After ten years away from US stages, rap icon Ice Cube kicked off his nationwide tour on September 4 in Brooklyn. "Truth to Power is more than a tour — it's a 40-year celebration," Ice Cube said in the tour announcement, as reported by ABC27 News. His latest track, "Before Hip Hop," takes direct shots at social problems. "It's easy and lazy to look at what's going on in a lot of communities and blame hip hop for everything. ‘Before Hip Hop' is calling out the revisionist, showing how crime and injustice existed long before hip hop music.