AmeriKKKa/Kill at Will, Death Certificate, Predator and Lethal Injection, in less than 4 years, also while starring in "Boyz n the Hood" and Charles Burnett's "The Glass Shield." THEN he did "Friday." HoF stats, one of the most hyper-talented superstars of the 1990s, full stop. https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1260689329514377216
Like Snoop and Ice-T, Cube's now more known now for playing against his 90s rap iconography on TV and in movies, but he's also weirdly undervalued historically. Before Ice-T, Pac + Snoop, he was the most dangerous rapper alive, but he doesn't even have an official autobiography?
Part of it is that he started off as part of a group that dwarfed its individual members, and part of it is that he never developed a bad-boy star persona like Ice-T, Pac, or Snoop. IMO, he tops of all of them.
Also, greatest eyebrows in rap history. Tilde-caliber eyebrows ~ ~
He wrote "Gangsta Gangsta," which codified a genre, along with "Fuck tha Police" and "Express Yourself," before he was 20. Then: "Once Upon a Time in the Projects" and "Who's the Mack," then he invented the sensitive thug with "Dead Homiez." Then he turned 21.
Then "Death Certificate," the only album Billboard's editors ever wrote a stern op-ed decrying, an album that contained "Steady Mobbin,'" predicting G-Funk 1.5 years early, and "No Vaseline," the greatest diss track until [x]. THEN "It Was a Good Day," only a modern pop standard
Some more Ice Cube Content https://twitter.com/ericdharvey/status/1163834986392371201
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