Ice Cube Speaks On Dr. Dre's Absence As N.W.A. Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award

Ice Cube and N.W.A were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award ahead of the Grammys which saw all living members of the group show up and show out — with the exception of Dr. Dre. The seminal group was recognized as part of the Special Merit Awards Grammys, which according to the Recording Academy, are given to those artists who the Academy believes have made “significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording.N.W.A is the fifth Hip Hop group in the past eight years to receive the honor, following in the footsteps of Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Salt-N-Pepa. Group member Eazy-E received the honor posthumously, alongside the likes of Donna Summer and Tammy Wynette. Ice Cube accepted the award on behalf of the rest of his colleagues While at the podium, Cube explained why The Chronic rapper and producer wasn’t on hand and sent a special message to all in attendance.“My man, Dr. Dre, is not here. He wanted to make sure I let you know he’s not hating. He a billionaire. He got sh1t to do,” he said. “This is actually Eazy-E’s vision. He’s the one who allowed us to do this type of music.” He continued: “We knew when we started to do music in 1985, ’86, ’87 that a Grammy was not in the cards for us, with the type of music we was doing. We actually didn’t think we would ever even get on the radio. We was cool with that. “We can’t sing like Gladys. None of us can hold a note like the Clark sisters. But we still wanted to express ourselves and try to make sense of the world around us, in L.A., Compton, South Central, Long Beach, Watts. It was a different world out there, and we were trying to make sense of it. And what we did is, we did music. We did music from our hearts.” 

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