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
like, the 12th anniversary remaster tacks jaunty nigh-comedy bouncer How To Survive In South Central onto the end
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Friday, 9 November 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
a bunch of castoffs
idgi wtf are those tracks? they sure aren't DC outtakes from the sound of them
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 November 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
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
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
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.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/y9oUnC8JtXY
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
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."
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
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
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Death Certificate The Predator Lethal InjectionThese 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."
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 11 May 2020 06:47 (four years ago) link
it's definitely a classic
― j., Monday, 11 May 2020 06:49 (four years ago) link
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.
― Elon's musk (sic), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
At the time I hated LJ and The Westside Connection stuff but now I like those albums
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
I mean LI
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
being discussed here Is this anti-semitism? for obvious reasons
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
Shit, thanks, should have searched over there more.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
He posted multiple Q tweets
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
Ice Cube? More like Nice Cube! pic.twitter.com/bjb4REnPHY— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) June 10, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
I never have dinner with the PresidentI never have dinner with the PresidentI never have dinner with the PresidentAnd when I see your ass again, I'll be hesitant
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
Well played, Al.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
He's still opposed to the president.
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
i mean yeah but why bother with this shit anyway
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
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.”
― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Friday, 16 October 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
listen still an all time rapperbut he was posting tons of Q shit earlier this summerand not to even mention his history of antisemitism and racismthere's no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 October 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
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.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 October 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 October 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
ums otm, did we all already forget that three day tweet storm with all the anti-semitic imagery and symbolism?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 October 2020 13:59 (three 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