Where does Ice Cube rank amongst the greatest West Coast rappers?

[Jeepz]

I like Blue Carpet Treatment and Rhythm and Gangsta but those albums aren't Doggystyle. If you're reaching you could try and give him The Chronic.

tha blue carpet treatment tracks 2-11 were

 

[Pool_Shark]

ya thats definitely reaching lol. that could be comparable with giving slim shady lp to dre (or some other similar example) ...just cause they have or had that protege relationship or whatever and appear on each others records doesnt mean that theyre the same artist.

Difference is Snoop was rapping on most of the Chronic. Looking at the credits Dre only produced 3 songs and had 1 feature out of 20 on SSLP. Not really the same thing. Nuthin But A G Thing (biggest song on the album) was what it was cause of Snoop.

 

['Lando]

Difference is Snoop was rapping on most of the Chronic. Looking at the credits Dre only produced 3 songs and had 1 feature out of 20 on SSLP. Not really the same thing. Nuthin But A G Thing (biggest song on the album) was what it was cause of Snoop.

ya thats why i said "other examples" but it is sort of similar. either way the whole protege relationship doesnt mean its your work. in a way youre right though ..especially about the nuthin but a g thang. ..still wouldnt give the album to snoop though.

 

[Pool_Shark]

ya thats why i said "other examples" but it is sort of similar. either way the whole protege relationship doesnt mean its your work. in a way youre right though ..especially about the nuthin but a g thang. ..still wouldnt give the album to snoop though.

I wasn't trying to either, but a bigger snoop fan could make the argument.

 

[Bondye Vodou]

What other album does he have that is in the same league of Doggystyle?

My bad dude i read that wrong, thought u meant snoop didn't have a universal classic

 

[Wacky D]

Meanwhile Ice Cube pretty much invented gangsta rap

schooly d

Cube waz killing pac in 91 92, 93, 94 and 95 only year pac had over cube was 96. Also cube was that dude in 89 and 90 when pac was a nobody.

cube was not hotter than pac in 94-95.

 

[Mac Casper]

Definitely Top 3

Likely Top 2

Arguably Top 1

 

[Mikeatris]

schooly d

Either him or Just-Ice is debateable. But Ice-T was the 1st gangsta rapper in the West. Glad people finally got on to the Spice-Pac debate. I have said this for years as far as lyrical ability Spice would run circles around Pac. Pac had him on diversity. Spice rapped about the same thing over and over again, like a typical Raekwon. But Spice's first 3 retail albums are classic, especially 187

 

[smokeurobinson]

schooly d





cube was not hotter than pac in 94-95.

Your delusional. Cube was a bigger star then Pac in 94 and 95 while Pac was more controversal. Pac wasnt even around in 95..dude was locked up meanwhile Cube created the classic movie Friday...and from what I remember even tho he got love in the "Temptations" video...No one was screaming "Free Tupac".

 

[Mr. Negative]

I read OP and really wondered how ANYONE could not have Cube in their top 2 West Coast, for real.

Glad to see some unbiased non-troll opinions and replies in here.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Your delusional. Cube was a bigger star then Pac in 94 and 95 while Pac was more controversal. Pac wasnt even around in 95..dude was locked up meanwhile Cube created the classic movie Friday...and from what I remember even tho he got love in the "Temptations" video...No one was screaming "Free Tupac".

yeah, this is something that a lot- a LOT of people don't discuss when it comes to Pac.

A HUGE part of the reason why he's considered for GOAT status is because the media and news outlets gave him a far better push as far as beig in the public eye than any amount of publicity from a record label or distribution hub ever could.

Hell, dude's name in anything but music was LITERALLY "The Controversial Rapper, Tupac Shakur".

Pac is the reason nikkas get shot, get arrested and beef with each other before albums come out.

 

[NatiboyB]

To me Ice Cube is the greatest west coast rapper slightly edging out Ice-T.

My top 5 for the West Coast
1.Ice Cube
2.Ice-T
3.Snoop Dogg
4.Eazy-E
5.E-40

 

[Awesome Wells]

Cube is the GOAT out West, in my opinion.

 

[untaintedbeats]

Cube is one of my favorite west coast artist but I still had to think about it...lyricist or rapper..there's a lot of west coast lyricist I would put ahead of him but since OP said rapper...i'll top 3..

 

[BlackMajik]

Number 1