Favorite Ice Cube album

[mark414]

i am listening to death certificate right now and damn if i wouldn't put it in my top 10 albums list, top 10 period.



($5 to anyone who can tell me who that is sitting next to ice cube)

[ghostsofgiants]

1. And now he's making shit like "Are We There Yet?"

AmerikKKKa's Most wanted gets my vote, mainly because it's the only one I'm even really familiar with.

[Madrone]

2. So I think you a snitch ...

Throw a house nigga in a ditch, half pint bitch. Fuckin your homeboys, you little maggot - eazy-e turned....



Damn . I used to listen to that like a thousand times a day.

:D

Best.IceCube.Album.Ever.

[mark414]

3. damn girl

let that shit out!

i just never get tired of it...it's that good.

[Madrone]

8. Remind me to tell you my story about Ice Cube, Da Lench Mob,

a concert in Kalamazoo MI, Big Tom (of the LM), and ME - with me and Big Tom getting into a squabble in the middle of a Kalamazoo hotel lobby.

I'll be happy to tell it if DU quits tripping out, and if you're interested.

Last time I heard (about 6 or 7 years ago) Cube was still asking about that "crazy white chick" - and I HATED his ass for a long time after that. LOL

[mark414]

19. damnnn

i would LOVE to hear that story...if you don't post it here you should PM me....that would be awesome

it is too bad you are out in WA and not in WI, we could totally hang out and just jam

[TroubleMan]

4. Hard to choose between Death Certificate and Amerikkka's Most Wanted

But I have to choose Death Certificate.

That album was a perfect expression of what the average person on the street in LA had on his mind at that time. It's like he put his finger on the pulse of the city and took a reading. No other album that I know of ever so fully expressed the outrage of oppression, and the feelings of pride, confusion, and a will to survive in the jungle they were living in.

Sure there were some parts of the album that were racist or misogynistic, but he was holding up a mirror to society, and that's how they felt at the time. It was brilliant.

.....

On reflection there's no way that Ice Cube could ever do an album like that again. He's too big of a celebrity - he's too rich to be fully in touch with the common man, with the poor, with the outraged, with the oppressed. I like the guy, and he's my second favorite rapper of all time (after KRS-One), but I don't think that he'll ever reach the greatness, the lyrical genius, that he once had.

[mark414]

6. don't know if you saw this -- you gotta pick up this book

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=314x74

an ENTIRE chapter dedicated solely to death certificate

here's a short review of it right here:
http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-05-23-summer-reading-list.shtml

it's such a good book, i've read it twice already

[GirlinContempt]

5. mutha-fuck Billboard and the editor, cause here comes tha predator

.... was my choice

[usregimechange]

7. None of the above?

[RagingInMiami]

9. I'm old school

After NWA, I just couldn't get into Ice Cube's albums. I think he's a good actor though.

[Heyo]

10. Aw c'mon ya'll..

... Lethal Injection has some great songs. Ghetto Bird anyone?

:shrug:

:hurts:

Heyo

[UdoKier]

11. I liked Barber Shop 1 & 2.

That looks like one of those guys from "Cypress Hill" the ones who inflicted one of the worst songs of all time on America "Insane in the Membrane"

[GirlinContempt]

12. Cypress Hill

had some pretty sweet tracks though

[UdoKier]

13. Really? Not a hip-hop fan, couldn't say.

Thought my headline made that obvious.

I have heard a few things from Tupac and Public Enemy that I like, but the nihilistic gangsta stuff does nothing for me.

[GirlinContempt]

14. Yeah, almost

everything on 'Unreleased and Revamped' is awesome

Its also lyrically a lot better than a lot of stuff thats out there.

[Omphaloskepsis]

15. I prefer..

the Geto Boys. My fav is N.W.A.

[GirlinContempt]

16. Geto boys are Sa-wheeeeet

NWA is amazing

This is why we're bestfriends.

EDIT:
Get the pm's?

[sniffa]

17. that's b-reaL of course

i'LL take payment in bag form. ;)

[mark414]

18. how's this

[Buddyblazon]

20. The guy sitting next to him looks a little like...

B Real (or however you spell it).

[mark414]

21. well you came in second but i'm feeling generous

here's your prize

[Buddyblazon]

23. Great...I've been burnin the crap out of all my empty pipes today.

Resin...tastes...like...SHIT...PERIOD!

[Buddyblazon]

22. Damn....

a few minutes too late.

I work in concert production and I have seen them both up close on many occasions. Never talked to them though. Working ya know. You try to remain professional. Nothing will get you fired faster than star-fucking.