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What Is A Pyroclastic Flow?
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I Got My Locs On
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It Takes A Nation
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Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
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Hood Mentality
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Why Me?
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Cold Places
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Jack N The Box
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Do Ya Thang
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Thank God
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Here He Come
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Get Money, Spend Money, No Money
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Get Use To It
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Tomorrow
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Stand Tall
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Take Me Away
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album review
Dealing with the good, the bad, and especially the ugly, Raw Footage is an appropriate title for Ice Cube's eighth album. Some kind of subtitle that mentioned the yin and yang of life would have made it perfect because the tracks here are as inclined to paradoxes as the man himself and offer just as few excuses. If you want insight into how a man justifies making family fun movies by day and hardcore rap by night, the only answer offered is that you grow up in this cruel world and you deal any way you know how, something that drives the great "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It." This key track may not be "fair and balanced," but it's honest and revealing as Cube embraces what he wants from the good -- a literate life that damns those who "read your first book in the penitentiary" -- and the commonly accepted bad as he attacks Oprah and everyone else who has a problem with hardcore rap using the "N" word. The 187 in "Why Me?" could be a metaphor for the attacks from Cube's detractors ("You want to take the life God handed to me/Send it back to him 'cuz you ain't a fan of me") while "Jack in the Box" suggests he's already won the war with "Fool, I'm the greatest/You just the latest/I'm loved by your grandmamma/And your babies." The album's guiding principle, "only thing I expect is self-check," is dropped in "Get Money, Spend Money, No Money," but the great news is that all these standoffish and self-serving rhymes are written with that whipsmart wit and sit on a bed of wonderfully minimal beats from lesser knowns like Young Fokus and Emile. The only time things sound slick are when an Eddie Kendricks sample meets Angie Stone's vocals on "Hood Mentality," or when the so-big-in-2008 Young Jeezy shows up for the disappointing and out of place "I Got My Locs On." The bombastic intro and interludes with Keith David could go too, but otherwise this no-answers, gritty ego trip will satisfy his fans while pushing everyone else away even further. ~ David Jeffries, All Music Guide
more albums by this artist
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- Laugh Now, Cry Later (Parental Advisory)
- Released 2006
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- Greatest Hits (Parental Advisory)
- Released 2001
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- The Predator
- Released 1992
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- The Predator (Parental Advisory)
- Released 2003
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clowns enjoying some cube
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- By zombiepoptarts
- 6/3/2009 07:48:36
- so once in a while i gotta lay off the underground ICP and kottonmouth kings, and Ice cube is my ticket, this dude can jam
see even people down with the clown can enjoy different music, this is some rap right here - Be the first person to rate this review!
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He stay on his...
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- By BigVeney24
- 3/2/2009 00:05:54
- Grizzly for real. His best move was going solo, and I'm glad he never looked back!
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real good
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- By sami786
- 12/26/2008 23:29:26
- this album has risen ice cube thru the ranks
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raw footage
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- By GGNRottenPieces
- 12/21/2008 19:01:03
- cube did it again
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Nice
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- By KCSupaman
- 8/27/2008 00:23:17
- Cube, u did it man!
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