Genius Lyrics
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Ice Cube – Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
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“Gangsta Rap Made Me Do” it serves as the first single from Ice Cube’s eighth studio album Raw Footage.
Ice Cube addresses the often held sentiment that gangsta rap (and one could
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Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day
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Ice Cube describes his ideal day: a pork-free breakfast, Yo MTV Raps!, gambling, a sexual rendezvous, and no murders in his neighborhood. By juxtaposing miraculous events (like
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Ice Cube (Ft. Mack 10 & Ms. Toi) – You Can Do It
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Samples the classic hip hop songs:
Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”
Afrika Bambaattaa & Soul Sonic Force’s “Planet Rock”
Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks”
Hugo Montenegro’s “I
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Ice Cube – Steady Mobbin'
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Ice Cube describes a typical day in the hood – rolling around, philosophizing, bustin' caps in the mix, eating, and shitting…
The song’s concept (or at least the title) was later
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Ice Cube – Nobody Wants to Die
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Ice Cube and DJ Shadow created this original song specifically for the video game Mafia III—it appears in the game’s “Revenge” launch trailer.
The song evokes the spirit and
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Ice Cube – Stand Tall
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[Intro: Ice Cube] / Now is the time... / C'mon y'all / [Verse 1: Ice Cube] / Stand tall, live your life to the limit / Cause haterism seem like a fucking epidemic / And look at Ice
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Ice Cube – Black Korea
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A very controversial track, and one of the reasons Ice Cube was called racist after this album’s release. (There’s also that one line on the previous track, “go down to the corner
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Ice Cube – Trying To Maintain
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[Chorus] / I'm just tryin' to maintain (Maintain) / I'm just tryin' to maintain (Maintain) / [Verse 1] / To everybody tryin' to maintain (Maintain) / And keep they name out the
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Ice Cube (Ft. Gangsta, Jayo Felony & Squeak Ru) – The Gutter Shit
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[Intro] / I been servin' niggas since 1985 / Niggas want the gutter / Ice Cube, Jay-O Felony / My nigga Gangsta, Squeak Ru / Keep it gangsta y'all, keep it gangsta / [Chorus: Ice
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Ice Cube – Fuck ’Em (insert)
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[5 seconds fades-in] / [Female Interviewer:] / Please welcome O'Shea Jackson, better known as Ice Cube! / How you doin'? / [Ice Cube:] How you doin'? / [Female Interviewer (male
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Ice Cube – Friday
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“Friday” is featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 comedy film of the same name. The film was co-written by Ice Cube and co-stars Chris Tucker.
This track was the beginning of a
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Brylaun – Ice cube
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[Intro] / They do me ice cold like cube / We gone have a good day ice cube / Tryna stuff me in a box like cube / Road get bumpy then it get smooth / No smooth criminal MJ grooves
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Ice Cube – Alive On Arrival
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The title of this song is a clever inversion of an existing phrase, “Dead on Arrival.” As in, the victim was taken to the hospital but there was nothing we could do for him
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Lolo Zouaï – Ice Cube
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[Intro] / (You unfroze my heart) / (Thought that I could never love) / Ice cube / [Verse 1] / What's happening? / I can hear my BPM speed up again / I can't pretend that you haven'
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Ice Cube – When Will They Shoot?
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A slammin' opening track, containing a skillfully mixed collection of samples:
Queen’s “We Will Rock You” (stomp-stomp CLAP)
Delegation’s “Oh Honey”
Slick Rick’s “Treat Her Like
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Ice Cube – Higher
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Ice Cube wrote and performed the song that plays over Higher Learning’s ending credits. It is credited to O'Shea Jackson in the film’s end credits, which is Ice Cube’s real name
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Ice Cube (Ft. Musiq Soulchild) – Why Me?
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Ice Cube talks about the issues and problems about taking away the lives of innocent
RIP TRAYVON MARTIN
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Ice Cube – Ghetto Bird
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In this bomb-ass track from the Lethal Injection album, Ice Cube tells a tale of fleeing from a police helicopter, also known as a “ghetto bird”.
The beat of this song, which
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Ice Cube – No Vaseline
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“No Vaseline” is Ice Cube’s diss track about his former group N.W.A and their manager, Jerry Heller.
Cube left N.W.A in 1989 over financial issues, and the group took shots at him
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Ice Cube – You Can't Fade Me / JD's Gafflin'
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This song tells the story of Ice Cube and a neighborhood girl who claims he impregnated her. Some classic, crude, gangsta shit.
The fears expressed in this song are part of why he
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Ice Cube – Betta Betta Run
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[Chorus] / Run and get your bigger crew (Better, better) / Run and-run and get your bigger crew (Nigga better run, run) / Run and get your bigger crew / 'Cause it's Judgment Day
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Ice Cube – Cave Bitch
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Samples:
“Horny Lil' Devil” by Ice Cube
“Go Stetsa I” by Stetsasonic (1986)
“When Will They Shoot?” by Ice Cube
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Peewee Longway – Ice Cube
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[Intro] / What you workin' with? That my facecard / That's your facecard / Cicero on the beat / Tie his motherfuckin' facecard / What you workin' with? / [Verse 1] / What you
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Ice Cube – Givin’ Up the Nappy Dug Out
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The hook for this song comes from a Big Daddy Kane lyric. Cube’s premise is a bit more targeted than Kane’s though. The title is a reference to Funkadelic’s 1973 song, “Nappy
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Ice Cube – Tomorrow
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Track 14 off of Ice Cube’s quite political effort, Raw Footage, released in 2008. Produced by Warryn Campbell, AKA Baby Dubb.
Don’t you worry ‘bout tomorrow!
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Ice Cube (Ft. Coolio, J-Dee, Kam, King T, Threat & WC) – Color Blind
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An all-star West Coast posse cut, including future fellow Westside Connection member WC and an early Coolio who had yet to go solo. The song revolves around gang violence – the
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Ice Cube (Ft. Mike Epps) – Steal The Show
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[Intro: Ice Cube] / Yeah, Steal The Show baby / [Verse 1: Ice Cube] / I'mma have to ride the ride the ride / Til' I find a girl to slip inside / Ice Cube ain't never been shot
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Ice Cube (Ft. Fatman Scoop) – Dick Tease
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[Intro: Ice Cube & Fatman Scoop] / (Let's go!) / All the freaks in this muthafucka, turn around / Drop it like it's hot, take it to the ground / Jack it like a '4, girl, up and
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Ice Cube – A Bird In The Hand
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Cube talks about trying to get paid as a teenage dad straight outta high school and he gave a brief summary of the song to Rolling Stone:
The options get taken away, so you need
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Primus – Mary the Ice Cube
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I once had an ice cube / Pretty little ice cube / Now it's gone / Now it's gone / Her name was Mary / Pretty little ice cube / Now she's gone / Now she's gone / She was so shiny
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Ice Cube (Ft. Das EFX) – Check Yo Self (Remix)
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“Check Yo Self” retains two main versions, the original and a remix which utilizes the same beat as Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message,” titled “Check Yo Self (The Message Remix)”.
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Ice Cube – What Can I Do?
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“What Can I Do” sees Cube talking about a rising drug dealer who ends up getting arrested and questioning their options outside of the dope game. The story appears to parallel the
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Ice Cube (Ft. Krayzie Bone) – Until We Rich
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[Intro: Krayzie Bone & Ice Cube] / Nigga the mission's to get what you don't got / The struggle it don't stop, until we drop / Krayzie Bone and Ice Cube..The best thing in life in
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Ice Cube – Sasquatch
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[Intro] / I think they spotted me / [Hook] / They call me Sasquatch, please check the watch / This is Bigfoot, don't get it shook / Out in Japan they call me Godzilla / Up in
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Ice Cube – My Summer Vacation
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Underrated Ice Cube track! Vivid storytelling, powerful message, and haunting production. Its arc is:
The difficulties of hustling in a big city
Traveling somewhere smaller to
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Ice Cube – Really Doe
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From Ice Cube’s 4th album Lethal Injection
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Ice Cube – Down For Whatever
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This song is famous for it’s role in the cult classic, Office Space
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Ice Cube – The Nigga Trapp
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Track #11 from Ice Cube’s 2006 album Laugh Now, Cry Later. The song, produced by DJ Green Lantern, is Cube’s outcry against the self-perpetuating ghetto lifestyle and calls
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Ice Cube – Dead Homiez
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“Dead Homiez” was released as the second single from the Kill at Will EP. Ice Cube pours out a little liquor with this somber ode to his friends that have passed on, and he
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Ice Cube – The Wrong Nigga To Fuck Wit
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[Verse 1: Ice Cube] / Goddamn, it's a brand new payback / From the straight gangsta mack in straight gangsta black / How many motherfuckers gotta pay? / Went to the shelf and
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