Ice Cube, who at one point in his career vividly expressed his views on not giving a ‘flip’ about the police is now set to write as well as executive produce a new hour-long buddy cop comedy series for the NBC network.

NBC Entertaiment and Universal Media Studios’ chairman Ben Silverman aggressively pursued Cube for the action comedy. “As we continue to expand our roster of diverse talent both on-camera and behind the camera, a guy like Ice Cube, who’s multitalented, is someone we really wanted to be in business with,” Silverman said. “He’s had an amazing career, to have gone from NWA to this.”

Cube is not expected to star in the series, but the network is definitely open to him making guest appearances and lend his musical skills to the show’s opening credits. “We really want to capture his voice and his eye for talent, and his producing acumen,” Silverman said. “If he appeared in the pilot or series, we’d be really excited about that.”

The show will be produced by Universal Media Studios and Cube’s production company, Cube Vision. The show is still untitled and a premiere date has not yet been given.

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