Ice Cube lately appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast the place he mentioned a narrative that broke late final yr.

The story in query got here from The Hollywood Reporter who wrote that the previous NWA rapper had dropped out of the 2020 film Oh Hell No as a result of he “declined” to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Enraged about shedding the position, and the story getting out, Ice Cube defined he “didn’t go out telling everybody what happened”.

He added that he suspected the story obtained “leaked to put pressure on him” within the first place.

“I thought it was chicken sh*t,” Ice Cube mentioned. “It’s like what happened to the HIPAA laws you know?” (Via Washington Examiner)

Ice Cube reportedly misplaced $9 million when he bowed out of the Sony film.

He went on: “They try to, you know, put my business in the street, put pressure on me, everybody around me tell me how stupid I am so I can go get vaxxed and say you know: ‘Please let me do the movie.'”

The 54-year-old added that getting the vaccine was “never going to happen”.

Ice Cube continued: “I don’t care if it was 20 million. That was never gonna happen.”

Rogan, who has been sceptical concerning the Covid vaccines prior to now, agreed wholeheartedly with the rapper.

“And if you got injured from that vaccine,” he chimed in. “You would have paid that 20 million to be healthy again.”

Ice Cube hasn’t been in a movie since 2020’s The High Note.

He is because of star within the upcoming animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

He’ll play the voice position of Superfly reverse Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who wrote and produced the image.