Ice Cube appeared on Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson, and the West Coast rap icon spoke about the current state of the beloved Friday series. A fourth film has been in limbo for years, and Cube blasted the distributor.

“I don’t know. Warner Brothers is weird right now,” Cube said of the current status. “I don’t know what they doing, they don’t know what they doing. We’d love to have it back. I think it’s gon’ be close to a time when we get it back. So, we’ll either wait for that time, or we’ll keep trying to convince them that they need to let us control the movie. It’s my movie, but they have distribution control.”

Cube said he's not interested in buying anything he's already created.

“I ain’t putting shit up for it. Fuck no,” he said. “They need to give it to me, and they gon’ make money. I’m not about to pay for my own stuff, that’s stupid … They need to do the right thing, get it to us, let us turn it into more money, and make the fans happy … We can do a lot with it.”

Of course, the popular film franchise originated with the cult classic Friday in 1995. That movie starred Cube as Craig and comedian Chris Tucker as his stoner pal, Smokey. The movie became a sleeper hit and helped launch Tucker's film career. Cube would return as Craig in two more sequels (Next Friday in 2000 and Friday After Next two years later) alongside Mike Epps as Craig's cousin and comedic foil Day-Day. Cube explained that he's already written two scripts for what would be Last Friday, the fourth film in the franchise. Cube said that Warner Bros. rejected the first script because “the timing wasn’t right." As far as the second script, for whatever reason, that version of the movie never got off the ground.

“It was in development hell,” he said about that failed second attempt. “They just kept giving you note after note after note, never giving you the green light.”