Ice Cube Breaks Silence On Mysterious Portland Bus Fire

Ice Dice is presently making his manner round North America on his “Reality To Energy” tour, and not too long ago, he bumped into some surprising bother on the street. Throughout his cease in Portland final week, considered one of his crew’s buses caught hearth. Fortuitously, no one was injured. On the time of writing, it nonetheless stays unclear precisely how the fireplace began. The rapper, nonetheless, seems to imagine that it might have allegedly been intentional.

“I’m not taking this incident as a private assault,” he defined to KGW in a press release following the fireplace. “A coward like that might burn anyone’s property that was on the market on the time.”

The incident is presently being investigated, with officers combing via safety footage in hopes of discovering any new info associated to the fireplace. Amid hypothesis and rumors surrounding the incident, Ice Dice additionally took to X over the weekend to clear a number of issues up.

“Wasn’t my bus,” he started. “It was a crew bus. Parked in entrance of the lodge. All people was upstairs sleeping. No one harm. No gear broken. A coward set hearth to the bus. My bus was truly in Oakland getting serviced.”

Rumors that the bus was mistaken for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bus have additionally been floating round in latest days. This stays unconfirmed. Ice Dice spoke out towards the Los Angeles ICE raids again in August, nonetheless. On the time, he accused authorities of being far too aggressive with individuals.

“To see individuals disrespected like that, and the federal authorities being too heavy-handed, going to church buildings and weddings and grabbing individuals out of faculties—it’s like, ‘Come on, man, y’all simply overdoing it,’” he acknowledged.