Button advertising the film Next Friday: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Square button advertising the film "Next Friday." Button features two men, Ice Cube and Mike Epps, pictured from above. Ice Cube is seen on the right side of the middle holding a lit lighter in his PR hand up toward the viewer. At the feet of Ice Cube is a white bull terrier. Mike Epps is on the left side of the middle, seated on the front of a car. Over top of the men is blue, red, and white text [ice cube/NEXT/friday/the suburbs make/the hood look good]. On the reverse, on the bottom edge is black text [© 1999 New Line Cinema. All Rights Reserved. For Promotional Use Only.].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1999
• Distributed by: New Line Film Productions, Inc., 1967 - 2008
• Subject of: Ice Cube, American, born 1969
• Subject of: Mike Epps, American
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper, metal, plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 9/16 × 2 9/16 × 1/4 in. (6.5 × 6.5 × 0.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Object number: 2014.35.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, A Gift from the Personal Collection of Bill Ivory Larson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1999 New Line Cinema Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.