Ice Cube Wants Everyone to ‘Man Up’ With Resilient New Album Featuring Scarface: Stream It Now

Ice Cube is backmost and he’s taking nary prisoners with his latest politically-charged effort, Man Up, which serves arsenic the companion medium to his 2024 Man Down project, which arrived connected Friday (Sept. 12).

The Compton autochthonal stars beforehand and halfway connected the 14-track album, leaning connected Houston rap fable Scarface for a uncommon assist.

“I’ve ever stood connected speaking information to powerfulness and making euphony that reflects reality,” Cube said successful a statment. “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.”

Other standout moments connected the task find Cube flipping Patrice Rushen’s 1982 “Forget Me Nots” for “California Dreamin” and helium recruits Nova Scotia’s Quake Matthews, who was the victor of his instrumentality verse challenge, and doesn’t discarded his once-in-a-lifetime accidental connected “It’s My Ego 3Mix.”

Billboard caught up with Cube past year, erstwhile helium teased Man Up, which helium explained being inspired by America getting a small excessively brushed for his liking.

“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.”

Cube is getting backmost connected the roadworthy for Four Decades of Attitude Tour, which volition find the N.W.A. fable invading arenas crossed North America. The trek is acceptable to footwear disconnected successful Denver connected Sept. 16 and marque stops successful Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Glendale, Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, Austin and Houston.

Stream Man Up below.