Ice Cube- Lethal Injection

Ice Cubes 1993 "Lethal Injection" was another decent album and his 5th album in 4 years. Cube may have been a bit worn out after so many albums in such a short period of time and that would explain the shortness of this album. After this release, Cube left his fans wanting more, and disappeared for a well deserved five year break from solo albums and continued to build his film career, nowadays many artists try to emulate what he has done on film, most of the time not near as succesfull. "Lethal Injection was" Executive produced by Cube, with additional production coming from D. Mcdowell, Brian G., laylaw, Sir Jinx, 88 Butterfly, and Madness 4 real. First stand out tracks are "Really Doe" and "Ghetto Bird" and they start they album off well. Next comes "You know how we do it" a relaxed oldschool G funk track, love this track. "Bop Gun" (One Nation) is an ode to George Clinton a dope eleven minute track, which Cube shines on. "What Can I do" has Cube storytelling about back in the day, and the present. This is followed by a few not too memorable tracks, and the album closes with "When I get to Heaven". Best tracks on this album to me are "You know how we do it", "Bop Gun" and "Ghetto Bird", other tracks dont stand out as much, and at 12 tracks "Lethal Injection" is short. Still when Cube does come out strong like those 3 tracks he is addictive to listen too. 3.5

smooth beats and hardcore all in one 4.5 stars

...all in all this is a pretty good rap album. good beats on every song. ice cube at his greatest. good songs that will not matter about what cube says. cave bi**h is the worst track because it just isn't the way most picture cube. to me every song has meaning and exept ghetto bird (makes up with the tightest beats ever). the song ghetto bird's beats were on the old gangster flick menace II society and i always wanted to know what song it was. i looked for every song on the soundtrack but then i bought this album and found them. i always wish that he would have put more meaning on this song but like i said before it was worth the trouble cus now i know what song has the best beats ever on it. great album cube.

look out for ice cubes new cd coming soon. hes on dre's record label and this is gonna be cubes best album if dre's production is as good as the production he used to do with snoop.

DRE- do better beats on this than u did on man vs machine please.
also make sure that u do if not all then most of the production!!!

THE CUBE MELTS...

The song "Bop Gun (One Nation)" symbolizes virtually everything that is wrong with LETHAL INJECTION. For a seemingly never-ending eleven minutes, the music plays on and on, with Ice Cube showing up every now and then to drop a nonsensical verse, then disappear back into the background. Perhaps it was an attempt to pay tribute to the P-Funk era (it contains an interpolation of "One Nation Under A Groove"), but the song is uninventive, uninteresting, directionless, unfocused, unnecessary, and never goes anywhere. The standard socio-political stuff as expected from Ice Cube can be found here, but gone is the discerning introspective edge found in AMERIKKKA'S MOST WANTED and DEATH CERTIFICATE. Unlike in those albums, where he at least backed up his analyses, he doesn't here. Okay, the music is quite remarkable. Even though it is far removed from the busy and chaotic production of his first three solo albums, it boasts a smoother, funkier sheen, suggesting a strong G-Funk influence (thanks to Dr. Dre's groundbreaking THE CHRONIC). But it is Ice Cube that is the culprit here. Blind rage reigns supreme here--he opens the album with a pointless intro as a black doctor shooting a white patient ("The Shot [Intro]"), then he proceeds to totally condemn white women ("Cave Bitch") and the white race in general (he vows to deal with "more crackers than Bosnia-Herzegovina!" in "Enemy"). The brilliance that characterized his early work is barely evident here ("When I Get To Heaven" is an exception, in which he points out to Christian hypocrisy in America and offers the Nation of Islam's brand of Islam as an alternative), but for the most part LETHAL INJECTION is a failure, nowhere near the classic status of his previous work.