ICE CUBE - US

[Statik]

Ice Cube was undeniably the greatest rapper alive from Amerikkkas Most Wanted all the way to Lethel Injection (not the say his shyt after was wack or anything, it just wasn't on par with his early albums)

one of the best runs in hiphop history imo

 

[Wepa Man]

who is Boogiemen? I see he did most of the production on that album

 

[The_Hillsta]

3 cats well four if you count Sir Jinx who always had a hand in some of Cube's early production....

DJ Pooh, Bobcat, n Rashad. They was some fools for them funk n soul samples.

 

[Invisible Man]

Cube never lost it, he just got less angry. You can't be young and hungry forever.

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

ive always thought Cube was the GOAT. why ? you just summed it up.

Cube is the GOAT without a doubt.

 

[-----]

No Vaseline is easily the best diss song ever made.

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

Without question!

 

[Big Mel]

Ice Cube was undeniably the greatest rapper alive from Amerikkkas Most Wanted all the way to Lethel Injection (not the say his shyt after was wack or anything, it just wasn't on par with his early albums)

one of the best runs in hiphop history imo

he was my favorite from straight outta compton to da lench mob album. i knew he was falling off at the predator.


he and krs one were coop favs.


BUT....and this is a big ol butt, his post Lethal Injection career is so shameful it taints his legacy IMHO.

 

[Truality]

For years ive wished cube would just grab some underground sample based tracks from sum unknown producers snd make a lyrical political album like DC

It would fukk up the industry

he dont care no more tho

he still has the voice but his newer albums the beats suck for the most part and hus lyrics are too simple. Flow is too bouncy too.

his voice sounds best on sample beats

like nas

 

[mobbinfms]

Had to throw the CD in the whip off the strength of this thread. Haven't dug out the CD or cued up the vinyl in years. Listened to most of the Death side on my way to work this morning. My jaw was on the fukking floor. The production on this album is supremely underrated. The concept of the album is so underrated. Only albums I'd put above DC with confidence is Infamous, Illmatic and OBFCL. Everything else is a toss up. Unless I'm forgetting something major. And he did this in his early twenties? It was incredibly topical and relevant then and it still is.

 

[mobbinfms]

Just looked it up. It was released when he was 22. Which means he recorded most of it when he was 21. Amazing.

 

[The_Hillsta]

Had to throw the CD in the whip off the strength of this thread. Haven't dug out the CD or cued up the vinyl in years. Listened to most of the Death side on my way to work this morning. My jaw was on the fukking floor. The production on this album is supremely underrated. The concept of the album is so underrated. Only albums I'd put above DC with confidence is Infamous, Illmatic and OBFCL. Everything else is a toss up. Unless I'm forgetting something major. And he did this in his early twenties? It was incredibly topical and relevant then and it still is.

Bruh, when you actually listened to what Khalid was spittin at the end of the light side and the beginning of the death side the shyt LITERALLY had you "The black man and woman have no birth record no beginning no ending, before alpha n after omega....


Another incredible aspect about DC outside of the dope concept, lyrics/beats was the reaction of EVERYBODY in real time. Your family, friends, teachers, media/radio, government, other rappers. shyt was truly amazing to witness and be a part of, proudest n happiest I had ever been to spend $7.99 plus tax on a tape.

 

[MINT]

who is Boogiemen?

 

[The_Hillsta]

i knew he was falling off at the predator.

I 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 like Mind 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.

 

[Big Mel]

Those that know, know. And I post and appeal to/for the select few. Salute.

 

[Firefly]

I miss when HipHop reflected the times we lived in, struggles we were all going through and the lives and growth of artists.

I still to this day feel like just like the Feds use Facebook as a tool, they use the music industry. It's a great tool to influence the young and keep them ignorant. The problem is the folks who would have a chance to say something against it have been paid off. They have to support the B.S in order to feed their families. I see so many bloggers shyt on the trash that's out now, but they still post it on their sites. If that isn't slave/c00n shyt of the highest order I don't know what is.