lets look at how Caac media reacted to Death Certificate when it came out.

[Mike Otherz]

this is what the most powerful music critic in america had to say about it. Robert Christgau at the Village Voice. I'll post the artice then expose his hypocrisy.

Robert Christgau: Ice KKKubes's Aesthetikkk Merit: Big Fukkking Deal

ok, i said i would expose it.


update:

check out this piece from glenn kenny going after glenn greenwald on his objections to the movie Zero Dark Thirty.


http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2012/12/anti-torture-anti-art.html

Kenny is a former student of Robert Christgau, and he quotes Robert Christgau in the piece. Its paragrah 4. read the Christgau quotes. basicallly, what he is attacking Ice Cube for, he gives a pass to The Ramones back in the day for. he gives white artists the artistic freedom to engage in fantasy. no matter how troubling. but he doesnt give black men the same pass. dare i say it is stereotypical. those white kids could never be Nazis. But Ice Cube, from LA, hanging around Nation Of Islam. He couldnt possible be articulating angsts and frustration, he must really mean it and be leading his followers to violence against Jews and Koreans.

 

[A.J.Soprano]

same type dudes hating on that album hated on Nas's Untitled

 

[NvrCMyNut]

According to that article the source magazine was critical of it's content too. & this seems more to be a reaction to the reaction of the album

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Cacs were furious... Even Eminem said he hated the pro black rap era because he felt excluded. But it was a different time back then it would be contrived now.

I know white rap fans who didn't rock with untitled either but like I said before I wouldn't care much either to listen to the perspective of a community I wasn't a part of talking about their own issues even tho they are relevant to society as a whole. I'm not mad at them because an artist decided to speak to his black audience. They shouldn't take offence to the music however it is made to inform not attack. Cube went as hard at c00ns as he did crakkkas on that album. People can't handle unadulterated raw

 

[Family Man]

Cacs were furious... Even Eminem said he hated the pro black rap era because he felt excluded. But it was a different time back then it would be contrived now.

I know white rap fans who didn't rock with untitled either but like I said before I wouldn't care much either to listen to the perspective of a community I wasn't a part of talking about their own issues even tho they are relevant to society as a whole. I'm not mad at them because an artist decided to speak to his black audience. They shouldn't take offence to the music however it is made to inform not attack. Cube went as hard at c00ns as he did crakkkas on that album. People can't handle unadulterated raw

Yeah.. Cube gave it to everybody on that album. Especially the Uncle Toms.
Who gives a fukk what a CAC thinks? CACs can go suck a dikk.

 

[Mike Otherz]

updated with the expose.

 

[lowkey0z]

 

[Danie84]

If only more ore rappers had the guts to come out with a Death Certificate album

 

[x2y]

DC is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. People where mad and they are still mad.

 

[Commander in Chiefin]

First CD I bought when i upgraded from tape deck to CD player

 

[FreshAIG]

Best rap album of all time

 

[Northern Son]

Great thread. Christgau is a joke.

 

[big bun]

Still caring what "CACS" think I see...y'all can't even function without white people on your brain.

 

[Kimo_bud]

old school cube is the goat

 

[H.I.M.]

What's even funnier is the fact that most of the people that bought that album and came out to see his shows back then were mostly CACS