Seriously . It actually happened . Sort of . On January 10 , in my weekly Apparently This Matters column , I wrote about an online fundraiser called the Good Day Blimp where , essentially , four guys were trying to quickly raise $ 25,000 for charity to more-or-less guilt-trip the Goodyear company into flying their blimp high in the air while spelling out in lights `` ICE CUBE 'S A PIMP . '' If Goodyear would do this on January 20 -- a very specific and important date -- the South Central Los Angeles nonprofit , A Place Called Home , would get the money . You know , for kids ! But it had to be THAT date and THOSE words . It 's a little silly and a lot complicated , and you can read the whole backstory here , but just know that it all stems from the lyrics of one of Ice Cube 's old-school , 1992 hit rap songs `` It Was a Good Day '' where , in recounting a day so good he `` even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp and it read ICE CUBE 'S A PIMP . '' For my column , I actually spoke to Ice Cube while he happened to be at the CNN Center in Atlanta promoting his new movie `` Ride Along , '' ( sequel to come , he told CNN today ) and that 's when he first learned of the movement . He thought it was : `` Dope . '' Then , a few days later he acknowledged the movement on Twitter before appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon where the subject once again came up . So , between us and Jimmy Fallon , we feel a little responsible for this thing blowing up . What was once a quiet , ridiculous Internet fundraiser was now officially a thing . Goodyear released a statement via Twitter , saying that on January 20 they would treat kids from the A Place Called Home charity to rides on the blimp , and even invited Ice Cube to join them . However , they were n't going to write `` ICE CUBE 'S A PIMP . '' That just was n't going to happen . But they basically met everyone halfway by promising to write out `` IT 'S A GOOD DAY . '' In the end , Ice Cube flew out to Los Angeles early Monday morning from the East Coast to meet with the kids , check out the blimp , and help the Good Day Blimp guys present a large , novelty-sized $ 25,000 check to the charity . `` I never thought in a million years it would happen , '' Cube said , standing outside the blimp . `` Rap is a mixture of fantasy and reality , and it seems like fantasy has met reality today . '' Sort of . The wording was n't exact , but let 's face it , Goodyear was never going to write PIMP on their famous airship , and they very easily could have ignored the whole thing . By January 21 it would be a memory . But it happened . And credit to Ice Cube for being there for the festivities . It was a good day . Follow @ JarrettBellini on Twitter .
Ice Cube wrote the 1992 hit song `` It Was a Good Day '' In it , he describes his version of a perfect day in South Central , Los Angeles . One of the examples was having his name in lights on the Goodyear Blimp . He also had an ice cream truck named after him and used to have a restaurant called'The Big N's that would serve up burgers with fries for $ 5 or so.