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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: TraceOneInfinite on September 22, 2026, 07:29:14 PM
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1. "Push Rhymes Like Weight" — I know the song got decent play when it dropped but it was never considered along with his classic joints but I am still bumpin this joint regularly up to today and never stopped since this joint first dropped. The video is sick !! (Aside from the sound effects interrupting the song—which was the thing in those days) — with dope cameos of Mack 10 puffin the cigar and the 2pac look-a-like, lol. And Short Khop does his thing on the track and his finesse is a perfectly played counter to Cubes force. Beat is undeniable banger! Also love the horse sound effect/beat box Cube and his homies were doin in that era — like when he says "ass full of thunder"
The lyrics are a perfectly played metaphor of rhymes/lyrics as illegal drug contraband — like parallel of hiphop and drug sales which has of course been done a million times but I don't think to this degree and for a full song — but even if he bit on PAC's idea it's a great flip of that PAC line into a chorus to drive an entire song — sort of like how Jay-Z and Dre flipped that Daz line from "Serial Killa" into a chorus
I'd be remiss if I didn't give a mention to the notion that Cube bit 2pac's "Bomb First" with the "Yay Yay" on this joint — and I think Napoleon might have even hollered at Cube about that back in the day, not sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcLVpVctOCs&list=RDIcLVpVctOCs&start_radio=1
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We be clubbin is better example imo.
That track is a monsta!
But nobody care.
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that entire war disc is very underrated
his most slept on imo
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same as peace disc.
just there is the ultimate hit u can do it.
but the rest of the album is unkown.
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Ghetto Vet... the real fans know it and the west coast heads but outside of that box I don't think too many others do
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same as peace disc.
just there is the ultimate hit u can do it.
but the rest of the album is unkown.
war disc > peace disc
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that entire war disc is very underrated
his most slept on imo
Yup. Push rhymes like weights might be my least liked song on the album.
Ghetto Vet, Peckin Order, Greed, Penitentiary, Extradition, War & Peace, Fuck Dyin, Limos, demos and bimbos - all those are very good songs.
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war disc > peace disc
To me otherwise
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To me otherwise
you could argue peace disc had the higher highs
but as a full body of work, war disc was more consistent overall
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but as a full body of work, war disc was more consistent overall
fact!
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We be clubbin is better example imo.
That track is a monsta!
But nobody care.
"We be clubbin/
everybody like when the girl shake something"
vs.
CUBE: YAY YAY I PUSH RHYMES LIKE WEIGHT
Khop: "I PUSH RHYMES LIKE WEIGHT
---you are in violation if you think the first is better than the second. And "U Can Do It" is wack also
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Yup. Push rhymes like weights might be my least liked song on the album.
Ghetto Vet, Peckin Order, Greed, Penitentiary, Extradition, War & Peace, Fuck Dyin, Limos, demos and bimbos - all those are very good songs.
You got it backwards...
"Pushin Rhymes Like Weight" is a mega-all-time banger and the rest of the album is filler
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Robbin' Hood (cause it ain't all good)
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You got it backwards...
"Pushin Rhymes Like Weight" is a mega-all-time banger and the rest of the album is filler
you probably never even listened to the album front to back
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Pushin Weight
Ghetto Vet
It Takes a Nation
The World is Mine
Robbin' Hood (cause it ain't all good)
All Underrated imo
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Robbin' Hood (cause it ain't all good)
not bad
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you probably never even listened to the album front to back
you think I'm hatin on Cube like I hate on the Bay -- just because I said once that I really only bump his singles. That's not hate, I just think his album cuts are over-rated, and his ability to carry a whole album is over-rated. But the dude can obviously make bangers, and has been a part of classic groups and boosting a lot of other artists/groups songs
it's okay, Cube will get there eventually, at least he's trying and he's made some good effort over the years as a rapper
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you think I'm hatin on Cube like I hate on the Bay -- just because I said once that I really only bump his singles. That's not hate, I just think his album cuts are over-rated, and his ability to carry a whole album is over-rated. But the dude can obviously make bangers, and has been a part of classic groups and boosting a lot of other artists/groups songs
it's okay, Cube will get there eventually, at least he's trying and he's made some good effort over the years as a rapper
so no, u haven't heard war disc front to back
got it
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so no, u haven't heard war disc front to back
got it
I swear from when it came out was the dayz I used to just hang out at the record store all day after school. Blockbuster (Music store) would let you sit at a listening station and listen to albums.
So I thought, what the hell, "Rhymes like Weight" is a banger, and Ice Cube seems like a rapper who is giving it a good try, and so me being the nice guy that I am I gave the rest of the album a chance...
What did I find...
"Ask About Me" was a sick ass joint! How would I know that if I had not listened to any of the album cuts?
The rest of the tracks---filler
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I swear from when it came out was the dayz I used to just hang out at the record store all day after school. Blockbuster (Music store) would let you sit at a listening station and listen to albums.
So I thought, what the hell, "Rhymes like Weight" is a banger, and Ice Cube seems like a rapper who is giving it a good try, and so me being the nice guy that I am I gave the rest of the album a chance...
What did I find...
"Ask About Me" was a sick ass joint! How would I know that if I had not listened to any of the album cuts?
The rest of the tracks---filler
emotional bias
you went into it thinking you'll "give it a try" and that you were "being nice" for checking a new cube album ... you weren't hyped for it, so you weren't guna like it regardless, because you're an energy driven dude, and your energy was likely low when u listened to it.
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Nobody gonna mention Until We Rich feat Krayzie Bone? It's radio friendly pop type song, but I loved it back in the day, still do.
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Nobody gonna mention Until We Rich feat Krayzie Bone? It's radio friendly pop type song, but I loved it back in the day, still do.
yet another dope single from an album of filler from Cube
...yeah I said it.
I mean I know Cube is a legend and he's one of my childhood heroes as well. I mean that "Today Was A Good Day" joint was running right alongside The Chronic summer of 93' when I was first becoming a hip-hop head, and of course my older brothers friends in the neighborhood would mention how Dre and Cube were basically from the same tree with NWA
...So Cube is right up there with everyone else.
And I'm not even claiming to have an objective opinion here. Especially in regards to like his earlier work the guy was known for putting in work to produce quality albums and not just hot singles. He's a true artist.
But the albums just didn't hit for me. The singles definitely hit.
But take another West Coast artist like Xzibit for comparison. Ice Cube is like a household name, Xzibit is like on the cusp of that but not the legend and icon that Cube is. Yet; Xzibit I always thought Xzibit's album cuts were significantly better than Cubes. That's why I have Xzibit in my top 5 and Cube can't even crack my top 10 or 20. He's in my top 30 though
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yet another dope single from an album of filler from Cube
...yeah I said it.
I mean I know Cube is a legend and he's one of my childhood heroes as well. I mean that "Today Was A Good Day" joint was running right alongside The Chronic summer of 93' when I was first becoming a hip-hop head, and of course my older brothers friends in the neighborhood would mention how Dre and Cube were basically from the same tree with NWA
...So Cube is right up there with everyone else.
And I'm not even claiming to have an objective opinion here. Especially in regards to like his earlier work the guy was known for putting in work to produce quality albums and not just hot singles. He's a true artist.
But the albums just didn't hit for me. The singles definitely hit.
But take another West Coast artist like Xzibit for comparison. Ice Cube is like a household name, Xzibit is like on the cusp of that but not the legend and icon that Cube is. Yet; Xzibit I always thought Xzibit's album cuts were significantly better than Cubes. That's why I have Xzibit in my top 5 and Cube can't even crack my top 10 or 20. He's in my top 30 though
I agree with you in that Lethal Injection was the last full length Ice Cube album I enjoyed (Bootlegs and B Sides was good too, but not really an album). His subsequent albums had good songs here and there, but I was not a fan of his Don Mega persona and he carried that into many of his future albums.
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yet another dope single from an album of filler from Cube
...yeah I said it.
I mean I know Cube is a legend and he's one of my childhood heroes as well. I mean that "Today Was A Good Day" joint was running right alongside The Chronic summer of 93' when I was first becoming a hip-hop head, and of course my older brothers friends in the neighborhood would mention how Dre and Cube were basically from the same tree with NWA
...So Cube is right up there with everyone else.
And I'm not even claiming to have an objective opinion here. Especially in regards to like his earlier work the guy was known for putting in work to produce quality albums and not just hot singles. He's a true artist.
But the albums just didn't hit for me. The singles definitely hit.
But take another West Coast artist like Xzibit for comparison. Ice Cube is like a household name, Xzibit is like on the cusp of that but not the legend and icon that Cube is. Yet; Xzibit I always thought Xzibit's album cuts were significantly better than Cubes. That's why I have Xzibit in my top 5 and Cube can't even crack my top 10 or 20. He's in my top 30 though
Cube's peak was already over by the time I really got into hip hop heavy so I understand what you mean
I would go back and listen to the his albums of course but it doesn't really hit the same as when you hear it in real time
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yet another dope single from an album of filler from Cube
...yeah I said it.
I mean I know Cube is a legend and he's one of my childhood heroes as well. I mean that "Today Was A Good Day" joint was running right alongside The Chronic summer of 93' when I was first becoming a hip-hop head, and of course my older brothers friends in the neighborhood would mention how Dre and Cube were basically from the same tree with NWA
...So Cube is right up there with everyone else.
And I'm not even claiming to have an objective opinion here. Especially in regards to like his earlier work the guy was known for putting in work to produce quality albums and not just hot singles. He's a true artist.
But the albums just didn't hit for me. The singles definitely hit.
But take another West Coast artist like Xzibit for comparison. Ice Cube is like a household name, Xzibit is like on the cusp of that but not the legend and icon that Cube is. Yet; Xzibit I always thought Xzibit's album cuts were significantly better than Cubes. That's why I have Xzibit in my top 5 and Cube can't even crack my top 10 or 20. He's in my top 30 though
amerikkkaz most wanted
death certificate
the predator
lethal injection
bow down
all classix front 2 back
since then he's had a bunch of albums that range from ok to great ..... but those 5 are undeniable
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Hello!
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I think Peace is very consistent and full of bangers, including Until We Rich.
I love his rare stuff like Raider Nation, Concrete, and his freestyles on Crazy Toones mixtapes.