"i make dough, but don't call me doughboy"
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I love that! lol.
― *:--☆--:*:--☆:*:--☆--:*:--☆--: (ENBB), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i had a shirt with this pic on it in HS
http://film.virtual-history.com/photo/06/large/06751.jpg
― jaxon, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"i see the fish in you"
― carne asada, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
hate to say it jaxon but that movie sucked
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
death certificate vs. fishing license
― ¯ ϖ ¯ (Dr. Phil), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
movie mighta sucked, but the shirt was tough
― jaxon, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
nice suspenders
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Mad as fuck/thinkin bout the payback
― famous for hating everything (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
reposting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjImaXDJPI8
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"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"....
― Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
- 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)
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:31 (fourteen years ago) link
YOU MISSED! It didn't hit the Lench Mob eitha! Guerillas in the mist, without jungle fever....
― Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Thursday, 25 March 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 March 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 July 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard live he's pretty much the same as he's ever been, does a lot of old shit, etc
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
Glad to hear that. I saw him in '92 and '96, but haven't even heard the last couple albums.
― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Saw him in 1990 with Public Enemy and Big Daddy Kane--he blew everyone else away.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Friday, 8 July 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw naughty by nature were awesome live when i saw them
― *rolls eyez on me* (D-40), Friday, 8 July 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
With a catalog of singles that deep they probably do tear shit up
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 July 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
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!"
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I thought it was a given!
― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
WC has made some awesome music w/o cube
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
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!".
― Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
haha i wish i could have seen that naughty set!
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Just when I think the internet has done more harm than good...
http://murkavenue.tumblr.com/post/16553509655/i-found-ice-cubes-good-day
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 27 January 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
erm check SNA mang
― Neanderthal, Friday, 27 January 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
Not such a good day for these folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IwGn-BT7E
― President Keyes, Friday, 27 January 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
weird that I have never even heard of (much less heard) this Kam album before (ie Neva Again)
it's great!
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
this is pretty awesomehttp://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140121151550-01-ice-cube-goodyear-story-top.jpghttp://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/showbiz/ice-cube-good-day/
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 27 January 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
Does it say "Ice Cube's A Pimp?"If not, it's not a good day, not really.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
no, Goodyear wouldn't go for it
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Friday, 6 June 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
haha this is p good actuallyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqiwDSm-rfw
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
this sounds exactly like every single record he has made since 1998
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
that's true
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 November 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
but the lyrics are better
nice
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
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?
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
doing dumb shit
― President Keyes, Friday, 9 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Did you know the new white was orange?!
piercing
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
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
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
it's not a long walk from the 5 Percent Nation to Q
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
Ice Q
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 16 October 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
wonder if anyone else remembers when Blacks were too fucken broke to be republican.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
no longer steady mobbin', i presume.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-im_CKn9PPI8/T0dtSJ0lUFI/AAAAAAAAAzY/0vIyQ9SYpt4/s1600/abe-simpson-gif.gif
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Does anyone under the age of 40 care about his political views?
― candyman, Friday, 16 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
fixed.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
great posts
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
thx i'm not even trying
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
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.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 16 October 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
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.
― candyman, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 October 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
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
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Friday, 16 October 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 16 October 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
death certificate cube is best cube.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 16 October 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link