Check Yo Self with Ice Cube at the Showbox Tonight

by Leilani Polk Ice Cube, performing at the BIG3 Championship in Brooklyn this past August. Al Bello/BIG3/Getty Images
Even though he’s been on the comedy-film track for a while now, Ice Cube will always have serious street cred for his tenure in N.W.A. (he’s considered the founding father of gangsta rap), and for the fruitful solo hiphop albums that followed (AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Death Certificate in 1990 and 1991, respectively).His brash, pointed lyrical style is legendary,