West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: HBKid_Jr on July 16, 2002, 10:41:35 PM
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When ever people talk about greatest of all-time it seems cube gets mentioned rarely even among west coast heads. This guy is a pioneer in tha rap game. He has 1 group classic an 1 dope as fuck group album. 2 solo classic's, 2 dope as fuck solo albums, one average an one real shitty album. Did his last 2 albums hurt his legacy that much or is that he jus dont rap no more. Its a shame, cuz eastcoast heads still show mad love to peeps like big daddy kane an rakim but no1 talks about what cube did 4 tha game. Cube deserves much more credit. he is one of tha top 5 rappers of all-time. Is it his movie career or suptin
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thats very true... its like cube always seems forgotten.. i dont know why though coz he is a livin legend in the music biz and is among the best.. good question tom ;)
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its the Movie Career I guess
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^^^
Jay says it. The problem is that when you hear about Ice Cube in the last years, then it is about a MOVIE with him and not about a new ALBUM by him...
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Cube is definitely one of the greats... i'd put him right up there in terms of influence... but i havent liked much of his work since Lethal Injection... that's still 5 dope solos, a dope group (NWA) album and a lot of influence on the west. the fact that its been years since he put out a dope album doesnt help... since most hip-hop heads today were children when he was in his prime.
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i think its beacause he never was on Death row and aint a DPG..
cause thats all we talk about here :)
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cause thats all we talk about here :)
I dont think Tom was talkin about the board, I think the people in general never mention Cube.
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Cube is a legend but his last two albums hit his reputation very hard.
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Cube is a LEGEND and I think it's ignorance (people just don't know who he is and what he's done in the game). I think the Commercial Game has eliminated the the TRUE MC's in the GAME.
Botton Line: He's one of the Top 5 MC's OF ALL TIME
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There is no sensible explination that Cube doesn't enjoy the same amount of recognition that others do. I think it's just because when the West was big (he was a main reason I believe) but he was doing political songs while everyone else was just doing hoes/indo shit. And that's what was selling. How often do his political songs get mentioned, rather than It Was a Good Day or You Know How We Do It? I love those songs, but I also love Us, True to the Game, Dead Homiez, The Product. And those are never mentioned. I think his movie career has hurt, but I can't see how Amerikkka's Most Wanted, Kill at Will, Death Certificate can be overlooked because of that. Also the fact that he was in his prime before the West hit big might have something to do with it, I don't know. He's my favorite rapper so I can't look at this objectively.
peace,
tnp
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Cube has a very secure place in hip-hop history, no-one can take away what he's achieved and brought to the game over the years, he's a legend and a pioneer but I think with all the younger and new cats bursting through these days it seems to overshadow some of the older cats that havn't been releasing regular material. Especially nowadays when there's alot of younger hip-hop fans that don't necesserily know about the pioneers and old skool cats because their too young, and they prolly only know of him from his movies. I'm sure when he drops some new material he'll get back the recognition he deserves from older and younger heads.
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I love cube. Hes such a good rapper/actor. His tracks are so dope. The tracks I like from cube include
Ghetto Bird
You know how we do it
It was a good day
Until we rich
Hello
All classic tracks
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Times done changed... The kids don't know shit about Cube.
"The Game - don't - wait."
"But now we got a new era of gangstas, hustlas 'n youngstas livin' amongst us... Lookin' at us now, callin' us bustas, can't help to reminess back when it was us..."
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what r u talking about, see there u r giving Dre props instead of cube.
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Botton Line: He's one of the Top 5 MC's OF ALL TIME
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He will always get props from me. I never understood why he isn't considered one of the greats.
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Cube is definitely a top five M.C.
Pac, Cube and Face will always be my top favorite rappers.
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Cube does always get overlooked it seems. I wonder if it's cause newer hip hop fans have only heard his last 2 albums? I can honestly say I wouldn't be a cube fan based solely on those albums. Anyways, top 3 for me fo sho.
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for sure Cube is among top 5 of all time!
but watch out for that new WSC album!!!!
Cube will be mentioned again!!!
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for sure Cube is among top 5 of all time!
but watch out for that new WSC album!!!!
Cube will be mentioned again!!!
i hope so...
but i don't think so...
cause everybody is just watchin out what's goin at the DPG - Death Row camp...
and about snoop & dre...
homies are too young to realize who's da OG in dis game !!!
peace
GT
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what r u talking about, see there u r giving Dre props instead of cube.
uhhh hes just quoting sum lyrics [which were written by EM btw] which goes with what he was saying....
Yeah i agree, Cube doesnt get much respect, kids dont even know who tha fuk he was apart from the fact that hes an actor, hes a legend, put out sum great music and influcned rap in a lotta ways, peace
-{bLaDe}
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1.NWA - "NWA & The Posse" = Classic
2.NWA - "Straight Outta Compton" = Classic
3.Ice Cube - "AmeriKKKas Most Wanted" = Classic
4.Ice Cube - "Kill at Will" = Classic
5.Ice Cube - "Death Certificate" = Classic
6.Ice Cube - "The Predator" = Near Classic
7.Ice Cube - "Lethal Injection" = Near Classic
8.West Side Connection - "Bow Down" = Extremely Near Classic
9.Ice Cube - "The War Disc" = Near Classic (Amazing and Underated as fuck)
10.Ice Cube - "The Peace Disc" = Average (Doper than 90% of the hip hop albums being put out)
11.Ice Cube - "Greatest Hits" = Average (Basically its some bullshit put together too make money which shouldnt have any affect on Cube's career)
Now after all that I hear people (Including you Tom) hollering how Cube should "Hang it up on the West"....Now how sad is that?
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cubes tha shit, but yea he dont get his props. most everything he drop is hot.....
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props to tom for makin this thread, i duno if u remember tom but i was tellin u this exact same shit a lil while ago, man CUBE is a legend, and is def in my top 5, i hate it when people sleep on him i got all of his albums and his shit always gets played, cube is truly amazing
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props to tom for makin this thread, i duno if u remember tom but i was tellin u this exact same shit a lil while ago, man CUBE is a legend, and is def in my top 5, i hate it when people sleep on him i got all of his albums and his shit always gets played, cube is truly amazing
word well said
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1.NWA - "NWA & The Posse" = Classic
2.NWA - "Straight Outta Compton" = Classic
3.Ice Cube - "AmeriKKKas Most Wanted" = Classic
4.Ice Cube - "Kill at Will" = Classic
5.Ice Cube - "Death Certificate" = Classic
6.Ice Cube - "The Predator" = Near Classic
7.Ice Cube - "Lethal Injection" = Near Classic
8.West Side Connection - "Bow Down" = Extremely Near Classic
9.Ice Cube - "The War Disc" = Near Classic (Amazing and Underated as fuck)
10.Ice Cube - "The Peace Disc" = Average (Doper than 90% of the hip hop albums being put out)
11.Ice Cube - "Greatest Hits" = Average (Basically its some bullshit put together too make money which shouldnt have any affect on Cube's career)
word man !!!
the war disc is undarrated as fuck man !!!
same to the peace disc...it's betta than most other shit out there...
nice post man ;D
peace
GT
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Cube is an OG a legend, i agree TOM
one of my favorite rappers, tight lyrics, classic songs
he wrote a lot of NWA's "straight outta compton" album, all his cds were basically tight, especially the old school ones, hes made TIGHT collabos with people
when some of the best rappers are to be mentioned, cube should defintiley be on the list, just peep the song...ummm"it was a good day" its classic and smooth, listen to "ghetto bird" the beat on that, tons of songs n albums