You can run but you can't hide Westside Nightstalker, shit-talker, run and tell them Mr. L.M Nigga with a gat and I'm back Off the everyday prey that I slay Rolling with a flotation through South Central Monkey wrench ho' should know that she'll get the Bozack Cause I'm not starvin' but fuck that Johnny Carson ho' Never had me on the Late Night Show Comin' with the shit that'll hit Steady Mobbin' cuz the flavor's good There goes the neighborhood Nigga with the third album How come he don't fall off Rollin' wit the the sawed-off gauge Turn the page of the chapter, caught up in the rapture But you know Anita, she can get the peter Eat em' yum and you're floored Mutha fuck Billboard and the editor Here comes the Predator
Check your head for the new style Fuck Lawrence Powell and Briseno, Wind, and Koon Pretty soon we'll fuck them like they fucked us and won't kiss em' Riots ain't nothin' but diets for the system Fightin' with the beast, no justice, no peace If any, even if we fuck up Denny Niggas are sick of your white man's tricks with no treat That's right now it's on on sight You called me a Muslim, no I'm not a resident still got my vote in Farrakhan for President of white America I'm tearin' ya a new asshole Who's the nigga with the new black Strollin' to your suburb house and I douse with gas Now who's cleanin' up trash? Eat em' yum and you're floored Mutha fuck Billboard and the editor Here comes the Predator
Got my black rag showin' and I'm whorin' Ira Reiner Can kiss my grits like Flo on Mel's Diner I'm meaner than a muthafuckin' hyena chasin' antelope Put my chrome to ya' dome watch it bust like a cantalope I can't stand a rope, so don't try to hang em' Talk about dogs, Boy I can slang em' Rat-a-tat-tat on your noggin Cause Ice'll cream yo' ass like Haagen Dazs Chocolate I get crazy when I catch wreck Even be flippin' the tongue like diggety dung Das Efx So who is Ice Cube? I'm a rapper, actor, macker Got a little problem with the redneck cracker Get the tallywhacker, Jerry Heller is a devil shit-packer Comin' wit a crazy pitch Statue of Liberty ain't nothin but a lazy bitch Don't want to give up the crack to the black But you'll call it racial if we go and rape the ho' But eat em' yum and you're floored Mutha fuck Billboard and the editor I am the Predator
Damn. I'm broke. My feet hurt. (Inside the mind of a car jacker) And that bitch is slippin. It makes me wanna..creep. It makes me wanna..creep.
[Verse One]
Damn, I'm such a G it's pathetic Here comes the big-headed Nigga that's dippin Sippin on Courvoisier Goddamn I must havta floss today Now pimpin aint easy but it's necessary So I'm chasin bitches like Tom chased Jerry I'll put the pedal to the flo-uh In my two-tone Ford Explo-uh You know how it's done Sounds bumpin Ain't that sumthin? Jumped on the 110 She's flyin in the Blazer Like "Go Speed Racer" But I ain't gonna chase her Like Racer X But I won't flex Til it's time to have sex So when you wanna get togetha? Cause you know a nigga like me Is down for whatever
And I'm down for whatever
[Verse Two]
When I was little I didn't wanna be like Mike I wanted to be like Ike Cause Papa Was A Rolling Stone in the sixties And he liked green like Bill Bixby Told me that my best friend was a ten and a twenty Pokets never skinny Played let's get it on in the living room Cause he'll turn the party out sayin, "This is MY muthafuckin house" And y'all gots to go Through the door And if you can't find the door He'll help you with the four-four Talkin much shit on the grass And straight down to blast I'm still in my p.j.'s He's in a turtleneck sweater And we down for whatever
And I'm down Solid Pro is down for whatever The Don Jaguar is down for whatever And it don't seem to stop
[Verse Three]
Now I don't talk a lot of shit But when it's time to get busy with these hos, let's go Cause I'd rather see a skinhead dead Then my niggas wearin blue or red Cause I got the gift To hit these hos swift And I'm smellin like a fifth Of sumthin Yeah, that's right I'm standin in the store Koreans Act so nice Cause I got potentials to blow up a Winchells Donut And you know what? I'm Cool Like Dat like Digable Planets But don't take a nigga for granted Cause whether it's a verdict of the L.A. four You just don't know That this rappin-ass nigga will change with the weather And be down for whatever
[Outro]
And I'm down Creep. And I'm down for whatever
Ice Cube - devoid of pop And I will never dance for you trick-ass niggas
It makes me wanna..creep. It makes me wanna..creep.
Damn. I'm broke. My feet hurt. (Inside the mind of a car jacker) And that bitch is slippin. It makes me wanna..creep. It makes me wanna..creep.
[Verse One]
Damn, I'm such a G it's pathetic Here comes the big-headed Nigga that's dippin Sippin on Courvoisier Goddamn I must havta floss today Now pimpin aint easy but it's necessary So I'm chasin bitches like Tom chased Jerry I'll put the pedal to the flo-uh In my two-tone Ford Explo-uh You know how it's done Sounds bumpin Ain't that sumthin? Jumped on the 110 She's flyin in the Blazer Like "Go Speed Racer" But I ain't gonna chase her Like Racer X But I won't flex Til it's time to have sex So when you wanna get togetha? Cause you know a nigga like me Is down for whatever
And I'm down for whatever
Anyone else think those Madness 4 Real beats were weak? I've always wondered how their beats got picked by Ice Cube, Eazy, etc.
AMW, but of course DC is an all-time great as well. AMW hit the streets like an H-bomb when it 1st came out... hard to top the best producers in the east teaming up with the best rapper from the wesside and having the schitt actually EXCEED the high expectations that everybody had for the album.
Cube dropping his brew =
The whole concept for DC was ... very at that time I knew that when he cut his curl off dude was gonna start going downhill, though... it was only a matter of time
Both are great pieces but imma have to say AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.
When The Ni**a You Love To Hate came on after the intro, I saw he still had that raw fire from NWA. I mean, you could really tell by the lyrics/beats Cube was still angry/frustrated or whatever you wanna call it, which made for a masterpiece of an album. Cube + Bomb Squad was a genius move as well. I think Cube saw how it worked for P.E.
Both are great pieces but imma have to say AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.
When The Ni**a You Love To Hate came on after the intro, I saw he still had that raw fire from NWA. I mean, you could really tell by the lyrics/beats Cube was still angry/frustrated or whatever you wanna call it, which made for a masterpiece of an album.
Most of the songs on AMW were originally intended to be on the follow up to NWA's "Straight Out Of Compton" album... it's been awhile since I listened so I don't remember for sure, but I think there are some lyrics on there where you can tell it was originally supposed to be for NWA, but he had to change it up a little after he defected from the group
at that time I knew that when he cut his curl off dude was gonna start going downhill, though... it was only a matter of time
That's an interesting backdrop about some/or all tracks suppose to be on a NWA album.
Ha, I was also gonna add when he had the curl, he was a bad mofo....and when that shiet was cut off, his lyrics didn't have that punch as AMW and NWA and even his Macola days. For the record though, I also like DC and Predator, but after that, I lost interest. Lethal was aiight.
Does anyone like Amerikka's more than Public Enemy's albums? Whenever I heard that Bomb Squad production I was like.... I wish it was Chuck & Flavor.
My boy always called that the last good P.E. album, cause the next P.E. album wasnt as hot. Dude blew their loads on AMW.
that was most definitely the general consensus at the time... which is why i'm surprised that so many people these days (well, on SS anyway) rate Fear Of A Black Planet as PE's best album. Most people back then felt that FOABP wasn't even close to fuckin' with Cube's AMW, let alone It Takes A Nation (not that FOABP didn't have a lot of PE's best work, like Terrordome etc.). One thing about the production of AMW, btw... it seems I remember either reading or being told that Sir Jinx had a LOT to do with the sound of AMW. From what I heard it was Jinx and Vietnam Saddler who really made that record what it was music-wise. That would explain why the next Cube album (which was totally produced by Jinx, right?) was as good as it was... stylistically a little different but really no drop off in quality
Does anyone like Amerikka's more than Public Enemy's albums? Whenever I heard that Bomb Squad production I was like.... I wish it was Chuck & Flavor.
My boy always called that the last good P.E. album, cause the next P.E. album wasnt as hot. Dude blew their loads on AMW.
I think Amerikka's would have been good material for PE, but I'm not about to start pretending I don't love Apocalype `91.
91 < Fear/Nations/Yo! By the time 91 dropped the landscape for P.E. had changed.
Terminator X & The Valley Of The Jeep Beets > other shit from 1991
BAN.
I like Valley but better than most of the 91 stuff. U R buggin!
Well I didn't say "most", but I'm sayin' coming off the heels of 2 classics like FOABP and AMW, there is bound to be some disappointment in Apocalypse `91 and Jeep Beets as follow ups but they were still solid, just not 5 star best-of-genre classics.
Man I remember when they wanted to ban "Death Certificate" because the racial overtones about koreans/rodney king/LA riots at the time shocked people!!
Does anyone like Amerikka's more than Public Enemy's albums? Whenever I heard that Bomb Squad production I was like.... I wish it was Chuck & Flavor.
My boy always called that the last good P.E. album, cause the next P.E. album wasnt as hot. Dude blew their loads on AMW.
I think Amerikka's would have been good material for PE, but I'm not about to start pretending I don't love Apocalype `91.
91 < Fear/Nations/Yo! By the time 91 dropped the landscape for P.E. had changed.
Terminator X & The Valley Of The Jeep Beets > other shit from 1991
BAN.
I like Valley but better than most of the 91 stuff. U R buggin!
Well I didn't say "most", but I'm sayin' coming off the heels of 2 classics like FOABP and AMW, there is bound to be some disappointment in Apocalypse `91 and Jeep Beets as follow ups but they were still solid, just not 5 star best-of-genre classics. How low you really rate this stuff?
Terminator X & the Valley of the Jeep Beats is nowhere near Nations/AMW/DC/YO!
If some one asked me for Bomb Squad stuff Valley wouldnt get presented. Now in my private mind garden Valley has some shit that didnt get love - like Cant Take My Style & that song w/ the 2 female mc's & No Further is my shit,Buck Whylin is a given, but overall i couldnt include this w/ the genre defining classics.
AMW and DC are on the same level quality-wise (meaning classic). I got AMW as my favorite, because it hit me so hard when it came out. Classic rhymes. Fuck the system attitude b/w some nice storytelling. Classic beats. Funky as hell.
Check the sleeve again. Sir Jinx is responsible for what looks like 50% of the production work. He definetely deserves some accolades for his work on that album.
@Batmon & Cinister Cee. Hey, I like reading your posts, but can't you guys just quote the relevant passages instead of the previous 7 posts in their entirety? A whole page of quoted text followed by a "" reply is a bit . Not trying to be a nazi about it, just saying.
I used to have this set of crappy headphones back that I was used in the late 80s/early 90s. Around the time when AMW came out, they started acting up. A bad connection or something. When I started fondling the cable or the jackplug the sound would go into some phase inverted state where certain elements in the music dissapeared and other elements suddenly stood out solo.
This was mostly noticable with Bomb Squad produced records. All these strange layers that you didn't notice before now became clear as day, i.e. little guitar licks, backwards sounds, noise samples, subtle scratches etc that were masked sonically. It sounded pretty wild, and it was bugging me out. Started listening to all the Bomb Squad stuff with those faulty headphones. Son Of Bazerk, Fear Of A Black Planet, Valley Of The Jeep Beats. The weirdest details were coming out, and it gave me another perspective on how those guys were layering their beats.
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You can run but you can't hide Westside
Nightstalker, shit-talker, run and tell them Mr. L.M
Nigga with a gat and I'm back
Off the everyday prey that I slay
Rolling with a flotation through South Central
Monkey wrench ho' should know that she'll get the Bozack
Cause I'm not starvin' but fuck that Johnny Carson ho'
Never had me on the Late Night Show
Comin' with the shit that'll hit
Steady Mobbin' cuz the flavor's good
There goes the neighborhood
Nigga with the third album
How come he don't fall off
Rollin' wit the the sawed-off gauge
Turn the page of the chapter, caught up in the rapture
But you know Anita, she can get the peter
Eat em' yum and you're floored
Mutha fuck Billboard and the editor
Here comes the Predator
Check your head for the new style
Fuck Lawrence Powell and Briseno, Wind, and Koon
Pretty soon we'll fuck them like they fucked us and won't kiss em'
Riots ain't nothin' but diets for the system
Fightin' with the beast, no justice, no peace
If any, even if we fuck up Denny
Niggas are sick of your white man's tricks with no treat
That's right now it's on on sight
You called me a Muslim, no I'm not a resident still got my vote in
Farrakhan for President of white America I'm tearin' ya a new asshole
Who's the nigga with the new black
Strollin' to your suburb house and I douse with gas
Now who's cleanin' up trash?
Eat em' yum and you're floored
Mutha fuck Billboard and the editor
Here comes the Predator
Got my black rag showin' and I'm whorin' Ira Reiner
Can kiss my grits like Flo on Mel's Diner
I'm meaner than a muthafuckin' hyena chasin' antelope
Put my chrome to ya' dome watch it bust like a cantalope
I can't stand a rope, so don't try to hang em'
Talk about dogs, Boy I can slang em'
Rat-a-tat-tat on your noggin
Cause Ice'll cream yo' ass like Haagen Dazs Chocolate
I get crazy when I catch wreck
Even be flippin' the tongue like diggety dung Das Efx
So who is Ice Cube?
I'm a rapper, actor, macker
Got a little problem with the redneck cracker
Get the tallywhacker, Jerry Heller is a devil shit-packer
Comin' wit a crazy pitch
Statue of Liberty ain't nothin but a lazy bitch
Don't want to give up the crack to the black
But you'll call it racial if we go and rape the ho'
But eat em' yum and you're floored
Mutha fuck Billboard and the editor
I am the Predator
I'm broke.
My feet hurt.
(Inside the mind of a car jacker)
And that bitch is slippin.
It makes me wanna..creep.
It makes me wanna..creep.
[Verse One]
Damn, I'm such a G it's pathetic
Here comes the big-headed
Nigga that's dippin
Sippin on Courvoisier
Goddamn I must havta floss today
Now pimpin aint easy but it's necessary
So I'm chasin bitches like Tom chased Jerry
I'll put the pedal to the flo-uh
In my two-tone Ford Explo-uh
You know how it's done
Sounds bumpin
Ain't that sumthin?
Jumped on the 110
She's flyin in the Blazer
Like "Go Speed Racer"
But I ain't gonna chase her
Like Racer X
But I won't flex
Til it's time to have sex
So when you wanna get togetha?
Cause you know a nigga like me
Is down for whatever
And I'm down for whatever
[Verse Two]
When I was little I didn't wanna be like Mike
I wanted to be like Ike
Cause
Papa Was A Rolling Stone in the sixties
And he liked green like Bill Bixby
Told me that my best friend was a ten and a twenty
Pokets never skinny
Played let's get it on in the living room
Cause he'll turn the party out sayin, "This is MY muthafuckin house"
And y'all gots to go
Through the door
And if you can't find the door
He'll help you with the four-four
Talkin much shit on the grass
And straight down to blast
I'm still in my p.j.'s
He's in a turtleneck sweater
And we down for whatever
And I'm down
Solid Pro is down for whatever
The Don Jaguar is down for whatever
And it don't seem to stop
[Verse Three]
Now
I don't talk a lot of shit
But when it's time to get busy with these hos, let's go
Cause I'd rather see a skinhead dead
Then my niggas wearin blue or red
Cause I got the gift
To hit these hos swift
And I'm smellin like a fifth
Of sumthin
Yeah, that's right
I'm standin in the store
Koreans
Act so nice
Cause I got potentials to blow up a Winchells
Donut
And you know what?
I'm Cool Like Dat like Digable Planets
But don't take a nigga for granted
Cause whether it's a verdict of the L.A. four
You just don't know
That this rappin-ass nigga will change with the weather
And be down for whatever
[Outro]
And I'm down
Creep.
And I'm down for whatever
Ice Cube - devoid of pop
And I will never dance for you trick-ass niggas
It makes me wanna..creep.
It makes me wanna..creep.
Anyone else think those Madness 4 Real beats were weak? I've always wondered how their beats got picked by Ice Cube, Eazy, etc.
Kool Keith did the Black Elvis/Lost In Space dichotomy thang as well.
Did LL do Bad/Badder sides on BAD?
Just wonderin'
yup
Cube dropping his brew =
The whole concept for DC was
I knew that when he cut his curl off dude was gonna start going downhill, though... it was only a matter of time
god damn straight it is... I'll add that Cube is one of if not the best to do it.
top 10 g.o.a.t.
When The Ni**a You Love To Hate came on after the intro, I saw he still had that raw fire from NWA. I mean, you could really tell by the lyrics/beats Cube was still angry/frustrated or whatever you wanna call it, which made for a masterpiece of an album. Cube + Bomb Squad was a genius move as well. I think Cube saw how it worked for P.E.
Truth
That record IS California 1990. Perfect representation.
Most of the songs on AMW were originally intended to be on the follow up to NWA's "Straight Out Of Compton" album... it's been awhile since I listened so I don't remember for sure, but I think there are some lyrics on there where you can tell it was originally supposed to be for NWA, but he had to change it up a little after he defected from the group
That's an interesting backdrop about some/or all tracks suppose to be on a NWA album.
Ha, I was also gonna add when he had the curl, he was a bad mofo....and when that shiet was cut off, his lyrics didn't have that punch as AMW and NWA and even his Macola days. For the record though, I also like DC and Predator, but after that, I lost interest. Lethal was aiight.
I love that layer of Latifah " ah-way " in the True To The Game beat.
Does anyone like Amerikka's more than Public Enemy's albums? Whenever I heard that Bomb Squad production I was like.... I wish it was Chuck & Flavor.
My boy always called that the last good P.E. album, cause the next P.E. album wasnt as hot. Dude blew their loads on AMW.
I think Amerikka's would have been good material for PE, but I'm not about to start pretending I don't love Apocalype `91.
91 < Fear/Nations/Yo! By the time 91 dropped the landscape for P.E. had changed.
that was most definitely the general consensus at the time... which is why i'm surprised that so many people these days (well, on SS anyway) rate Fear Of A Black Planet as PE's best album. Most people back then felt that FOABP wasn't even close to fuckin' with Cube's AMW, let alone It Takes A Nation (not that FOABP didn't have a lot of PE's best work, like Terrordome etc.).
One thing about the production of AMW, btw... it seems I remember either reading or being told that Sir Jinx had a LOT to do with the sound of AMW. From what I heard it was Jinx and Vietnam Saddler who really made that record what it was music-wise. That would explain why the next Cube album (which was totally produced by Jinx, right?) was as good as it was... stylistically a little different but really no drop off in quality
Terminator X & The Valley Of The Jeep Beets > other shit from 1991
BAN.
I like Valley but better than most of the 91 stuff. U R buggin!
Well I didn't say "most", but I'm sayin' coming off the heels of 2 classics like FOABP and AMW, there is bound to be some disappointment in Apocalypse `91 and Jeep Beets as follow ups but they were still solid, just not 5 star best-of-genre classics.
How low you really rate this stuff?
Terminator X & the Valley of the Jeep Beats is nowhere near Nations/AMW/DC/YO!
If some one asked me for Bomb Squad stuff Valley wouldnt get presented.
Now in my private mind garden Valley has some shit that didnt get love - like
Cant Take My Style & that song w/ the 2 female mc's & No Further is my shit,Buck Whylin is a given, but overall i couldnt include this w/ the genre defining classics.
Check the sleeve again. Sir Jinx is responsible for what looks like 50% of the production work. He definetely deserves some accolades for his work on that album.
@Batmon & Cinister Cee. Hey, I like reading your posts, but can't you guys just quote the relevant passages instead of the previous 7 posts in their entirety? A whole page of quoted text followed by a "
I used to have this set of crappy headphones back that I was used in the late 80s/early 90s. Around the time when AMW came out, they started acting up. A bad connection or something. When I started fondling the cable or the jackplug
This was mostly noticable with Bomb Squad produced records. All these strange layers that you didn't notice before now became clear as day, i.e. little guitar licks, backwards sounds, noise samples, subtle scratches etc that were masked sonically. It sounded pretty wild, and it was bugging me out. Started listening to all the Bomb Squad stuff with those faulty headphones. Son Of Bazerk, Fear Of A Black Planet, Valley Of The Jeep Beats. The weirdest details were coming out, and it gave me another perspective on how those guys were layering their beats.