Ice Cube Responds to Criticism of His New Song ‘Act My Age’

Ice Dice took a while to fireplace again at a critic of his new track, “Act My Age,” and stated the troll ought to get a humorousness.

Dice dropped off the music video for his “Act My Age” track with Scarface on Oct. 15, and one viral submit on X famous that the observe is “a chief instance of why, as a rapper, you simply gotta know when it’s time to hold the mic up.”

“I might by no means take heed to you and grasp up my mic,” Cube wrote in response on Monday (Oct. 20). “You’ve clearly misplaced your humorousness. That you must go discover it and keep out of my enterprise.”

The track truly offers with this very matter, with Dice saying at first of the observe: “In the event you’re over 35 and nonetheless rapping, maintain rapping, my boy. F—ok all of that, ‘Oh, I’m getting outdated’ s—t. No, we’d like y’all, we’d like y’all to save lots of music. We want the actual lyricists again.”

The track initially appeared on Dice’s newest album, Man Up, which dropped on Sept. 12.

“I’ve all the time stood on talking reality to energy and making music that displays actuality,” Dice stated in a press release. “Man Up is about accountability, resilience and reminding folks the place the actual issues come from. Hip-hop didn’t create the wrestle — it gave us the language to name it out.”

Billboard had beforehand talked with Dice in 2024, when he teased Man Up and stated he was impressed by America’s alleged softness. “It’s about males not accepting nonsense and talking up, and never simply taking a backseat, letting different folks take the lead,” he stated on the time. “We gotta take the lead.”