I was in kindergarden at the time and too young to buy it, but I remember that the OGs idolized Cube and Ice-T. I think up until Snoop had his debut, Ice Cube was the biggest rapper in the world.
So I finally listened to Ice Cube's Death Certificate front to back!
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Word. When Snoop dropped he was a superstar in rap at least. Part of me wishes Snoop would have only to rap. But hey he became what he became. And GNN is dope.
Album was monumental. I fukked with Cube heavy from being the standout/main writer in NWA, then AMW and Kill At Will, which I thought were great. Then, he dropped this, and my mind was blown. Baltimore was waist deep in the crack era, and shyt was fukked up, so it hit hard for me. Love The Bomb Squad, too, but I felt he gelled with WC production a bit better. I feel it was also the greatest juxtaposition of gangsta and concious rap EVER, hands down. The pinnacle. Then, there was the total dismantling of NWA. A 5 mic classic in every sense of the word.
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
They don’t make albums better than this. You can hear the influence in so many albums after. Especially Whut Thee Album and Ready To Die
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
i was gonna give you props thinking you were like 17, 22, even 27... you 39 just hitting up this album
i mean this is some shyt you should've gotten around to somewhere in your 20's at least 
but nah, good shyt, always great to hit up the classics you missed out on
i was gonna give you props thinking you were like 17, 22, even 27... you 39 just hitting up this album
but nah, good shyt, always great to hit up the classics you missed out on
Lol ya. Rap history is so vast. I found it hard to go through it all.
Rell Lauren
Banned
Better late than never. Cube had an incredible three album run.
Oh shyt!
Wasn't Lethal Injection dope tho?
It has What can I do.
I have to check that one as well.
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
"Didn't get into an "excessive" amount of trouble...but its one thing...its one thing...."
That intro on the Death side to the Khalid Muhammad intro on the Life side....
Reading the NOI headline on the insert while the tape was playin, UNITE OR PERISH, that shyt said it all.. Dope, powerful, album that EVERYBODY and they mama was buying that week. I was in the line the first day that muthafukka dropped out here in Cali.
Boyz N The Hood, New Jack City, DC, PE, NWA, Geto Boys, Scarface, Cypress Hill, CMW, DJ Quik...91 was insane, cant even begin to explain the levels to this shyt as a teen back then...
92' as far as Cube was concerned, LA riots...Predator drops followed by Dalenchmob Guerillas In The Mist, all the frustration, anger, rage of what we all was feelin from that muthafukkin not guilty verdict all spilled out on the wax as well as the street.
The best way I can describe the climate in hip hop back then and I hate to sound like my pops or an old head is how I watch the NFL nowadays. Growin up playin the shyt in the 80s and 90s yeah. I still love watching the game but the shyt ain't the same. That anger, the level of violence and intimidation, fear of an entire defense, or a specific player. That bite...Cant even describe it.
You had to be there, live it, breathe it to understand the magnitude of this rap shyt and hip hop in general back then. One of the reasons some us old heads go so hard on these sites. Not here to shyt on the new era but try and uplift, spread the knowledge and not forget the history of what is now considered classic material.
That intro on the Death side to the Khalid Muhammad intro on the Life side....
Reading the NOI headline on the insert while the tape was playin, UNITE OR PERISH, that shyt said it all.. Dope, powerful, album that EVERYBODY and they mama was buying that week. I was in the line the first day that muthafukka dropped out here in Cali.
Boyz N The Hood, New Jack City, DC, PE, NWA, Geto Boys, Scarface, Cypress Hill, CMW, DJ Quik...91 was insane, cant even begin to explain the levels to this shyt as a teen back then...
92' as far as Cube was concerned, LA riots...Predator drops followed by Dalenchmob Guerillas In The Mist, all the frustration, anger, rage of what we all was feelin from that muthafukkin not guilty verdict all spilled out on the wax as well as the street.
The best way I can describe the climate in hip hop back then and I hate to sound like my pops or an old head is how I watch the NFL nowadays. Growin up playin the shyt in the 80s and 90s yeah. I still love watching the game but the shyt ain't the same. That anger, the level of violence and intimidation, fear of an entire defense, or a specific player. That bite...Cant even describe it.
You had to be there, live it, breathe it to understand the magnitude of this rap shyt and hip hop in general back then. One of the reasons some us old heads go so hard on these sites. Not here to shyt on the new era but try and uplift, spread the knowledge and not forget the history of what is now considered classic material.
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Holy shyt that Lench Mobb album.sounds dope.
Was Westside connection dope?
Gangsta Nation is dope to me. How Cube looks in the start of the video 1992 Cube.
oO J Smooth Oo
All Star
1986
♤♡♢♧
Top 5 album of all time.
Social commentary on this album is crazy, you will catch gems here and there on every spin. Cube was a monster back then.
Social commentary on this album is crazy, you will catch gems here and there on every spin. Cube was a monster back then.