Ice Cube will turn his gritty gang drama into an uplifting family story for Disney

In a story that serves as a metaphor for Ice Cube’s entire career, the rapper-actor has sold his gritty, urban drama Chrome And Paint—which borrows its name from the 2006 song in which Cube, “the dome splitter,” smokes some dank and fucks with the po-po—to Disney. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cube had planned to produce and direct a “hardcore R-rated movie where young people die in drive-bys,” set in the tricked-out car culture of South Central L.A. But now that it’s at the Disney studios, Cube has agreed to turn it into a PG-13 story about a teen, abandoned by his father, who begins rebuilding the car he left behind with the help of one his father’s friends, and “the process of remaking the car helps the two heal each other.” And instead of his house getting shot up in drive-bys, maybe people drop off some casseroles. West Side, you know how they do.