ICE CUBE - US

[Wild self]

If anything they dumbed down gangsta rap, it had a purpose until they turned it into glorification.

that is true, but NWA's first album was great commentary when it was commentary. When their second album dropped, however, it turned to a nikka fest. That was when the glorification of the hood and the prison rates started to happen. Cube being absent didn't help things either.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

that is true, but NWA's first album was great commentary when it was commentary. When their second album dropped, however, it turned to a nikka fest. That was when the glorification of the hood and the prison rates started to happen. Cube being absent didn't help things either.

True, but it wasn't just NWA. There are a few examples where gangsta rap would have a message. If I were to look at it in a Franz Fanon kinda way, radicalizing the lumpenproletariat is extremely dangerous for the colonizer or in this case the oppressor. People like Pac had to have their message misconstrued, even the idea of Thug Life is totally different from what people typically think of Pac. I know a lot of knuckleheads who ended up having great lives without changing themselves simply because they understood the message of Thug Life and what Pac was tryna say. But like I said that's one example. Spice 1 had great commentary, Soulja Slim, Styles P, the problem is that you need to keep your credibility in order to keep your audience so it's the fine line they walk. Nowadays no one gives a shyt about walking that fine line, they too busy turnin up.

 

[Wild self]

True, but it wasn't just NWA. There are a few examples where gangsta rap would have a message. If I were to look at it in a Franz Fanon kinda way, radicalizing the lumpenproletariat is extremely dangerous for the colonizer or in this case the oppressor. People like Pac had to have their message misconstrued, even the idea of Thug Life is totally different from what people typically think of Pac. I know a lot of knuckleheads who ended up having great lives without changing themselves simply because they understood the message of Thug Life and what Pac was tryna say. But like I said that's one example. Spice 1 had great commentary, Soulja Slim, Styles P, the problem is that you need to keep your credibility in order to keep your audience so it's the fine line they walk. Nowadays no one gives a shyt about walking that fine line, they too busy turnin up.

Well, Cube always went from one end to another (remember War and Peace album? neither did I), but he is by far the most consistent MC in Hip Hop, outside of Nas and-maybe-LL Cool J. Cube's joints always hits home and hits in a way where very few can properly criticize him.

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

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...

Listening to that Death Cerftificate in 2014 u cant help but to ask what the hell happened to Hip Hop? Why aren't the top speaking truth anymore.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Well, Cube always went from one end to another (remember War and Peace album? neither did I), but he is by far the most consistent MC in Hip Hop, outside of Nas and-maybe-LL Cool J. Cube's joints always hits home and hits in a way where very few can properly criticize him.

No doubt, but like I said it's a very fine line when it comes to gangsta rap. He was able to work both sides for awhile but not forever. But people like Cube were important, unfortunately the people that own the culture understood that importance all too well.

 

[DaHNIC82]

War and Peace was a reflection of the times. Nikkas was eating good during that period and Cube's life changed for the betterment of his finances so I couldn't blame him. There was still flashes of the old Cube on those two albums but notice how his content shifted back to the political elements on that WSC Terrorist threats album and Laugh Now Cry Later

 

[muzikfrk75]

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?

I never had dinner with the president

 

[kermit da hustla]

ice cub does advertisements for Coors Beer, which is owned by one of the most right-wing and racist companies around. the nikka is full of shyt.

 

[Big Boss]

Top 5 dead or alive

 

[Big Boss]

Top 5 dead or alive

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I'm too young to appreciate this.

 

[JuvenileHell]

Only West Coast artist you can put over Pac and I can't say shyt

His social commentary was unfukwittable

 

[Brock Landers]

Own all of his classic albums

 

[Flav]

that song told the down and dirty truth!
















NOBODY GIVE A fukk ABOUT...







































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Ice Cube was untouchable

 

[detroitwalt]

Now I gotta go dig this out. Good shyt OP