--- title: Parenting Advice From Ice Cube description: Chapter 1: How To Make Sure Your Kids Don't Curse at Home canonical: https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/ author: Belinda Luscombe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-12T10:20:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:27.681Z og:title: Cube's Curbs One Rap Star's Advice on Kids' Cursing og:description: Chapter 1: How To Make Sure Your Kids Don't Curse at Home og:url: https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbfa951e3f40a5a5/69869742810bbb7be3c92223/ice-cube.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ice Cube og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cube's Curbs One Rap Star's Advice on Kids' Cursing twitter:description: Chapter 1: How To Make Sure Your Kids Don't Curse at Home twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbfa951e3f40a5a5/69869742810bbb7be3c92223/ice-cube.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Parenting Advice From Ice Cube ## Video: 10 Questions with Ice Cube [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions with Ice Cube](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AjkWTLZg.m3u8) (4:00)  _Published 2014-06-11. Rapper, writer, actor and producer Ice Cube talks to TIME's Belinda Luscombe about the upcoming film 22 Jump Street, why he raps, and why his name suits him._  by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Jun 12, 2014 10:20 AM UTC   by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Jun 12, 2014 10:20 AM UTC Ice Cube’s kids, not surprisingly, listened to a lot of rap music growing up. Two of his three kids are now rappers in their own right. But the man who reprises his role as a perpetually angry cop in 2_2 Jump Street_ is not about to tolerate bad language in his home. In his interview in the luxuriously paper edition of _TIME_ this week, Cube, as he likes to be known, says he doesn’t allow cursing in the home. “All kids got crazy language,” he says “I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell them Don’t do it in the earshot of any adults or you’re in trouble.” When they resist he breaks out his famous scowl, which, he claims, totally works as well on his kids as it works on Jonah Hill’s character in the movie. Ice Cube’s two sons and one daughter have had significantly different upbringings from their dad’s. Cube’s childhood in south central L.A. was no easy ride, while they have wanted for nothing. He doesn’t worry about entitlement however. “We’ve been on the bottom of the barrel so long, just to have anybody in my generation or my family feel entitled means we’ve done something.” For more of the interview, including Cube’s real name, watch below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/"},"headline":"Parenting Advice From Ice Cube","datePublished":"2014-06-12T10:20:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:45:27.681Z","description":"Chapter 1: How To Make Sure Your Kids Don't Curse at Home","url":"https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/","keywords":["Living","Parenting","rap","10 Questions","kids","Ice Cube"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbfa951e3f40a5a5/69869742810bbb7be3c92223/ice-cube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Belinda Luscombe","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbfa951e3f40a5a5/69869742810bbb7be3c92223/ice-cube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ice Cube","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/","name":"Parenting Advice From Ice Cube"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Questions with Ice Cube","description":"Rapper, writer, actor and producer Ice Cube talks to TIME's Belinda Luscombe about the upcoming film 22 Jump Street, why he raps, and why his name suits him.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/AjkWTLZg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-06-11T21:52:40.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AjkWTLZg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/","duration":"PT4M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/2861823/how-to-stop-your-kids-cursing-parenting-advice-from-rap-star/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```