Ice cube somehow gets lost in goat debates

Real talk, Ice Cube had a 3 year stretch as good as anyone. From 1990's "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" and the EP, "Kill At Will", "Death Certificate" in '91, "The Predator" in '92, and "Lethal Injection" in '93, he was putting out some work. The 1st 3 being the best but they all went Platinum.

1991 Ice Cube Death Certificate 🧊☠️ The Funeral - 1:40 The worng Ni**a to fu*k Wit - 3:20 My Summer Vacation - 6:15 Steady Mobbin - 10:03 Robin Lench - 13:31 Givin' up the Nappy Dug Out - 14:48 Look Who's Burnin - 19:59 A Bird In The Hand - 23:25 Man's Best Friend - 26:04 Alive On the Arrival - 28:44 Death 💀 - 33:19 The Birth - 34:19 I Wanna Kill Sam - 36:01 Horny Little Devil - 40:24 Black Korea - 44:18 True To The Game - 45:13 Color Blind - 51:07 Doing Dumb Sh*t - 55:36 Us- 59:14 No Vaseline - 1:03:03 One of the greatest rap Albums of all time 💪🔥🐐

Ice Cube is simply one of the best mc's of ALL TIME. Amerikkas Most Wanted and Death Certificate are CERTIFIED CLASSICS. What Nas did with Illmatic bringing the world into Queensbridge Ice Cube did with all the situations going on in his hoods in California...he gave you INSIGHTS into his hoods with CUBEVISION. He is one of the rawest and best storytellers in Hip Hop History. Notice how Cube, Snoop and Dre always had these great interludes before songs and that GFUNK music. I believe this album was mostly produced by SIR JINKS. One of my very favorite mc's of all time. Salute to Cube aka CubeVision...flowers been given.

Note: Ice Cube was heavily influenced by the nation of Islam at this time.. This album is a revolutionary masterpiece based in storytelling, historical facts and just a message overall to the black people. "The death side" was a result of 400 years of conditioning and "the life side" was the awakening we're seeing a lot of today. No way in hell they would let this album happen nowadays. He went in on everybody holding the black community back and they would be boycotting him to this day trying to cancel him for this masterful Instant classic.

A bird in the Hand is imo one of the best verses in hiphop all-time. The whole album is so angry, radical, cynical but at the same time funny as hell and just a perfect picture of the zeitgeist of early 90s LA. Very important album that couldnt be done today

True To The Game was taking shots at Mc Hammer. In the 1st song he says "fuck R & B and the running man..." and Hammer was known for popularizing the dance.

Glad you finally reacted to this masterpiece. This is in my top 5-7 hip hop albums and easily his greatest album in my book. Salute.

This album is important as to explain in nuance why the LA Riots happened the way they did. It's deeper than just the Rodney King incident.

This is actually my favourite hip hop album ever, Cube was just a different animal at this time. I think only Kanye rivals Cube for best 5 album run. Straight Outta Compton, Amerikkkas Most Wanted, Kill At Will EP, Death Certificate, The Predator and Lethal Injection. Sir Jinx doesn't get enough props as a producer, the dude orchestrated a masterpiece.

One of the best albums of all time! Sir Jinx needs more props for his production on this.

After hearing this album and the skits, you can see how Cube wrote the movie Friday right? The majority of the album was produced by Sir Jinx and DJ Pooh (who also help write Friday). But the production style came from The Bomb Squad who produced the 1st album. It sounded like a West coast version of a Public Enemy album. I'm not sure who Cube was talking about in the 1st verse of "True To The Game" but the 2nd verse was about MC Hammer. He has a music video to it. You should check it out. "Bird In The Hand" is probably my favorite off of this album too. It's STILL one of the realest songs ever and the beat... 🔥🔥🔥🔥.

Both amerikka most wanted and this album has amazing stories. When Yayo was saying Big is better then Cube at story telling I was on the fence about it but Cube stories got more depth there not just street or mafia stories.

Brings me back to my high school days. Another top notch story telling album is Scarface The Diary

This album was a concept album. This came out when we still listened to tapes. Tapes usually had a side A and a side B. A group of songs on one side and the rest of the songs on the other. On this album, Side A was the Death Side. It depicted what was happening in Every Hood USA and the mentality. Side B was the Life Side. The life side was more conscious and political. This album came out after efiL4zaggiN by NWA. They dissed Cube hard on that album. I just KNEW he was gonna diss them back. I went through this whole album just knowing that the next song would be the one he sent shots at NWA on. Got all the way through the album with no NWA disses and I couldn’t believe it! As dope as the album was, I was disappointed that he didn’t respond. Then No Vaseline came on and blew my whole mind! I lost it LOL. #1 diss track of all time, IMO. And NWA was finished after that. They never recorded together as a group again. This album was an INSTANT CLASSIC!

Absolutely love this album. Masterpiece. That track “Us” stands out the most to me. Short track but the message is powerful 🔥🔥🔥🔥

The reaction to Nappy Dugout was hilarious. 😂 love this album. Amerikkkas Most Wanted is a must.

Top 5 hip hop album of all time!!!!

The first half of the album was the Death Side (picture tapes), about all the things that cause death and despair in the hood. At the point you identified, after Alive On Arrival, you have the Life Side, which is full of messages about what we need to do to live better. Imo the ultimate concept album.

Death certificate is definitely in my top 5 rap albums of all time

Ice Cube dropped 3 straight classics after NWA. 4 to me with the Westside Connection album. I even loved the War and Peace album.

I’ve been waiting for this review, this is my favorite rap album of all time.

One the greatest albums in the 90’s it’s a classic thanks for doing this review I’m glad you get to hear what us 80’s and 90’s baby got to hear

the reason why ice cube is in my top 5 and my #1 best rapper of all time, he paint a picture and make you feel like you are right there, NAS, JAY-Z, BIGGIE, TUPAC, ETC. they all are great in their right.

Great reaction! When you do get around to reviewing Amerikkka's Most Wanted. Ice Cube's first solo album. He went to New York and linked up with Chuck D and Public Enemy. That's who helped on his first album, and it is a Clasaic! Another review you should do from Ice Cube is Kill at Will. 5 song LP. Jackin' 4 Beats and Dead Homies are two of the songs from that album. Gives a taste of his versatility. Stay blessed!

Steady Mobbin is one of my favorite Cube tracks

Be True to the Game isn't about anyone specifically. But if you watched the music video he was taking shots at MC Hammer.

Yeah, you gotta do AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted next 11:25 - St. Ides was paying Cube to do commercials for them which is why he said that 12:23 - that line always makes me laugh cuz Martin Lawrence said that on his show! It's the episode where he realizes he hooked up Tommy with Pam at the end. Even John Witherspoon paraphrased this line on Next Friday when he said he felt 5 pounds lighter 25:10 - the song title stems from the phrase "a bird in a hand is worth two in a bush" meaning to be appreciative of what you have instead of risk losing for more. In this case, George H.W. was bullshittin' as President helping "minorities" (apparently, that runs in the Bush family) so it seemed better to risk freedom to make more money moving drugs than work a regular job

Color blind is 1st verse ice cube 2nd verse Threat 3rd verse Kam (ice cube artist on street knowledge records) 4th verse is coolio and WC trading verses (they were in a group called mad circle) 5th verse is King T (Compton o.g artist down with all n.w.a) 6th verse J Dee (his in the group Lenchmob)

Classic album, ice cube first 4 projects are certified flames This album should be given as a piece of guidance for young men

Crazy think about classic albums like this it’s almost listening to a movie. You can picture everything. It’s not like that anymore

“My Summer Vacation” is the story of how LA gang culture spread across the country..

arguably the best hip hop album. it had everything, street, knowledge, story telling, flows, dope beats, relevant to the time and still universal enough to relate today

When Cube left NWA he went to New York and got an inside of the business from Chuck D where he got closer to Public Enemy and the Nation. Chuck D and The Bomb Squad did the majority of production work on this.

Damn so this is where Kendrick got Maad City from, shit i can’t believe I’ve never listened to this album before, I’m truly amazed

The greatest rap album of all time...to me!

This is Classic Culture Changing Hip Hop... I made moves and decisions on The Albums Ups and Downs.. EXCELLENT REACTION KING

You can tell 2pac was heavy inspired by ice cube flow, cadences, and subject matter very similar. Just my opinion. Fans of both artists as well

Blows my mind when I hear young people saying “ice cube was a rapper? Really? just thought he was an actor” 😳

Peace King. Peace to the Family. Ice is one of the all time greats. I love this album and hope all is well in your life 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

5 🎤 CLASSIC

this is one of the BEST hip hop albums EVER!! Ice Cube was a beast those first 3 albums

He was talking about MC Hammer in one verse and Easy in the other verse. Watch the video and you’ll see who he’s talking about Youngsta.

I commented a few months ago about X-Clan. I listened to their album and i was surprised how well their album stood up and forgot how many radio hits they had. Might be a an album review down the line.

Your reaction 2 Nappy Dugout is Phuckin KLASSICK 👋🏾👋🏾

"Be True to the Game" is about sell-out blacks and sell-out rappers. The second verse is actually more about MC Hammer. After hearing this song, Hammer confronted Cube in a club or bar in LA and asked him if he was dissin' him, because if you watch the video, there is a caricature of MC Hammer being played by a man wearing parachute pants, Cazal shades and a "funny haircut"... and he's doing Hammer's signature dance moves. Cube denied it, but I heard Hammer actually made him apologize. Hammer was no joke. He approached everyone who dissed him.

My Favorite Album❤

Ice Cube a top 5 west coast lyricist

this was the hardest album out at that time, from west and east coast! this was also before Dre's The Chronic came out.

there was more political rappers at the time like X Clan, Paris who made the album the devil made me do it 2pac was out around this time Queen Latifah and the Native Tongue's rappers and that song stay true to the game 1st verse wasn't just aimed at N.W.A but also sell outs too and the 2nd verse is about MC Hammer and other pop rappers at the time but it was mainly aimed at Hammer you can watch the video to get a better understanding of it all but I think this was the best album of his 4 album run all classic's from 1990 to 1993

I was in high school when this dropped. The applicability of the Nappy Dugout track was insane!

Ice Cube and a lot of early '90s rappers were anti-R&B around that time, because R&B radio stations and even some old school R&B artists used to front on hip hop in the beginning. Radio stations literally wouldn't play rap music in the early to mid '80s and the ones that did only played it at night for like an hour or two. Hip hop has come a long way since then, but that R&B vs rap tension used to be a thing. In fact, Cube covered it more on his first album, Amerikkka's Most Wanted, with the song "Turn Off the Radio." I actually think his debut is better than Death Certificate, but BOTH are classic albums. AMW just hits a little more harder and it's more gangsta. It's perfectly produced, as well. I'm not sure why the voters wanted you to start with this one first. I must've missed that poll. It makes more sense to start with AMW first, because DC is more like a sequel. A lot of the songs and skits recall the first album.

Cube will always be in my top 5 Hip-Hop artist of all time period!! He's toooo real to not be

This is one of the strongest albums ever made. It changed the record industry That's how the dirty south was introduced. No more political rap music after that album

This album is tuff. I remember my older brother playing this. #Classic Material True to the game 2nd verse is about MC Hammer

Man.. you got the juice. I forgot how much fun old ice cube albums were. I'm driving around listening to old cube albums today.

True to the game is about all the Sell outs going against black people for the dominant society. Not Dre or Just Dre. He talked about Mc Hammer and all the dance and pop rappers at the time. Hes telling them to keep it real and stay black and strong. Don't water down Hip hop for a check

This and The Predator are my favourite Cube albums !!

My favorite from Cube, one of the best albums ever. Cube has always been in my top 5, for real. Always.

I remember getting this cassette tape back in high school. It's definitely a classic

Ice cube is my favorite all time rapper. His story telling is second to none.

Bird in the Hand is one of the best hip hop songs of all time

Great reaction. Don't stop on Cube. There is so so much more...

Great too see you finally reacted to Cubes Magnus Opus. You're my favorite reactor of all time. You are really a very smart young man, and few of these old skool joints get buy you. I put my oldest son on to you years ago, and now he has to remind me to check ya latest post. I'm glad I caught this one. This is one of the albums that changed my life growing up in those times. Salute, keep up the great work.

To be honest, Cube's timing was probably his biggest hit against him. He masterfully transitioned between the late 80s/New Jack era into the Golden Age but lost a little steam as he focused more on acting and transitioned to a more West Coast style. Had he initially come out a year or 2 later like Dre maybe his name would come up a little more concerning the greats.

It was nice taking a trip back down memory lane watching you react to this classic album. If you ever want to check out some of his later work, you should check out Westside Connection's first album, Bow Down. He still spits some great lyrics on that one too.

Cube represented back in the day!

FYI, Daryl Gates was the chief of police in LA when the riots happened

Something I never knew until recently was Cube's heavy usage of East coast producers. Now looking back on it he had a much different sound being a West Coast OG.

Top 10 Rap Albums of all time... 💯💯💯

Bro you just earned a new sub. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. You should do Scarface Diary, The Untouchable, My Homies, Last Of A Dying Breed, The Fix, MADE, shiddd it don't even matter. All of it is Elite Storytelling.

Color Blind: Ice Cube Threat Kam WC Coolio King Tee J-Dee

paris and xclan spoke about the gov

People forget cube was a teenage phenomenon. He wrote hits for Eazy E, nwa and himself in a 1-2 year period. And became a movie star at the same time.

I’m glad you’re listening to this classic bro your channel is fire 🔥

I’m grateful to own the original 1991 pressing of this album on vinyl. I purchased it in 2017, was not cheap by no means. Top 5 album in the history of Hip-Hop without a doubt. Great review my guy, you recognize the real shit.

This right here, nukka, definitely up there n gets slept on in todays times, in my opinion salute keep discovering you minds well keep moving around tha West Coast hopefully you eventually get to Ras Kass "Soul On Ice" album thats up there too personally for me🙏

@Kingahmadtv I definitely think you’re one of the best to do this review shit, because you understand the balance of listening and explaining, as opposed to just talking cats heads off for the entire review to the point where we damn near forget what we’re listening to. Reviewers like to use that cop out of “It’s a REVIEW!! Imma’ talk!!” Indeed. And they should all do it as they please. It’s their brand and I get it. I just think they forget that being a reviewer doesn’t give you a pass to talk a literal triple the time and length of the record. Love what you do, and how you do it…but I only have one question for you. Unless I’ve missed something, how has a King like you that is dedicated to BARS managed to not do a review on COAST CONTRA?!!!!😳🤯 It’s mind blowing that you haven’t done any reviews on them. And if you have, and I just missed it or can’t find it, then SALUTE! My apologies! But, Fam. C’mon, my Lord. Make this make sense to me!!!😂

Keep up the good work. Your work is enriching and gives others joy

Black Korea was for Latasha Harlins RIP

Yes sir. My favorite rapper of All time. And that's saying a lot. I have so many favorites.

Ice Cube Untouchable

Ice cube definitely a legend and deserves to be mentioned in goat convo, one of the best storytellers. My favorite top 5 cube albums: death certificate ( number 1) war disc (so very really underrated!!) Laugh now, cry later( great album) war footage( underrated plus one of my favorite cube songs( hood mentally) is on it) America's most( good album) it's just half of the beats didn't hit me hard but great rhymes. 😮

People either forget or just don't know that cube was the illest in hip hop for years....facts

YEA THIS WHAT WE WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cube is my favorite rapper by far. This is still one of my favorite albums. Great reaction bro.

Your reaction to Giveing up the Nappy Dug out is one of the best things on KZfaq 😂😂😂

I was 10 yrs old when this came out. I must have listened to Steady Mobbin a hundred times a day. I can't wait for you to review Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Fear Of A Black Planet Yo! Bum Rush The Show Apocalypse '91 The Enemy Strikes Black in addition to Amerikkkas Most Wanted

I gotta give u props ur descriptions of ur reviews take me back 2 when I 1st heard these joints

I always enjoy your reactions on your channel. Keep up the great work. I am from Cali and i am 52 yo. I love to hear the younger generation listen to real, creative artists like Ice Cube. You can also try some X-Clan, Special Ed, or DJ Quick. His first album. Definitely, Public Enemy is one of the most important groups ever.

2 live crew - banned in USA Such a good old school hip hop album, dirty version please

This was exactly the reaction I was hoping for. It really took me back to '91 when a 17 year old me first listened to this masterpiece. The comments below all do a great job with the history, concept, and praise of this album, so I'm going to stick with some recommended artists and albums for future reactions. Most certainly react to Amerikkka's Most Wanted, The Predator, and Lethal Injection. I also strongly recommend listening to It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy. Like this one, it will blow your mind. Another I strongly recommend is from Da Lench Mob, who you heard on this album. Their album Guerillas in the Mist is a very underrated gem of an album. It was produced by Cube, and it's really just a great album. Now for some artists and groups that are political and/or against the machine that you don't necessarily have do a reaction for, but should most certainly listen to: Dead Prez, Jedi Mind Tricks, Poor Righteous Teachers, The Coup, Paris, and X-Clan. There are obviously many others, but this is a good start. Peace and Love, man. Sorry so long a post. Lol.

Appreciate you Bro for reacting to this. Growing up in LA this was the soundtrack to our lives.

Underrated album, I’ve actually only listened to the whole thing recently as well and I’ve been listening to ice cube for damn near 20 years lol one of the GOATs for sure

I just came to say I'm so happy about this fam and can't wait to watch it. I'm about to boat flight to AYL so I gotta watch it after that. I will be back to leave my 2cent though.

Ice Cube is the west coast goat when it comes to story telling. Dr Frankenstein is one of my all time favorite Cube songs.

A product of the era it was released in...in the intro he speaks of the "Death" side and the "Life" side...those are the two sides of the album...or in the case of CDs, tracks 1-11 are the death side and tracks 12-20 life side

Loving this channel bro. Idk how old u are but u seem pretty young to have so much knowledge about early 90s rap. A lot of rap fans in their 20s-30s don’t have a clue about the pioneers. Pumped to see that u do!

This is a wonderful album. I listen to it a couple of months ago after some 4-5 years absent from my playlist. Thanks for this reaction! 🔥

Produced by DJ Pooh (Played Red in Friday) and Sir Jinx (Dr Dre's Cousin)... One of my favorite Hip Hop CD's of all time!!!