Ice Cube first saw Kimberly Woodruff at a shopping mall with fellow rapper T-Bone in early 1989. She was coming down an escalator when he glanced at her. And that was all it took. “When I saw her, something automatically went through my head and said, either that could be your woman or that should be your woman,” he said on “In Depth with Graham Bensinger” in 2021. For himself, anyway. Woodruff had no interest at first. Woodruff was in a relationship then and turned down Cube’s advances.
Six months later, she and Cube crossed paths again. By then, Woodruff was single and a lot more open to Cube’s attempts to woo her. They worked like a charm this time around. “We ain’t been apart since about August 5th, 1989,” he detailed. Not long after, Cube went all in when he decided it was time to take the relationship to the next level.
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Instead of getting down on one knee, Cube purchased a BMW for Woodruff’s birthday and placed the ring in the seat. “She came out for the car and that was one moment of joy, but when she saw the ring, it just went to another level,” he said. Cube wasn’t trying to go all out. He just wanted to pop the question while also getting something nice for her birthday. “I don’t know if it was considered romantic,” he laughed on “Fitzy and Wippa” (via Daily Mail).
