ICE CUBE - US
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nikkas back them were more mature minded. The aver 21 year old today has the thought process of a 12 year old.
call_me_step_daddy
Real nikkaz,beat bytches
TRUTH BE TOLD,Cube lost the hood after DC..he only got it back a bit after riding PAC wave during that east/west coast beef & forming west side connection..
Us will always sing the blues
Cause all we care about is hairstyles and tennis shoes
Cause all we care about is hairstyles and tennis shoes
feelosofer
#ninergang
Cube definitely predicted the LA Riots, but I think the reason the album is so relevant today is because the conditions of Black folk hadn't really changed the past 30 years. Gangstas are still banging, we are still poor as a collective, we are still being sold out by uncle Toms, and we are still target practice for the Police. We may listen to music on IPhones instead having skypagers and listening on Walkmans, but the hood is the eternal purgatory by which we are inhabitants of running on a perpetual hamster wheel 
Cube definitely predicted the LA Riots, but I think the reason the album is so relevant today is because the conditions of Black folk hadn't really changed the past 30 years. Gangstas are still banging, we are still poor as a collective, we are still being sold out by uncle Toms, and we are still target practice for the Police. We may listen to music on IPhones instead having skypagers and listening on Walkmans, but the hood is the eternal purgatory by which we are inhabitants of running on a perpetual hamster wheel
A biopic on rap group N.W.A. is a sobering realization that nothing has changed in the 27 years since 'F—k tha Police' was written
feelosofer
#ninergang
No Vaseline is easily the best diss song ever made.
"eazy e's dikk smelling like mc ren's shyt"
I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe more so than Ether, because it was a diss and warning that they were not being true to themselves (Cube was right about that one).
Chris Rock's most controversial bit (black people vs nikkas) was directly inspired by this song.
You call him a prophet then you probably
wasn't alive or mature enough to know what was happening back then!
wasn't alive or mature enough to know what was happening back then!
Spanky 6000
Banned
What do you guys think about this.
zayk35
Superstar
Perfect review...couldn't have said it betterI gotta say this, muthafukkaz can't stand you on here sometimes, but 90% the time you be on point.....Real talk. That Westside Connect album was bangin tho when it dropped, that's another topic
But back to The Predator, I can't front you right. Cats who REALLY remember know what I'm talking about. The first single that we(friends/fam/majority of the public) heard was Wicked. Heard it on the radio n was likeMind yall muthafukkaz was STILL bumpin DC, I know I was. Video premiered and everybody I mean EVERYBODY in class the next day was
"What's up with Cube? Who the fukk is these dudes in the video? Is he on some stoner shyt?" Real talk, this was what muthafukkaz was talkin about in a US history class.
The content was there but something was "off." Cats during that time grew up on Cube, felt like fam at that point. After a fight or during dodgeball and you head huntin with that hard ass soccer ball you would yell on muthafukkaz "YOU TOOFLESS!!!!!!" Because of jheri curl Cube.
But anyway Wicked premiers and we STILL go out and buy the tape regardless and right after the American Me intro " ANOTHER fukkIN PAYABACK WITTA TWIST!!!". When Will They Shoot is the best cut on Predator. Some of yall gone say It Was A Good Day, yeah its a classic, its dope but it kinda wasn't really Cube at the time. It was different, somber Cube, mellow, some shyt you could ride to. shyt even we knew when he said at the end "I don't know what the fukk I was thankin bout...." Funniest part of the song.
By the time you got to Gangsta's Fairtale 2 with that HORRIBLE Kris Kross chours it started becoming apparent that this shyt was no DC. Was it the production? Eh....Content was there, post LA riots. The features? No Lenchmob? IDK, but something was off about Predator. Real talk, this is what nikkaz on the block and at school was sayin in Northern CALI at the time. Don't get me wrong, we was all still bumpin the shyt with no fukks given real talk, can't speak on how other regions felt though.
So Mel sayin the beginning of a fall off, I can definitely see that....,.way back then.
Dynamite James
The Main attraction
Classic album
This album and The Predator were made for these times.
“April 29th brought power to the people/ and we might just see a sequel/cause police got equal hate”