Ice Cube (circa ’88 to ’93)

Yeah, I had state a time period. In 1988, when Ice Cube stepped on the seen with NWA, he was a beast. On Straight Outta Compton he was as gangsta as it gets but he was also witty and poignant. On AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted he began to get more political. Some were between AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Death Certificate, the next true album, he began palling around with Nation of Islam (NoI), more specifically, NoI national spokesman Khalid Muhammad, so when Death Certificate was released it had a new NoI slant to it. Death Certificate was still a tremendous album just the same. Cube had 2 more good albums in him in the form of The Predator and Lethal Injection. The Predator is probably best remembered for the songs "It Was a Good Day" and "Check Yo Self." Unfortunately, Lethal Injection marked the last worthwhile effort from Cube. It’s then that he begins to devote himself more to his acting career. He wouldn’t release another album until ’98 in the form of War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc). After that I like to pretend no more albums came out. You can go look them up on your own if you want to. I came to Ice Cubes music late in the game. I knew who he was but didn’t have any desire to check into it. Then, I just forgot about him. He stopped being in good movies in ’95 with Friday. It was last year about this time I rediscovered Ice Cube. He released a new single called “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It.” He was talking about all the things that had been going on recently, like the Imus situation and Michael Richards, and how the defense people like this always toss out is how Black people say it all the time. That album wasn’t out yet but I decided to give Cubes past music a listen to. I still haven’t heard the recent album with “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It,” so I can’t speak on that, but where his past efforts are concerned, you should be listening to Ice Cube from ’88 to ’93.