Death Certificate [PA] - Ice Cube

...limits. His 1991 sophomore album Death Certificate soon followed and continued the trent. Many believe that Ice Cube's glory days are far behind him, however, and it's those old school days that I am going to examine here... Upon first glance at Death Certificate, you will notice that the album is basically two albums cut in half, put together. The concept is very creative, and very unique, specially around the early 90s when hip-hop was just beginning ...
...to say... at least on Death Certificate. He decides to drop socially conscious, political street poetry on "A Bird in the Hand". Cube uses a mixture of storytelling and street-smart narratives to tell us a tale about his youth, attacking the I.R.S., politicians, racist government officials, and even the President himself (who was George Bush Sr. at the time). The main argument here is black oppression, which is something Cube has excelled at since ...

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Ice Cube’s second full-length debut album came out in 1991, and "Death Certificate" had him continue success after breaking from N.W.A and making it for himself. Although The Bomb Squad didn’t back him as before on his debut, you have Sir Jinx, Boogiemen and himself showing what developments the West Coast Rap world had gone through over the time when N.W.A had dropped their final album and he wished to keep the quality of this end of the US alive. ...
...F**k Wit” To get things going you have a straight banger of a joint. It has him on some break beats, and sampling a little James Brown as he goes hard on this one and justs lets it all out by taking on absolutely everyone who he has a problem with at this time. One of the key places he attacks is the New jack Swing scene, and it seems to have had a significant effect as it was pretty much unofficially declared that this was over by the end of the ...

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...black listeners to sign their death certificate. To add direction, the first track on the 'death' side is a skit entitled 'The Funeral', and the opening skit on the 'life' side is 'The Birth'. True to his word, the first side finds Cube shot and delivered to the ER, after a 30 minute rollercoaster ride of running with his gang- the Lench Mob- casual gun fighting, sex and a spell at the STD clinic (he fits a lot into his life does the boy Cube). He ...
...has a second chance in the form of a rebirth given to him by the Nation of Islam, and that's where we start the life side of the album. The 'life' side is the side of the album that provides it with its almost legendary status in terms of its controversial content. Straight after 'The Birth', you have Cube's rant against his country in the form of 'I Wanna Kill Sam', in particular army recruitment centres. Although vicious in his attack, this is ...

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