Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Lethal Injection (Priority, 1993) by Ice Cube

This is an often overlooked album in Cube's catalog.  One legitimate criticism of the album is that it imitated the sound of Dre's Chronic album.  I can see where that comes from, but Cube certainly still brings his signature flow and content to the music.  "You Know How We Do It" was a great laid back joint to ride to and getting George Clinton on Bop Gun [One Nation] was amazing.  "Ghetto Bird" was good.  And B-Real's cameo in the "Really Doe" video was great too.  Overall, the album is descent.  But hip-hop was changing at the time, the profoundness of Cube's west coast street knowledge was now taking a back seat to the revival of east coast rap (e.g. Wu-Tang, Nas, Biggie).  Almost 19 years later, the album still holds up though.

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