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The Believer Interview: Ice Cube
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Excerpted from The Believer’s new book, Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews.
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Published: Aug 13, 2004
Length: 26 minutes (6,574 words)
The Believer Interview: Ice Cube
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Linda Saetre | The Believer | 2004 | 26 minutes (6,574 words)
The below interview is excerpted from The Believer’s new book, Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews. Thanks to The Believer for sharing this with the Longreads community.
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‘Music Is a Mirror of What We’re Going Through, Not the Cause of What We’re Going Through. It’s a Reaction, It’s Our Only Weapon, It’s Our Only Way to Protect Ourselves, It’s Our Only Way to Fit, It’s Our Only Way to Get There.’
Before rap music, New York might as well have been:
Paris
Africa
Australia
A thousand miles away from a thirteen-year-old Ice Cube
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Once upon a time, the name Ice Cube was analogous to explicit lyrics, guns, women as “bitches,” South Central, and attitude. Bad attitude. Not to mention mind-blowing rap music wrapped in raw emotions. But those were Ice Cube’s teen years, before he married Kimberly Jackson, became father to four kids, and turned into a true Hollywood player. A legend long before he turned thirty, Ice Cube, together with his fellow N.W.A. members, revolutionized not only the rap/ hiphop genre, but all music, by making it OK for musicians to speak their minds and then some.
Happy 10th Birthday, The Believer!
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In celebration of its 10th anniversary, The Believer has just published a handful of classic stories for the first time on the web, and they were nice enough to share them with the Longreads community. Enjoy:
Eddie Vedder Interviewed by Carrie Brownstein (June 2004)
“Crimes Against the Reader” (Rick Moody, April 2005)
“Transmissions from Camp Trans” (Michelle Tea, November 2003)
“Welcome to the Almost Cult-Like Fan-World of American Women’s Pro Basketball” (Stephen Burt, May 2005)
Zadie Smith Talks with Ian McEwan (August 2005)
Happy 10th Birthday, The Believer!
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In celebration of its 10th anniversary, The Believer has just published a handful of classic stories for the first time on the web, and they were nice enough to share them with the Longreads community. Enjoy.
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Published: Apr 29, 2013
The Believer's Karolina Waclawiak: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
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Karolina Waclawiak is a novelist and screenwriter. She is also the deputy editor of The Believer. Her first novel, How To Get Into The Twin Palms, will be out July 2012 from Two Dollar Radio.
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I’ve always been fascinated with religion, Russia, and missing persons stories so these five nonfiction pieces really captured my attention this year. The fallout from The New Yorker‘s Scientology piece turned out to be as compelling as the essay itself—and I had to put The New Yorker on here twice because the recent piece on Vladimir Putin is spectacular and continually evolving. Paul Collins’ piece on missing Barbara Follett was utterly haunting and Paul is a master of uncovering long-hidden mysteries. Everyone should check out all of his work, and I’m sure many have after reading that piece. And really, for the other two, who can turn away from secret cults and dead bodies found on beaches? Not me.
1. “The Civil Archipelago,” David Remnick, The New Yorker
2. “The Apostate,” Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker
3. “The Body on Somerton Beach,” Mike Dash, Smithsonian
4. “Inside ‘The Order,’ One Mormon Cult’s Secret Empire,” Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone
5. “Vanishing Act,” Paul Collins, Lapham’s Quarterly
BONUS
• “Love in a Cold Climate,” Nancy Jo Sales, Vanity Fair
Say what you will of Ms. Love, but she’ll always have a fan in me.
• “To Have and Have Not,” Matt Tyrnauer, Vanity Fair
I found myself endlessly quoting this piece on screen legend Lauren Bacall.
• “Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76,” Paul Vitello, The New York Times
NY Times’ fascinating obituary of Loretta Young’s illegitimate daughter with Clark Gable, Judy Lewis.
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The Believer on Errol Morris
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Published: Apr 1, 2004
Length: 16 minutes (4,174 words)
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An Alternative-Medicine Believer’s Journey Back to Science
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How the parents of two autistic sons found—and lost—faith in the alternative medicine movement.
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Published: Apr 29, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,660 words)
Editor’s Roundtable: Climate of the Future, Music of the Past
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On our September 6, 2019 roundtable episode of the Longreads Podcast, Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, and Contributing Editor Danielle Jackson share what they’ve been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week, the editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, Longreads, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.
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1:12 The Nightmare in the Bahamas Is Far From Over (Zachary Fagenson, October 1, 2019, Miami New Times)
3:38 Hurricane Dorian Was a Climate Injustice (Bernard Ferguson, September 12, 2019, The New Yorker)
10:43 Climate Messaging: A Case for Negativity (Rebecca McCarthy, September 2019, Longreads)
12:41 The Balloon Boy Hoax—Solved! (Robert Sanchez, October 2019, 5280 Magazine)
19:12 The Music of “Hustlers” and the Soaring, Stupid National Mood Circa 2008 (Jia Tolentino, September 27, 2019, The New Yorker)
22:33 Place: The Loop, Houston (Bryan Washington, October 1, 2019, The Believer)
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