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When people look at Ice Cube's discography, they say he peaked too early and then he had one of the biggest fall off's in hip-hop and never recovered.
The War & Peace series is often attributed for representing the beginning of said downfall, starting with the first album: War & Peace Vol 1 (War Disc), released in 1998.
Prior to that, Cube had released Straight Outta Compton (w/NWA), AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Kill at Will, Death Certificate, The Predator, Lethal Injection & Bow Down (w/Westside Connection), all whilst murdering guest features within that 1988-1996 timeframe and not to mention his writing of Eazy-Duz-It and his common featuring in and producing of Da Lench Mob's Guerrillas in tha Mist album. So his track record was damn near impeccable in that period.
When he returned to solo work with the War & Peace series, he adopted the Don Mega persona where he presented himself as a business mogul or high powered authority figure much to the chagrin of much of his large fanbase.
There's no doubt Cube fell off from the lofty heights of AMW and DC (two of the greatest albums in music history). But it was because of the impossibly high standards he set early on that anything to be released thereafter not up to par would immediately be labelled a disappointment - such was the case with The Predator (seen nowadays as a classic or near enough) and Lethal Injection. So War & Peace was inevitably considered a disaster couple of albums and the beginning of the end of Cube's hip-hop career.
However, visiting these albums recently, I believe that they are very solid albums (3 to 3.5 mic level material equivalent) and if people judged the quality of these albums as standalone projects rather than relative to his earlier discog, they would receive much more praise.
The consensus is that most of the songs on each album are wack. If I had to be as unbiased as possible, I'd say the following are the wack songs on each project (with the rest ranging from decent to spectacular).
War Disc
Cash Over Ass
Limos, Demos & Bimbos
Peace Disc
The Gutter shyt
Can You Bounce?
and across the two discs we've been blessed with some of Cube's greatest tracks including Ghetto Vet, Penitentiary, Until We Rich, Hello and more.
What do y'all make of these albums? Do they get too much hate? Or is the criticism warranted?
@StillNotSoft @Da King
The War & Peace series is often attributed for representing the beginning of said downfall, starting with the first album: War & Peace Vol 1 (War Disc), released in 1998.
Prior to that, Cube had released Straight Outta Compton (w/NWA), AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Kill at Will, Death Certificate, The Predator, Lethal Injection & Bow Down (w/Westside Connection), all whilst murdering guest features within that 1988-1996 timeframe and not to mention his writing of Eazy-Duz-It and his common featuring in and producing of Da Lench Mob's Guerrillas in tha Mist album. So his track record was damn near impeccable in that period.
When he returned to solo work with the War & Peace series, he adopted the Don Mega persona where he presented himself as a business mogul or high powered authority figure much to the chagrin of much of his large fanbase.
There's no doubt Cube fell off from the lofty heights of AMW and DC (two of the greatest albums in music history). But it was because of the impossibly high standards he set early on that anything to be released thereafter not up to par would immediately be labelled a disappointment - such was the case with The Predator (seen nowadays as a classic or near enough) and Lethal Injection. So War & Peace was inevitably considered a disaster couple of albums and the beginning of the end of Cube's hip-hop career.
However, visiting these albums recently, I believe that they are very solid albums (3 to 3.5 mic level material equivalent) and if people judged the quality of these albums as standalone projects rather than relative to his earlier discog, they would receive much more praise.
The consensus is that most of the songs on each album are wack. If I had to be as unbiased as possible, I'd say the following are the wack songs on each project (with the rest ranging from decent to spectacular).
War Disc
Cash Over Ass
Limos, Demos & Bimbos
Peace Disc
The Gutter shyt
Can You Bounce?
and across the two discs we've been blessed with some of Cube's greatest tracks including Ghetto Vet, Penitentiary, Until We Rich, Hello and more.
What do y'all make of these albums? Do they get too much hate? Or is the criticism warranted?
@StillNotSoft @Da King
