Ice Cube is not only one of the greatest rappers and a legendary filmmaker, but Selena Gomez used to love him as a child.
Appearing on 3’s and Ones podcast, Cube said that he was already aware of Gomez’s childhood crush on him.
“A lot of ‘em like me, homie,” Cube said.“What? What’s up? I heard this years ago. Look, I had my crushes too growing up.”
Cube went on to reveal that Vanity whose real name was Denise Matthews from Prince’s Vanity 6 group was one of his favorites.
“Look, I had my crushes growing up, too. Vanity, bring her in here and see what happens,” he said. “I had about four [childhood crushes].”
“One of mine was Eminem only because I grew up listening to him,” she said. “My dad was a DJ, so he would remix all kinds of songs, and every time it was an Eminem song, I would just get so excited.”
“Can I tell you my first one that I had a crush on, Ice Cube?” continued Gomez. “I had the biggest crush on him when I was, like, 5.”
When he’s not being crushed on, Cube is celebrating the eight season of the BIG3, the hugely-popular 3-on-3 pro basketball league that he founded.
We’ve got Hall of Fame coaches,” Cube said in an interview with Back In The Day Hoops On SI. “We definitely don’t want to tempt Rick Barry, Ice Man [George Gervin] to suit up. We’ll let the OGs coach the league and let the players play.”
“That’s the beautiful thing about the league,” Ice Cube said. “You get to see people like Dr. J, Nancy Lieberaman back in the heat of battle, back wanting to win a game,” Cube continued. “They can’t play but they can coach their teams. They can show their passion. They can definitely scream at the refs.”