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Didn't feel like it was that great.
not my type of music
It's super good, and he definitely gets his point across that he doesn't need Dre to be an amazing rapper. However, I really don't hear anything remarkable in it. That's probably a hindsight problem, since I can't conceptualize the sound of hip-hop from 1990.
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Nothing really stuck with me here. Ice Cube is still a bad ass so I might just not have been feeling it yesterday.
I enjoyed this. Good beats and sampling, fun to listen to
Another album that is very of its time. Can see why people like but it hasn't stuck with me. 1h 11 is also way too long for an album
good
Aujourd'hui on parle du tout premier coup d'éclat solo d'Ice Cube réalisé juste après son divorce fracassant avec N.W.A. Et quand je me repasse cet album aujourd'hui, trente-six ans après sa sortie en 1990, je ne peux m'empêcher de revoir le contexte explosif de l'époque. Nous étions nombreux à penser que prendre la décision de quitter le groupe le plus dangereux du monde relevait du suicide commercial pur et simple. Mais Ice Cube avait un atout majeur sous le coude : il était la plume principale de N.W.A. Sans ses textes, le groupe de Compton perdait son venin le plus acéré. Pour marquer son territoire et prouver qu'il n'avait besoin de personne sur la Côte Ouest, Ice Cube a fait le choix le plus audacieux de sa carrière. Il a plié bagage, quitté Los Angeles et s'est envolé pour New York afin de frapper à la porte de Hank Shocklee et de la mémorable Bomb Squad, l'équipe de production mythique de Public Enemy. Ce qui me frappe toujours autant après toutes ces années, c'est la lucidité effrayante d'Ice Cube sur la condition des Noirs américains au tournant des années 1990. Bien avant les émeutes de Los Angeles en 1992 et l'affaire Rodney King, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted cartographiait déjà la haine raciale, les violences policières et la misère sociale. Sur le morceau-titre ou sur Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) aux côtés de Chuck D, la plume d'Ice Cube retrouve cette verve journalistique brute qui faisait la force du rap conscient de l'âge d'or. Ice Cube ne se contente pas de raconter la rue ; il dissèque la mécanique du racisme systémique institutionnel américain. Il dénonce les profilages raciaux quotidiens pratiqués par le LAPD, tout en décrivant la spirale du crime comme une conséquence directe du désinvestissement économique dans les ghettos. Cependant, il est tout simplement impossible d'écrire une critique honnête de cet album sans aborder l'immense problème qui le gâte de l'intérieur : sa misogynie crasse, omniprésente et d'une violence déconcertante. Et si le discours politique a très bien vieilli, le traitement réservé aux femmes dans ce disque est une pilule qui passe particulièrement mal aujourd'hui. On ne parle pas seulement de quelques insultes de routine récurrentes dans le gangsta rap de l'époque, on est ici face à une haine décomplexée et systématique. Le morceau You Can't Fade Me reste sans doute l'exemple le plus abject du projet. Cube y raconte sa peur d'avoir mis une fille enceinte et envisage sérieusement de la battre ou de la faire avorter à coups de pieds dans le ventre. Et même si l'on cherche à remettre l'œuvre dans son contexte historique ou à invoquer l'utilisation d'un personnage de fiction, la violence verbale envers les femmes dépasse largement les bornes de ce qui reste tolérable pour mes oreilles. Les femmes y sont presque exclusivement dépeintes comme des sangsues financières, des traîtresses ou des objets d'assouvissement sexuel. Ce manque total d'empathie gâche une partie du plaisir d'écoute. Cette charge d'agressivité aveugle empêche l'album de se hisser au rang de chef-d'œuvre absolu et intemporel. C'est le principal frein qui m'empêche de lui attribuer une note plus élevée. Sur le plan purement musical et technique, le travail accompli par The Bomb Squad et Sir Jinx demeure une leçon de collage sonore et de sampling agressif. L'album est une véritable orgie d'échantillonnages. La production superpose des couches de funk (James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone) avec des bruits industriels, des extraits de discours politiques et des sirènes de police. L'ensemble crée une atmosphère étouffante, claustrophobe, qui colle parfaitement au propos haineux et révolté du rappeur. Trente-six ans après sa sortie, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted demeure un monument incontournable dans la chronologie globale du hip-hop américain. C'est le disque qui a prouvé qu'un rappeur pouvait survivre au départ de son groupe d'origine et conquérir le marché national sans renier ses racines street. Un travail fondateur qui a ouvert la voie à toute une génération d'artistes engagés et agressifs. Pourtant, je ne peux pas fermer les yeux sur ses énormes faiblesses morales. Le sexisme primaire et la misogynie décomplexée qui traversent le disque alourdissent considérablement l'ensemble et rendent certains passages difficilement écoutables aujourd'hui. Pour toutes ces raisons, après réévaluation complète de l'œuvre en 2026, ma note finale s'arrête très logiquement à un 3 sur 5.
Classic ice cube rap. Very political and it sounds like rap from MC Hammer days.
Gangsta rap crap
Lyrics were a piece of work, music was fine.
I have never been a huge fan of West Coast rap/hip-hop, but I have grown and learned to appreciate it more over the years. This album does stand up in many ways, and the samples are much better than I think some of the stuff that came a few years later even were. I still don't think it is as impactful or revolutionary as a lot of other hip-hop from the time or a bit later, but it definitely does hold a spot as a key album for some rappers and rap/hip-hop fans.
246.
Aggressive beats and a solid delivery by Ice Cube but it gets a little tiring and repetitious.
Not Ice Cube’s best stuff, but there were flashes of the angry, attack-rap Cube within this collection that he’s known for. I was bobbin my head more than once and enjoyed the aggressive beats on almost all of the tracks.
This is essentially an N.W.A album that Ice Cube recorded solo once he left the group. It wasn’t until his next album (or maybe the one after) that we start to see his lyrical style turn away from blatant and obvious thug-speak into the more intricate, thoughtful rhymes that made Cube the legend that he is. There are flashes of that here hidden amongst less developed themes and an awful lot of references to gats and bitches … not that any of those words will go away, they’ll just be more carefully delivered and placed for effect as Cube matures and understands how better to tell his stories with his unique sense of humor. One thing that is undeniable here is that this is one of the first important records in rap where a solo voice is featured over a group dynamic, inviting a trend that will become very important to 90s and 00s hip-hop. This is not a great album, it has not aged well, but it is a good throwback to pre-riots LA, to a simpler time before there was anyone named Biggie, Tupac, Wu-Tang or Quest.
Better than expected. Album gets extra points for the minimal number of skits and although there are plenty of cringy 90's gangsta rap themes on display, it wasn't as bad as expected. My biggest problem is Ice Cube raps at an aggression level of 10 for the entire album. He has no chill. Became a bit tiresome.
I guess I have to revise "I like Ice Cube" to "I like SOME Ice Cube" this was not very good. Very cringe, did not age well and the skits are horrible.
Interesting seeing early skits.
4★/5 [08.06.2026] 09.29.2026
That was actually pretty good. Obviously super influential period in hip hop and rap. No more gratuitous or violent or misogynist than other albums on here.
I like it, pretty good.
Ok not great
Dated, unimaginative, uninspired, gratitously violence, unoriginal... absolutely nothing redeeming. All the culturally important elements are done SO much better elsewhere.
I never listen to rap…but I’d listen to this again!! 😀 High energy and anger mixed with political messages. Love it.
I’m so sorry Ice Cube but it’s too long for me. Sometimes groovy but also a lot of casual sexism so yeah not my vibeeee
I think the first half of this album was pretty good, and then the second half got weird, i didn't like it. 4/10. I think if you look at the just the first half it kind of represents such a good look at the golden age of rap.
I had not listened to this all the way through before. My image of Ice Cube these days is as an actor in the Friday and Barbershop movies. That’s funny, because when I first heard of him in NWA days, he seemed like the hardest of the hard to me — not a comedy kind of guy. It’s interesting hearing him again when he was still all-gangsta.
He's got one speed: SHOUTING, and he's much less interesting without N.W.A. Motherfucking Republican sellout, it's one thing to have principles and stand by them, as vile as they may be. Another thing entirely to dump those principles entirely to follow the money. Maybe he never had principles. Or maybe he's just fucking dumb.
My heart sank at the thought of ANOTHER classic gangster rap CD by a famous name in the hippity-hop world. However, Mr Cube and his crew did bring a smile to my face on a few occasions, and ...yup. Better than average. 3.5 Stars.
Mostly I'm in agreement with the woman who interrupts track 2 to ask Ice Cube why he keeps calling women bitches all the time
Far from Cube's best, I have a feeling this is only on here just because it was his debut solo album. Beats aren't great, flow is pretty choppy, and some of the rhymes are very forced. I'm a big fan of 90s rap, but this just didn't hit for me. 2/5
I like how in the title track, there was a sample from his time in N.W.A., STRAIGHT FROM THE UNDERGROUND Also, another N.W.A. sample in the track Endangered Species I like story songs. You Can't Fade Me was a story song, even if it's not a very positive story...
The sound was alright but the lyrics grated in (plenty of) places
Wasn't something I would listen again to.
This was almost certainly too long, but I had a good time
This is pretty good. Tons of good beats and politics here, I especially like Turn The Radio Off and A Gangsta's Fairytale. I have some problems with Man's World, like I know he's playing a misogynist character but the in-fiction argument doesn't exactly resolve how I would have done it. Still, a delight to listen to for most of the album.
I'm sure this is competently done for the gangsta rap it is, but all the cursing and screaming over not too different beats gets old pretty soon.
Hard hitting out the gate; of the original NWA members vocally Ice is crisp, Dre laid back love both. Public Enemy produced? Damn. Little Isaac Hayes, RUN/DMC Chuck D and Flav, James Brown. YoYo! Cube references the uzi which is apt cause the lyrics are spitting tight and fast, spraying his truth all over. Sensational album. Full of the fury. And no vaseline wasn't even on this album. What a great mix of all genres and styles and Cube was the mouthpiece of NWA as much as Dre backed the beats. Easy 5 EEEEE.
Not bad but not for me.
A solid early 90’s rap relic, if perhaps overrepresented on this list.
Great album! A stunning debut from Ice Cube! It has very socially aware lyrics, mostly about racism and the mistreatment of African-Americans. A quintessential rap album! Marvelous!
This is a classic hip hop album, I liked it a lot.
8 / 10
Sounds the same all the way through
The four time Nickelodeon Kid's choice award nominee used to be very very angry I personally don't mind the over the top misogynistic and aggressive lyrics, I've listened to worse. However the album feels monotonous and boring, and it's hard to take ice cube seriously after seeing the later parts of his career.
I wasn't expecting to enjoy this. I really didn't like The Predator, so I went into AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted hoping it might change my mind but knowing it wouldnt and it didn't. I find albums like this quite difficult to listen to today. While I appreciate their historical importance and understand they reflected the time and environment they came from, a lot of the lyrical content has aged badly for me. The misogyny and homophobia make for an uncomfortable listen, and they often overshadow anything else the album is trying to say. Musically, I also struggled to stay engaged. Much of the album felt like it was built around the same style and tempo, with very little variation from track to track. As a result, the songs began to blend together and I found it hard to pick out many memorable moments. I know this is regarded as a landmark hip-hop album and many people consider it a classic, but it simply isn't the kind of record that connects with me. Favourite tracks: "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" was probably the best of the bunch, although nothing really stood out enough to make me want to revisit it. Least favourite tracks: Most of the album, if I'm honest. I found it a difficult listen from start to finish. Album artwork: A fairly standard hip-hop album cover that suits the era but doesn't particularly stand out for me.
It's the best of the 90s Ice-based rappers! Ice Cube knows his flow, has some great production behind him, and is a pretty great storyteller. Obviously from a political perspective the lyrics have aged about as well as the rest of the gangsta rap records of the era, unfortunately, especially regarding the relentless misogyny present (the biting commentary on racialized violence notwithstanding). It's clearly sort of being half-satirical about it but it's a bit much. That said, some really impressive production/sampling in the back of basically every track and there's some really impressive lyrical tongue-twisters all over the place that he powers through with precision and aplomb. Fav tracks: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Endangered Species, Who's The Mack?
Not bad, I guess, for my 100th album. It sounds pretty good and the political stuff is great as well, but it kinda gets undermined by the constant misogyny. Favorite Track: Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside)
Logical next step from NWA. Casual misogyny set to Bomb Squad instead of Dr Dre/ G Funk production. Cube's voice is great and bonus for Chuck D. When this came out I probably laughed off the lyrical content, but I can't look past it now. And I'm ok with that.
Better than Coldplay
No, just no... This kinda hip hop is always the same, it ain't for me...
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Listened to the popular songs and I couldn’t finish the rest. Beats sounded similar. His flow sounded similar. His subject matter sounded similar. This sentence sounded similar. 2/10
Some good hard tracks, some kinda corny
Ice Cube/Public Enemy collaboration? Yes please.
Ice Cube is a very good rapper and there is some good stuff on this album, but he tries a little too hard to be shocking and controversial. Some of the lyrical content is pretty bleak, the language is crass and the non music parts are a bit corny and lack any degree of subtlety. Not the worst hip hop album on the list, but far from the best.
Dre’s beats are worth 3 stars
Don’t like gangsta rap
Mediocre rap
Not my thing.
I like a lot of rap, but I just cannot enjoy Ice Cube. He's so monotonous and one-note that I just cannot differentiate to find something that I enjoy. The album is too monolithic. I respect that he was an artist playing to a certain crowd at a certain time, and I do believe he spoke for those people who weren't previously heard in a lot of ways. My understanding is that his sentiments were largely understood but never showed up in media. So when he did bring it to the forefront, it was revolutionary. So culturally, this album is a smash hit. It moved a lot of people. Stylistically, however, I cannot give it such high marks as it just doesn't do enough to move the needle. It's the same lyrical styles, same pitch, same tempo, just slightly different beats.
This was an excellent listen. Keeps you engaged throughout. Fairplay lad
First two songs or three were quite good but it’s got mysogyny problems so yeah
Overall Rating - 2.14/5 (4.29/10). Relentless profanity, N-words, and misogyny, but otherwise pretty solid.
So much misogyny.
I LIVE THIS ALBUM SO MANY HIPHOP JES MANY
Hell yeah I love the raw attitude in this album. This whole thing was fire. I loved it! I'm giving this one 5 stars. I especially liked the history around this album. This is Ice Cube’s first solo album after leaving N.W.A., and that context is everything. He had already been one of the sharpest voices in gangsta rap, but this album is where he proves he can stand completely on his own. Instead of staying with the West Coast production sound people expected, he went to New York and worked with The Bomb Squad, who were known for producing Public Enemy. So you get Ice Cube’s L.A. rage and street perspective over dense, chaotic, sample-heavy East Coast production. That combination is a huge reason the album made the list. The sound is aggressive as hell. The Bomb Squad beats are not smooth or minimal; they’re crowded, noisy, funky, and confrontational. Horn stabs, sirens, funk samples, scratches, hard drums, voices flying in and out — it can almost feel like the music is arguing with you while Cube is rapping. That fits the album’s mood perfectly: angry, political, funny, vicious, paranoid, and totally unwilling to make anyone comfortable.
Jeez Ice Cube, chill out man!
Kinda putting a hat on a hat with this title, right? This felt very dated. Suffers from a lack of melody and a homogeneity of cadence and delivery
It’s hard to figure out what to do with this one. The production is great, the political commentary and storytelling too. But the misogyny, yikes.
The beats are so good on this, and u have to admit Icecube is a master of creating tone in his records. The juxtaposition u get from enjoying the beat to hearing gunshots and people pleading for their lives is drastic but so gut-wrenching. That's why I find it hard to dislike this album. Yes it is heavily misogynistic at several points, and that just pisses me off. Like bro is so mad at these fictional women he's talking about, just admit u have an unlikable personality and that's why these women are bitches to u lol. All that being said, it's a really good album in a vacuum. When he's not being an arsehole, he is making really great rhymes about modern America on top of just great beats. I feel conflicted giving this a 4, I disagree with so much he says here. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this, I can just laugh at how mad he is at women and that makes it easier to not care about what nonsense he's on about there. Fav Track: A Gangstas Fairytale
Really have to be in the right mood.
Yeah this didn't age well very early 90s
Lyrically has not aged well, and musically it is dated as well. There are better rap albums form that era. 2/5 Won't listen again
Seeing one or two comments about misogyny is something that kind of sets a bad tone, but seeing pretty much every comment being about misogyny does not inspire any confidence at all. And hoo boy, they really weren't kidding. I get that gangsta rap is about less savoury themes but this really is just...ugh. On top of that, the beats and rhymes are incredibly repetitive. Just awful.
not my cup of tea
Off rap
Hella influential. Not sure I'd listen to again for fun but I enjoyed it.
3.5
One of the best
For the record, I could name 25 albums on this list that are more misogynistic than this one. People on this site are just incredibly racist. That being said, it's a pretty good album. It's a lot funkier than a lot of stuff from the same year, but I could do without a few of the shorter songs. The skit about that's just stock gunshot sound effects was pretty funny, though. I also appreciate someone finally deciding not to make their album CD-length because they can. I feel like there's definitely better 90s rap albums on this list, but to be fair, the competition is 2Pac.
No. I struggle to hear words in music but 'bitches, hoes' etc stand out and it's just not for me.
This was a vile listen. Sheer, relentless misogynistic, bile. The other Ice Cube album on this list had a bit of the shameful bigotry that is present in so much gangsta rap, but it also had a lot to say about injustice and racism. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted has a track called Get Off My Dick and Tell Yo Bitch to Come Here. Virtually every woman is a bitch or a hoe. I'm sure Cube would claim that he was rapping about a certain type of woman, but it's funny how every woman seems to fall into that category. The closest he comes to respecting women is in the track It's A Man's World, where he trades barbs with the female rapper YoYo, telling her how hip hop is a man's domain before reluctantly admitting that she can rhyme. I try not to be judgemental of people's music taste, everyone is different after all, but this is the sort of music that makes it difficult to respect anyone who enjoys it. An abomination of an album.
Hits a lot of the normal gangsta-rap beats, if not helping invent some of them, but it's got some interesting variety and enough lyricism flow
Hip-hop isn't for me generally, and while this album is fine enough, it just does nothing for me. Gets boring really fast.
Solid
This album still hits hard.
I really didn't listen to the lyrics here closely but I thought the delivery and backing beats were solid enough.
Production is stellar, and the lyrics range from insightful to cringeworthy.
Not my thing
So, this isn’t one to blast in your car as a white guy in the suburbs… That said, Ice Cube puts together a debut that makes me want to nod my head and wish I could hit the switches in my minivan! 3.5⭐️
Remember when Ice Cube hated cops instead of playing them?
Entiendo el punto del album, pero la narrativa que lleva hacia las mujeres, pura misoginia
338/1089 omg Amazon War of the Worlds guy!! okayyy, this was a chill listen, not really for me but it was fun 47/100
While the message about the struggle still rings true and has important points, the rest was unnecessary. The act has worn thin.
Another gangsta rap album I didn't expect to like. But somehow enjoyed. Much of it because of its ridiculously exaggerated adolescent macho fantasy. Comical in its sexual boasting. Like a 14-year-old schoolboy fantasising about what he would do with a girlfriend if he ever managed to get one. Perhaps I am softening towards gangsta rap, because I found much of the album genuinely funny, although its misogyny is often ugly rather than merely ridiculous. As social commentary, maybe it captures a moment in the early-1990s, but its attitudes towards women now feel dated and out of touch. Entertaining but ridiculous.
3.75
Ice Cube was never really my thing.
I now understand why my parents didn't want me listening to this when I was 10 years old...
1.75 - Better than some of the other rap on this list from this era, but still hard to listen to in 2026.
First rap album on the list. I've heard of this album and heard about these songs but never listened to the album and to me all of these songs felt brand new. It was fascinating! Very violent and sexist. I loved the use of newcasts and laughed at the song about fairytale. Just when it's a man's world felt too sexist for me to enjoy femal rapper yo yo hopped on the track and saved the day. I'm still amazed how dated an album released in the year of my birth sound lol
While I can appreciate it was a product of the time, I don’t have to enjoy the product. The misogyny was too much for me, found this to be an uncomfortable listen overall. Some clever lines peppered but overall this ain’t for me. 2 stars
Hip Hop is not my thing. And gangster rap is my least favorite style. And despite all that, I love this album. It is sonically engaging and interesting throughout. (Made before a Federal Judge in New York decided that any sample of longer than one second triggered an obligation to share song-writing royalties, destroying the magical sample-collage track building style of the late 80s.) And lyrically, though he checks the misogyny and egotism boxes that seem required of the genre, his narratives reveal a creative depth and command that is incredibly rare in every style of music.
This is like hardcore rap. Bit misogynistic, which is unfortunate. 3
I just don't understand why there has to be so much foul language in hip hop other than I was told that hip hop came from the culture and foul language is part of that culture, still I just find it off-putting. Plus, other than the constant beat which doesn't change much from song to song, hip hop just really doesn't do much for me. Although this album had 16 songs some of them were very short, so at least I didn't get to the time where I just wanted to throw my computer out.
Was fine I guess. Not my favorite hip hop album
This was okay for this type of rap but it was too long.
I just can’t say I find Ice Cube all that interesting on his own. I also wasn’t much for the “comedy” song where he contemplated murdering a pregnant woman.
I remember when this album was released after he left NWA. It was interesting because he went to the Bomb Squad to get production from them but it was also production from Sir Jinx. The music had an east coast feel kind of but it was also a west coast album. I have read that Sir Jinx was there to keep the music west coast. Another piece of information I remember reading was that Chuck D told Ice Cube to not diss them on the album in case he wanted to reconcile. But that didn’t happen. He got dissed by NWA on 100 miles and running and the next album. Ice Cube also got jumped by them at a conference I think new music seminar or something like that. It’s an interesting time. This album is good. The production sounds dated because hip hop always kind fell into certain eras. I used to be able to listen to music and tell when it was created because a lot of hip hop chased similar sounds. Not always but it did. A criticism of Ice Cube is that he would often mimic popular artists later in his career after his second album. But his rhymes are decent.
Felt like the same 5 tracks repeated for 2hrs.
Rap is simply a no for me. 1 star or F.
A little better than most hip hop or gangster rap but still not my jam. 2.5
also not for me but I guess slightly less for
I thought i would enjoy this album and I did like the beats and the flow but the lyrics were some of the most misogynistic I’ve heard. “You can’t fade me” was a nauseating addition in particular. I enjoy rap/hip hop but i couldn’t get into this one.
If I was a black man in 1990 you couldnt tear this album away from me
Bitches.Hoes. Guns. There ya go … that’s the album. Saved you a listen
Didn't listen. I'm very hit and miss on rap and if this is all profanity and dissing women I know I'll hate it so I'm not wasting an hour of my life on it.
Man I heard this was a hip-hop classic album and as a fan of 90’s hip-hop I was alittle disappointed. Not bad by any means but went in high expectations and they just weren’t met. Was alright overall
not really for me. like Dylan, i recognize the talent & skill, but I"m not gonna listen to it. THat said, I'd listen to it before Dylan.
Many strong tracks here - including the title track , What They Hitting Foe, Who’s The Mack and Turn Off The Radio (yeah fuck that straight RnB shit) all great. Good storytelling delivery and rapping style and good Bomb Squad production echoing some PE type sounds. But can’t bypass the misogyny that runs through a fair number of songs. Ok he was 20 when this was recorded but… Easy 4.2 marked down to 3.
Unfortunately i watched the War Of The Worlds version starring a wooden Ice Cube recently and couldn't seem to get that out of my head whilst listening to this, so it all sounds a bit one toned and wooden plus dubious lyrically.
Enjoyed much more than the NWA album but perhaps not as much as the later more G-funk Predator that we already had. Rounding up towards the latter here since the Bomb Squad - one month after Fear of Black Planet release - are at the top of their game here.
I started out enjoying the aggressive flows of this album, but before long it all seemed to sound too similar. Nothing in the way of absolute standout tracks for me, can’t think of any particularly memorable moments, and as you might have guessed with a rap album of this era far too long with far too many pointless skits. There’s an entire genre here that is crying out for a directors cut series to erase all the skits and the filler tracks to deliver solid albums of around 45 minutes in length. It’s not aged well musically, the beats sound dated, and certainly hasn’t aged well in terms of the misogynistic lyrics. I was hoping for more.
Pretty similar to other 90s hip hop- great but repetitive sound. But this particular album contains You Can’t Fade Me and the following lines: “she started moaning and gobbling like a turkey” and “I’m thinking to myself why did I bang her, now I’m in the closet looking for a hanger.” So we’ll bump it
Ice Cube is a good writer, but his first solo venture is flat, the backing tracks and lack of rotation hurt. A little long too and the lyrics are egregious, even if that's the point.
Enjoyed more than I thought I would It’s got some humor. It’s aggressive. It was a big shift in hip hop compared to yesterday’s pull of Jungle Brothers.
Women are sexual objects I guess
I see why it's in the list but the beats have dated badly and are a bit repetitive. And oh dear, the misogyny.
Dated misogynist shite.
I was living in Long Beach when this came out. I listened to it a lot. This style of rap was exciting and dangerous back then. I mean really, killing yourself off on the first track and your final words are, "fuck all y'all" is pure genius. This album is filled with classics. Rock that shit homey, rock that shit.
Man it sounds awesome, do not listen to the lyrics closely. You Can’t Fade Me is…a really disastrous song. Just reprehensible
1.3/5 Alright beats, bad lyrics
The production was great, though the misogyny in this record was disgusting. Favourite Track(s): Turn Off The Radio Least Favourite Track(s): You Can't Fade Me/JD's Gaffilin', It's a Man's World
Absolute garbage, as will all other albums of this genre that I've encountered here
Det är Bomb squads produktion som är behållning annars är det inte mycket att skriva hem om. Kuben är ingen vidare rappare och hans ghettolyrik ofta direkt usel. Musikaliskt bäst blir det när det blir lite mjukare som i "You can't fade me" och "Once upon a time in the project" och energin i "The bomb" är svår att undkomma. Klarar tvåan
I grunden bra hip hop. Ett skönt sound. Har inte tagit mig tid till att lyssna ordentligt på alla texter. Men gangstarap är ju vad gangstarap är. Det dynga på pågatågen å Plutten som fick gå om en klass. Tunga grejer. I längden kan det dock nästan kännas lite poserande, även om IC skildrar i grunden sin verklighet. Kvinnosynen ska vi inte tala om. Mörker. Nåväl, mer bra än dåligt. Klarar trean.
Det låter mycket public enemy, vilket inte är så konstigt med samma producentteam och Chuck D och Flavor Flav som gäster. Inte lika militäriskt hårt som It takes a nation of millions men ändå rätt bra. Lite för långt, men en hel del bra spår; The Nigga Ya Love to Hate, Endangered Species och inte minst It's a Man's World.
Interessante. Possui um ritmo bem incessante, consigo entender os comentários dizendo que Ice Cube estava faminto na época, faz sentido. O disco não te dá um segundo para respirar, é uma faixa depois da outra, um verso depois do outro, tudo sem pausas. As batidas são legais, gostei da produção no geral, mas sinceramente, não curti muito os versos do Ice Cube. A voz dele é legal, mas fora isso, nada me agradou totalmente. Disco bem mediano de Rap, mas ao menos escapa das clássicas armadilhas do gênero e do período. 3.5
I didn’t mind this one at the start but it wore out its welcome fairly quickly. It’s nowhere near the worst rap album I’ve had so far but it just wasn’t for me. 576 albums in and you would think I would be in the habit of checking if there are bonus songs or not. I really liked a track called The Product so thought happy days at least that’s one really good one. Then realised it’s a bonus so I can’t count it.
the misogyny is gross
Ich mag den Flow der Bomb Squad .. die Texte sind dann eher der Negativpunkt.
Ja, so geht Rap
I like his later music better. This lyrics on this album also does not age well
Tough
I’m always caught off guard by the open misogyny of gangsta era rap. Unfortunately, to appreciate this era you kind of have to ignore it. Once you’ve accepted that there’s going to be open calls for mistreatment of women, there’s some real life issues being discussed here. Unfortunately, I can’t really get past it.
much better than expected tbh
eh I mean pretty good but like not my thing. idk if you can say its edginess but it is pretty unapologetically harsh
Couldn't get through it with the misogyny.
I want to like it more than I do. Love Cube, but this mostly missed in growing up; a little out of place in 2026
Oh man, I remember having my mind blown as a13-year old Midwestern kid listening to this with my brothers in the basement. This was a world completely foreign to me, and it was damn good listening. Mom and Dad had no idea. The infectious beats, the Cube aggressive delivery, the clever storytelling and fantastic lyrics. This one still sounds amazing. I'm never disappointed when Cube is playing.
Nice
Может быть он и most wanted, но мне что-то не хочется
Злой как черт вернулся. Фит с Yo-Yo просто топ песня. За это 5.
Уже третий прослушанный альбом куба за эти полгода Злой чел Нигативный
прослушал, отмучился, это был очередной, не лучший альбом для меня(
No. 204 It's not my favorite flavor of hiphop but this album is solid. I mean, Ice Cube has always been ready to get up in faces and speak hard truths. That is very much on display here
Another album that does nothing for me. Obviously a 62 year old white male in not the target audience.
01) Better Off Dead - 1,0 02) The Nigga Ya Love to Hate - 6,0 03) AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - 6,0 04) What They Hittin' Foe? - 5,0 05) You Can't Fade Me/JD's Gaffilin - 5,5 06) Once Upon a Time in the Projects - 5,5 07) Turn Off the Radio - 5,5 08) Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) - 5,5 09) A Gangsta's Fairytale - 5,5 10) I'm Only Out for One Thang - 5,5 11) Get Off My Dick and Tell Yo Bitch to Come Here - 5,0 12) The Drive-By - 1,0 13) Rollin' wit the Lench Mob - 5,5 14) Who's the Mack? - 6,0 15) It's a Man's World - 5,5 16) The Bomb - 5,5 TOTAL: 4,97 (50/100) Current ranking: 864/926 "They didn't have Ice Cube so he bought Vanilla Ice" And he would probably have more fun with that one...
2
Good clean family fun
Solid!
Ice cubes melt at the album's duration. It was fine, nothing caught me too much (A Gangsta's Fairytale was fun, sounded like something that would have inspired Eminem).
nah, this ain't it. sorry cube. misogyny aside, if i hadn't known and you told me the guy who recorded this album and the guy who played in War of the Worlds (2025) was the same person, i would have absolutely believed you. this sucks.
A Gangsta's Fairytale adds a whole point to this one
Expected to like this more than I did. Had much of that early 90’s hip hop sound that I expected but not much else. Too long and too much of the same thing. 2.5-3
Incredible stuff. I love the decision to have Chuck D and Flavor Flav featuring on different songs.
In their original context, were people supposed to take the skits seriously? Like, did anyone in 1990 hear him being put in the electric chair and say “damn this dude is hard!”? I had the same question on the BIG album. Album is fine— i didn’t actively dislike any of it but it was of the variety where I checked several times how many tracks were left. Enjoyed Bomb Squad’s production + the PE features. Every sentence I increase or decrease my rating. Idk. I’m tired. It’s been a fucking long month, gang.
Классный, бодрый, дерзкий хип-хоп альбом. В общем-то много про него сказать сложно. Довольно типичный для своего времени, но это не делает его хуже. Я люблю хип-хоп 90-х и это отличное попадание. Не зря Ледяной Куб батя гэнста рэпа.
Hey, it’s an album by the star of “Are We There Yet?” This must be some family friendly fun! All kidding aside, Ice Cube is clearly an amazing rapper. But his flow and the beats felt really repetitive to me by the end. If you took a 30 second snippet and asked me what track it was from, I think I’d have a hard time placing it. Still, his talent is undeniable, and it was solid overall.
Hard driving beats, hard edged lyrics, hard not to like. I do love NWA, so no surprise these hit almost as strong.
2.5
It was alright.
Wow, thought this would suffer from some bloat like most early rap albums do or maybe even have an excessive amount of skits, but neither are a problem. After the intro, we start out real hard with two bangers and have a quick one-minute song, What They Hittin Foe, as an interlude for a pretty funny storytelling song, You Can't Fade Me. So nice, I wish more rappers were confident enough to leave some shorter, fleshed out songs for spacing. Yeah, one may have a hard time agreeing with everything he says, but at least in the song, It's A Man's World, he gives the guest rapper Yo-Yo a better fighting chance than most 'battle of the sexes' style rap songs out there. He's definitely not winning any peace prizes, though. All in all, it feels awesome to bump with his booming voice and cool beats, and he's got his flow and rhymes down well.
Sexism with cheap beats
Rating:★★★★ Loved it. I understand people being mad at some of the lyrics, and there were a few that make you scratch your head. Still a good album.
Any album which uses the dreaded asterisk word literally 100s of times while the world tells us the word can not be spoken or spelled is going to be down graded for hypocrisy.
While his comments on racism and politics were important, and actually needed, there is still too much gangsta bs, misogyny, and sexism on this that it is overall despicable.
misogynistic pig.... what was cool was on the 2nd last song there was a women spitting BARRSSSSSSSSS and putting him in his PLACE.
The actual problem with this album is that it is actually pretty good, and legitimately resonated with a massive part of the audience. The delivery of his voice is brilliant, and the samples are on fire for a younger audience at the time; it would seem as a fresh sound that builds on his work from N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton. For the younger male community (especially those who are black) who felt legitimate (and still do) disenfranchisement with the system, and that the world hated them, it would feel enlightening that these rappers were speaking on issues that resonated with them. However, AND A MASSIVE HOWEVER, this does NOT give any excuse to treat women like utter shit. Like, the misogyny in this album is inexcusable, and the extent to which it is prevalent is both subtly and plainly mentioned is disgusting. It definitely shaped the minds of the impressionable people who were a large proportion of his audience. The whole misogyny of the album really results in it losing most of its meaning, with it showcasing the issues that black people faced. Ice Cube, how are you supposed to emancipate a group if you are bringing another one down too?
It's interesting that this album still has that old school hip hop sound that would turn into the G-funk only a few years later. To my modern ears, it's quite dated and presents a funny contrast: politically conscious and aggressive lyricism mixed with funky, dance beats. Same for the delivery, I find myself trying to "correct" the cadence of the raps 😭.
615/1001 2026.05.15 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑
This just embodies everything that sucks about rap. I say that as a big hip-hop fan. Ice Cube was lauded for his lyricism at the height of his career. I know he ghost wrote for a lot of other rappers at the time. But the truth is that the subject matter is all misogyny and violence. There's nothing of substance here. The rhyme schemes are simple and he's a one trick pony when it comes to his rapping style. He has the same flow on every track.
Well produced, but ultimately just typical misogynistic 90s hip hop. When it got to the bit about wanting to kill the mother of his possible child, I was out.
I have said my piece about this subject again and again.
A monster of an album. Ice Cube gets electrocuted and comes off spitting power immediately in the ** You Love to Hate. Classic track with some serious funk care of the Bomb Squad, and an announcement to the world that leaving NWA didn't do anything to stop his rage and lyrical force. Tracks like The Bomb and Gangsta's Fairytale are classic too. This isn't necessarily my favourite Cube solo album--I have a soft spot for Lethal Injection's funk-ridden beats. But it's definitely a very important album in the development of rap music. 5/5
I miss this sound of hip hop. Not the women bashing the style where you can tell they combed through records to mix with. The kind of style where you believe the stories actually happened. I'm sure not all of what he wrote happened to Cube but to someone he knew. Maybe it's cause I listened to this when I was younger and remember kids doing this in basements. Sure they didn't have the talent to make it but the sound takes me back. It might not hold up as well as I remember, rightfully so for parts but historically speaking these stories are important. Those that don't know history are bound to repeat it. History might not repeat exactly but it will rhyme.
I enjoyed the first track but it was all a bit samey after that. I’m really not the interested in his dick either!
Nice !
Hah. This one doesn’t age well
Definitely a fun listen. 3.5/5
Not for me.
Ik ben woke.
Album 194. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted — Ice Cube (1990) Wow, Ice Cube's debut album after N.W.A. Boom gangsta rap in the flesh: great flow, production and energy, misogynistic, angry. Ice Cube's flow is so great, delivery is so aggressive, I'm getting tired of it. It's monotonously tough and back-to-back as hell. Produced by Public Enemy's team and it shows. Dated and hard to listen to nowadays, but worthwhile dive into hip hop fundamentals. 4/5 Liked: — The Nigga Ya Love To Hate — AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted — You Can't Fade Me/JD's Gaffilin' (Medley) — Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) — A Gangsta's Fairytale — Who's The Mack?
Like the beats and production. Lyrics - meh.
There's something with these big name rappers, and their "early material". Probably the certain rawness, yet not overly mainstream, authentic.
I really wish I'd died before hearing this
This was a classic gangster rap album from the early 90s. Had his typical feel and flow, really good stuff. I am not typically a huge fan of it, but this one is great.
11/05/2026 This didn't stand out for me nor did any song. Little disappointed with this. Spotify listeners: 16.5 million
Hm, er hat bessere Alben
Immer noch kein Fan von 90s Hip Hop
This album is well done, but the sound is a bit dated now and even some contemporary reviews acknowledge that the album's treatment of women was dated even when it came out. But the political message is sadly still relevant and it is a very sharp album in a lot of parts.
Ok album. Backing tracks of 90s rap are always great remixs.
Repetition
The lyrics were a bit much but I enjoyed the beats and his rapping style. 3.5
Very hip hoppity
To all the people who are hot and bothered because of the misogyny...did you expect a 90s rapper from LA to speak from the heart about rainbows and butterflies? I'm just grateful that this isn't the 5000th brit pop album I have to listen to because of this list. I would understand if ice was still rapping about choking a bitch in 2026 but did we collectively forget he started in the family favorite are we there yet? Went in thinking this album would be bad, came out pleasantly surprised at the message and Ice cube's ability to mix good beats with great bars. I don't envy the position of black people 20th century america, having to deal with nonstop injustice, but then also being seen as "animals" the moment they fight back. This album is a stark reminder of the inequality present in America, and a sad truth that much hasn't changed in the 30+ years since this album released
Pretty good, but it hasn’t aged well
Pretty one note, got old quick
Album 1,089/ 1,089. Strong album to finish this list on and a reflection of why I started to begin with. I wanted to listen to music I hadn't come across in the wild or wouldn't have taken the time to on my own. Cube is great, strong style, great rhymes, and cool cameo collabs.
First and last time listening to the album as a whole. Not my thing personally. I can see why it's was influential, but more historically important than need to listen to as an album. A few songs would be enough to get the message across. 0 songs added to playlist.
I first was introduced to Ice Cube from the all-time classic film 'Are We There Yet'. Got a bit into NWA as I grew up and started discovering my music taste. Now as message for the kids. No matter what the old heads in your life think when they say music/life/everything was better 'back in my day'. Don't listen to them; they don't mean everything. And they don't mean this album. Now don't get me wrong this album wasn't terrible, but it definitely isn't must listen.
Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Nicht so meins.
Do rappers get paid for how many N-bombs & bitches they drop? It has occurred to me that Ganster Rap may have some satirical elements to it. Stupidly, this has never occurred to me. Cube's flow is fine. I just don't care for anything he is talking about except for when he's talking about the black man's plight. I may have to rethink the way I listen to rap. 2
Dope
An interesting reflection on that period of time. I found it really fascinating how a deep message of the album was about the racism in America and police brutality and really took a firm stance towards equality yet in the same vein was so so deeply misogynistic- I guess again of that time but the level of misogyny meant I couldn’t enjoy this album at all or any of the songs really. Would never put this on or listen to it again. It was a really hard one to finish.
Really loved the west coast funk running through this. Simultaneously hilarious and serious.
The lyrics have not aged well on this and it's pretty tough to listen to at times.
The lyrics didn't necessarily age well, but the beat goes hard. Especially on the first few tracks.
I hear ice cube and I think of the mutant dog from Tank Girl. But... this is a good album.
Storytime... In the early '90s three 14 year old white boys headed to an Ice Cube concert. They were well out of place. It was one of the coolest, most outrageous, out of control concerts I've ever been to.
Hot & cold
Bomb Squad + the conscience of NWA…Glorious.
Maybe the anger clearly present in this - which resonated with a mainstream audience - tells you a bit about America and American society got where it is today. Maybe I'm overthinking things. I find this tough to listen to in 2026 because of that aggressiveness more than because it's a genre that isn't my cuppa.
I'm sure it's great and he seems like a real sweetie on Sesame Street but this isn't for me
Yeah, no. Horrible on many levels, it's almost a caricature of gangsta rap. The one song is off the charts misogynistic with ridiculously graphic imagery. And most of this is standard bravado with a few commentaries on racism. An ordeal to get through with nothing positive to say about it.
Ice Cube is a pioneer of West Coast hip hop, and there are some great beats on this just like on NWA's records. But the misogyny here is just evil. Can't understand how he raps about how hard it is to be Black in America, yet can't see that Black women have it even harder. He's tried to defend himself by separating what he calls 'bitches and hos' from respectable women, but seems like bullshit to me, he's just a prick. Spends way way more time punching down than delivering any kind of 'fuck the police' message. Bleak listening
Está bien
Because I am An Old, this is what rap is supposed to sound like to me.
what i believe is a quintessential 90s rap album, however i just could not look past the rampant misogyny in the lyrics:(
kind of boring to me, Sorry, Ice!
Feels like a weird limbo point in hip hop history between Straight Outta Compton and The Chronic where it made sense for members of NWA and Public Enemy to work together. It's odd and I can't say I enjoyed much of it. Apologies to O'Shea. In three short years, the Lakers will beat the Supersonics and inspire a song that's a million times better than anything on here.
I'll take "Albums White People Shouldn't Sing Along With" for $500, Alex.
This is from the era of "mad at the man" Ice Cube which has its moments, but I think it worked better with NWA. The message is pretty clear even though he hammers it over and over again. When he went into "Family Movies" Ice Cube and was dropping club bangers in the 2000s it was way more what I know him for and appreciate.
Pretty one note and this album doesn’t even You Can Do It so who cares
2/5, lite väl grova texter även för min smak. Sjukt att Ice Cubes rapkarriär inte varit ett större hinder i hans skådesspelande
My favorite thing about 90s hip-hop is often how many different breaks and vocals that are sampled in tandem to create a sort of poly-rhythm during the parts where the MC isn't rapping, I don't know if you call it a bridge or a instrumental break, but I just love the endless amount of unique grooves you can get with that technique. This album has a lot of that, plus very dense lyrical matter that I haven't even listened to or read yet but still recognize the effort put into that pen game which I don't know shit about. What a trip, I love it.
Good stuff! Thank goodness the racial issues he’s rapping about ended in the 90s. Much the same way civil rights issues ended in the 60s, right? Right?!?
Less focused than Predator, with the tough talk that seems to want it both ways. Sounds too much like too many rap albums of the time.
Excellent rhymes, beats, etc.
I never heard this one and was pleasantly surprised. Ice Cube really holds his own as a solo artist and I never realized how socially conscious and political his work was. Don’t get it twisted tho, it’s also violent and misogynistic at times too but also moments of levity and humor. Powerful vocal delivery, strong aura and personality. Also, many great early 90’s rap star features/ collaborators pop up throughout and Cube has an entire track at the end giving respect and gratitude to other artists / homies etc. which I thought was a nice touch. If you listen closely you’ll hear a random Trump reference in there too, lol.
I have mixed feelings about this album. Some tracks are genius, exactly the kind of lyrical/political/social force for change that I have always hoped rap would become; others fall back on the same tired rap tropes about women and masculinity. I'm beginning to think that, with rap, you cannot have the political, musical dynamism without the bravado and misogyny; it's as if the genre requires that the two co-exist. But then again, isn't much of rock music the same way?
90s rap gotta be one of my favourite genres, so I'm always gonna be biased. Man ice cubes one of the greatest, this seemingless flow, his dry humour, the tales and social comentary. This guy was everywhere when I was a kid and you can see why. Absolute legend.
Well my plea of just two days ago of please no more American hip hop went unheard of. I now conclude that the 1001 Gods are infatuated with this shit and even worse misogynistic. If it weren’t bad enough for this album to simply exist, the blatant plagiarism of Reeves and Mortimer’s Ulrika Jonson gag is pure sacrilege. 1/5 24/4/26
This album reeks of small dick energy
Some songs are so good, and yet the misogyny (and more specifically the misogynoir) is running rampant everywhere else.
I actually sort of enjoyed this, the music itself was good but as always the language and misogyny are a problem for me.
Really did not like this at all. Ugh.
I love this era of hip hop. Ice Cube is top 3 favorite rappers for me
Love the simplicity of 90s rap beats, much more than I love the simplicity of 90s rap flow
Gangsta rap has a place, but it needs to be a sweet spot when to play it.
Pretty disappointed by this one.
Better than Ice T
We’ve gotta be close to exhausting the supply of rap albums right? From a purely musical standpoint the albums pretty solid, there are some great beats and Ice Cube’s got one of the most iconic voices in hip hop history. There is some pretty cutting racial commentary which I thought was pretty well done, I always like the old white guy newscaster bit when it comes up in 90s rap. It’s just really hard to take this guy seriously sometimes though, those lyrics are so edgy for the dork who played the main character in classic 2025 Amazon film, The War of the Worlds, as well as countless other Hollywood pursuits. I keep forgetting how out of pocket west coast rap is compared to east coast, but man the amount of offensive and just gross lyrics is insane. Think it’s just a bit too long and the lack of variety really starts to rear its head towards the end If this one trimmed the fat and cut out all the garbage songs this would be an easy 4, but there’s definitely enough actively going against it to bring this one down a point. The bones are there at least
I feel like I've listened to enough rap albums doing this that I'm actually starting to get and enjoy it. Like, I can hear the lyrics and the flow a lot more clearly than with the earlier albums we did. Anyway, I'm glad that Ice Cube was able to get out of the hood and star in hit movies like War of the Worlds. Good for him.
I'm officially done with gangsta rap. First song: at least 50 uses of the word N*****. In my world, I won't have a second conversation with someone -- black or white -- who can fire it or like that in our first conversation. This album has 16 tracks, 14 of which sound the exact same. Same beat , different words, same delivery. I also learned that there are several interesting ways to make a rhyme with the word N*****. Also I learned that Ice Cube isn't the thug he pretends to be. Doubtful if he ever spent one day in jail or killed any of the motherfuckers he claimed to. Which, you know, good for him. But the level of violence, racism, and misogyny portrayed in his music is not him (married since 1992 and also has a college degree), and it is definitely not me. Ice Cube is an entertainer, and a good one, but that's about it. And the British 1001 Committee who selected this might be looking for street cred, but because they're British they don't have any and never will. They should stick to the Pet Shop Boys... This genre is a trap for me. Hate it and I'm a Puritan and a racist. Like it and I look like a phony. Same as earlier rap albums, if I can't play it in my car, then I don't want to play it. So to borrow a phrase, the struggle is real. Again, I'm done pretending. This wasn't made for me and it's ok if I didn't like it.
Absolutely not. I saw this album and immediately knew this album is not for me, it was not made for me and I am glad I never have to hear it again. This album is unnecessary and I'm upset I had to listen to it for this generator. There's not much I can say about this album other than how much I hate it.
What a poet, a true wordsmith of our era. Regaling us with tales of shooting people, hostility towards law enforcement, peppered with some naughty words, even samples of children doing it. Edgy. But he can do romance too, the everlasting dilemma of getting a young lady pregnant and then debating whether to kick her in the stomach or reaching for a 'hanger'. The only thing saving it from a one is that it has some musical validity. I’m starting to get sick of the rap on this list. It's better than Nas because it's better than some we’ve gotten and seems less serious in its approach. Plenty of samples from films. But yeah, not my bag at all.
Ah not really my kinda thing. The misogyny is a bit off putting for me. He has a lot a presence though and I love the story telling with the spoken word pieces
rap.. ik versta het wel, en ze hebben meestal wel goeie rhymes... maar alles wordt op de zelfde manier afgeleverd, en die manier is goed voor 1 nummer... vanaf dan steekt het tegen... een 2 voor de lyrics
No va
The lyrics can be offensive from today's perspective, but the sound is cool.
meh
3.9 2x love the storytelling aspect, reminds me of Outkast early albums
An okay album, not really my style of music.
Not for me.
Tough one to rate - this is pretty revolutionary in terms of evolving the NWA sound, sociopolitical and racial commentary, unflinching looks at life in the projects, etc. Endangered Species is pretty awesome with the Chuck D collab, and some good Slick Rick-style storytelling. But man the misogyny is pretty rough in parts, and songs like You Can't Fade Me are a very tough listen in 2026. So I recognize the place this one has but still find it hard to rate too high.
His solo stuff isn’t great
Another solid one from Cube on this list. Lacks the hit singles of The Predator, but makes up for it by being basically unrelenting. t's a Man's World is like an updated version of Tramp by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas. Cube spits his usual misogyny, but at least here it's countered by Yo-Yo's acerbic comebacks. Didn't realize the original release was shorter and wound up listening to everything including bonus tracks and the last one on there is I Gotta Say What Up where he just shouts out people he fucks with and one of them is Afrikaa Bambatta. Well that pedophile just died, so he can rest in piss.
Dug it. 3.5/5
You can’t pay me has to be one of the most ridiculously wild songs in my life To think I would grow up knowing ice cube as the guy from are you there yet talk about reinvention man solid three out of five album. This album is not for everyone don’t get it twisted you definitely have to know what you’re getting into.
Ice Cube POPPED OFF. Normally not a fan of older hip hop but bro killed this one. Mans a poet and got goooood flow!
Best Track - "The Nigga Ya Love To Hate"
I could do without the lame skits but the rapping is good.
3.5
Ehhh so vulgar/violent…
This is solid 90s hip hop, but no individual track jumps out for me. Cube's best work is found elsewhere.
-sexist or not? -I really hope "it's a man's world" is satire -not my style -a bit disturbing -just waiting for it to be over 3/10
Really good beats wow
нормалек, вайбово.
2.5
Me gusta la furia y que vaya al grano, sin tonterías, aunque me siento un turista cada vez que escucho algo de este estilo de rap. No es mi cosa, ni creo que llegue a serlo.
More promotion of guns violence and mysogyny the final straw was "9 months later, I wish I hadn't banged, got me reaching in my wardrobe for a coat hanger" tongue in cheek maybe but not really funny of any time period not for me although there are some genuinely cool flows and beats 8 can't get past the subject matter
Again, i would have liked this 10 years ago
Dont like rap that muxh, but still good
Solid album
Meh. Feel like I’m from south central after listening to that
Another boom nap album, but this one was slightly better than the last one by every metric in my opinion. There was more character with some funny skits and ad Libs, the beats and sampling were a little more interesting, and most of all I like his style of wrapping because he's almost always telling a story, not just rhyming in an impressive manner. An abrasive, but enlightening look into the reality of living in the hood.
Well, this one made me think, anyway. Not a fan of violence or anger or braggadocio, and kind of wish he hadn't made this, or that it hadn't found success, because I don't think (though how to know?) that it made things better (except MAYBE for black Americans, especially young black men - but I kinda doubt it). And impossible not to wonder: how pure were his motives? Because anger as cool is an easy sell. But, even assuming his motives were good/pure (i.e., not just trying to get easy money), I have a lot of doubt about whether this album made things better - and suspect that it might have contributed in a small way to making things worse. Oh, wait, this is music? Right, sorry, forgot! Musically, it's catchy, some of it, but simple and repetitive, and definitely don't need to hear a whole album of it. I wonder (as ever, but here more than some) what you guys make of it. Maybe if I'd been 10 years younger when it came out . . . . But, nah, I don't think I was ever gonna go for anger or violence or braggadocio. As music - it's almost more like poetry with rhythmic accompaniment, plus sound affects and sound collage/dialogue samples. But his grating voice turns me off. I'm tempted to give it 3 stars, because it was . . . influential? . . . but that feels like an easy out. Gonna risk being an old man (a privileged older white male), and give it 2 stars, because, as a record album, as music, I did not enjoy it (other than the beats, which were catchy, although simple).
The album started strong. I like the first beat, the energy that he brought, and the theatrical bits throughout, but I got tired as it went along. I think there's a consciousness about it, but there's too much negativity, particularly towards women that gets tiresome. My favorite aspect of the album is probably the humor. Second to that is the production of the beats and third is the rapping cadence which has aged better than most others from the time.
Dit is echt de shit 9/10 Ik ga het alsnog gw 5 sterren geven voor de vibes
Great album. A little too raw for my tastes, but obviously excellent.
Bad
I’ve heard this before. As I said before I like this era of rap even with the misogyny and violence involved in it. The dominance of a few James brown drum breaks over this period made some kickass jams. I always got a Public Enemy feel from these songs and I found out the Bomb Squad worked on this album, so that explains it. It’s a great album besides the issues I got with the lyrics. Once again I’m knocking it down a point for the misogyny.
yeeeaah, this just really isn't for me. I'm sorry.
Solid, though he does a lot better in his later albums. The woman-hating that is supposed to be all over this album really isn't that bad
Yawn...this just bored me. Nothing clever or particularly interesting about rant rap and gunshot punctuation of 'yo nigga, I'll put a cap in yo ass' type shite etc. etc.