Albums New Ice Cube Album Man Up

[Awesome Wells]

Its bad bruh.

He needs you or me or whoever the west coast Jermaine Dupri of rap is....ie someone who can guide or criticize or demand top to.bottom.

Someone to say:

"that beat aint it."

"That verse is bad because xyz."

"Say that part over. You dragging the last word and it sounds off."

" you have to address rhe Tucker carlson and Trump shyt."

"You writing lazy...go harder...you ice cube....the coli folly dragging on a dolly for molly is lazy "

"Heres an nteresting rhyme scheme...try to write to it."

"Listen to this song off the Predator, mimic the flow and Ill get xyz to build the beat around it."

"The concept you got for Freedumb is interrsting. But the execution is shallow and lazy. Your audience is smarter than that."

"This beat is ok lets make it better by doing xyz."

"this song is good but it doesn't fit."

"Man up..what a man is in 2025 is a good concept, but lets go deeper. It cant just be being tough or speaking up. If so what does that mean?"


Basically Cube is an all timer who was born to rap.but Tiger Wood had coaches, Jay was surrounded by young talent that kept him sharp. Cube needs all that.

Yeah, it seems like he's just on his own these days, making music in a bubble with no input or feedback from anybody.

All of his classic sh*t had him around people that would help direct him. Legends! Without that, it seems like Cube just does whatever and probably doesn't even know how wack this sh*t he's making is.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Yeah, it seems like he's just on his own these days, making music in a bubble with no input or feedback from anybody.

All of his classic sh*t had him around people that would help direct him. Legends! Without that, it seems like Cube just does whatever and probably doesn't even know how wack this sh*t he's making is.

Exactly. He needs direction without it you get this gem.




This is so bad its funny. But tons of older rappers have made dope "mature songs". But this is just corny. "She told the young heffa, give me that salt and pepper."

"i always smell good, he always smell like the hood." cmon mane (boosie voice), this man wrote straight outta compton and death certificate.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Exactly. He needs direction without it you get this gem.




This is so bad its funny. But tons of older rappers have made dope "mature songs". But this is just corny. "She told the young heffa, give me that salt and pepper."

"i always smell good, he always smell like the hood." cmon mane (boosie voice), this man wrote straight outta compton and death certificate.

'Always smell good. He always smell like the hood".

The minute I heard that, I turned it off.

 

[Flav]

Sad to say but It’s over for Cube. He had a damn good run but his last album and this album is doo doo juice. He lost his drive and ambition to make great music like he used to. These last two albums make I Am The West and Raw Footage sound like classics. Everything’s Corrupt is pretty dope.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Sad to say but It’s over for Cube. He had a damn good run but his last album and this album is doo doo juice. He lost his drive and ambition to make great music like he used to. These last two albums make I Am The West and Raw Footage sound like classics. Everything’s Corrupt is pretty dope.

Everything corrupt was dope....his last good album to me.

 

[H. Selassie]

Cube flow been ass for almost 20 years now.

 

[Wepa Man]

 

[KingSol81]

Damn, Cube cant get no love huh? Theres not even a single thread stickied atm...thecoli shutting down???

 

[ROBEEZYKILLA]

Damn with all these older rappers dropping fire this is disappointing album is ass

 

[Doobie Doo]

Ice cubes's a fire guy

Imagine it was 1991 and his parents found out he was going to see this guy

 

[summwunn]

 

[Playaz Eyez]

I listened to a handful of songs on here, and I was hoping yall were exaggerating when it came to his rhyme schemes, and ooooooh man yall weren’t lying. Very good production MAY have been able to hide his very elementary rhyme schemes, but the production is largely boring and dated on here. This is obviously a far cry from his peak, but overall it’s not even close to Laugh Now Cry Later and Raw Footage. He’s Melle Mel/93 Kurtis Blow status, totally cringe, which is sad, given the fact that multiple veterans have dropped solid to very good quality albums in the past year.

 

[keond]

Cube flow been ass for almost 20 years now.

Cube in my top 5 all time, but i admit i dont even check his new shyt. Last time he had some fire shyt was with Lil Jon of all people.

 

[TripleAgent]

Just my opinion but this is how I see the problem with Cube after the 90s - It's like 75% the beat selection, classic Cube style doesn't work on certain beats and it's like 25% Eminem level or Wayne level of cringe bars, like even the songs I'm enjoying from Cube at some point in at least one of the verses he'll say some corny metaphor or wordplay and it just throws everything off.

I feel also like Cube probably doesn't really have anyone around to really be like yo this could be tighter or that's kind ehhh, I think its probably mostly yes men around now and for a lot of the records Cube does hes just getting beats sent his way, a few times here and there he'll get in the studio with an E-A-Ski or Jinx or a T-Mix and you can almost always tell when it's one of those kinda records he sounds at his most tolerable, when hes actually had some competent input from someone with substantial hip hop stripes.

 

[Bboystyle]

Jesus Christ Cube wack AF. From NWA to Death Certificate he was the truth. It’s been down hill ever since. It’s like he stopped caring about his raps. I blame Dub C and Mack 10. They were so garbage he probably thought “why am I trying so hard?”, Cliche watered and dumb down regional west coast raps. Cot damn shame what happened to that man’s lyrics

Calling dub c garbage?

Nah negging yo bytch ass