Classics Discussion: Ice Cube

[Inspect Her Deck]

Ok so some of y'all will be familiar with a project I'm deciding to run. I made this thread: The Official 'Classic Album' Discussion Thread, trying to reach a conclusion as to what defines a classic album. After much discussion, I am running with this definition personally, so take it as you will when you consider your classic albums. But this definition in particular was most agreed upon.

Classic: 1. An album considered by consensus of the core hip hop community to be of the highest quality (doesn't have to be perfect or flawless, just an album that the consensus deems the shyt).
2. Assuming that condition 1 is met, is this an album that has stood the test of time amongst the core hip hop community? Is that an album still held in high regard, still referenced at least ten years after its release? By a consensus of the hip hop community?

Props to @mobbinfms for the definition and also for his help generally in helping me with ideas to create these threads.

So I'll be going through one artist per day, and I will list out all their discography or close to all of it until the year 2005, as we decided that an album needs at least 10 years of existence before it can be called a classic or not.

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To help bring even more attention to these threads, I'm gonna create a hashtag (again props to mobbinfms for the idea) and I urge you guys to click on the tag and click on the option to watch the tag.

Here it is: #coliclassics

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Today is for the West Coast Warlord and Don Mega, Ice Cube!

Get voting!

I will be making a POLL. For each album I will present a YES or NO option so if you think that particular album is a classic, you click 'yes' on the poll for THAT album and vice-versa. The acceptance rate for an album to be deemed a CERTIFIED classic is 80%.

If you don't think an album is a classic, DO NOT LEAVE THE POLL BLANK. You vote NO for that album instead so at least we register your vote.

I will NOT count any comments in the thread as votes, you must use the poll. The comments section should be used for discussion only.

Tagging some mods:

@FreshAIG @That Singer Guy... @hustlemania @houston911 @SoulController

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

The easiest two yes votes I'll ever have to make

America's Most and Death Certificate are the best back to back album releases by one artist in hip-hop history

#coliclassics

 

[LevelUp]

may ite me but war and peace lacks that oomph to me

 

[mobbinfms]

AMW
DC

Classics
#tpc
#tnt

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

may ite me but war and peace lacks that oomph to me

those albums weren't special at all, a significant drop off, but certain tracks off both were gems

Until We Rich

 

[Dirty D]

First 4 are all classic. After that he went Hollywood.

 

[Ashtrey]

First 2 consensus classics. Next 2 personal classics. Other 2 had classic songs on them.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

My three favorite MCs this week Nas, Redman, and now Cube. I voted yes for the first 3. The first two are contenders for GOAT albums ever especially Death Certificate. People are gonna sleep on The Predator but I think it's no debate. The album is great all the way thru and has his best song It Was A Good Day. Also went platinum in 3 days. From 90-93 he ran rap.

Lethal Injection was good but I don't think it's quite a classic

 

[the cac mamba]

amerikkas and death certificate for me

i had a copy of amerikkas. those two songs that led it off were hard as fukk

 

[SirBiatch]

Can someone please tell me why AMW and DC are classics before I vote? (and fukk up a few people's day?)

 

[Yehuda]

Voted yes for the first four.

 

[patscorpio]

first 4 are undisputed..i was not feeling any of the war & peace albums like that

 

[Lo-Co]

Ok so some of y'all will be familiar with a project I'm deciding to run. I made this thread: The Official 'Classic Album' Discussion Thread, trying to reach a conclusion as to what defines a classic album. After much discussion, I am running with this definition personally, so take it as you will when you consider your classic albums. But this definition in particular was most agreed upon.

Classic: 1. An album considered by consensus of the core hip hop community to be of the highest quality (doesn't have to be perfect or flawless, just an album that the consensus deems the shyt).
2. Assuming that condition 1 is met, is this an album that has stood the test of time amongst the core hip hop community? Is that an album still held in high regard, still referenced at least ten years after its release? By a consensus of the hip hop community?

Props to @mobbinfms for the definition and also for his help generally in helping me with ideas to create these threads.

So I'll be going through one artist per day, and I will list out all their discography or close to all of it until the year 2005, as we decided that an album needs at least 10 years of existence before it can be called a classic or not.

-----------------------------

To help bring even more attention to these threads, I'm gonna create a hashtag (again props to mobbinfms for the idea) and I urge you guys to click on the tag and click on the option to watch the tag.

Here it is: #coliclassics

----------------

Today is for the West Coast Warlord and Don Mega, Ice Cube!

Get voting!

I will be making a POLL. For each album I will present a YES or NO option so if you think that particular album is a classic, you click 'yes' on the poll for THAT album and vice-versa. The acceptance rate for an album to be deemed a CERTIFIED classic is 80%.

If you don't think an album is a classic, DO NOT LEAVE THE POLL BLANK. You vote NO for that album instead so at least we register your vote.

I will NOT count any comments in the thread as votes, you must use the poll. The comments section should be used for discussion only.

Tagging some mods:

@FreshAIG @That Singer Guy... @hustlemania @houston911 @SoulController

DMX thread Maybe?

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Can someone please tell me why AMW and DC are classics before I vote? (and fukk up a few people's day?)

because they are both hugely relevant today, more so beyond hip-hop circles. Cube was damn near prophetic with the LA riots shyt on Death Certificate and generally the spectrum of issues covered in both albums are so prevalent today.

Quality-wise, they are just brilliant albums too. Every track serves a purpose, so there's absolutely no filler. AMW has Bomb Squad production and he mauled that, and showed his versatility by switching over to Jinx production, and killed it as well. The songwriting is raw, real, unfiltered and he was so vicious and commanding you have to respect it, even if he was dissing your demographic.

Idk how much critical acclaim matters to you but they both have vast critical acclaim, especially the former with 5 mics from the Source. The Source initially rated DC 4.5 mics but changed it in later re-ratings.

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

DMX thread Maybe?

I got a few to get to first but DMX will be done eventually