 Genius Meanings
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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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Skankin' Pickle – Ice Cube, Korea Wants a Word With You
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You threaten us by saying / You'll beat our chop suey asses / But chop suey is Chinese food / That is eaten by the masses / The least you could have done / Is got my country's food
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Ice Cube – True To The Game
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As a political and powerful MC, Ice Cube comes at those who would rather follow fads and trends than remain true to themselves.
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Ice Cube – Good Cop Bad Cop
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“Good Cop Bad Cop” is one of three new Ice Cube tracks released on the 25th anniversary re-release edition of Death Certificate. Ice Cube explained the track as depicting police
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Ice Cube – Us
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Ice Cube delivers a scathing critique of the Black community being lazy, not helping each other out and contributing to their own downfall via gangs, drug dealing, jealousy, and
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Ice Cube – I Wanna Kill Sam
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The literal meaning of the song is that Cube wants to murder Uncle Sam:
Uncle Sam being a personification of the United States government, the metaphor is that Cube wants to
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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 – 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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Ice Cube – How To Survive In South Central
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One of Ice Cubes songs from the Boyz N the Hood soundtrack. Samples Funkadelics “(Not Just) knee deep” and “Agony of Defeet” also Roger Troutman’s “ so ruff, so tuff”
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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 – 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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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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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 (Ft. Khalid Muhammad) – Death
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The final track on the “Death Side” of *Death Certificate,“ Khalid Abdul Muhammad recites a poem to uplift the black race, chastise the white oppressor, conclude the first half of
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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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Sister Souljah (Ft. Ice Cube) – Killing Me Softly: Deadly Code of Silence
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[Intro] / "The First Amendment specifies specifically that Congress shall not-" / "Come on, nigga! What they hell you talkin' about?" / "That means you can say whatever the fuck
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Ice Cube – Man's Best Friend
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Cube discusses the importance of his gun, which is the gangsta’s version of man’s best friend.
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Ice Cube (Ft. Khalid Muhammad) – The Birth
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[Operator] / Dr. Bruce, telephone, please, Dr. Bruce, telephone, please / [Nurse] / Come on, come on, honey, push a little harder, it's not all that bad / [Doctor] / I see the head
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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 – 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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