Ice Cube: S/D

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.

https://youtu.be/y9oUnC8JtXY

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."

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

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."

it's definitely a classic

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.

At the time I hated LJ and The Westside Connection stuff but now I like those albums

I mean LI

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.

being discussed here Is this anti-semitism? for obvious reasons

Shit, thanks, should have searched over there more.

He posted multiple Q tweets

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.

Ice Cube? More like Nice Cube! pic.twitter.com/bjb4REnPHY

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) June 10, 2020

I never have dinner with the President
I never have dinner with the President
I never have dinner with the President
And when I see your ass again, I'll be hesitant

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.