Ice Cube Bites Back at Critic of New Song ‘Act My Age’: ‘You’ve Obviously Lost Your Sense of Humor’

Ice Cube took immoderate clip to occurrence backmost astatine a professional of his caller song, “Act My Age,” and said the troll should get a consciousness of humor.

Cube dropped disconnected the euphony video for his “Act My Age” opus with Scarface connected Oct. 15, and 1 viral station connected X noted that the way is “a premier illustration of why, arsenic a rapper, you conscionable gotta cognize erstwhile it’s clip to bent the mic up.”

“I would ne'er perceive to you and bent up my mic,” Cube wrote successful effect connected Monday (Oct. 20). “You’ve evidently mislaid your consciousness of humor. You request to spell find it and enactment retired of my business.”

The opus really deals with this precise topic, with Cube saying astatine the opening of the track: “If you’re implicit 35 and inactive rapping, support rapping, my boy. F—k each of that, ‘Oh, I’m getting old’ s—t. No, we request y’all, we request y’all to prevention music. We request the existent lyricists back.”

The opus primitively appeared connected Cube’s latest album, Man Up, which dropped connected Sept. 12.

“I’ve ever stood connected speaking information to powerfulness and making euphony that reflects reality,” Cube said successful a statement. “Man Up is astir accountability, resilience and reminding radical wherever the existent problems travel from. Hip-hop didn’t make the conflict — it gave america the connection to telephone it out.”

Billboard had antecedently talked with Cube successful 2024, erstwhile helium teased Man Up and said helium was inspired by America’s alleged softness. “It’s astir men not accepting nonsense and speaking up, and not conscionable taking a backseat, letting different radical instrumentality the lead,” helium said astatine the time. “We gotta instrumentality the lead.”