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

― USICMAKEULOSECONTROL (The Reverend), Friday, December 19, 2008 3:10 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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!

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