The Predator

32/100

Tvö góð lög, restin er alveg drep.

a little too real for me

Too profane for me.

Lyrics and flow disappointed me slightly. Nothing that stood out too much.

Oh Ice Cube, what would my drink be without you? 2 royalty checks made out to George Clinton out of 5 💵💵

Condamné à vivre dans l'ombre de Ice T et Ice Spice

on se fait un peu harceler par le type recemment deso

I just don't like this style of music.

I’m not discounting the importance of this album, but it’s not for me.

If 90’s alt rock has a soft spot in my heart, then hip hop has a hard spot. As bad as that metaphor may be, I don’t usually like most hip hop, but there are a few albums that break the rule, one of which is Straight Outta Compton by NWA. I’ve never listened to a solo aide Cube album before, so let’s see how this goes. Songs I already knew: Check Yo Self Favourites: It Was A Good Day Unfortunately, this album didn’t do much for me. I can appreciate the flow of the rapping and the beats, but there wasn’t much here that grabbed my attention. Ice Cube does have a great voice for rap, that much is clear. However, I highly doubt I’ll be coming back to this album again. It was too much of the same thing for me, and not enough variation from song to song.

Not my kind of music, but still fun.

Not my kind of thing at all

Man I just don’t care for this album. Besides one or two tracks it’s a tough listen.

Sounds like a Cyprus Hill reject candidate

Of course I like the message behind this album but it got repetitive really fast. Immediately some of the noises just kept going and it wasn’t great. I’m also not a huge fan of the constant talking throughout. I think that it just isn’t my type of music.

Nope.

This is alright, though it suffers from some of the same problems that other West Coast rap albums on this list so far have encountered. It's very one-speed, same rhythm and stylings over different beats, same delivery patterns, and doesn't elevate itself at any point except for It Was a Good Day. It has the usual mix of social commentary, misogyny and silliness, guess that was most of the 90s though.

Terrible. This shows how terrible rap can be. A far cry from the best in the genre.

Meh

Wasn’t really in the mood for this type of music today so maybe that affected my feelings on the album. Pretty mid. Wasn’t bad but also didn’t excite me, kinda hate the beats he picks. Obviously it was a good day goes hard. Also 56 minutes is too long to be this mid

Lyrically it's a shame it holds up. The production does not.

Hip hop. Coñazo

Favorite song - Check Yo Self 90s rap, boppy, police/racial themes

Seems solid...however....not a genre I love. Contains way too much cursing and ...skits between songs. Never a good thing. A struggle to finish.

Against my initial fears, this one really wasn't all that bad and I managed to listen to the whole album. There were even a couple tracks I enjoyed somewhat such as Check Yo Self. A couple others got pretty close to needing to be skipped though. In the end, it's just really not my style though, even though it wasn't so bad as I'd thought. And I pretty much hate the intros/inserts/skits on this kind of album.

Good album with some bops. Never listened before. Can’t say many of the lyrics speak to me. Not a fan of all the pussy splitting references espesh on Dirty Mack, bit gross. The stuff about Rodney King and LA riots was interesting and best of the album.

Eh.

I can do with hearing this one again. 2/5

Rap blijft nog steeds niet mijn ding. Vond dit album dan ook niet zo leuk

Expected more from this one – the thematic content and general social awareness of the LP is great, but repetitive sampling/lack of originality in the backing tracks and sometimes limpid bars hamper the album's flow.

Didn't grip my attention and found it a bit muddled. The rhyming is also clumsy, and I thought it was generally uninspired

There is a lot I like on this album. There is a lot I don’t like on this album. The message, the negative, angry delivery. The music, the beats, the rap, scratching, sampling. The message, at times, is best delivered, angrily because it should make you angry. But, for me, it’s just too much at times. This is a genre I do like quite a lot of, but there are some artists that I never got into. I think if I heard this completely back when it came out, I might like it better. Music and style, I think it is a possible 4/5. But, overall it loses something because of how negative it is. I know, I know… but, it is exhausting and sometime it is nice to have a break from all the Nigga this and fuck that. 2.5/5

Not a fan of this style.

Ice Cube was cool as a member of NWA but he’s not the rapper who can command your attention for an entire album.

Some bangers

Im not into this album. Dirty Mack is good, Check Yo Self is classic

I don't enjoy angry rap

Not much of a rap fan. I think I liked b.i.g. a little better though.

Some of it was good but not my thing really.

Slightly preferred this over AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, but still had the same impression: nice grooves and cool beats, but disliked the rap style and lyrics.

After a while it just becomes tedious braggadocio, or misogynistic violence. The politics is fine and musically it's good, but once you're halfway through you've heard it all.

Not my style but definitely important and features some good tracks. Today was a good day is a classic and I enjoyed Now I Gotta Wet ‘Cha. Also don’t like when albums have skits

Very mixed feelings on this one. It starts really strongly and has good moments throughout (the production is generally solid even if it's starting to feel a little dated with the rise of G-funk, and Ice Cube sounds ferocious on the whole album) but the lyrics often seem really generic compared to the insightful and political Cube from previous releases. It's just a quite bland and excessive gangster rap record for the most part, which is a shame considering his legacy before this point

Okay, Cube. You're the predator. Sure.

Interesting

I don't know what to do with an album like this. A lot of the rap of this time period isn't for me. I'm not a fan of Ice Cube, and I typically avoid his music. I tried listening to several of the tracks, but I kept skipping sooner and sooner. I couldn't finish the album.

while I like this more than later proponents of rap like Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, this just doesn't engage me

**

Not my Hip Hop cup of tea, a couple of really good tracks, but on the whole I zoned out a bit

It Was A good Day is good. Monólogos interessantes.

Not for me

The Predator by Ice Cube (1992) He doesn’t seem to want to integrate with people who are anything other than sympathetic with the political convictions of Malcolm X. 2/5

Is it terrible that I found this really dull? Repetitive soundscapes, fairly boring and unvarying delivery by Ice Cube and a production that grates rather than pops. As a chronicle of anger at racism and institutional discrimination it is eloquent. As an apologist for some of Cube's prior stated positions, it's iffy. As entertainment, it doesn't cut it for this listener.

I like Today Was a Good Day, but on the whole I was a bit disappointed, the levels of aggression I found uncomfortable even though it does broach heavy subjects

Better than expected but still not my type.

Good beat and flow, many lyrics aged poorly

Did not added something soooooo. 2

Not too bad but not memorable

2/5 nope!

Very much of its time.

Not my favourite genre, and I'll never listen to this album again, but I didn't mind this. Musically quite gentle and melodic in places. 2.5/5.

I know it's important, and there's some decent beats - but it's just not my thing. Sorry.

Generally a more melodic rap and I really like Today is another Day but otherwise I got bored with being shouted at.....

This is another album where I have to recognize its greatness although it doesn't appeal to me. I'm not a fan of gansta rap, as it turns out. Since this is supposed to be a subjective rating, I have to give this one 2 stars.

I wish I could say that I enjoyed this album, but I didn't.

nah

Too long. Weird anti semitism stuff throughout. All sounds very similar too long

When Ice Cube does not sound constantly out of breath, his vocals are buried beneath a thick layer of annoying or sleep-inducing beats. Check Yo Self later, because this Was Not A Great Day for listening to mediocre gangsta-rap. 2/5.

listenable... but not by much

Not for me, but Amerikkkas most wanted was good.

Rough

Ah, Boze Negermuziek. Bleekscheet Mul durft niet weg te rijden bij een aanhouding door politie. Boze Negers wel. Kunnen ze weer mooi een nieuw album vol fulmineren.

I do think Ice Cube is very funny but ngl this really doesn't do it for me.

İt was a good day güzel buldum bi

Not much into old rap.

Tja, nu vind ik Ice-T en enkele van zijn albums goed maar hier werd ik toch niet blij van (wat kan kloppen want thematisch was het ook zware kost). Ik denk wel dat hij het album ook: "Gorilla's in the mist" had kunnen noemen. Deze regel komt in meerdere nummers voor.

Aantal wel aardige tracks, met leuke sampjes en beats, maar in het geheel toch wel erg veel gezwam en stoerdoenerij er tussendoor.

Rap, molt ben fet. Però no m'ha acabat de dir res...

2/5

not my style,,

Nice in concept, but not my thing

El rap no es lo mío, definitivamente

Fine.

Not something that is likely to enter regular rotation. Very enjoyable though and definitely worthy of its place in the collection. Surely a landmark album in the fight for black rights and equality in America.

Cube never saw hiphop as anything more than Mac 10s and "bitches and faggots"

Well this is very different from artists I usually listen to. "It was a good day" was slightly enjoyable. I didn't feel this album in my bones that's the least I can say. I do respect the messages of hope and him sharing his experience as a black man.

Today Was A Good Day but not this album. I feel this is the kind of music they put in clothing store to feel cool but guess what...

Meh, like yeah sure. I don't like his whole thing tbh. Loved him in 22 Jump Street. Schmit fucked the captains daughter lol.

ouvir com mais afinco...

2/5.

Not my favorite, beat is nice but not super engaging.

Послушал 2 трети. Это музыка для другого менталитета

Shite

I tried, but gave up after three tracks, just not for me

Definitely the most miserable listen yet. I would advise taking ice cube as the larper he is and engaging with his work through a more comedic lense. When he isn't shelling out surface level political slop his music is just pointless whining. To his credit he shines the best when he's writing about fictional characters or scenarios. 'Today was a good day' solely justifies this tracks existence - would recommend skipping to it and then throwing away your CD away after.

Damit konnte ich jetzt wieder gar nichts anfangen. Zu viel Gelaber, die Lieder für mich irgendwie nicht besonders herausragend. Sorry.

Woah das ist in meinen Ohren nicht gut gealtert. Beats langweilen, Flow holt mich nicht ab und Textlich ist das was ich bewusst gehört habe auch nicht prickelnd.

The same as every other gangster rap album (guns, bitches, murdering) but with even more irritating samples

Don’t really care for this at all

No

Go melt

*Meed a “no” star option! No music, just vulgar lyrics

Tento rap tiež nemusím...

Tiresome themes, tiresome sound, tiresome lame rhyming, tiresome profanities.

not my taste

Really not for me. Just can’t appreciate why I would want to listen to this again.

Definitely No.

NWA was dope and that Friday movie was funny but that's about it for this guy. Next!

В это трудно поверить, но надо признаться, что я не смотрел Хищника и, кажется, не люблю рэп

Ik had er weinig zin in, maar na een paar dagen uitstel moet ik er toch maar eens aan beginnen. Aanvankelijk zijn er een paar verschrikkelijke herrie beats. Gillende mensen, luchtalarmen, snerpende blazers, druk gedoe, piepjes. Ik was er bang voor en terecht zo blijkt. Veel (hoge) geluiden ongebalanceerd door elkaar gemikt. Richting het midden van het album wordt het af en toe wat minder, maar toch zorgt het ervoor dat ik al heel snel helemaal geen zin meer heb in dit album. En als dan bij track 8 het gegil weer begint ben ik er klaar mee. Ik vind dit echt ultiem verschrikkelijk, kan er niet naar luisteren. Ohja, en hij noemt vrouwen bitches. 1 ster.

Fuck ice cube

actually bad

Não gostei não... ouvi a primeira metade do álbum apenas...

rap is not for me

1 Rap de Mierda

Wicked It Was a Good Day Check Yo Self

Didn’t like it all, the language and crudeness were over the top.

Absolute shit throughout!

Jeffrey Epstein.

Guns, murder, sounding tough. 2 decent songs the rest are just noise. The early sign of what was to become of Hip Hop…

i don’t like rap this is so aggressive

Nahhhh

Ok, I tried. I really did. Ice Cube’s two previous albums had been (rightly) criticised for being misogynistic and anti-Semitic. This album was released in the wake of the Rodney King riots, and makes powerful points about racism and police brutality. However, we get to the track Fuck ‘Em which features an excerpt of an interview where he is explicitly asked about calling women “bitches and hoes” and accusations of anti-semitism, and instead of apologising or moving on he just says ‘Fuck ‘em’ and waffles on for a bit. The next track is straight back in with the misogyny. Nope, I’m out.

No thanks!

I had AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted earlier this month. The main lyrical theme of that one was "people hate me, and I wear that as a badge of honour". Which is just the dumbest, most bigheaded message ever. And The Predator seems to continue along the same lines, with gems like Say Hi To The Bad Guy, , and The Predator ("Riots ain't nothing but diets for the system", "I'm meaner than a motherfucking hyena chasing antelope", "Rat-a-tat-tat on your noggin 'cause Ice'll cream your ass like Häagen-Dazs"). Combine that with a healthy Some of the lyrics are pretty harrowing, though, in a good way. When Will They Shoot? has nothing to latch onto musically, and I can't see myself ever listening to it again. But the story it tells is slick, fast, and horrific. I'm glad I didn't live in an American city in the 90s. This record was released right at the crux of the hip-hop "golden age", so you'd think it would showcase some of the best the genre has to offer. It isn't Ice Cube's debut, either, so he's had some time to learn. And yet he still includes interludes that go nothing except act as musically inert ad breaks. If you're putting in a 60-second track, it better as heck have an incredible melody/riff, or else complement the next/previous track excellently. The interludes on this album do neither. I enjoy the secondary vocalist that takes the middle verse in Wicked. The rest of the track is extremely repetitive, but that guy's voice injects some fun into the monotony. In Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha, the brass and bass, despite being pretty repetitive (pretty sure the bass is only two notes) is such a contrast to the four atonal tracks preceding it that it has to be one of my favourites. It Was A Good Day is much the same way. Hopefully Ice Cube realises now that incorporating melody and harmony does wonders for his fans, who very obviously enjoy this kind of music to any of his other work. (1.4 billion streams is, well, a lot of streams.) Dirty Mack does the same thing but with less interesting vocals, and a bizarre baby-sounding vocal harmonising during some parts. Still decent though. Check Yo Self is also strong, and even incorporates some genuine singing for a few seconds. The keyboard part in Don't Trust 'Em is, I suspect, sampled from Steely Dan's Green Earrings. Which is a significantly better track in every way. /5 Key tracks: It Was A Good Day, Dirty Mack, Check Yo Self

Hip Hop, 49 eme album => 1/5

the skill of him to wrap annoying, irritating and boring into 1 album. It hurt my head.

Repetitivo pa carai, gostei não. 2/10

The Predator by Ice Cube is everything I hate about rap. Gangsta rap is dreadful. the lyrics are dated, vile and quite frankly thick! This music just does nothing for me. The music is good throughout on this album but the nature of the lyrics is off putting and not for me. Favourite track: Least favourite track: Album artwork: I dont love it!!

Pro-Black aber gegen alles andere. Ein Rassist auch wenn er es nicht zugeben möchte.

I cant understand why americans like this piece of shit! American rap is irrelevant outside the US. A shit like this on this list is rubbish. dog shitt nigga you know what i mean nigga...im need a pussy and a have a shootgun, my car is beautiful and i am criminals, careful with me in the midnight bro

Early 90s rap was different, not a fan of this album

Nope. Not my kind of music. I can appreciate that it has important social commentary but I’m well beyond listening to hard core rap.

0/5

Mer rap. Såå tråkigt.

Not a fan of ice cube.

The beat is catchy but a polished turd is still a turd

I’ve very much reached old school gangsta rap fatigue with this challenge. The socio-political issues are still relevant, and I’m sure this album was important for its time. But the medium of the message is just really not appealing to me. It Was a Good Day sounds like it should be a chill good time if you don’t listen too closely to the lyrics. Check Yo Self - same sample as Shoop? I’d rather just listen to Salt-n-Pepa.

Abhorrent. Nearly got me arrested.

I listened to this album while running, beside an inky black ocean, on a late evening in late Makaru. I might have gasped here and there at some of the lyrics (was this the origin of “on like donkey kong”?) but for the most part it was heavy “meh”. Men performing masculinity like this has always been tedious; here in 2026 it’s been commoditised and packaged up to the point of sheer, pathetic banality. Only “It was a Good Day” really stood out as something I’d ever want to listen to again. Imagine my joy, then, when I followed up on the sample and discovered the Isley’s Brothers’ “Footsteps in the Dark”. Full circle.

Mais rap e hip-hop... Não consigo perceber porque é que isto é importante! Só para os palermas dos americanos!

I guess this album is on the list to remind everybody that there are a lot of terrible and horrible music out there which can only be feared.

Schlimmer geht nimmer und von Musik kein Schimmer.

I love hois acting but his music is too dark for me, sorry

Another nope from me. I need to hear something musically interesting to engage me. This is low grade music with all the emphasis on the lyrical content - which is fine for most people. Not me.

The guy from Boyz n the hood, Barbershop 2 and XXX: Return of Xander Cage made music? All kidding aside Ice cube has done a lot of good songs throughout his career. I have problems separating the artist from the art though and the shit he has done since 2020 leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I’ve heard worse.

The Predator by Ice Cube is a disappointing album. The music is repetitive and lacks creativity, while the lyrics are filled with violent and offensive language. The overall experience is unpleasant and fails to engage or entertain.

ну, все понятно

ma bbooona

Hip Hip. That is and remains a kind of unmusic. Listened to three tracks, the usual shouting. Only "It Was a Good Day" seemed to contain melody. But then I didn't feel like it anymore. 1/5

I recognize the significance of this album and the talent of Ice Cube and his producers, but really found most of this album off-putting and too violent.

Shieeet... overdeveloped, underdeveloped, a bad song's a bad song

Fuck this noise. Just an angry black man.

Ice Cube is ja mal richtig schlecht…

Rap, again? Nope 1/5. NOT music. At best, spoken word or poetry. Wannabe actors, one and all.

I wanted to turn this off after the first song but had to stick with the promise to listen to every album back to back at least once before rating. Still had to leave out the last 3 tracks, because I still like my sanity intact, thank you very much. This whole thing is just rambling over a backing track, which sounds like a bunch of banging noises thrown at a wall but no one gives a shit what sticks. I suppose people often praise rap/hip hop stuff for their lyrics, but there were just too much cuss words and violent imagery and misogynistic lines for me to want to pay attention anymore. If I could give any rating lower than 1 I would. I would even take Morrissey's whining than whatever this is, and everyone knows I hate that lad. It was, unironically, not a good day.

just not for me at all, struggled to get through this 1/5

No me gusto

Rap? Nein!

Nope, absolutely not. This album personifies not only everything wrong with a genre, but with the culture that supports it.

I must have missed this one in 92. Pretty terrible still. I had to wait until everyone was out of the house to play it.

are we there yet?

Just not my kind of music 1/5

Waaay to rude songs... I don't want to be angry. Rap really just isn't for me. Especially "gangsta rap". I struggle to call it music. It was not a good day

Fuori contesto

The issues are important, but I can't listen to explicit lyrics over and over.

no thank you.

1.5 I’m sure there’s probably some very important lyrics on this album but as always lyrics don’t mean that much to me. The music matters so much more and it’s awful on this album. Every song is literally a 2 measure beat that loops for the entirety of the song

Las letras me han parecido horrorosas

I knew that I wasn't going to like this album so I decided to have fun with it. I stopped listening to a song when a profanity, the "N" word or any word that degraded women appeared in the lyrics and/or title. That album went by REALLY fast!

Another crappy rap album. N bombs and f bombs galore.

unbekannt

Swearing, listened for 5 seconds

Lord, have mercy on my soul. Je comprends l'impact culturel mais doux Jésus, je suis pas capable, je suis clairement pas le public cible. Sorry.

Interesting insight into a different culture. Hip Hop is still not for me though. Music sounds like lofi style but in hifi.

Schlimmer Rap

Spotify would not play because of \"explicit lyrics\" for which reason it should receive a 1/2 star at best

old school rough all explicit

It was a good day 5/5 kitaratausta.

Second Ice Cube album served to me here offers more of the things I couldn’t stand in the previous one.

Too many cuss words for me.

Too vulgar for my virgin ears

Not for me

My rating says it all. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - It was ok to listen to but I wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.

Blegh

Yes. I listened to this whole thing. Well, okay… at least the first 45 seconds of every track. So I can confidently say that I tried, but this just wasn't for me.

p697. 1992. 1 star. The usual foul mouthed tedious (c)rap. Sample lyrics: fuck, nigga, motherfucker, shit, bitch, whore. No thanks.

Not my thing

It's just not my style of music.

Ugh.

Mediokrer Gangster Rap

super predator

Not important enough to be on this list. Many people will say this is important due to societal topics being mentioned. Yet... this type music creates more societial ills. Such as the embrace of violence, misogynistic language, and helping popularizing racially explicit terms to a wider non-african american audience. Such attitudes can only cause divisions between people and lessen the percieved value of human life. He could have used his voice to help overcome many issue in his community and America in general. Concerning the music... Wicked is nothing but another example of the overused funky worm sample. Good Day is a hip-hop classic of course. Check Yo Self sampled "I'm Blue" by The Sweet Inspirations... that sample was later popularized with the the song Shoop by Salt-N-Pepa. Das EFX is always a treat to hear even though their popularity was short lived. Who's Got the Camera is a clever song about police brutality. Honestly when this was released I wasn't impressed and thought it was Cube's weakest release at that point. I'm still not impressed.

Too obscene for me, I’m aftaid to say!

Not for me.

seriously

beurk

One decent song. Otherwise: i can’t get into this type of rap. Just not good music imo. He’s just an angry man yelling into the mic. Don’t like this shit at all.

This list has taught me I really don’t like Ice Cube. Better actor than rapper? Food for thought….

This was an alright album. "Good Day" was the best song and others didn't come close. I don't rate the more politically charged albums based on the politics or subject matter in which they are performing, but I felt the beats and flow were lacking in a lot of songs. It has a strong message that's worth sharing, especially based on the Rodney King Riots, but in my opinion it's just not good musically.

That's not music.

"Gangsta" rap and Hip-Hop trash. 1/5

It Was A Good Day is nice, the rest is trash

Het gebruikelijke grofgebekte geouwehoer. De begeleiding is soms nog wel enigzins muzikaal, maar sommige nummers bestaan uit hetzelfde eindeloos herhaalde deuntje met een boel gewauwel eroverheen. Het zal vast een belangrijke politieke boodschap hebben, maar ik haak af door de verpakking. Met hangen en wurgen tot de helft gekomen, daarna afgezet.

Nope

Fuck off 1

It was a Good Day is a 5 star song on an album full of noise. Gangster Rap is a headache waiting to happen. I did find the intro interesting. Ice Cube is one of the biggest hypocrites out there. He does have another good song out there, You Can Do It. Other than that, F that clown and turn in your gangster card Mr. Hollywood.

I get the point of the album. But the misogyny, the violence, the language: it's all waaay too much. And I just don't like the macho persona. As far as the music is concerned, it's boring and repetitious.

Nej tack!

Nup

Don’t get it, but ok, never really got captured by hip-hop music. Not my kind of music

Not my jam

I hate this rubbish. I've heard this message without all the vileness.

Awfully music…

Varför terroriseras jag av sånt här skit. Schas!

Pure shite

Boring rap music.

I don't like this band.

Not a rap fan. Some songs had what sounded like newscaster or interview audio playing over the beat, that was sorta interesting

I can't take Ice Cube seriously anymore

bon flow mais c'était surement pas lui le génie dans NWA

No!! Just no, and really fail to understand how it made the list

Wanker^

Ooh, I’m a gangsta futha mucker! Yawn.

I'm not an old head. It's not for me. I always have preferred the jazz style rap from this time. Sure, it's technically proficient, but I still really don't care. Highlight: 2.

Ça sonne comme Cypress Hill, mais plus répétitif et redondant.

90er-Jahre Hiphop ist verzichtbar.

Hip hop is not my jam and the lyrics really turned me off in this one.

shit and boring and reptitive

Nah

Gangsta rap

Aggressively shout foul, violent lyrics to a catchy beat, keep going for 3-4 minutes & repeat 16 times.

Nope

🤮

Utter rubbish

All I want to say about this album is...there are way superior sounding Ice Cube lp’s in my opinion. Therefore I cannot rate this one high. As matter of fact, I probably rank this album lower than all of his others. Therefore I give it 1 Star!

RAP a todo tRAPo. No es para mi

not my music