After over 25 years, Ice Cube's still got something to say

The 48-year-old entertainer has come a long way from his start as part of the West Coast rap group N.W.A. and later a solo artist, branching into movies and now founding a soon-to-be-launched half-court basketball league.

[...] some things haven't changed, like his willingness to call out law enforcement on the way he sees policing done and to speak his mind on race issues, like he did recently when he took late-night host Bill Maher to task for his use of the N-word during a show.

"Police have a philosophy, they have a theory, they have a way of doing stuff, it's win at all costs," Cube, born O'Shea Jackson, said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.

"Good Cop, Bad Cop" calls on good cops to speak and act against corrupt police officers, a far cry from the attitude in N.W.A's infamous song, "F--- tha Police," but Cube said he's "always really hoped good police would take care of bad cops," that while the 1988 song was a "revenge fantasy" type of thing against police abuse, the new song is a plea for honorable cops to step up and speak out.

Peopled by former professional basketball players like Allen Iverson and Gary Payton, Cube envisions a league that functions like a traveling "basketball festival" for fans like him.