap
2:30 What tech Ice Cube uses
3:12 How technology impacts music and film
5:23 Maintaining a 20-year career in hip-hop
6:53 Technology and being a celebrity
9:05 Possibilities of direct-to-web contect on UVNTV.com
10:10 How hip-hop will change the web?
12:14 Cube's Vison for UVNTV.com
13:09 Hip-hop's global reach
14:14 Gangsta Rap Made Me Do it Video and a surprise for Cube
16:40 Video and music quality on the web and Silverlight
17:50 Why artists should be on UVNTV.com in addition to MySpace
19:50 What Cube's listening to now
Here are some highlights:
1:00 Starting out in rap
2:30 What tech Ice Cube uses
3:12 How technology impacts music and film
5:23 Maintaining a 20-year career in hip-hop
6:53 Technology and being a celebrity
9:05 Possibilities of direct-to-web contect on UVNTV.com
10:10 How hip-hop will change the web?
12:14 Cube's Vison for UVNTV.com
13:09 Hip-hop's global reach
14:14 Gangsta Rap Made Me Do it Video and a surprise for Cube
16:40 Video and music quality on the web and Silverlight
17:50 Why artists should be on UVNTV.com in addition to MySpace
19:50 What Cube's listening to now
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I admire you just for getting through it. me, I probably would have passed out at the introduction.
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Why was my post removed?
"Don't mess with a geek from the projects" is that somehow objectionable?
Perhaps if you were true Cube fans you would appreciate and understand the wit.
Again, I will reiterate, great interview.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube gives a fair bit of information if you are interested... very brief description is that he is a very popular rap artist who is now more often seen as an actor
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