Ice Cube Says "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" Hasn't Been Matched

[djole 213]

Ice Cube made a name for himself after splitting from N.W.A and releasing AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, a politically-charged album that got people's attention. Spin gave the project its first ever Album of the Year award back in 1990.

For the publication's thirtieth anniversary, it sat down with the Los Angeles rapper to discuss the iconic album.

Ice Cube reveals how excited he was to work with the production team Bomb Squad. Compared to his familiarity with West Coast production titan Dr. Dre, he "didn’t know what I was getting with the Bomb Squad."

"I didn’t know if they even wanted to do my whole record," he says. "I was just hoping to get them to do two or three songs. So, when they agreed to do the whole thing, I fuckin’ did a backflip."

Because of this blending of East and West Coasts, Ice Cube says the album is still the standard for how to unite the cultures. He gives his producer and friend Sir Jinx credit for helping him guide the Bomb Squad in the direction they wanted the album to go.

"Sir Jinx was so instrumental in making this record, too," he says, "because we were going to keep the record West Coast. We were going to have the skits in between the records. We were gonna have songs and music that we would normally use anyway. But with the Bomb Squad’s superior production and their mad-scientist approach to sampling, it just gave our West Coast sound a whole dynamic that, to this day, still hasn’t really been matched as far as that dynamic of [being] so East Coast and so West Coast at the same time."

Ice Cube has also been in the news discussing the upcoming N.W.A biopic, "Straight Outta Compton." The theatrical trailer and movie posters were released last week. The movie is scheduled to open on August 14.

[CORREA]

cube must think its still 1990 

[Blood$]

Death Certificate >

[Shallow]

I feel Cube's mind and body were completely taken over by a muse between 88 and 92. If Cube had dided just before or just after Death Certificate people would have been talking about him today like he would have been a major figure in the world. They certainly would have thought that the world would have lost out on major musical output that focuses on the issues in a way no one else could do. Instead we god Friday and a handful of bagining thug songs and such. Not to say I don't still like Cube's career outside of Amerikka, Kill At Will, and DC, and the NWA stuff of course, but his post Death Certificate stuff simply can't compare with the early stuff, and its not even close.

[Hack Wilson - real]

Westside Connection era Cube was still a force on the microphone

[Shallow]

Westside Connection era Cube was still a force on the microphone

His talent never left. Predator is still a favorite album of mine as well. But the content of revolution, lyrically and musically, was gone by then and West Side Connec followed that same route.

[papa-smurf]

I feel Cube's mind and body were completely taken over by a muse between 88 and 92. If Cube had dided just before or just after Death Certificate people would have been talking about him today like he would have been a major figure in the world. They certainly would have thought that the world would have lost out on major musical output that focuses on the issues in a way no one else could do. Instead we god Friday and a handful of bagining thug songs and such. Not to say I don't still like Cube's career outside of Amerikka, Kill At Will, and DC, and the NWA stuff of course, but his post Death Certificate stuff simply can't compare with the early stuff, and its not even close.

I remember telling my homeboy years ago that if ice cube would of died after death certificate! Everybody a be talking about him like they talk about 2pac. But i disagree with the friday commemt, friday is a classic movie.

[Shallow]

I feel Cube's mind and body were completely taken over by a muse between 88 and 92. If Cube had dided just before or just after Death Certificate people would have been talking about him today like he would have been a major figure in the world. They certainly would have thought that the world would have lost out on major musical output that focuses on the issues in a way no one else could do. Instead we god Friday and a handful of bagining thug songs and such. Not to say I don't still like Cube's career outside of Amerikka, Kill At Will, and DC, and the NWA stuff of course, but his post Death Certificate stuff simply can't compare with the early stuff, and its not even close.

I remember telling my homeboy years ago that if ice cube would of died after death certificate! Everybody a be talking about him like they talk about 2pac. But i disagree with the friday commemt, friday is a classic movie.

I love Friday, but it was a key part in changing his image.

[BIGWORM]

There is no doubt in my mind that Ice Cube was probably the greatest mc from 88-91 after leathal injection. He wasn't worth checking for....

[CORREA]

end of the day he will go down as the guy in the movies kids today didnt even know he was a rapper
good thing im the south 2 never came out 

[dnjp4life]

There aren't many other rappers who have had 3 or 4 classic albums in a row, let alone 3 or 4 really good albums.  That is why Ice Cube is one of the best to ever do it and is the reason he is in my top 5.
I never used to like 'AMW' that much and I gave it years on non-play until I put it on one day and I realised what an incredible album it really was.

[WestWestYA]

Leathal Injection & War and Peace vol.1 >>>>>>>>

[johnnie360]

If we want to speak directly on what Cube was saying, then I fully agree. I had this tape when it first came out, and there has never been anything that matches it as far as the east and west coming together. This album is a hands down classic.

[HighEyeCue]

he matched it himself lol...but seriously Cube was on a roll from the late 80's to early 90's, best MC in the game during that time IMO

[Hack Wilson - real]

he matched it himself lol...but seriously Cube was on a roll from the late 80's to early 90's, best MC in the game during that time IMO

nah, Esham was.  Cube was close.