Artist: Ice Cube
Genre(s):
Alternative
Punk
Discography:
Laugh Now, Cry Later
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
The Predator
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
War and Peace Vol. 1: The War Disc
Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
Featuring... Ice Cube
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Death Certificate
Year: 1991
Tracks: 18
Kill At Will
Year: 1990
Tracks: 7
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Year: 1990
Tracks: 16
Ice Cube was the first base member of the germinal Californian rap grouping N.W.A. to leave, and he rapidly naturalized himself as one of hip-hop's best and most controversial artists. From the get-go of his vocation, he courted disputation, since his rhymes were unsanctified and political. As a solo creative person, his politics and social comment sharpened well, and his number one iI records, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Death Certificate, were evenly praised and reviled for their lyrical position, which happened to be substantially more joint than many of his gangsta peers. As his career progressed, Cube's influence began to decline, specially as he well-tried to integrate elements of contemporary groups wish Cypress Hill into his sound, simply his height ne'er diminished, and he remained one of the biggest rap stars end-to-end the '90s.
For such a rotatory figure, Cube (born O'Shea Jackson) came from a surprisingly full-strength background signal. Raised in South Central Los Angles, where both of his parents had jobs at UCLA, Cube didn't become involved with b-boy culture until his late teens. He began writing raps piece in high school day, including "Boyz-n-the Hood." With his better half Sir Jinx, Cube began rapping in a duette called CIA at parties hosted by Dr. Dre, and he finally met Eazy-E, then prima a grouping called HBO, through Dre. Eazy asked Cube to write a rap, and he presented them with "Boyz-n-the Hood," which was spurned. Eazy decided to impart CIA, and he, Cube, and Dre formed the first incarnation of N.W.A. Cube left wing to study architectural mechanical drawing at Phoenix, AZ, in 1987, reverting the following year later he obtained a annual degree. He arrived scarcely in meter for N.W.A.'s breakthrough album, Straight Outta Compton. Released late in 1988, Straight Outta Compton became an resistance strike over the track of 1989, and its uttermost lyric contentedness -- which was sinful both lyrically and politically -- attracted criticism, nearly notably from the FBI.
N.W.A. may receive been rivaling Public Enemy as the most ill-famed chemical group in hip-hop, just Cube was having deep conflicts with their management, resulting in him leaving the banding in late 1989. He went to New York with his new posse, da Lench Mob, and recorded his first solo record album with Public Enemy's production team, the Bomb Squad. Released in the springiness of 1990, his debut AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted was an inst strike, exit gold inside its first deuce weeks of vent. While the record's production and Cube's rhythmic skills were praised, his much violent, homophobic, and misogynist lyrics were criticized, particularly by the rock-and-roll weigh and moral watchdogs. Even amid such disceptation, the album was hailed as a groundbreaking ceremony classical inside hip-hop, and it established Cube as an single effect. He began his possess corporation, which was run by a char, and he produced the debut album from his female protégée, Yo-Yo. At the end of 1990, he released the EP Vote down at Will, which was followed in the springiness by Yo-Yo's debut, Make Way for the Motherlode. That summertime, his acting debut in John Singleton's acclaimed urban drama Boyz 'n the Hood was widely praised.
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted may receive been controversial, simply it paled side by side the furor circumferent Cube's second album, Death Certificate. Released late in 1991, Death Certificate was at the same time more political and vernacular than its predecessor, causing more indignation. In particular, "No Vaseline," a reprehensible attack on N.W.A. managing director Jerry Heller, was perceived as anti-semitic, and "Black Korea" was taken as a racist invocation to burn down all Korean-owned grocery stores. The songs provoked a populace sentence from the swap publication Billboard. It was the first-class honours degree meter an creative person had been singled out by the powder magazine. The rage over Death Certificate didn't preclude it from reach number 2 and departure platinum. During 1992, he toured with the second Lollapalooza spell in a successful attempt to consolidate his theodore Harold White rock interview. He likewise born-again to the Nation of Islam during 1992, which was unmistakable on his adjacent album, The Predator. Upon its discharge in December of 1992, The Predator became the first-class honours degree album to debut at number i on both the pop and R&B charts. The steady-rolling single "It Was a Good Day" and the Das EFX coaction "Check Yo Self" made the album Cube's most democratic.
However, Cube's hold on the mass tap audience was beginning to shimmy. His erstwhile fellow worker, Dre, was autocratic hip-hop with his hopped-up G-funk, and Cube tried to maintain tempo with 1993's Deadly Injection. While the album debuted at number basketball team and went atomic number 78, its funkier legal wasn't well-received. Lethal Injection was Cube's last official album for various years. In 1994, he wrote and produced da Lench Mob's debut Guerillas in tha Mist, and produced Kam's debut, Neva Again, cathartic a remix and rarities accumulation Bootlegs & B-Sides at the close of the yr. In 1995, he unbroken quiet, appearance in Singleton's film Higher Learning and making indemnity with Dre on their duet "Natural Born Killaz." The following yr, he acted in the comedy Friday, which he wrote himself. He also formed Westside Connection with Mack 10 and WC, cathartic their debut album, Bow Down, at the close of the yr. It went gold inside its first calendar month of release. In the leap of 1997, Cube asterisked in the surprise bump off horror film Eunectes murinus. War & Peace, Vol. 1 (The War Disc) followed in 1998; its sequel, The Peace Disc, followed deuce days by and by.
Cube spent the side by side few days devoting his clock time to cinema. Trey Kings, Ghosts of Mars, and the big polish off Barbershop all appeared in theaters before the rapper returned to music with Westside Connection's sophomore attempt, Terrorist Threats, which appeared in 2003. Three days later he revived his just used Lench Mobb label for his solo retort album, Gag Now, Cry Later.
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