Ice Cube circumspect over Oscar nomination rant

It’s the Oscars – they do what they do. “You know, it is what it is”, he says.

The Academy also skipped a Best Picture nomination for N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton”.

The F. Gary Gray-directed film has racked up this award season, earning a Critics Choice Award, NAACP Image Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. However, the film is actually written by two white writers: Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff. “The people love the movie”, he said to loud applause. “I can’t be mad”. “I can’t be mad”.

In December 2015, legendary rap group N.W.A. were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame but Ice Cube, real name O’Shea Jackson, says the accolade does not fit in with the collective’s message. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly statedsaid of his hopes for the future.

All of the above is recounted in vivid fashion in Straight Outta Compton, a gritty raptrospective that unfolds like an extended episode of VH1’s Behind the Music. Showing growth through movies promotes growth. “Showing our stories of triumph, we’ll make it through and we’ll get to something better”.

Looks like the movie industry’s “biggest fear” came true Thursday morning when Oscar nominations were announced and all 20 acting nods were given out to white actors and actreses.

As the Inquisitr reported, the Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs made a statement about the lack of diversity at the Oscars. “There were 305 films eligible this year”. Meanwhile, his abandoned homeys promised Cube via lyrics that they would “f*ck you with a broomstick”. At least she’s responding to the controversy rather than ignoring it.