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Ice Cube was on the Late Late last night - and got a quizzing over his very Irish (real) name

The rapper’s real name is O’Shea Jackson.

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LAST NIGHT’S LATE Late Show had a rather eclectic line-up – James Nesbitt, Dynamo, Finbar Furey, Chris Eubank, a group of lambs.

The show also featured a pre-recorded interview with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, who were in Dublin to promote their latest movie, Ride Along 2.

The pair chatted about everything from Hart’s visit to Crunch Fitness in Dublin yesterday morning to the furore surrounding the lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominations.

But Tubs couldn’t leave Ice Cube go without asking him one important question – what’s the craic with his Irish-sounding name?

For those of you who don’t know, the hip-hop heavyweight’s real name is O’Shea Jackson. Yes, O’Shea as in John O’Shea and Rick O’Shea.

Tubs pointed out to Cube that the name might cause some to think he’s of Irish stock.

See for us, we’d kind of immediately be going, ‘Are you anything to the O’Sheas in Kilkenny or Connemara?’

Unfortunately, Ice Cube didn’t reveal any Irish heritage, but said that his mother merely liked the sound of the name.

I don’t know, man, my mother must have had a little Irish thang on the side. I don’t know! I actually think my mom liked the name, liked how it flowed off the tongue and ended up naming me O’Shea.

But good news for anyone with the name O’Shea – Ice Cube thinks it’s cool.

It’s a cool name. The name was unique. I was the only person in school named O’Shea so everybody knew me and it was kind of cool.

So now!

Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:00 PM

    Why did they keep cutting to black people in the audience throughout the interview? cringe

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:13 PM

    Your not serious?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:17 PM

    Yea he is serious. Was absolutely ridiculous.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:43 PM

    Maybe they were family members ?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:52 PM

    They were here working and promoting a film,their family members certainly weren’t in the the audience. Maybe Barbados,who knows.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:56 PM

    Well then if they weren’t family members , then that’s just pathetic and embarrassing !

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:32 PM

    It was also a pre-recorded segment. There was no sign of them after. Imagine the producers hooshing them out after. “Right, You, You, You and You and all of row 19. Time to leave.” Haha. Oh The Late Late Show does it again.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 3:40 PM

    I thought I was the only one who noticed the very obvious tokenism by RTE. “Oh let’s get a few shots of black people laughing at the black actors”. Quite strange political correctness. The very idea they needed to encourage a group of black people to be in the audience with tokenism because when they returned to the live section they were gone again.!

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 4:51 PM

    Not the first time some idiot interviewer from RTE failed to cop how African-Americans came to have Irish surnames. Saw Dempsey interview guy in New York years ago convinced that because he was a Murphy there must be Irish in him somewhere – just wouldn’t let it go

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 5:04 PM

    Well O’Shea isn’t his surname…..

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 6:49 PM

    Maybe it was the O’Sheas of Kilkenny

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 9:44 PM

    Matt, a lot of Irish were transported as slaves around the time of Cromwell and inter-mixed with the Africans, educate yourself my good man

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    Jan 24th 2016, 12:21 PM

    Graham norton did well and went to a decent tv channel his interview was superior. Tubridy is a horrible interviewer back in the day RTE had talented people I rate the Ali interview that cathal o’shannon did decades ago to be one of the best I’ve ever heard. Serious at parts and funny in others.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:01 PM

    What the hell are they doing to that lamb?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:28 PM

    Looks like some sort of of sacrifice to our beloved god, Eamon Dunphey. SHOWBIZ BABBBYYY.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 4:44 PM

    Pity they didn’t tag it live on stage, it would have took the “oohs and aahs” off of the audience.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 12:57 PM

    Tubridy just couldn’t let it go could he. Cube should have popped a cap in his wrinkly ass.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:37 PM

    Do people not have an “arse” any more?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:48 PM

    Take your Daithi O Shea lingo somewhere else homie.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:56 PM

    Is it, pog mo asal or pog mo thoin?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:16 PM

    RTE certainly have an Arse.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:16 PM

    Kiss my donkey?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 8:24 PM

    Did you der the show Luke?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:19 PM

    Tubs is a parody of himself at this stage, I rarely switch on the late late because of how cringe it is but anytime I do, he’s trying to create some tenuous Irish link for whatever foreign guest he’s managed to lure in

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:17 PM

    Anything with himself or Darcy is unbearable to watch.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 3:45 PM

    Tubs was embarrassing as usual to be honest. He never brings out the best in guests. He loses control of the show and the interviews all the time. His questions sound unnatural and rehearsed. The question about the black actors boycotting the Oscars was awkward and too series for the actors involved and took the mood from the interview. All in All he’s possibly had the worst interview skills in media!

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 8:42 PM

    @ Logical Sarah

    Yeah, Tubridy was pretty terrible-but it was an important question to ask for a few reasons. Ice Cube produced ‘Straight Outta Compton’, a film about his and his band’s formation, and it has also been nominated for an Oscar for screenplay. The film defintiely deserved a few more nods, for things like direction or some such. And the only crew nominated for the movie are the screenwriters, who are white. So considering ICe Cube produced a movie that’s up for an Oscar, it deserved questioning.
    But a really reasonable, intelligent answer came from Kevin Hart. Anyone who gets in to film, music ro art or any medium entirely for awards does not last very long. You do it because you love it. Straight outta compton made more than many movies nominated this year. One or two films nominated were bombs (Steve Jobs got pulled from cinemas, Carol made less than 2 million in the US). Many of the nominees this year are also nominated for Razzie’s. (Rooney Mara for Pan, Eddie Redmayne for Jupiter Ascending).
    Success isn’t the awards (the good ones, unlike the Razzies) it’s connecting with people. When a film makes a lot of money, it’s because it connected with people. People went to see it and enjoyed it-eg Straight Outta Compton. Compton made 10 times it’s original budget. Creed made the majority of it’s budget back on opening weekend. It scooped a massive profit on a film series some would have said had run it’s course. But, just like Rocky Balboa, it proved people wrong. (I love Rocky Balboa, definitely gonna see Creed when I have the chance). That is another film that connected with audiences. How many other films nominated this year can say they connected with audiences? Far less than were nominated I would say.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:12 PM

    I hate to say it but in that picture he really looks like he’s smiling politely but thinking ‘Jesus, is this guy for real?’

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:01 PM

    Another groundbreaking and informative interview by RTE’s own Micheal Parkinson. How much do they pay this clown again?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 8:46 PM

    Alan Partridge more like-Michael Parkinson was interesting, clever interviewer, even if some interviews did not go ‘entirely’ to plan-the Meg Ryan interview for one, the Bernard Manning one for another.
    Tubridy has all the compassion of Partridge, but is slightly less embarassing than TV3′s own Henry Seller’s, Alan Hughes.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:06 PM

    Did he ask Kevin Hart did he have Canadian heritage and was he related to Brett the hitman Hart. It wouldn’t surprise me. They’re probably looking at Tubridy thinking ‘What’s up with this goofy muthafcker,I thought irish people had charm and humour’.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 12:57 PM

    Same question on graham norton

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:20 PM

    Why did they have a lamb strapped up & exposing its genitals?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:09 PM

    Embarrassing stuff yet again on rte.. they were great fun and got on really well with anton savage on today fm yesterday ..great stuff

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:27 PM

    Im in oz reading this ..havnt a clue what happened but the comments are priceless .i dont even want to know what happened

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:29 PM

    Every ‘celebrity’ guest on his show tubridy quizzes them about there oirishness.give it a break yeah turnip

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:47 PM

    Bring back Pat the plank, – at least we could fall around the place laughing at him…

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 3:17 PM

    What was the deal with RTÉ zooming in on black members of the audience during the interview? It was incredibly odd.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 4:19 PM

    The lamb picture is pretty distressing….

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:49 PM

    Sphincter pucker.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:10 PM

    The “cutting to black members of the audience” was an optical illusion….it was an entirely different audience as the interview wasn’t live…

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:13 PM

    Tubridy asked cube the same cringe question he asked will ferall last year “so you like Dublin yeah will you come back here and make perhaps “ride along 3….the Dublin adventure”….to a confused ice cube ….last year our paxman asked for “anchorman the Dublin adventure”

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 3:20 PM

    Christ that really is pitiful

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 4:00 PM

    Why watch the late late when you know tubridy is that bad? Haven’t watched since gaybo retired. Presume they rounded up a few asylum scammers from mosney and stuck them in the audience for a day out in lieu of a riot.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 6:35 PM

    Given a bag of chips and a cadet for their trouble they were

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:45 PM

    Years ago the overseer on a cotton plantation in America gave the slave,s his name most were Irish hence the name O,Shea

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:01 PM

    If you watch the Netflix documentary about Angola prison in Louisiana called the farm,some of the inmates have Irish names,along with the prison warden.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:20 PM

    So… my real name is Washington De Real Jackson. I’m now African – American, apparently

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 10:09 PM

    I was wondering who the cubes were. I know the O cubes alright.

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    Jan 24th 2016, 8:53 AM

    Will someone please tell me what they were doing to he lamb!!? Nobody has answered yet!!

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    Jan 24th 2016, 8:45 PM

    It’s a contraption that allows a farmer working on his own to tag the lambs, inject them, dock their tails etc.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:16 PM

    He was on the Graham Norton Show last night I thought.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 1:35 PM

    That’s taped on a week day, it’s not live.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:17 PM

    I wish the Late Late was taped on a week day and not shown.

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 3:16 PM

    The late late interview was recorded too

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:16 PM

    HAVE PLUNKETS SIGNED HIM BECAUSE THERE SIGNING EVERYBODY ELSE?

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 2:22 PM

    “They’re”. Look at CAPSLOCK while concentrating too..

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    Jan 23rd 2016, 11:29 PM

    Eddie ‘Slab’ Murphy.

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