Ice Cube - Death Certificate
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Rolling Stone Rating: 4
When N.W.A's main lyricist, Ice Cube, left the group in 1989, he joined forces with the crew closest to himself in temperament: Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad. The resulting collaboration, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, was beautiful anarchy, a mercilessly funky record that combined politics and street credibility at a time when the two notions were not mutually exclusive in hip-hop. The follow-up, Death Certificate, produced by him and West Coast cohorts such as Sir Jinx, preserved that chaos. It also contains two of Cube's most vitriolic political statements: "I Wanna Kill Sam" and "A Bird in the Hand,"...
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