The late MC Breed coined the phrase in 1990 on "Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin'." George Clinton loved it so much he built a song around it in 1993, recruiting the likes of Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Humpty Hump, Flavor Flav, Yo-Yo and Breed himself for the single and video.
As Barack Obama is sworn in as President of the United States, The 411 Online pauses to celebrate what no one thought was possible 19, 16 -- or even a couple -- years ago.
While the sports world speculated about LeBron James taking his act to New York in 2010, the NBA star already had plans in the works to go Hollywood. The Cleveland Cavaliers forward has decided to take a shot at TV, and getting Ice Cube on his team can only help.
The duo is pitching a pilot to ABC for a drama based on James' life as a small-town high school basketball star, a life that often played out on ESPN starting in his junior year.
"I think it can be a really big project," James told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "When we were pitching the idea, I told a lot of stories about when I was a youngster. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to it, it is going to be real... We want to use what happened to me as a kid as inspiration."
And if "what happened to me" sounds a little negative coming from someone who jumped from high school phenom to NBA All-Star... well, it is. The show will address the pressures that come from friends, agents and others trying to cash in on the star's rise.
Cube and James will serve as co-creators and executive producers for the Cubevision/Springhill project, which is aiming for a summer 2009 launch date. Cube also has a comedy series in the works for NBC.
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