Never Forget: Ice Cube f/Mr. Short Khop - "Pushin' Weight"

[Taadow]

Never Forget is a thread series where you and I - your host, Taadow - reflect on the hit songs people
have pushed back to the attic of their minds. Today, we look at Cube - "Pushin' Weight".




"B-B-BUT WAS IT REALLY A HIT??"
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #26
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles Peak: #12
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Singles Peak: #1

AFTERMATH:

Maaaan...niccas really hated this song. But why?

1. This was the beginning of "Don Mega". lol It was not "street" Cube with the sweatshirt and the rag.
You have to remember at the time, the last couple times we heard Cube before this was "We Be Clubbin'"
(which I almost did for this series, I haven't decided yet) and him rhyming on a song with Shaq ("Men Of Steel")...so people were already wondering what would become of Cube.

2. Save for Short Khop being on the song, it didn't feel very "West Coast".
It had a...different...beat, by a southern producer, and people still weren't ready for that at the time.
In many peoples' eyes Cube was the standard for West Coast, for better or for worse.

Nonetheless - it was still a hit.

- sidebar: The Remix is the first time a lot of folk may have heard Gillie Da Kid.

 

[Deltron]

Push Rhymes like weight!

 

[Animal House]

Never forget this was one of the first red flags Cube was going downhill. The people who followed Cube since NWA already know, when this album dropped it was the end

 

[smokeurobinson]

I remember being so hyped over Cubes comeback......This was the first single and I wasnt really feeling it but you know how it is when its someone u really like......u assume it will grow on you......Nov 17, War drops....I copped that and Tical 2 the same day but the first thing I threw in the car cd changer was that War disc.....not gonna lie...the way the album opens up makes u think we in for either a Death Certificate or maybe a Preditor type of album. I'll say around the 7th spin I finally concluded that the album was eh! (was in denial for the first 6 spins) I chalked it up to Cube making up for it when the Peace disc finally drops....and that didnt happen either.

Album did have some cuts tho...Pushing Weight wasnt one of them.

 

[28 Gramz]

shyt was hot garbage

Video is even more embarrassing

 

[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

First sign of Cube really falling off. Hated this track and album for that fact.

 

[feelosofer]

Some things are best left forgotten. This song is amongst them. This was a sign that Ice was no longer a trendsetter but a follower. He kinda made up for it with Vol. 2.

 

[Xbox One X]

 

[big bun]

Song was trash and me and the homies still clown the fukk outta that shyt to this day. However, I bought the album because it was Cube and this here was on it:





Also, I got a funny ass story about Short Khop. One of my day one homies has a BM that got with Short Khop after they broke up. This was back during Short Khop's late 90's run. Well, the homie used to call his BM because of the baby and whatever needed to be handled there. Keep in mind, my homie was away at college playing basketball at the time. Anyway, he would call the house and Short Khop would pick up the phone running his mouth talking shyt for no reason at all. Well one day Short Khop ran off at the mouth and said the wrong thing to the homie, who at the time happened to be home in San Diego to spend some time with his family and presumably see his daughter, but his BM wasn't going to let him. So, the homie immediately hopped in his car and drove to L.A. to beat Short Khop's ass because he had enough. So, he gets there and bangs on his BM's door calling for Short Khop to come outside. Instead, Short Khop's big ass bodyguard comes outside and does all the talking for Short Khop because he was too bytch made to bring his ass outside and handle his. Anyway, the homie and the bodyguard were having it out at the front door and he caught a glimpse of Short Khop, who finally brought his punk ass to the door and stood behind his bodyguard, and he said he was like 5'4 and maybe 100 lbs. (basically the same size as his BM) So now the homie is talking directly to Short Khop telling him to bring his ass outside and Short Khop stayed behind his bodyguard running down 100 excuses why he wasn't coming outside (typical rapper shyt...I got too much money, I'm too famous, I'll just go get my gun and shoot you, etc.). Basically being a bytch. So, finally his BM comes out and has to calm the situation and let's him see his daughter and all that. The homie said the whole time he was outside he could hear Short Khop in the house ranting and talking tough behind closed doors like he was going to do something Anyway, from that point on the other homies would fukk with the homie and play Short Khop's music in the car or rhyme his shyt while around him just to be funny and he would get heated everytime calling Khop a bytch and all that

 

[Still Benefited]

Get ready for the Don Mega hate breh

nikkas have no good reason to hate Don Mega cube other than he's not Death Certificate Cube....Its the same as people hating It Was Written Nas because its not Illmatic Nas....Okay we get it,but after you get out ya feelings you need to admit good music was still getting put out in a different form and styles

Everybody and they mama know Don Mega cube cant fukk with Death Certificate Cube,but I fukks with the don...I've seen plenty of rappers make transformations over the years musically,rarely are those transformations as good as Don Mega was.

 

[mr.africa]

didn't like that track at all, but i liked a lot of the war disc (i guess i'm in the minority with this one)
not to derail the thread, but this was the highlight of that album imo

 

[Taadow]

Some things are best left forgotten. This song is amongst them. This was a sign that Ice was no longer a trendsetter but a follower. He kinda made up for it with Vol. 2.

Nope!

That's the point...i'm not gonna let niccas forget!

...and nah, Vol. 2 wasn't that business, either.

 

[Taadow]

shyt was hot garbage

Video is even more embarrassing

You know what I always thought about the video?

It's like...a watered down version of "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down".

 

[feelosofer]

Nope!

That's the point...i'm not gonna let niccas forget!

...and nah, Vol. 2 wasn't that business, either.

It was way better than vol 1 though. It was closer to vintage Cube.

 

[Taadow]

It was way better than vol 1 though. It was closer to vintage Cube.

I don't know about that...it's the most watered down Cube album OAT in my opinion...