News : 50 Cent Praises Ice Cube For “Creating A Path” With BIG3

50 Cent has recently taken to social media to congratulate Ice Cube. Ice Cube’s BIG3 basketball league was just officially recognized as the first Black-owned sports league in the U.S. 50 Cent shared the news on Instagram, along with a message for Ice Cube. “Ice Cube has done some great sh*t over the years creating a path artist from our culture can follow,” he wrote.

Ice Cube has previously shared that the goal behind his BIG3 league is to improve American cities. “The country is very uneasy right now,” he told Wall Street‘s Maria Bartiromo, “Everybody got to do their part. The BIG3, we’re going from city to city this year. We’re not in our bubble like we have been in the last couple of years. We’re going to be all over the country this summer, hopefully making cities a little better than we found them when we leave. That’s our plan. I think it should be everybody’s plan. Everybody’s got to look in the mirror and say, ‘What can I do to make things better?’ That’s the only way it’s going to change.”

50 Cent Congratulates Ice Cube

50 Cent has taken on a sports initiative of his own recently, partnering with the Sacramento Kings to launch the Kings and Queens Rise Co-Ed Youth Sports and Mentoring League. He shares similar goals of improving communities and offering young people a “path.” He told The Sacramento Bee earlier this week, “I think idle time is the devil’s time. Especially in inner cities where you got so many different distractions, so many different influences, positive and negative.”

50 Cent continued, “They get a chance to be part of that team effort. I think it teaches them lessons that are priceless in the early stages.” He also called it “a great program,” adding, “I had fun hanging out with the kids, if we keep them active, they won’t go get in trouble.”