Ice Cube: S/D

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!

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

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