ICE CUBE - US

[2Quik4UHoes]

That 3 album run between AMW and The Predator made Cube a Hip Hop legend as far as I'm concerned. lol, Us had me like cuz I hadn't read Malcolm's book yet so I wasn't hip yet.

 

[Invisible Man]

Honestly, this is the best album of all time. No matter how many times I hear it - and I hear it fukking OFTEN - it never gets old.

 

[Invisible Man]

Oh yeah, and it was 120% TRUTH. Same for AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and The Predator. True to the Game is arguably the greatest hip-hop song ever written. I remember playing it in the same car as my mother, and as soon as the white bytch line came on, my mama said, "Yep, that's true."

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Early 90's icecube was just

 

[Grand Champ]

Honestly, this is the best album of all time. No matter how many times I hear it - and I hear it fukking OFTEN - it never gets old.

Cube spazzed on this album, no filler, perfect sequencing and every song meant something. A Bird In the Hand, Color Blind, Look Who's Burnin, etc..
The way he addressed so much shyt on one album was crazy.

 

[Knights89]

Us will always sing the blues because all we care about hairstyles and tennis shoes

 

[Firefly]

The people in power now have no connection to this.

This is HipHop at it's peak! Rebellious and frightening to mainstream America. No Grammys, No Top 40 airplay, no sitting on the couch at Ellen.

Straight and directly speaking to "US".

As we assimilated into the mainstream all this got drowned out. Now all the kids know is this diluted shyt out now and it's just getting further and further diluted.

 

[macadomusic]

my favorit album off ALL TIME

 

[OG Talk]

Cube predicted the L.A. Riots too..

Death Certificate is the only album I've bought several times..Used to play it so much the cassette would pop and I would go re-up like a fiend...

 

[The_Hillsta]

"And all yall dope dealers, you as bad as the police, cuz you killaz."

Man they even cut the music to let it sink in......My cousin used to nickel n dime and I remember him sayin Cube wrong for sayin that shyt. That album hit on so many levels had muthafukkaz catchin feelings.

 

[Millz]

5 star thread

 

[Wild self]

"And all yall dope dealers, you as bad as the police, cuz you killaz."

Man they even cut the music to let it sink in......My cousin used to nickel n dime and I remember him sayin Cube wrong for sayin that shyt. That album hit on so many levels had muthafukkaz catchin feelings.

MCs like him and Chuck D are the reasons why I listen to Hip Hop

Black excellence

 

[The_Hillsta]

No Vaseline is easily the best diss song ever made.

"eazy e's dikk smelling like mc ren's shyt"

You wanna know some funny shyt, I didn't know what the fukk No Vaseline was.......Real talk, I just thought it might of been the outro or somethin with Khalid preachin about black folks getting fukked by America n whatnot...."No Vaseline? The fukk is this?" "Us" was so powerful n moving that you thought that was it, end of a great fukkin album but hellfukknaw.........

If you was any type of NWA fan you knew EXACTLY what time it was the moment you heard him say "Oh yeah, it ain't over muthafukkaz.."

GOTTTTTTTDAAAAAAAAAMN! What the fukk just happened????

Bruh, he just said NWA gettin fukkED out they green by a WHITEBOY!!!!! With No VASELINE?

Called Eazy E a fakkit n set the nikka curl on fire?

Ren went out like Kunta Kinte? Whaaaaaaaaaa?

 

[DontEemTry]

"And all yall dope dealers, you as bad as the police, cuz you killaz."

Man they even cut the music to let it sink in......My cousin used to nickel n dime and I remember him sayin Cube wrong for sayin that shyt. That album hit on so many levels had muthafukkaz catchin feelings.

I always wondered how he got away with that line, assuming he was a street nikka. I mean the shyt is true and needed to be said, but I know the hustlers who was slangin couldn't have been feelin that shyt.

 

[BlackMajik]

One of the best songs ever

And still very relevant

Replace "Vanilla Ice" with Macklemore in the song and it still makes sense