I mean, what can you say about this cool guy?

O'Shea Jackson (aka Ice Cube) attended William H. Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, where his classmates included fellow rappers Eazy-E and House of Pain's Everlast. O'Shea bussed an hour each way from his South Central home to the tiny San Fernando Valley school; he would later describe how witnessing the drastic socioeconomic contrast between the two worlds fostered the anger and sense of injustice that he would express so vividly in his gangsta rap songs. It was in a Taft English class that O'Shea wrote the groundbreaking early N.W.A. song, "The Boyz-N-The Hood."

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