Former NWA star lauds the Eames while taking a trip round their LA house

Rapper Ice Cube has revealed himself as an architecture buff after presenting a video on legendary architects Charles and Ray Eames.

In a film shot for arts website , Ice Cube 鈥� who achieved fame as a member of NWA and has since been a highly successful rapper and actor 鈥� reveals that he studied architectural drafting before finding stardom.

Ice Cube, whose real name is O鈥橲hea Jackson, waxes lyrical about the husband-and-wife design team while taking a tour around the in his native Los Angeles, comparing their efforts to sampling in rap music.

鈥淭hey was doing mash-ups before mash-ups even existed,鈥� he says.

The rapper also admires how they brought the surrounding nature of the site into the architecture. 鈥淭his is going green 1949-style, bi**h,鈥� he says.

Driving down Inglewood Boulevard in South LA, Ice Cube also breaks down 鈥渢he good, the bad and the ugly鈥� about art and architecture in Los Angeles with buildings on his good list including the Forum, 5 Torches, Cockatoo Inn and Watts Towers.

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