SOHH LEFT COAST
What Happened To The Ice Cube We Used To Know?
Posted on October 11, 2006 2:30 AM
So Ice Cube’s releasing Laugh Now, Cry Later: O.G. Limited Edition with a special bonus DVD with 60 minutes of extra footage... proving that he can’t release anything these days that isn’t a movie.
It’s been six years since Cube released the War/Peace double disc. In those six years, he’s released such Oscar contenders as “Ghosts Of Mars,” “All About The Benjamins,” “Barbershop(1 and 2)," “Are We There Yet?” and “XXX: State Of The Union.” But does he still need to rap?
Apparently so, since enough people bought Laugh Now... to make it go gold. Granted, O’shea’s making a grip for every movie he makes these days. But why limit capitalism, right? Why let a solid catalog of albums hold their place in history when you can drop turds like “We Be Clubbin’” and “Go To Church” and make MORE MONEY?
I’m going to pull out my Magic Hip Hop Internet Crystal Ball now and forecast some of the replies: “SOHH 80, u a hater,” “Why you hatin’ on dude gettin’ money? He hustlin’”, “Blah blah blah,” etc. I can respect Cube’s paper chase. I just don’t understand why he’s making music that’s sub-par to the standards he’s made himself in the past, and how people are still buying into it. Then again, who the fuck understands how Mike Jones went plat?
The reason that I’m disappointed is because The Predator is one of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. And his new shit isn’t. And there’s not a hip hop fan out there who can tell me he or she hasn’t gone out and bought the new album from one of their favorite artists and been pissed as hell when they got home or got in the car, popped it in the deck, and found out that it was garbage compared to their last work.
Case and point, a sample from “We Had To Tear This Mothafucka Up,” from 1992’s The Predator:
“I gotta Mac10 for Officer Wind
Damn, his devil ass need to be shipped back to Kansas
in a casket, crew-cut faggot
Now he ain't nothin but food for the maggots
Lunch, punch, Hawaiin lyin’
Niggas ain't buyin
ya story bore me
Tearin up shit with fire, shooters, looters
Now I got a laptop computer
I told you it would happen and you heard it, read it
but all you could call me was anti-Semitic
Regret it-nope, said it-yep
Listen to my big black boots as I step
Niggas had to break you off somethin’, give Bush a push
But your National Guard ain't hard
You had to get Rodney to stop me cos you know what?
We woulda tore this muthafucka up”
Damn. That shit’s got me all nostalgic.
Now, find me a verse from his last two albums that comes even close to this one (and to the way he delivered it) and I’ll rest my case. Granted, he’s still not a terrible rapper. Instead of half-assing it as a rapper while being an actor, why not just focus on making films and let the legacy of Amerikka’s Most Wanted, Kill At Will, Death Certificate, Lethal Injection and The Predator live without further muddling his catalog?
Oh, and don’t trip. He’s currently filming the sequel to “Are We There Yet?” Just in case you were worried there wasn’t going to be one...
Comments
first off may i say i am first so i can act like a child as the rest of these dudes, haha.
second, SOHH Eighty, you just may be a hater. not for the whole thing of Ice Cube is hustling and blah blah to move some album and movie units, but because Laugh Now, Cry Later is actually a good album. granted it may not be a classic, but it is full of positive and thought provoking messages. Now at days to go goldish or platinum, you gotta have at least one party record as a single. Cube didn't do laffy taffy or nothing, the negro did "go to church". i mean shit, dude dropped "why we thugs" and
"child support" also for you. they may not be as tight lyrically as some of his classics, but they got a message in them regardless.
third, theres other shit on the album that i really enjoy, namely, "the nigga trapp", "a history of violence", "growin up", and "spittin pollaseeds". Full of messages and tight beats to match son.
I can really compare this album to nas' last album that most young folks and even older folks hated. when i first bought it, i even hated, as well as this cube album. but i came back and listened to it 3 months after its release, and i was like holy shit this nas is actually pretty classic and it made me realize why he release "theif's theme" as his first single. I think thats what you need to do with this Cube album, give it the 3 month wait period, then come back and holler at it when you got 2 hours of undisturbed free time.
and you better not hate on snoop's album when it comes out, cause the nigga's flow is REJUVENATED....i liked that last dogg pound album too.
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Do anybody know who D-Line Entertainmnet is? I keep seeing them all over the internet.....
Da Champ should just google D-Line Entertainmnet and quit posting that shit on here....
First off I give cube all the credit for hangin in there. His raps are still somewhat tight after all these years, but listen, HE WRITES HIS OWN RAPS! He's not Dr. Dre or P. Diddy's gay a$$. No ghost writers, no dancin, no BS! No other rappers will even attempt 2 blaze dude. Cube hustled the actin & the rappin and made killionz!!! and he's still here! Where the f**k is MC Ren? answer that! p.s., ima venture off a little and say this. " I seen Monica's vid with DFB & she aint got no butt! That heffa just got a LONG BACK WIT A HOLE IN IT!"
i haven't listened to the new cube but i do not expect much from the album....its a trend with rappers lately, they are on a roll to let niggaz down!
but i heard a very interesting line or two from that song he realeased before go to church (which is a banga but a subpar track).....can't remember it though..
i will listen to death certificate tonite to remember how good this nigga once was....
PAMOJA!!!
I don't think that Cube needs to rap anymore.....he's defiantly made his mark within the hip hop industry....I mean, look at will smith, he only raps when there's a soundtrack for his movie...it's not as though he needs the money and neither does Cube...shit he's worth $145M or more those "Friday" movies grossed $200M wordlwide, why does he need to rap???....it's not as though he's still living and struggling to get out da hood....!!
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Everybody make sure you be on the look out for my solo album coming out real soon.
CUBE IS THE BEST IN THE WEST
HE'S WASHED UP! THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED!
Cube CD was good,better than most!! But could have been much better.I grew up on Cube, I even still have a old CIA tape.(vintage Cube) But Hip Hop is in a state of emergency!! To many bubble gum rap cats getting recognized. We got to change the game!! BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR REAL RECOGNIZE REAL RECORDS COMING OUT OF GARY,IN... WELL BALANCED LABEL. WWW.MYSPACE.COM/REALRECOGNIZEREALRECORD
I don't know about Ice Cube's rap career but I heard 50 Cent is producing a movie on legendary S. Jamaica gangster, Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols and he wants Cube to play the part. Naturally, Cube may want to do a joint venture since HE is a proven film producer. I think it's a good look for Cube who is more actor than rapper at this stage of his career. Finally, Cube will play a G again onscreen instead of some grinning clown. He's really too old and economically removed from the topics he raps about anyway.
Ice Cube's a Legend...he will be honored on VH1 one day, so phuck da haters...he already made his mark in hip-hop!
Dogg you need to slap yourself hating on Cube. The Cube album hot. Yall sit up and pub Game and other weak ass muthafuckas, but pour salt on an OG. Theres more money in music.
"Why let a solid catalog of albums hold their place in history when you can drop turds like “We Be Clubbin’” and “Go To Church” and make MORE MONEY? "
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I LMAO at the "turds" comment!
Cube current album is banging, have you not heard the song The nigga Trap on that album. There are a few songs he could have left out but over all that is one of the more significant albums I have heard this year.
Look man, Ice Cube don't have to rap about the same ol things anymore, is tax bracket has changed. Niggas grow up and move own in life.
This bloogger must be some imature clown ass basement boy. That Cube album is full of real talk. REAL SHIT. He had messages and flows, even his songs that made it to video and radio were message filled and balanced. You obviously dont like real hip hop. You wanna hear make believe gangsta tales. CUBE WAS NEVER A GANGSTA! You should be happy to hear aggressive music with a message.
WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE CUBE SHIT?!ALL THESE WACK (YOUNG JOC, DFB, ETC.) ASS NICKAS OUT HERE NOW AND YOU POINT AT A NICKA THAT JUST RELEASED A SOLID ASS ALBUM. SOHH AND THIS
COMMENTARY NICKA ARE JUST THROWING SHIT INTO A CROWDED ELEVATOR FOR REACTIONARY PURPOSES. STOP POSTING BULLSHIT SOHH.
RECKLESS U YOUNG PUNK SHUT THE FUCK UP..CUBE PUT THAT SHIT OUT ON HIS OWN AND IT STILL WENT GOLD...SO SHUT THE FUCK UP..CUBE IS CUBE HE KNOW WHERE HIS LANE IS NIGGA TALK ABOUT NIGGAZ THAT DONT SELL THAT NEED TO HANG IT UP LIKE BUSTA AND FAT HO CUBE DID IT ALL ON HIS DIME AND MADE ANOTHA 5 OR 6 MILLION THATS HIS.. ASK DRE HOW MUCH HE MADE ON BUSTA?AND SINCE U WANNA QUOTE LYRICS..CHILD SUPPORT..AND RACE CARD...ARE ON THAT TIP..NIGGA U AINT LISTEN TO THE NEW LP AND PROBABLY DONT HAVE IT..U A BIASED ASS EAST COAST FAKE WRITER ITS COMING OUT EVERYDAY WITH THESE DUMASS BLOGS..NIGGA LIST HOW MANY RAPPERS MR ARE WE THERE YET OUTSOLD THIS YR FROM NEW YORK CLOWN...ALL OF THEM..CUBE IS A VET THAT WILL BE HERE IN 10 MORE YRS WHILE YALL MF'S DOING THE CHICKEN NOODLE DANCE...FUCKIN HATER..
I copped Cube's new joint when it dropped and I was'nt disappointed one bit, I would like 2 cee Cube would go back 2 the Death Certificate days.
I think the quality of Cube's music went downhill when he adopted the 'Don Mega' personality.
He went from speaking for the people, to boasting on himself.
I think that's the main difference between himself, and Public Enemy frontman Chuck D. Although their releases are not as publicly known, the quality of work remains the same because they (PE) stay true to what the group was originally about.
It seems now, must of our favorites from a decade or so ago feel the need to adopt new personalities to compete with the new-schoolers....LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg all did it....
...quite embarrassing if you ask me....regardless of the money being made, like the commentor said...it only muddies the catalog with sub-par material.
ice cube is the richest rapper in the game,look at all them movies he was in ,and all those movies he directed ,plus he had like 4 or 5 albums that went 1 and 2 x platium,no why people dont say hes the richest cause ice cube dont brag about it, real rich cats dont got to brag for props,but never mind the money ice cube is one of the best west coast rappers ,dont belive me? u gotta be crazy, and hes still make albums he get much props over here ..1
The Cube album is DOPE! Just because every song is not over gangstafied. He kicks some real shit. I can appreciate his album. Not like the bullshit that comes out every week now. You silly as shit calling Cube wack, or weak or whatever you said. You can listen to him and be entertained and think about something more than the superficial.
Its called maturity. Thats what happened to the old Ice Cube. Unlike most of these 40 something rappers who conduct themselves like 15 year olds.
Cube's new album is full of wisdom - he is speaking truth to the youth - I know you need some response to blogg or they might cancel your shit - and not even have a left coast blogg - WE ALL KNOW SOHH DONT FUCK WITH THE WESTCOAST LIKE XXL AND THE SOURCE. GO TO DUBCNN OR WESTCOASTRYDAZ FOR SOME REAL WESTCOAST ANYWAY.
MC ren is on the new P.E album, with Paris!
Maybe his style has changed (cube) but shouldn't it? I mean he's not a teanager anymore, hes not poor, he's not in the hood, so he's talking about things that he actualy does.
A new rule in rap should be this,
1) your first album can talk all about how hard you are, what a gangster you were, and how you were in the hood all day!
2) once you go getting money, attending holywood parties, etc no more gangster talk!
3) Talk about how good your life is now that your out of the hood, you spend more on clothes than most of us make in a week! talk about that
4) start to go back to the reason to become succesfull is to get out of the hood!
5) stop saying that the word ghetto is the same as ignorant!
than people would take rap seriously, as of now its a joke, Rappers pointing guns at camera's on dvds! Come on who are you scaring your mom!
grow up!
I usually stay away from this thread but I had to answer the blog master's topic. "Laugh Now, Cry Later" is one of the tightest albums this year period. Cube is in his 30's with kids and he can be nostalgic. He created a lot of the swagger that a lot of these gangsta hip hop cats carry around these days. He doesn't and has never needed a ghost writer and the beats are even banging. I guess he could always talk about killing people, running drugs or some wack ass beef like a 25 yr old with immaturity issues but Cube is a man. He's doing what I expect from a man my age, evolving....
Stop the hate, it's not a good look.
Yoy do not know wat the hell you talking about cube is tight. RESPECT CYBE he started this Gansta shit. Like LL album was as good as his first one's. Come on stop hating the WEST side cuzz you and i know it's the best side.
80 I don't think Cube is capable of giving you what you want anymore. He has not been a G for many many years now and it just wouldn't be real for him to rap like one.
I don't know how old you are, but it could be that you just aren't in the same place as him so you can't relate to his music. Maybe it is more suited for his peers that the usual music demographic. We have to face it. He is a grown azz man.
Okay, So Ice Cube aint the same MC he was 10, 15 years ago, so what? Did you really expect him to be putting out the same stuff like The Preadator and Death Certificate ( The greatest Hip-hop album ever)? Dude done changed, grown-up, got a family and is making power moves. And Laugh Now Cry Later is still one of the dopest albums of the year. What new cat has put something out like "Child Support" or the title track? Nah, everyone still tippin and trying to grind. Cube is still giving you that brain food. And for the record, the last verse on Growin Up is doper than that.
You got to be on crack, Cubes new album is real good it aint perfect, but it was much more then anybody expected. To me the title track is the best song. Laugh now Cry later listen to what he is talkin about in that song.Cube made himself relevant again in hip-hop. "Rap bastards tryin to have classic/ keep yo dump ass out of a casket".
The Ghetto Trap... Real Shit. Cube got money and still he relates to those of us who don't...
You only got two places
State of California, got two faces
Motherfuckin devils, get straight racist
When they get you in them lonely dark places
Concrete slave ships, never move
Where niggaz like us get used like a mule
Don't let 'em catch you, arrest you
Strip and undress you, throw you in a cesspool
You wanna know the crime of the century
A ghetto elementary, a mental penitentiary
Black man, you never been friend of me
Boy you kin to me, why we enemies?
The ghe-tto is a trap
Cube's album was better than most of the stuff coming out nowadays. It wasn't a classic, we all know that, but it was a breath of fresh air in this era, u still had songs like N**** Trap , he did his thing considering he is an older m.c, notice how i said M.C & not rapper, there is a big difference & that gets lost amongst the hip hop fan sometimes. I don't think most rap fans know what an M.C is anyhow.
I thought that a west coast section to Ya Heard would be good... but so far you've been so off. No one in LA feels the way you do dude... Point blank.
Well a lot of people have something to say about Cube. But I doubt if they are true followers of Cube. And surprisely Cube has never changed at all. I mean really really really really listen to his albums. Listen to the words listen to his lyrics. If I broke it down then you people will feel me. But honestly Cube never says any weak lines. And home boy talked about We be Clubbin come on now. That is some real stuff. You don't even listen to the words "After the club its either Breakfast or Fu(king, hope we ain't ducking from haters in the parking lot who ain't got nothing. Trying to prove something, fronting be we just bumping to the Marriot trying to get some harry cock cuss it ain't nothing wrong get your club on."
That is a Classic line, b/c he talks about stuff we can relate too. He isn't on some fantasy trip. Cube never talks about anything that the average man can't acheive or the average person hasn't been through. And I still think Bootlegs and B Sides is a classic album as well. All his albums are great b/c he isn't sugar coated or on some mega super star trip. And Cube Raps b/c of his fans and his love for the art form. Yeah he made his mark. But tell me what artist do you get excited about their album release date? No one but Cube. I remember when we released an album a year that was the highlight of everything to me. B/c it fed me something that the world tried to deny me of. But anyways my point Cube never left. He is the Don Mega of hits and put all his albums togehter you will understand he never changed.
maybe u didnt really get the whole picture of laugh now cry later. his lyrical content on the album was by far more hip hop (west coast hip hop have u) more than almost any other album dropped this year. he kept it real. yeh his ear aint to the street like it use 2 b. but his tracc on how he birth this gangsta rap shows he still got it open yo ear man
SOHH 80, I can't say I completely disagree with what you put down, but as far as a verse or song that's blazin on the new album, "Child Support" is that muthafucka for me, that's some classic gimme my props Cube shit for that ass. What's your thoughts on that one?
Oh & Big Tiddy, homie is from the Bay, if there was an L.A. cat up in here such as myself writing this, then peeps from the Bay and such would probably be like they ain't gettin represented properly on this piece. It's a no win, unless you get two blog writers, which could work, but it's highly unlikely.
1ST OFF CUBE STARTED THIS GANGSTA SH@T.. LAUGH NOW CRY LATER WAS VERY ON POINT COMPARED TO THE WAR AND PEACE DISC - WHICH I THOUGHT WERE TOTALLY TRASH! CUBE ALWAYS SPITS HARD- WHEN HE WANTS TOO- I THINK ITS THE BEAT SELECTION THAT THROWS US OFF.. CUBE HAS ALOT OF SHIT ON THE TABLE AS FAR AS BUSINESS AND CANT TALK ABOUT THE "DEVILS" LIKE HE USED TOO OR HE'LL BE IN HOT WATER LIKE MEL GIBSON AZZ.. AMERIKKKAZ MOST WANTED WAS A CLASSIK AND SO WAS DEATH CERTIFICATE.. PREDATOR WAS ALRIGHT- BUT SINCE U BOUGHT UR 1ST RAP ALBUM IN 1990 AND IT HAPPEND TO BE PE's FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET - U WULDA MISSED THE 1ST 2 CUBE ALBUMS. . SON!
1ST OFF CUBE STARTED THIS GANGSTA SH@T.. LAUGH NOW CRY LATER WAS VERY ON POINT COMPARED TO THE WAR AND PEACE DISC - WHICH I THOUGHT WERE TOTALLY TRASH! CUBE ALWAYS SPITS HARD- WHEN HE WANTS TOO- I THINK ITS THE BEAT SELECTION THAT THROWS US OFF.. CUBE HAS ALOT OF SHIT ON THE TABLE AS FAR AS BUSINESS AND CANT TALK ABOUT THE "DEVILS" LIKE HE USED TOO OR HE'LL BE IN HOT WATER LIKE MEL GIBSON AZZ.. AMERIKKKAZ MOST WANTED WAS A CLASSIK AND SO WAS DEATH CERTIFICATE.. PREDATOR WAS ALRIGHT- BUT SINCE U BOUGHT UR 1ST RAP ALBUM IN 1990 AND IT HAPPEND TO BE PE's FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET - U WULDA MISSED THE 1ST 2 CUBE ALBUMS. . SON!
SOHH BLOG STARTER
did you even sit down and listen to the album.....he had a message in just about every song.....even Go To Church.
what the fuck are you smokin? Cube released a SOLID album.....it had a little bit of everything, but it wasn't your typical rap album. The album had some positive messages in them. Go back and actually listen to the album. Don't base your opinion on the single(because people know that most singles are aimed for the clubs).
Cube put out a solid album worth buying, and this coming from someone who doesn't buy many albums. But i went out to Best Buy and spent 12 bucks on a really good album worth listening to.
I wonder what your hip-hop collection looks like........
fucking hip-hop rookie "journalists"
YALL ARE KILLING HIP-HOP!!!
What happened to Cube? He grew up!! It is unfair to expect Cube to stay the same when the new generation is praised for their lackluster skills. People want the "Brainless Rap" now a days. People talk about "oh he made a kiddie movie(Are We There Yet?)." SO! It is a great family movie which shows that black people can live without violence as well. Laugh Now... in MY opionion is the best album of 2006. There is a reason why Pac, Biggie, Snoop, Nas, Game, Ras Kass and a lot of other artist pay/paid homage to Cube. There is a reason why he was honored at VH1 and other award platforms. His prior albums along with his impact on hip hop are cemented in music(not just hip, but music in general) history. Now if you want to talk shit about someone, talk about LL. Lip Licker has been in the game 20+ and has nothing to show for it. Still depending on Def Jam and now 50 to help his career. Cube is the first major artist that I now in hip hop to fund his own album and release it independently; which is yet another thing that he will add to his impact in hip hop.
I'm convinced that this dude SOHH 80 either said this stupid shit to get firey results or he just may be 80 years old. You CANT be serious dude!! For you to say something THAT stupid, tells me that you must have just been trying to provoke us to create some dialog.
Laugh Now Cry later is a HOT cd and it surprised me b/c for the first time in a LONG time, Ice Cube actually DOES sound like the old Cube!! Thats the first thing that came to mind when I heard the cd. He took it back to 89 with that shit.
So please tell me that you were just kidding b/c you CANT be that stupid....
Laugh Now Cry later is a HOT cd and it surprised me b/c for the first time in a LONG time, Ice Cube actually DOES sound like the old Cube!! Thats the first thing that came to mind when I heard the cd. He took it back to 89 with that shit.
So please tell me that you were just kidding b/c you CANT be that stupid....
Posted by: C-flat at October 11, 2006 01:12 PM
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IM COSIGNIN! YEAH I WAS SUPRISED TOO. .HE DID SOUND LIKE THE OLD CUBE..
AND HAD THE BEATS WAS KNOCKIN.
I can rap check out my flow:
I need some grease so I can beat my meat
Shooting skeet while I walk down the street
My flows is hard like the dick in my pants I'm bout to beat
Tell yo moms to brush her teeth with skeet
YEAH BABY THAT'S THAT REAL SHIT RIGHT THERE! can't nobody touch me in flowing I'm the realist there is!
OF COURSE ICE CUBE STILL THAT NIGGA U KNOW IT I KNOW IT,GO COP HIS INDEPENDENT CLASSIC LAUGH KNOW CRY LATER ITS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2006 BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY DINDT BUSTA RHYMES MAKE IT??THAT SHOULD BE THE NEXT TOPIC....PLEASE SOHH SPEAK ON IT OR ll COOL j,WHO REALLY NEEDS TO HANG IT UP
Do you act the same way and have the same thoughts as you did 15 years ago?
If so, YOU'VE GOT A MUTHAFUCKIN PROBLEM!
smh@ this idiot blogger...that's the problem with hiphop, niggaz like him are always caught up in the past and hate on whut that nigga is doing today.
"laugh now cry later" is one of the best, one of the most thought provoking, and successful albums to come out this year...
the reason i said "successful" is grant it went gold, but it went gold INDEPENDANTLY..without any major backing or hardly ANY promotion...cube pushed and financed this album ALL BY HIMSELF...thing of all the $$$$$ he's getting in return...it's only common sense to re-release it, because he already caked in a gold 10 million the 1ST time around
homie gave us food for thought AND doing it big, it's always a hater that shits on another man's success!!!
Look man, Ice Cube don't have to rap about the same ol things anymore, is tax bracket has changed. Niggas grow up and move own in life.
Posted by: GC at October 11, 2006 08:57 AM
Co sign...
Sohh 80...listen to "Child Support." That song's the reason why Cube continues to rap. That nigga ghostwrote for the Eazy-E, the godfather of "gangsta/reality" rap. So guess what that makes him? Yeah buddy. Oh yeah, u wanted to hear vintage Cube. Listen to the last verse on "Why We Thugs."
"Ya'll know what happen last time I lost it/ain't gotta tell u niggas what the phuck a boss did..." lol x 100!
Lloyd banks : To beat me you need more than guts/ you need the heart of a lion, the eye of the tiger, and KING KONG'S nuts/
I know you want it but don't try it/ cause i got bigger beef than Kelly price before the diet/
Nigga go get yo foot locker uniform/ fuck around i'll put a lump on your forhead you'll look like a unicorn/
PUNCHLINE KING!
AND WHAT THE FUCK HAS THE GAME EVER SPIT BESIDES DR. DRE AND 64 IMPALAS
FUCK LLOYD BLANKS AKA GAY WONDER,HIS ALBUM IS WACK THE ONLY GOOD TRACK IS PLAYBOY 2 THATS ALLLLLL!!!
80... YOU THE TRUTHMAN!! FUCK ICE CUBE!! HE SHOULD STICK TO HIS GAY FAMILY MOVIES. FRIDAY IS CLASSIC, BUT NOW HIM DROPPING THIS MUSIC FOR NO REASON IS A SIN. AND HIS SUPPORTERS STILL MADE HIM GO GOLD. I WOULDNT EVEN BREAK MY WEED UP ON THAT CD. I MISS THE DAYS OF "TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY" AND SSHIT LIKE THAT. WYO WYO WYO WYO ALL DAY / FIRING SQUAD PUSHIN THAT YAY / WE DONT PLAY - YOU SOFT LIKE PLAY DOUGH SO DONT SAY / YOUR TOUGHER THAN ME CUZ YOUR GAY!! UUUUGHHHHHHH WYO WYO WYO WYO
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to be real, laugh now was just a joke.that cat lost his rap appeal bout 6 years ago.i even thought he revamped on lil john c.d.but out of good faith and being a long time fan i bought that bullshit(didn't even burn the shit first)and really wish that he was working on a movie. and even had nerve to take a lil subliminal shots at some of raps best(though compation aint that great)like the west had just some gods in rap and was being over shadowed.when really the hwole game has been over shadowed by bullshit.at the end of the day dude need to pay chris that mil and make friday 4
fuck cube
@ WYOMINGRIDAAH:
SHUT UP TRICK.. THEY DONT EVEN SELL RAP IN WYOMING. AINT NUTTIN OUT THERE BUT A WALMART PROLLY. U MISS THA DAYS OF TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY- LMAO!! ALL DAYS IS GOOD OUT THERE, I BET.. UR PROLLY AMISH . .
Damn, Willie Lynch in effect!!! How can you diss a man for growing up & being his own boss??
Cube has producer's credit for almost all of his near 25 movies. What do yall want, Cube to still have that jheri curl, mean mugging the camera, crying about Easy & jerry Heller cheating him, talking about how gangster he is?
Yall some lames!
Posted by: DR FUH Q MAN esquire at October 11, 2006 07:53 PM
^^^^ truth
Aint no other King is the rap game.
You little fuck nuts
How could you hate on a legend that made a solid album?!
Ice Cube has been in the game over 20 years so I didn't expect him to come with it like some new lyricists (maybe Saigon) but "The Nigga Trap" is probably the 'realest social/concious' record all year and you SHOULD have quoted that.
It is almost impossible for anybody to top 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted' and 'Death Certificate', but it says alot about a legend who could still put out 'Why We Thugs' after all of these years and stay relevant.
I mean Cube has been apart of too many classic albums and was the hardest 'hood' rapper from about 89'-92', so stop hating on the legend.
I know your just trying to get responses on the left coast blog, but why hate on our West Coast legends. If you don't like his new music fine. But it wasn't wack.
SOHH Eighty, you're giving Sac town a bad name...
Your trippin that Ice Cube album was kinda hot and I've been a fan since NWA and have all Cube's albums. I guess each is own but we can't expect a nigga to be 38yrs old and still rappin bout fuck the police and the white man is the devil dawg. He was on some grown man shit this album STOP HATIN!
we are some fuck up peoples if we think peoples are going to sound the same from ten years ago, no this album is not better than his past albums he had a different beast in his belly back then the man have about 30 to 50 million.he cannot never make aother amerikkka most wanted
To SOHH Eighty:
I agree with your point-of-view on Ice Cube. The man has lost his hunger, and ability to formulate the strong lyrical content that he once could. Not to mention that he looks like a damn fool in his "O.G." attire, when I'm sure that he lives in a white neighborhood. You'd think that he'd be past rapping by now.
He (and LL) need to hang it up; because they are proving that are a mere shell of their former selves.
Coming across this blog made me throw in his new album again and I just gotta wonder what drugs you on to be making a statement that Ice Cube lost it? Let's be real, he could throw up on record and it'd still sound better than what 90% of the rappers do today, he's one of the great mcs that're still on top:
"Laugh Now, Cry Later">>>>"The Documentary"
"Go To Church">>>"Show Me What You Got" or whatever Gay-Z' lame ass single's called
WYO WYO WYO!! WTF?!? How da hell did a nigga from Wyoming get on a Left Coast blog anyway? Damn homie ya moms must not be at home for you to be on tha computer huh? Comparing how Cube sounds on Lil Jon's CD and "Today was a good day" u can hear the change and the only change is what he talks about on his songs that's it! I haven't heard his new album yet but I'll be buyin' it tho'. If muh'fuckaz aint feelin' the new album go ahead and bang his old shit in ya speakers! "Shake em up, shake em up, shake em up, shake em roll em in a circle and watch me break niggaz with tha 7, 7-11, 7-11, 7...
Ice Cube is one of the greatest rappers ever, his latest album is tight. good lyrics good production and he realesed it independantly and still went gold. pretty good for a dude who hasnt put out an album in 6 years and whos been around for 20 years. He is the West Coast
Titlee track is full of jewels and to me vintage Cube. Also people grow mature and develop, if you still rapping and acting the same way you did 10 years ago something is wrong with you. Cube has matured, granted he doesn't still live in South Central Los Angeles and he very well be in one of those neighborhoods way out " n*gger go home " spray painted on his house, but as far as being true to the game movies or music you still ain't never seen Cube with grey joint, or portraying a role that makes the blackman look ignornat. Shout out to Cube a true West Coast G, I suppose reckless would have this N8gga in a jherri curl doing 25 with an L with the rest of the lynch mob.
can't we all just get along?
Like someone said earlier, nobody on this planet earth is exactly like they were fifteen years ago. People grow up, and Cube's no exception. SOHH 80 needs to get out of The Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
As a few posters here have said, if you LISTEN to Cube's lyrics closely, he's always rhymed about real shit. Not everybody gangbangs all the time, or preaches Nation of Islam politics--there are those (even in the ghetto) who go "clubbing." To me, "We Be Clubbin'" was really Cube satirizing and, in a way, POKING FUN at some of the nutty things that go on in clubs. I don't think it was Cube's intention to deliberately make a song that the ladies could dance to; "We Be Clubbin'" was ABOUT clubs, but I don't think it was designed FOR clubs or to be a "club song" per se.
I'll give another example: a song like "Doin What It Pose 2Do" at first glance may sound like just another entry in the "bling-bling" category. But listen closely to the lyrics and the sneer in Cube's voice. The song can be seen as Cube MAKING FUN of the materialistic, "let's-judge-everything-by-appearance-instead-of-looking-deeper" attitudes of the new millenium. He's against excessive materialism, but like any human being, Cube is aware of materialism's tempatations, and that's what the song's basically about, IMHO.
So Cube's always dropped knowledge--it's the just that the subject matter and often the style in which he raps changes from song to song. Someone here opined that people may get thrown off if the beat(s) aren't to their taste, thus distracting them from the lyrics, and that's probably true. I think that's why some had problems with the WAR disc in particular; people weren't ready for the almost Goth sound that some of those tracks had, and it distracted them from what Cube said on "The Peckin' Order," "3 Strikes You In," "Ghetto Vet," "Penitentiary," "Extradition," and "Dr. Frankenstein," to name a few, which had solid points to make. Others here have cited some of the best songs on LNCL as great examples of vintage Cube, such as "Why We Thugs?", "Child Support," "The Nigga Trapp," and I agree. Cube basically spit well on the bulk of the CD. For SOHH-80 to expect another PREDATOR is asinine. Real artists do different things w/ their albums and experiment. While everyone has a right to their opinion on which of an artist's CDs is their favorite, expecting artists to spit exactly the same way each time, about the same topics each time, and over the same beats each time, is illogical.
SOHH-80 acts like it's the crime of the century for Cube to reissue the CD w/ the DVD? I say, "go for it!" The beauty of putting out your own stuff is that you can do things whenever/however you want. There are independent artists in the Bay Area who have also done this: JT The Bigga Figga reissues his CDs periodically and has made some DVDs as well (w/ Daz, Snoop, etc). Mac Dre's last two CDs were released w/ free DVDS (AL BOO BOO, THE GAME IS THICK PT. 2), and some of Messy Marv's recent CDs (his BONNIE & CLYDE CD w/ Marvaless and his solos DISOBAYISH and BANDANNAS, TATTOOS & TONGUE RINGS) were released w/DVDs. And outside of the Bay, Sacramento native Brotha Lynch Hung's last new CD (the underrated LYNCH BY INCH) had a bonus DVD as well. I'm sure there's others who have done the same. Cube is no longer on a major's timeclock, so if he decides to make more CDs, the freedom he has will hopefully let him expand on what LNCL has done so far.
Oh yeah--to those who use Cube's movies as an excuse to hate on him, saying things like "oh, I can't take Cube seriously anymore because he made 'Are We There Yet?'..." Let me say this: those who have seen the "Back To The Future" trilogy may remember a dude named Biff Tannen. Well, Thomas F. Wilson, the talented actor/singer/comic/artist who played Biff, made a pithy, but on-point statement that people would be wise to remember before they criticize Cube's movie choices. Speak up, Mr. Wilson...
"It's a MOVIE! Movies...are PRETEND!"
"What happened to the Ice Cube we used to know?" He grew up, SOHH-80. You should try it sometime. You'll like it. LAUGH NOW, CRY LATER is not perfect, but it's dope. THE SOURCE gave it four mics out of five, and I think that's about right. Just my opinion, though.
PEACE!
fuck u ice cube you wangster son of a bitch...little white girly wigger fuck u BITCH!
word out ,,, 50 and banks!
you need to shutup with this blog, cube is one of the best, and will always be one of the best.. and predator wasnt even his best album in my eyes.. amerikka's most wanted and death certificate all the way
U SOUND LIKE A BITCH ASS LIGHTSKINNED NIGGA IN AN OFFICE,WHO AINT NEVER SEEN AN OUNCE OF DOPE IN YO LIFE,O WAIT,THAT IS WHUT ARE....'LIL BITCH'..COME TO ANY PART OF THE COAST AND SAY THAT SHIT,NIGGA U WILL BE KILLED...STR8 UP LIL BITCH,FUCK YOU GET MONEY...GO ON WIT' ALL THAT HO ASS SHIT...DUCE O NIGGA...I WHUP YO HEAD BOY!!!!!
for real, it happened to bone thugs, it happened to dr dre, snoop, that's why im startin to get into underground rap specially here in cali, you should check out brotha lynch hung
who ever said ice cube was neva a gangsta is a fucken dumb ass... he grew up in south central and probaby killed a nigga or 2
who ever said ice cube was neva a gangsta is a fucken dumb ass... he grew up in south central and probaby killed a nigga or 2
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