🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊ICE CUBE🧊🧊🧊

O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor, and filmmaker. His lyrics on N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity, and his political rap solo albums of 1990 and 1991 were critically and commercially successful. He has also had an active film career since the early 1990s.

1990. Ice Cube leaves NWA and enters the solo arena. He was a proven talent, writing some of NWA’s best lyrics and adding politics to their gangsta armoury, with a voice like an army sergeant spitting a rebuke into your face. But a reputation brings a problem: you gotta live up to it. And it’s one thing working within a crew; leaving it’s another thing entirely: you gotta build your own. And while Cube knew his funk and the noise he wanted to create on his debut album, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, his experience as a producer was actually fairly limited.

Though the more experienced Dr Dre wanted to produce a Cube solo album, the internal politics of NWA nixed that. But who else could deliver the roughneck, ball-breaking beats like NWA, the rulers of the West Coast jam at the end of the 80s? There was really only one guaranteed-to-spill-blood-with-funk option, so Ice Cube headed east to work with The Bomb Squad, who had been creating beats to burn for Public Enemy.

So the East and West Coast rivalry was about to end, right? Well, not exactly, but Cube, his ally Sir Jinx and The Lench Mob all headed to NYC to create the record. And a fresh beef was rapidly becoming apparent, with Cube and NWA shooting verbal ammunition at each other, his former comrades attacking Cube on ʻ100 Miles And Runnin’’. A lot was riding on the release of AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. Cube had to deliver the goods, or he was done.

In as usual for op threads

Pac & Cube 🧊

In!

I’m just going to keep the OP clean, feel free to post Classic of the legend

In for another thread by eyes!
So excited for the listening sessions

Can't believe I wasn't following OP already smh

You are now !!

Inward

@op I heard ice cube, snoop, E-40 and Too $hort are in a super group now called mount Westmore

Need this album & Dr Dre & Ice Cube to finish Helter Skelter someday

Mt Westmore concept reminds me of Westside connection

One of my favourite albums of all time.

1990. Ice Cube leaves NWA and enters the solo arena. He was a proven talent, writing some of NWA’s best lyrics and adding politics to their gangsta armoury, with a voice like an army sergeant spitting a rebuke into your face. But a reputation brings a problem: you gotta live up to it. And it’s one thing working within a crew; leaving it’s another thing entirely: you gotta build your own. And while Cube knew his funk and the noise he wanted to create on his debut album, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, his experience as a producer was actually fairly limited.

Though the more experienced Dr Dre wanted to produce a Cube solo album, the internal politics of NWA nixed that. But who else could deliver the roughneck, ball-breaking beats like NWA, the rulers of the West Coast jam at the end of the 80s? There was really only one guaranteed-to-spill-blood-with-funk option, so Ice Cube headed east to work with The Bomb Squad, who had been creating beats to burn for Public Enemy.

So the East and West Coast rivalry was about to end, right? Well, not exactly, but Cube, his ally Sir Jinx and The Lench Mob all headed to NYC to create the record. And a fresh beef was rapidly becoming apparent, with Cube and NWA shooting verbal ammunition at each other, his former comrades attacking Cube on ʻ100 Miles And Runnin’’. A lot was riding on the release of AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. Cube had to deliver the goods, or he was done.

Chuck D did this right on his feature.