Ice Cube took some time to fire back at a critic of his new song, “Act My Age,” and said the troll should get a sense of humor.
Cube dropped off the music video for his “Act My Age” song with Scarface on Oct. 15, and one viral post on X noted that the track is “a prime example of why, as a rapper, you just gotta know when it’s time to hang the mic up.”
“I would never listen to you and hang up my mic,” Cube wrote in response on Monday (Oct. 20). “You’ve obviously lost your sense of humor. You need to go find it and stay out of my business.”
The song actually deals with this very topic, with Cube saying at the beginning of the track: “If you’re over 35 and still rapping, keep rapping, my boy. F—k all of that, ‘Oh, I’m getting old’ s—t. No, we need y’all, we need y’all to save music. We need the real lyricists back.”
The song originally appeared on Cube’s latest album, Man Up, which dropped on Sept. 12.
“I’ve always stood on speaking truth to power and making music that reflects reality,” Cube said in a statement. “Man Up is about accountability, resilience and reminding people where the real problems come from. Hip-hop didn’t create the struggle — it gave us the language to call it out.”
Billboard had previously talked with Cube in 2024, when he teased Man Up and said he was inspired by America’s alleged softness. “It’s about men not accepting nonsense and speaking up, and not just taking a backseat, letting other people take the lead,” he said at the time. “We gotta take the lead.”
