Ice Cube Sets Industry On Fire Exposing Claims He Robbed Chris Tucker & Faizon Love!

Ice Cube hit back at claims on Wednesday he shortchanged his Friday co-stars, including Chris Tucker.

The N.W.A. singer was accused of "robbing his own people" on Twitter after Friday actor Fazion Love said he turned down the sequel because of a low offer. Love, known for his iconic role as Big Worm, spoke with Atlanta Black Star about how he only made $2,500 for the original film. The offer for Next Friday would be "double-scale."

"They wanted to give me double-scale. The scale was $2,500, right. So that was $5,000," he explained, purportedly with a "grimace," explaining the money wasn't enough. Instead, he accepted a role in The Replacements for $100,000.

Cube responded on Twitter, writing, "I didn't rob no f****** body. The 1995 Friday movie cost $2.3m to make. Shot it in 20 days. Fazion worked 1 day, maybe 2. All the actors got paid scale to do the movie. They could've [simply] said 'No' but they didn’t. So miss me with that s***."

Another Twitter user replied saying he thought Tucker "quit over money," too. The Rush Hour star previously said he was only paid $10,000 for Friday. But Cube dismissed the rumor that money had anything to do with Tucker's absence from Next Friday.

"We were ready to pay Chris Tucker $10-$12m," he wrote, "but he turned us down for religious reasons. He didn't want to cuss or smoke weed on camera anymore." #icecube #icecubefriday #christucker #faizonlove #friday

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[LatoyaJones]

They should leave the movie and its legacy alone.

[chicospaintingco]

Nobody knew Friday was gonna be a Big Hit. It could have easily flopped also.

[LatoyaJones]

Social media beefing shit up. Ice Cube reacted to the way it was brought to him which was on some "Oh Faizon said this" type of vibe.

[mikeb]

All those guys in that movie career went to the next level from that movie it’s not always about the money it open doors to millions

[King-wwde]

Cube took it the way he supposed to take it and handled it like a man 💯

[chicospaintingco]

I took a position where I didn't get paid anything. Most people wouldn't understand doing that but today I'm 5x better or more.

[hardhittr]

Why Cube speakin up now that John Witherspoon gone!!! 🤔

[AriessunvirgomoonlightLibraise]

Seriously it was made in 94 it came out in 95...it was a blessing just to be in a major movie picture back then for that exposure which led them to receive bigger roles, F Gary grey did his thing matter of fact they all did, there was no right or wrong done, it was just lessons learned, they all were young in the movie industry 💯

[sharonpratt]

I think the movie is comedy gold and ice cube and everyone made history in that movie and should be pride of the heights it reached. Respect how chirs feels now, but his role in that movie was hilarious R.I.P Mr. Witherspoon 🌹

[raymondjames]

Chris Tucker and Ice Cube was doing movies with New Line Cinema pretty much their whole career. So if they wanted them to work together again they would have made it happen. Stop this bucket of 🦀💩.

[SunnyandNova]

Faison “Me and Po be everywhere he’s good” lol 😂

[Eastsiderep]

I mean anybody with some good sense knows that Worm wasn’t speaking in a ill manner of cube and the Friday movie when he did that interview. He said he’s thankful because that opened the door for him to do other movies, he said in hind sight he’d do it over, and he also said if Cube called him and said let’s do last Friday, there’s no money he’d do it. I think he was replying to the guy on Twitter that said he robbed those guys but nobody knew that movie would be what it is now back then. Hell smokey got 10k and he was a star of the movie, Worm did 1-3 scenes totaling 5 minutes maybe and got 2500 so if you scale it that way he got paid properly.

[toya]

I like the way Faison love and ice cube handles the situation like grown man.

[MrBadass]

Tupac only got paid $15, 000 for Juice and it's also a classic....

[chadmiller]

Im cool wit Mike Epps being in the movie he funny as hell if not the funniest but I do hate that two main characters died as they was funny as hell also

[RiversBliss]

2500 dollars for 1/2 days in 95'? That movie put em on the map.

[yagirlvee]

This been going on too long and ice 🧊 finally responded like it or not. No one knew it was going be a hit. People been talking and he tired. He can respond however he da goat 🐐 all artist know this come with the game.

[mmou]

Chris Tucker got paid off the movies with Jackie Chan but nothing has been as Iconic as his role in Friday. That movie lauched his career and wasn't that his first movie?

[hassanthomas]

Good shit 👏I love how these brothers worked it out 💯💯

[chriskringle]

Ice Cube: Goddamn I'm glad y'all set it