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1990 - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.
1991 - Death Certificate.
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May 18, 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.

"Fuck you Ice Cube !" - the people

South-Central Los Angeles in the late 80s, Ground Zero for the crack epidemic and related gang violence. We're talking about fully-automatics and the dead-end of the American Dream. The decadent decade's darkside, kept low by the media, because it dwelled within the colored minorities.

Hiphop is the sound of angry youths and N.W.A. became their voice. Their 1988's genre-defining Straight Outta Compton LP is the genesis for gangsta-rap ...and the brain behind this chaos stands tall: Ice Mutherfockin' Cube. After internal conflict against N.W.A.'s manager, Ice Cube bailed-out and shit got real hardcore. The man with the rhymes, the "beats" (see what I did there) and the motherfuckin' rock-hard mojo. Comfortable on the electric-chair ...Cube's last words are: "Fuck all o' ya !"

A message to the Oreo cookie:

First cut, a high stamina-track. Words attack 360°, relentlessly hitting you in the jaw, just to make sure your ass doesn't forget that Ice is "The Nigga You Love To Hate". The massive down-beat roars on the short "What They Hittin' Foe ?" ...no warning-shot, just pure tribal rhythms.

Ice keeps his legendary cool on the "You Can't Fade Me" where probable-parenting never sounded so dope. His street-cred reaches another level on "Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside)" and "I'm Only Out For One Thang", both tracks features apparitions from Chuck D and Flavor Flav. The slick title-track "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" kicks and pisses on all non-believers ...and remind us to always keep one in the chamber.

"Don't try to apprehend him !"

Ice Cube will swarm on any motherfucker that stands between him and the mic, hardcore shit straight from the "source" (see what I did there).

Produced by The Bomb Squad, the house that produced PUBLIC ENEMY, Ice's debut solo-release is one of the most revered explosive classic from this then underground movement. It started with the C.I.A. and later the FBI came knockin'. Now surrounded by his new guerilla of niggas: tha Lench Mob ...Ice Cube was unmistakably America's most wanted.

With no mainstream-support, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted CD became RIAA-certified Platinum and the later lethal Kill At Will MCD confirms the man is: the wrong nigga to fuck wit. In late 1991, the predator shall hit back harder with a signed, sealed and delivered Death Certificate.

...and now, the drive-by.

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Who's The Mack ? = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko0llmBIELI
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6crXoQ1oboU&list=OLAK5uy_mw1wDF2C9nSXalVkOUSctNOtsUC91Ikuk
Jackin' For Beats = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTfkAicXmEo
Kill At Will = full MCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlygrGh2904&list=OLAK5uy_mdGm78GJnGjZFMJy4qBI8lA6NTibPX6So
Interview in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgmqNwaIErg
Live in L.A. in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwRvei0Y0Vc
The making of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2G-i_QIV34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAhtnlfDcdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDiBZm0ZjqY

October 29, 1991 - 2021: 30 years of: Death Certificate.

"Yo Dre, stick to producin' !"

A war of words, not from rival gangs, but from rival ex-bandmembers. From the ultimate nucleus of the gangsta-rap genre N.W.A., the divorce was less than amicable. Ice Cube set the bar higher with 1990's incendiary AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted CD and now the gloves are comin' off !

Drop a old-school beat and Cube makes it crystal-clear, he's "The Wrong Nigga To Fuck Wit". Totally raw and cap peelin' hiphop that once again resets the game. Some kinky Catholic schooled seventeen gets called on "Givin' Up The Nappy Dug Out" and "Man's Best Friend" shines light on the beloved 9mm. Ice highjack yer stereo on the deep-bassed lines of "My Summer Vacation", the drivin' rhythm of "Steady Mobbin" and the volatile "Doing Dumb Shit" is pretty self explanatory. Fun timez !

You wanna war ? ...the niggaz are 'bout to get some.

"No Vaseline" is the focal-point of this rivalry and their sorry asses are being served on a silver platter. Name-droppin' and fuck givin', Cube Mike Tyson 'em all into oblivion. The Mother of all diss-tracks, all beef, no compromise, just aggressive rhymes spewed by one of history's most pissed-off MC. And unlike Eazy-E ...he never had diner with the President !

The 25th anniversary special-edition CD packs some 2016 extra-tracks for extra modern-mutherfockin'

Los Angeles's inner-city struggles and low-economics, the early 90s hit hard and Cube was the real nigga with an attitude. The Lench Mob is in full effect, making boomboxes bop like there's no tomorrow ...because we do more before 7am, than most brothers do in their whole lifetime.

With no vaseline, Cube fucked N.W.A. sideways, raw in and out. They never where the same without him and they rapidly disintegrated after the catastrophic 1991 Niggaz4Life CD. The West-Coast / East-Coast mediatised hiphop rivalry didn't start here, this shit was a personal ghetto-war who happens to include all the players from one of the most important rap powerhouse of all-time.

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Steady Mobbin' = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOcxkk5mRbM
Death Certificate = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPEHrRWCYo&list=PLJaQqb1_vqOR61QOgVgb9femXfFW6BDZz
Death Certificate 25 = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v16qe49A6tA&list=PLHzu3Vn0JCOiLMLz6-mYoe0eMeONBQd4O
Interview and live in Amsterdam in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOoI7b1rPpE

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