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Ice Cube Responds to Selena Gomez’s Childhood Crush Confession

The rapper-turned-actor returned the favor by revealing one of his own childhood crushes.

Selena Gomez may have blushed over Ice Cube as a kid, but the rapper-turned-actor isn’t sweating the revelation. “A lot of ‘em like me, homie,” the 56-year-old N.W.A alum said on the 3’s and Ones podcast. “What? Wassup? I heard this years ago.” Gomez, 32, was chatting with fellow pop star Karol G, 34, about their picks for the G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) rappers last month when she revealed, “I had the biggest crush on (Ice Cube) when I was, like, 5.” Ice Cube—whose real name is O’Shea Jackson—returned the favor by sharing one of his own childhood crushes: Vanity, the lead singer of the 1980s hit group Vanity 6. “Bring her in here and see what happens,” the Friday actor joked, before adding that he had “about four” such crushes growing up. Vanity, who died from kidney failure in 2016, is best known for singing the steamy 1982 hit “Nasty Girl,” written and produced by Prince. Ice Cube has been married to Kimberly Woodruff since 1992, while Gomez is engaged to star producer Benny Blanco.