Ice Cube: S/D

So many fools swingin' from my sack, Let's talk about the one who had my back! Down in the west coast, so lemme kick it To the motherfucker who calls himself wicked! No rest, no peace! No sleep, Doughboy rolling down the hill 'cause it's so steep! Jackson... lemme figure out the name, Jack 'cause you be stealing other niggaz game! But I'm the wrong nigga you wanna fuck with On my dick so hard, now ya wanna suck it! Go on the head, gobble up the nuts, Get your lips ready & tear this motherfucker up! Talk about Ezy, correct yourself. Cube, better step back & check yourself!

Hmmm... let's talk about this First solo album on the east coast dick! The east coast niggaz all showed ya love, Especially the one known as King Sun! He tried to warn us niggaz aboutcha But nobody would listen, even started dissin' Two albums later, you callin' my crew, All because ya wannabe Cypress Cube! Shoulda known you couldn't hang in the alley, Good boy went to school out in the valley. Fuck it, lemme make this understood, Speakin' on mama's little Boy N Da Hood! No Vaseline, Just a rope & a chair & gasoline! Lench Mob is a friend of mine, But you talk about them niggaz from behind. You know what the Hossack(sp) is, O'Shea? A motherfucking pig that don't fly straight! Where ya gonna run to? Where ya gonna hide? Taadow! Look at who's running outside!

Natural Born Bullshitta! Lemme hitcha With a dose of reality when I get witcha! Your homie...???????????????????? Put a pipe on the cover, even though you don't smoke Buddha! Let me take you down under on a plane Where everybody was going insane! Took a look at the Real one, AFRO COMB! Next morning you didn't have yours on. How many ways will you bite my shit? Wouldja wet me or start throwing up a set? Caution, when you enter the zone, Never used to bang 'til you heard the microphone! I got Cube melting in a Tray, Pulling up his card & fucking up his good day! Unoriginal rap veteran... The nigga who say he don't steal from his friends! Don't trust that nigga named O'Shea, FUCK'IM, and send him on his way.

HEY MUGGS MAKE IT ROUGH

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time
But I'm rollin so that's a fucked up slogan

I just got "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" yesterday, and have been playing it as often as I possibly can.

It is a remaster, so I got Kill at Will added in, for the same price.

I will be purchasing The Predator and Death Certificate within the next few weeks.

Cube fucking rules.

there's a song on that double he did a few years ago called "extradited" that's pretty great

album also had the collaboration with korn on it tho

where have u gone mr. short khop?
a nation turns its lonely eyes to u

DJ Pooh where are you

"When Will They Shoot?" is my favorite Ice Cube, and just might be the angriest song I've heard. "My Summer Vacation" and "It Was A Good Day" are close follow-ups.

best Queen sample ever

I have trouble listening to his albums straight through, though. Whenever I need an Ice Cube fix, I usually just listen to a few choice songs.

http://www.pimpdaddysupreme.com/vinyl/images/2298f.jpg

Search--AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Death Certificate, The Predator

Maybe Get--Lethal Injection (but it's kinda boring)

Destroy--the Peace Disc, and Laugh Now, Cry Later.

his attempt at a comeback makes me think he's not that interested in rap anymore.

I have that CIA 12". It is kinda fun but mostly silly.

Has anyone heard "Raw Footage"? Is it any good?

man even when i was fronting with that 'aint made shit dope since amerikkkas most' b.s. i usedta bang out to war & peace vol 1 :-[

Has anyone heard "Raw Footage"? Is it any good?

― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 11:35 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

'aint made shit dope since amerikkkas most'

man, that's challopy even for you in troll mode

i LOVE "jackin for beats"... i think there may be a thread on it?

man, that's challopy even for you in troll mode

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read & enjoy Ice Cube: S/D

Ice Cube, then and now:

http://zanypickle.com/wp-content/gallery//2009/10/ice-cube-gangsta-550x763.jpg

lolololol

"i make dough, but don't call me doughboy"

I love that! lol.

i had a shirt with this pic on it in HS

http://film.virtual-history.com/photo/06/large/06751.jpg

"i see the fish in you"

hate to say it jaxon but that movie sucked

death certificate vs. fishing license

movie mighta sucked, but the shirt was tough

nice suspenders

Mad as fuck/thinkin bout the payback

reposting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjImaXDJPI8

"You can New Jack Swing on my nuts" is still one of my favorite Cube one-liners. that and "you shoulda put a sock on the pickle, then your pussy wouldn't be blowin' smoke signals"....

"When Will They Shoot?" is my favorite Ice Cube, and just might be the angriest song I've heard.

- Belldog, Monday, January 7, 2008 6:52 PM

best Queen sample ever

― Shakey Mo Collier

So, so OTM. Side One of "Predator" is my favourite "side" of rap ever. (I don't even mind the two filler bits)

YOU MISSED! It didn't hit the Lench Mob eitha! Guerillas in the mist, without jungle fever....

so much going on in When Will They Shoot - Club Nouveau, Queen, X-Clan, + probably more I don't recognize - one of the loudest, densest, angriest hip hop tracks. easily rivals (and maybe tops?) the best of the Bomb Squad

Behind the Music episode was lol

hadn't heard the story about him taking a bat to the Priority Records office before - the exec's "all in good fun!" response was hilarious

I'm seeing him live in London next week; not sure what it'll be like at this point. Naughty by Nature is the opening act!

I've heard live he's pretty much the same as he's ever been, does a lot of old shit, etc

Glad to hear that. I saw him in '92 and '96, but haven't even heard the last couple albums.

Saw him in 1990 with Public Enemy and Big Daddy Kane--he blew everyone else away.

not sure what it'll be like at this point. Naughty by Nature is the opening act!

when I saw him in '93 the support was Fu-Schnickens with Shaq

fwiw naughty by nature were awesome live when i saw them

With a catalog of singles that deep they probably do tear shit up

Naughty by Nature were indeed fun. I found it slightly depressing that they kept shouting "who loves '90s hip hop?!" throughout the set; and the DJ kept launching into snippets of other big 90s tunes ("Jump Around," etc.) that the audience ate up. I know it's par for the course at these things these days, but I always laugh at the lengthy roll call of "Follow @triggertreach on Twitter... check out our Facebook page..." They did a bunch of songs I forgot all about (e.g. "Guard Your Grill") and a couple of new ones that were actually pretty decent.

Cube had insane energy, and used his sideman (W.C.) to great advantage. I found the set-list to be kind of a bummer, though. No songs from Amerikkka's Most Wanted; no songs from Death Certificate; 1 song from The Predator; 1 song from Lethal Injection. It guess he always does "Straight Outta Compton" and "Gangsta Gangsta," which is fun, but I wouldn't have minded fewer of the NEW-new ones - the rest of the set was from I Am the West, Raw Footage, and Laugh Now Cry Later. He did lots of his Westside Connection/collaborative songs ("Bow Down," Gangsta Nation," "Natural Born Killaz"), which were good. There were just long stretches of 5 or 6 songs at a time that I wasn't terribly familiar with and I kept wishing he would throw in even a "Steady Mobbin'" or a "Jackin' for Beats" or something.

The venue (Indigo2) was maybe slightly less than 2/3 full, and the crowd as genuinely probably the most diverse crowd I have ever seen for any show ever.

That's interesting about the crowd. When I saw him in Brixton on the Predator tour, it was 95% black. I guess that's what happens in hip hop: as rappers get older the crowd gets whiter. I'm going to see Public Enemy do Fear of a Black Planet in September and it sure as hell isn't going to look like a black planet inside the Kentish Town Forum.

Ha - yeah, there was even a contingent of kind of mook-metal dudes (and I thought I might have seen the first Juggalo I have ever seen in the UK).

Oh - the other thing about the set I forgot to mention is that he performed a couple of tracks with his son, who goes by the name Doughboy. He's got to be at least 18. Cube still looks so young; I think a lot of people were suprised when the kid was introduced. He was perfectly fine, though I heard him pull at least one use of "grocery bag" - something along the lines of "We smoke trees.... CHRISTMAS!"

I found it slightly depressing that they kept shouting "who loves '90s hip hop?!" throughout the set; and the DJ kept launching into snippets of other big 90s tunes ("Jump Around," etc.) that the audience ate up.

best version of this: Biz Markie the other week doing a Nate Dogg song in tribute and not knowing the words so blah-de-blahing half of it

worst version: Shawn Wigs getting a solo spot in the middle of the Ghostface show, and doing a 90s medley and not doing Pokerface or Greedy Bitches at all

Cube had insane energy, and used his sideman (W.C.) to great advantage.

lol at explanatory parenthetical

as rappers get older the crowd gets whiter. I'm going to see Public Enemy do Fear of a Black Planet in September

saw them on the Fear 20th and Nation 20ths, and the crowd was maaaad azn both times.

warning though: they don't actually play Fear

Wait, why were you laughing out loud at the W.C. thing - is it just a given that he is the sideman? The other times I'd seen Cube (both early 90s) he wasn't there. Oh, also, W.C. used the show to debut a couple of tracks off of his new album, which I think he referred to as "Revenge of the Barracuda." Maybe it was "Return."

yeah, I thought it was a given!

WC has made some awesome music w/o cube

worst version: Shawn Wigs getting a solo spot in the middle of the Ghostface show, and doing a 90s medley and not doing Pokerface or Greedy Bitches at all

haha this is so WTF. Greed Bitches is a great song

WC and The Maad Circle's "Ain't A Damn Thing Change" is classic btw

Biz Markie the other week doing a Nate Dogg song in tribute and not knowing the words so blah-de-blahing half of it

Cube did a Nate Dogg tribute as well, though it just consisted of some of his songs being played and Cube saying "wish you were here with us."

Naughty by Nature did a Tupac tribute: Treach took out a bottle of Courvoisier, took several swigs from it, then poured some of it on a tattoo of Tupac that he had on his arm. The DJ played some Tupac songs, and Treach was shouting "When I ride in London, you ride in London" to the tattoo.

They also covered the first couple verses of "La-Di-Da-Di" as a tribute to the UK's role in rap history. Treach also unleashed a Dick-Van-Dyke-goes-gangsta accent whilst hyping the crowd.

You Can Do It is one of the very few rap singles that is actually improved by the censorship. "I can do it put your *spank!* into it! I can do it put your *Uhh* into it!".

haha i wish i could have seen that naughty set!

Just when I think the internet has done more harm than good...

http://murkavenue.tumblr.com/post/16553509655/i-found-ice-cubes-good-day

erm check SNA mang

Not such a good day for these folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IwGn-BT7E

weird that I have never even heard of (much less heard) this Kam album before (ie Neva Again)

it's great!

this is pretty awesome
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140121151550-01-ice-cube-goodyear-story-top.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/showbiz/ice-cube-good-day/

Does it say "Ice Cube's A Pimp?"
If not, it's not a good day, not really.

no, Goodyear wouldn't go for it

Never change Cube

http://escobar300.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/icecube_amerikkka_101b.jpg 1990

http://i2.cdnds.net/13/51/300x225/movies-ride-along-trailer-still.jpg 2014

haha this is p good actually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqiwDSm-rfw

this sounds exactly like every single record he has made since 1998

that's true

but the lyrics are better

nice

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Certificate-Explicit-25th-Anniversary/dp/B0723D7YG5

so i guess he added new songs to Death Certificate 25th anniversary and put them at the BEGINNING?

doing dumb shit

Did you know the new white was orange?!

piercing

guess he added new songs to Death Certificate 25th anniversary and put them at the BEGINNING?

100% endorse this, it means you can play the album as intended / don’t have a bunch of castoffs ruining the climax of No Vaseline

like, the 12th anniversary remaster tacks jaunty nigh-comedy bouncer How To Survive In South Central onto the end

a bunch of castoffs

idgi wtf are those tracks? they sure aren't DC outtakes from the sound of them

oh right, I was assuming they were songs too bad to include the first time around, but they're new songs from 2017. This one was a "single" from the reissue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKRLZSzCXA

decided to listen to "Arrest the President" to see if he was more inspired on Everythang's Corrupt now that Trump is here. some reviews said it was a 'return to form'. nope.

Ugh. this is BAD. the beat is terrible, like something a kid in 2006 made after watching Peter Gunn. I just remember how fired up he used to sound on his most passionate pieces on his old albums, but he sounds like he's checking his FB feed while he raps. I used

Not only is his flow lazy, but thematically, this song is all over the place, loosely connected gripes with no focus, no quotables. The song is called Arrest the President, but DJT is barely referenced in the song.

"Close your fuckin' eyes like it's day care".
"they treat it like a trap house/these motherfuckers never take the trash out"
"Homie you play too much/these devils say too much"

God this is bad.

https://youtu.be/y9oUnC8JtXY

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Death Certificate
The Predator
Lethal Injection

These are all total classics. I listen to The Predator more often because musically it's his best record, just exploding out of the speakers, though I think Death Certificate is his best album lyrically.

He lost me with the War & Peace records that were just too disjointed and not as much fun, but he lost me before that. I remember the single before that came out, "We Be Clubbin'" from some soundtrack, a really good friend of mine - he and I made up 40% of the white people to see Ice Cube play the Apollo when he had an off-day from Lollapalooza (almost identical sets but the Apollo show was longer and he smiled a lot more at Lolla) - he told me how bummed he was.

"He's not even talking about clubbing white people," he sighed. "It's about dancing."

Yea the Peace disc is the only one of War and Peace i heard. Hated it. He'd given up by then.

Laugh Now, Cry Later's only redeeming quality was my mother coming in while the chorus "You want child support? GET IT OUT MY ASS, BITCH!" overvand over and her bursting into laughter

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Death Certificate
The Predator
Lethal Injection

These are all total classics. I listen to The Predator more often because musically it's his best record, just exploding out of the speakers, though I think Death Certificate is his best album lyrically.

He lost me with the War & Peace records that were just too disjointed and not as much fun, but he lost me before that. I remember the single before that came out, "We Be Clubbin'" from some soundtrack, a really good friend of mine - he and I made up 40% of the white people to see Ice Cube play the Apollo when he had an off-day from Lollapalooza (almost identical sets but the Apollo show was longer and he smiled a lot more at Lolla) - he told me how bummed he was.

"He's not even talking about clubbing white people," he sighed. "It's about dancing."

it's definitely a classic

Lethal Injection is the falloff imo, hits the one-note aggressive lyrics and swingless, dry beats of his later albums right out of the gate, just without being as bad as them. Bop Gun is OK but it's at the level of like a thrown-together new single on a best-of, not an album standout from the guy who'd been the best songwriter in the world for a few years recently.

At the time I hated LJ and The Westside Connection stuff but now I like those albums

I mean LI

His Twitter account has become quite something over the last few days, at least since he, inadvertently from what I can tell, posted a Qan0n referencing image and attracted some folks to his account he probably didn't want.

being discussed here Is this anti-semitism? for obvious reasons

Shit, thanks, should have searched over there more.

He posted multiple Q tweets

Oh did he? I just saw one from like Sunday, hadn't seen anything else until I saw someone else retweet one of the anti-semitic ones earlier this afternoon.

Ice Cube? More like Nice Cube! pic.twitter.com/bjb4REnPHY

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) June 10, 2020

I never have dinner with the President
I never have dinner with the President
I never have dinner with the President
And when I see your ass again, I'll be hesitant

Well played, Al.

He's still opposed to the president.

i mean yeah but why bother with this shit anyway

xp Not according to his recent tweets. He just says he hasn’t “endorsed anybody.” And he had no problem with Trump using his name to promote his “plan.”

listen still an all time rapper

but he was posting tons of Q shit earlier this summer

and not to even mention his history of antisemitism and racism

there's no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt

fans that supported him were also hash-tagging things like #blexit yesterday.

He claims the Republicans updated their platform whereas Democrats asked to wait until after the election.

hmm, wonder why the Democrats might be preoccupied with the election right now whereas the Trump admin is interested in blindly promising to do things it has no interest in actually doing.

which isn't to say that Democrats haven't failed the Black community, but the narrative being spun by fans yesterday is "one side listened, one side brushed him aside".

this is a weird move by a dude who (quite badly) rapped "Arrest the President" two years ago. he's right that both parties have failed the Black community, yes, but it's a bit weird to approach a party you yourself admitted was downright criminal in 2018 and to report back that this party is cooperating with you, insinuating some level of trust.

ums otm, did we all already forget that three day tweet storm with all the anti-semitic imagery and symbolism?

it's not a long walk from the 5 Percent Nation to Q

Ice Q

wonder if anyone else remembers when Blacks were too fucken broke to be republican.

no longer steady mobbin', i presume.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-im_CKn9PPI8/T0dtSJ0lUFI/AAAAAAAAAzY/0vIyQ9SYpt4/s1600/abe-simpson-gif.gif

Does anyone under the age of 40 care about his political views?

Does anyone under the age of 40 care about his political views?

fixed.

great posts

thx i'm not even trying

I have been quoting verses from "True to the Game" at my one Ice Cube-loving friend (he and I are 40% of the white people who saw him play The Apollo in 1991) who was trying to stan for him and he finally came back with, "Brian with the win for the "True to the Game" callback!!!!!!" so yeah, I think I win. It's fun using Cube's own verses against him.

i have the temptation to check out those war and peace albums. was listening to natural born killers recently and while its plain ridiculous, its a lot of fun, and high entertainment (the beat is also brilliant). also heard that verse he did on lil jons crunk juice, which is even more OTT. maybe pantomime cube is due for a reappraisal.

After Lethal Injection (which only has a few cuts I still listen to), "Ghetto Vet" is probably the only cut that I'd play again. I find the production on his "later" records disappointing compared to the earlier stuff, but "Ghetto Vet" is pretty damm good.

The Predator isn't his best, but it's the one I always have a soft spot for since the summer in high school when I went to a week long architectural camp at Ball State, for which I remembered to pack my Walkman but somehow no tapes. There was a tiny rack of cassettes in a little student book shop and I picked this one up to get me through the week.

can't believe the guy who was so racist that the UK straight-up left songs off his album in 1991 said dumb racist stuff in 2020, a solid two decades after he last made a good record

LOL

Re: The Predator, like Lethal Injection there's only a few cuts that I really like, but one of them is "It Was a Good Day" and I fucking love it, both the album version and the single remix that samples the Staple Singers - both are great and they may very well be my favorite recordings from Ice Cube.

Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcF2KUJVdLE

Single remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS8LUDKAKNQ

His debut AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, the Kill at Will EP, the UK version of Death Certificate (I have no use for the shit they took off) are great - I still have them. The other stuff I mentioned I usually listen to via compilations.

death certificate cube is best cube.

Ice Cube's got a big tour coming up ("Four Decades of Attitude") and I think it's tanking. Tickets have been on sale for over a month but I passed because they were really steep. I just got an email for a Memorial Day discount for the Barclays Center stop, and it looks like 95% of the tickets are still unsold, maybe more. If it happened today, they could probably move it to Le Poisson Rouge and have comfortable space for everyone.

to me that's a combination of the times being what they are, and people losing interest after his weird pr outbursts the past several years.

it's too bad. he is one of the main parts of a very important hiphop group. can't really say i'm surprised personally. seems like an incredibly difficult time for anyone to embark on a tour, let alone a legacy act.

Earlier this month, maybe two weeks ago, a friend asked if I wanted to go to the Barclays show. I checked the site and it looked virtually unchanged - something like 95% unsold. I told him I'd think about it, but I circled back today and not surprisingly he told me it had been cancelled.

https://www.barclayscenter.com/events/detail/ice-cube

I was surprised to see he's playing United Center here, but looks like that's about 95% unsold as well so I won't be surprised if that gets canceled as well.

I saw him in ‘94 in a 2500 cap venue and the level of showmanship was strained at that size. I’d probably go again in a smaller venue though

Rough year for Ice Cube.

https://www.stereogum.com/2318331/ice-cubes-new-movie-war-of-the-worlds-scores-a-rare-0-on-rotten-tomatoes/

Holy shit

https://bsky.app/profile/hypercubexl.bsky.social/post/3lvgttjlv5s2h

what does that post say?

It's a clip of a very bad feature-length Amazon commercial

I could give a fuck about Cube post Predator but thanks to this revive for making me listening to Dead Homiez today

Motherfuck Billboard and the editor! (but no motherfucks for Jeff Bezos)

I wish him nothing but well for his post "one of the greatest working rap writers" work, I just don't care much

I like the first Westside Connection album, but in retrospect that was where it all went wrong

I enjoy a couple of singles from Lethal Injection but I've been underwhelmed by his later work too. (I really miss the richer, denser production of those earlier records.) I don't think his talents completely dried up - I like "Ghetto Vet" - but I probably need a well-curated compilation of highlights.

I never go back to his music because it reminds me of a time (like when I was 19-20 or something) when I was very easily impressed and thought he was one of the coolest human beings on the planet, lol

“When Will They Shoot” still hits hard

I kinda like Bop Gun on Lethal Injection, but it doesn’t count. Otherwise the two Dre-produced tracks are the only keepers post-Predator.

(Natural Born Killaz and Hello.)

Really Doe is good

In fact about half of Lethal Injection is great

His peak was about as long as any great rapper, longer than some.

NWA through the Predator, he's still comfortably top 10 all time to me.

Plus writing he did for Eazy Duz It

Some of the clips from this movie are hilarious, as several have pointed out some of these line reads are as if Cube himself is reading the script for the first time

Forgot about this, but in the '00s I used to watch Bernie Mac and I loved Ice Cube's cameo on one episode. (He did two scenes, and without the first one, this second one loses the setup for its humor, but unfortunately, I can't find it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3xENGeZA8

Plus writing he did for Eazy Duz It

and Boyz N The Hood! if you’re that good when you’re sixteen, it’s no surprise if you lose it when you’re 23 and a successful landlord

I like some of the later stuff like 'we be clubbin' lol