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Ice Cube reckons Meghan Markle and Prince Harry should have stayed in the Royal Family in order to make any changes they wanted to see.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were quitting as senior, working royals in January 2020, in a move that was dubbed ‘Megxit’.
Subsequently, they moved across the pond and settled in Los Angeles and welcomed their second child together, two-year-old Lilibet, joining them and their son Archie, four.
Meghan, 42, and Harry, 38 – whose HRH title has finally been removed from the Royal Family website over three years after his departure – have since signed deals with massive platforms, although their $25million (£19.6m) Spotify contract proved rather short-lived.
However, rapper and actor Ice Cube, 54, has now suggested he thinks the couple could have done better if they had ‘stuck it out’ and stayed as fully-fledged members of the Royal Family.
‘I think when you’re in the house, you can make more changes to the house than when you’re outside of the house,’ he told Good Morning Britain in a clip from an interview that was broadcast on Monday.
US actor and rapper Ice Cube shared his views on Harry and Meghan in a new interview (Picture: ITV)
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit as senior royals in January 2020, later moving to LA (Picture: Getty)
‘That’s just my opinion. If they stuck it out, then they might have been able to make some changes.’
The US star found fame with hip hop group N.W.A, who launched into the limelight with their 1988 debut studio album Straight Outta Compton, which was the first gangsta rap album to go platinum.
The record’s title was then co-opted by a 2016 article on Meghan Markle by MailOnline near the start of her relationship with Harry, which claimed she was ‘(almost) straight outta Compton’ due to growing up in Crenshaw, Los Angeles, which is just under 11 miles away from Compton.
However, Ice Cube – real name O’Shea Jackson – has slammed the reference as ‘off colour’.
Ice Cube also branded a tabloid reference to Meghan as being ‘(almost straight outta Compton’ as ‘off-colour’ (Picture: Getty)
Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren. DJ Yella (front), and Dr. Dre, rapper Laylaw from Above The Law and rapper The D.O.C. (rear) during N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton tour in 1989 (Picture: Getty)
‘To have somebody say you come straight outta Compton, it has a tone of you come out of the hood or you come out of the ghetto – [there’s] great people that come out of those places,’ he argued.
‘It was a very off-coloured [sic] joke.’
Ice Cube’s Big3, a three-on-three basketball league, is set to come to the UK later this month with an event at the O2 Arena.
Although he won’t be getting up to shoot any hoops, the star did tease that he may ‘jump up on the mic and entertain the crowd a little bit’.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.
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‘I think when you’re in the house, you can make more changes to the house than when you’re outside.’