Hey, remember when Ice Cube was a bad motherfucker? I don't fault him for going Eddie Murphey, but he's got more than a handful of gangsta classics to his name that are more fascinating than the Are We There Yet? series. They're violent and misogynistic, but Cube's got a way with words. The violence is offset by a perverse sense of humor throughout, as on "It's a Man's World," "The Nigga Ya Love to Hate" and "A Gangsta's Fairytale." As summer blockbuster viewers say to turn your brain off when watching Transformers, one has to put aside political correct instincts aside when listening to early Ice Cube. We don't make rational decisions when we're angry, and Ice Cube circa 1990 is one angry motherfucker. (The Kill at Will EP is a worthy followup tacked on as a bonus to the CD reissue).
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