Last year, the world lost a great filmmaker when John Singleton passed away. Next Tuesday (April 28) will mark the one-year anniversary since Singleton left us, and it looks like the approaching date has Ice Cube taking a trip down memory lane. Aside from bringing us films such as Baby Boy, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Four Brothers, Singleton also made history with his directorial debut, Boyz n the Hood.

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The film starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Laurence Fishburne, Regina King, Angela Bassett, and Ice Cube. It's been hailed as a classic Black film that generations continue to enjoy, notably because there was a true-to-life essence that stemmed from being shot on location with effects that evoked natural reactions from the cast. Ice Cube recently tweeted a photo of himself and his co-stars on the Boyz n the Hood set with John Singleton and revisited one of those memories.

"Rehearsing the Crenshaw scene for Boyz N Tha Hood," he wrote in the caption. "John never told us that it would be real gun fire during the scene. All reactions were real. John was brilliant. I miss him." Check out the tweet and the scene he's referring to below.

Actor Michael Jai White recently sat down with VladTV and shared a few opinions that stuck with the host. White discussed the nicknames and words the black community affectionately uses like “n*gga,” “b*tch,” and “dog.” The actor suggested that the black community was de-humanizing itself, and Nick Cannon added to those thoughts during his interview with Vlad.

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“That’s what John Singleton made Baby Boy out of,” Cannon said. “That complex of black men never being able to be a man, always being emasculating, always being a ‘baby.’ ‘Hey baby, that’s my baby, what’s up baby.’ We’re the only ones that refer to each other as babies because we’re not yet men.”

Cannon and Vlad also added monikers like “savage” and “goon.” The actor continued, “None of them are human… That’s why I said that elevated mentality is engrained in us so we’ve been brainwashed and it’s been stripped away by the European institutionalization and I feel like—I do believe in those agendas.”

Cannon claimed that he isn’t some sort of conspiracy theorist, but this is a topic that he’s studied deeply. “When you can tear down an empire, whether it’s through language, whether it’s through separation, whether it’s through their food, you come at them from all angles,” he said. “Whether it’s through sexuality, whatever you consider.” Check out Cannon’s clip below and let us know if you agree.