Ice Cube: 'Dre forgot about me'

Ice Cube has revealed that Dr Dre abandoned him when the pair were halfway through recording a collaboration.

The Death Certificate rapper claimed that he was forced to drop plans to include a track with Dre on his next album after the hip-hop producer disappeared during recording sessions.

Ice Cube told Rap-Up that he still does not know where Dre went, adding: "Dre went M.I.A.; I don't know where he at. If y'all find him, tell him to give me a call."

However, he went on to insist that he was not offended, since he wasn't the only act to miss out on the 'Next Episode' superstar.

"It's cool, he went M.I.A. on Snoop too," he said. "Everybody wanna work with him, so it's up to him on who he wants to work with, who he don't wanna work with.

"We did the records, but we didn't finish them. So, I felt like I didn't wanna put them out unless they was finished. Or what's the use? I'll get 'em finished sooner or later, and put 'em out."

Ice Cube also said that his friendship with Dre was not as close as it used to be in the N.W.A. days of the late 1980s.

He said: "It's a distant relationship. It's been distant ever since I left N.W.A., so I don't expect that to change. We all went our separate ways back then, we was youngsters. We're grown now.

"That is what it is. It reminds me of, like, somebody I hung out [with] in high school a lot, but now that you grown, you talk to every now and then. That's kind of how I look at it."

Ice Cube's new album I Am The West is released on September 28.