Ice Cube has confirmed he missed out on a major movie deal after he refused to get the coronavirus vaccine.
The NWA rapper and actor, real name O’Shea Jackson, was a firm supporter of wearing masks throughout the pandemic.
In August 2021, amid the Delta variant’s surge across the US, he donated 2,000 face masks to Bacone College in Oklahoma.
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This came after he promoted mask-wearing with 'Check yo self before you wreck yo self' shirts back in 2020.
Despite his pro-mask movement, reports suggested he missed out on a massive payday in Sony’s comedy show Oh Hell No, because he declined to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
He has now confirmed those reports in the latest episode of the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast.
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"I turned down a movie because I didn’t want to get the motherf**king jab,” Cube said.
"I turned down $9 million ($AUD13.5 million, £7.5 million)."
He added: "I didn’t want to get the jab. F**k that jab. F**k ya’ll for trying to make me get it. I don’t know how Hollywood feels about me right now."
He later clarified that he didn't actually turn down the movie at all.
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"Those motherf**kers didn’t give it to me because I wouldn’t get the shot. I didn’t turn it down," he said.
"They just wouldn’t give it to me. The Covid shot, the jab…I didn’t need it. I didn’t catch that s**t at all. Nothing. F**k them."
The 'Straight Out Of Compton' rapper added: "I didn’t need that s**t."
The podcasts hosts asked if that meant Ice Cube would leave Hollywood over the vaccine issue and instead move into streaming.
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But the rapper and movie star had nothing but barbs for the industry.
"That’s Hollywood thought," he said. "They’re on some s**t. But me too, I’m on some s**t too."
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The podcasters pressed him further about if that meant the rapper was working on his own independent production.
Cube replied: "I’m working on it. I’m hustling. Got a lot of things up my sleeve."
So, watch this space, we guess.
Ice Cube has previously made headlines over his views on the coronavirus.
"Doctors of the world: Stop lying about the Coronavirus. The people need absolute TRUTH," he wrote in June of 2020.
He also posted a mock-up album cover called Lethal Injection, which he captioned, "GOT THE [CURE] FOR THE CORONAVIRUS."
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