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The more tracks Cube raps with Teak on the boards, the more it seems like he has found his 2008 muse to take the place of DJ Pooh and Sir Jinx.
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Teak also shapes an outstanding sonic landscape for the thoughtful “Why Me?” The song finds Cube sounding just as perplexed in 2008 as he was on “Who’s the Mack?” back in 1990, and outright blasts hip-hop music videos: “I don’t give a fuck what you saw on TV but a one-eight-seven don’t make an O.G.” If you only listened to the verses espousing Barry Bonds and Pacman Jones as role models and alcoholism as an acceptable lifestyle you’d miss the chorus that flips the script: “If you don’t want to shake that hood mentality, how the fuck we ‘sposed to change our reality?” Dope. Cube’s “Hood Mentality” is such a track, and the Teak Da Beatsmith beat is a set-up for Cube to lambast negative urban environment stereotypes.
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Every now and then Keith David (who you either know from Navy “accelerate your life” ads or the movie “They Live” depending on your age) drops in to add a voiceover to Cube’s presentation, which intentionally gives “Raw Footage” a very cinematic feel that’s not nearly as uncut as the album’s title. The only rapper who wanna fistfight the President!”
I bring it like a bookie my aggression is depressinĭon’t give a motherfucker time to learn his lesson! I feel like a vet ballin on these rookiesĪn old school bully, you must have played hooky My paint job is wet, my chrome is gleamin I’m sittin next to yo’ ass and can’t hear, what you got to say “I got King Kong in my trunk, King Kong in my doors You should consider “It Takes a Nation” to be the album’s TRUE opener, because Emile’s beat rattles the walls and Cube is so amped up with his lyrics and delivery you might think it’s 1991 all over again: It’s awkward, depressing and entirely skippable. “I Got My Locs On” gets things off to a slow start though, as the PnO beat and Young Jeezy cameo result in the hip-hop legend trying to flow like his new jack co-star. The strength of this song had me looking forward to “Raw Footage” for months and months, hoping the attitude of the song would be endemic of the album while avoiding the desire to make up absurd new words. How you motherfuckers gonna tell me don’t say that? That sat back when they brought cocaine back? (Say what, say what?) “I keep it gangsta, and why should I change that?įuck you old motherfuckers tryin to change rap (Say what, say what?) It seems Cube even correctly predicted the ridiculous shitstorm of controversy that would cause Nas to change his album’s title. Despite the comical nature of Cube’s new lexicon the banging Maestro piano beat was as serious as cancer, and Cube raised some good points about the public’s desire to blame hip-hop for all of society’s ills. Quite frankly “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” was too. The 2006 release of “ Laugh Now, Cry Later” was a firm reminder that Cube had not abandoned his hip-hop roots and a pleasant surprise musically to boot. I had a lot of time, six years in fact, to assume that Ice Cube was done with rap and had gone Hollywood for good. Jackson get away with a word this absurd?īECAUSE HE’S ICE MOTHERFUCKIN’ CUBE DAMN IT.
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Sure it’s an actual English word but I don’t see rappers shoving each other out of the way to use it in song just because you spit it six months or so ago on “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It.” Quite frankly it’s a ridiculous sounding word and just because you put an intro on “Raw Footage” explaining what it means (“red hot lava mixed with saliva”) doesn’t get you a free pass. PIE-ROW-CLASS-TICK does not roll easily off the tongue. We’ve let you get away with a lot of things over the years, including a few awful comedy and sci-fi films and at least one half-assed compilation of songs FROM said films among others, but now you done did it.