100 percent classic

this album is 100 percent classic it has three of the greatest rap songs of all time i wanna kill sam my summer vacation and steady mobbin and includes one of the greatest disses of all time no vaseline dissing eazy-e and nwa this album is classic, so pick it up

The best Ice Cube Album Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is Ice Cube at his finest. I remember when this first came out. I was fresh out of high school and still bumping AmeriKKK's Most Wanted. [...] This was an ingenious blend of NWA and Public Enemy, mixed with a touch of Brand Nubian. It's definitely a classic to any Black Man or Woman who knows the truth of our existence in this country. I just wish Ice Cube would have stayed on this course.

the ultimate test?

this album is pretty hard to listen to. neither cube's unflinching examinations of early 90s young black male attitudes or his personal venom directed at critics, sellouts, uncle toms and at nwa pulls any punches (though the accusations of anti-semitism on this album are greatly exaggerated). it is a brutal listen at times and not for the close-minded, the timid or the ignorant.



but there is no way anyone can deny the absolutely incredible musicality at work here. the massively underrated sir jinx as well as cube himself craft unbelievable beats obviously heavily influenced by the bomb squad production on the first ice cube record. the amount of texture and depth to these beats, and the inventiveness and precision of the sample use, results in some of the finest beats ever heard in hip hop. some of the best bits include the muffled drunken wail of the horns and the funky breakdown on "black korea", the huge snare on "man's best friend", the ridiculous vocal sample on "my summer vacation", the bird call scratches on "a bird in the hand". and ice cube as a rapper - his turn of phrase, his rhythm and his immense voice - was never and has not been better. every syllable is ferociously slammed onto the beat like one of those licence plate machines and enunciated with such unbelievable clarity and power.



not for the weak of heart or mind. but a infinitely rewarding musical experience