Ice Cube & Ludacris Respond To Katt Williams Club Shay Shay Interview
Ice Cube took to Twitter (X) to address Katt Williams’ viral remarks on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast in a video that lasted almost 10 minutes. The N.W.A legend discussed Williams’ statements about the Friday movie series, where Williams portrayed “Money Mike” in Friday After Next from 2002. He says in the video, “First of all, I just wanna say we shot [Friday After Next] over 20 years ago.” He adds, “So, you know, people have different perspectives and it’s been a long time. Every comedian I’ve worked with, every comedian I’ve put in a movie, I only put them in a movie because I thought they was funny. I thought they was perfect for the part. I tried to put them in a position to win. That’s what it’s all about […] All these guys I know are funny as hell. I didn’t discover them. They were doing their standup, doing their thing, and I knew they were great. If I had an opportunity, I was going to give them an opportunity.” He then responds to specific points that Williams made during the interview and admits that some of them were true—but not all.
He goes on, “Katt was 100 on a few things.” He clarifies, “A couple things I just want to clarify. When we bring in a new comedian, we do have them try out for different roles, so Ricky [Smiley] did give ‘Money Mike’ a shot, but when we saw him, we saw how he moved and how he was auditioning, we decided he’d be a better Santa Claus […] When I saw Katt, I just knew he was perfect for ‘Money Mike.’ Katt said he wrote his role, which, I mean, the role was already written, but he enhanced it. This is why Katt was so dope in the movie. ‘Money Mike’ had a small role, about as big as the Santa Claus role, but we started filming, he was giving us such magic, we kept expanding his role and giving him more to do because he was on point.”
Ice Cube also refuted that there was a scene of sexual assault in the movie, saying, “I would never shoot a rape scene in a movie, especially in a movie like Friday. That’s not my style.” Williams’ interview sparked a lot of reactions from people he named during the talk. Ludacris recently replied to Williams with a freestyle rap, after the comedian alleged he went to an Illuminati event with him. Williams told Sharpe, “So there was a crossroads where we were both invited to an Illuminati thing.” He explained, “It had to be one or the other of us, and decisions had to be made. So it was both of us. We were equal. One of us had to cut off all their hair and couldn’t do the sideburn thing no more with the points. And the next person they said was going to get $200 million because they were going to pay him $10 million a movie to do 20 movies. And that’s how the conversation happened. One of those persons turned out to be Ludacris and the other person turned out to be Katt Williams.”
Ludacris fired back, “Never been illuminati/I only left with b###### when coming from any party.”
