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Greatest Hits

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Ok let's be honest. We all know his songs like "Bow Down" & his reunited N.W.A. tracks will make you blow those factory speakers in your Yugo, but where's the other Ice Cube? If he would've done this right - as a box set - he could've added some of the stuff us real fans love: songs like "I Wanna Kill Sam", "Cave B*tch", and countless others that really make you want to start a sequel of the 1992 L.A. riots in your own lily white subdivision. Oh well, i guess there's always a chance we'll see a volume 2 in stores soon. My only beef with this album was the first new song he included on it. It's not even worthy of being on his 3rd greatest hits cd. Finally, if you're looking for another greatest hits compilation to buy i would highly recommend the "Skee-lo's greatest hits" cd. It's nice to have an entire cd i can listen to while i microwave popcorn.

This greatest hits album is a busting joke. They are missing so many hits from Ice Cube. They are Missing: It's A Man's World, Dead Homiez, Colorblind, No Vaseline, Wicked, How To Survive In South Central, Trespass, Really Doe, Natural Born Killaz, Ghetto Bird, LAst Wordz with 2pac, Westside Slaughterhouse,Higher, Friday, Greed, Chin Check, and Gurillas In Tha Mist. They are missing so many. Why are they acting so dumb? This should have been a 2 disc compilation, because all of the tracks that are missing equals another disc. Featuring...Ice Cube was better than this. Very disspointing.

As with every "Greatest Hits" in history, this is almost as good as it could have been. Do we really need mediocre NEW songs taking up "hits" disc space? Where is "Dirty Mack" and "Until we Rich"? The newer stuff isn't quite as good as the old. Chronological order would have been nice. Overall though, if you're looking for one Cube disc with most of the good stuff, this is it. Of course each album up through "The Predator" is classic. Check out the best of Ice-T too. Peace.

For the club,this greatest hits Cd is okay, but for someone who grew up listening to the "Old" Ice Cube you gotta include hits like "Who's the Mack" "Dead Homies" "Wicked" , some hits off of Kill at Will, and Lethal Injection too. It should've been done like a box set because Ice Cube have so many jams.

Although the 17-track Greatest Hits covers all phases of Ice Cube's solo career in an extremely balanced fashion, it isn't quite the last word on one of the most seminal figures in hardcore and gangsta rap. It is definitely a worthwhile purchase, since it collects all the best singles from Cube's more uneven latter-day efforts; there are also two new cuts (although "In the Late Night Hour" has a lot of rewritten N.W.A. rhymes) and a couple that have never appeared on an Ice Cube album: the soundtrack contribution "We Be Clubbin'" and the Westside Connection single "Bow Down" (which are nice for collectors but not all that essential). That occasional filler makes it all the more frustrating that the classic "Dead Homiez" is inexcusably nowhere to be found, and that it apparently wasn't possible to license Cube's duet with Dr. Dre on "Natural Born Killaz." Selection issues aside, the singles from the post-Predator era prove that in his best moments, Cube could be a credible radio-crossover artist and keep up with contemporary production trends. As a storyteller (a facet of his work that's underrepresented here), Cube had a knack for keenly observed detail, as evidenced on "Once Upon a Time in the Projects" and his laid-back masterpiece "It Was a Good Day." Still, it doesn't quite add up to a truly classic compilation. Perhaps the problem is that while Greatest Hits is a fine, listenable portrait of Ice Cube the sometime hitmaker and full-time hip-hop celebrity, it doesn't completely capture the provocative, incendiary qualities that made him an icon in the first place For a fully fleshed-out picture of Cube's career, though, Greatest Hits is a very good place to go.

This greatest hits album is so bad, it's not even funny. There are PLENTY of hits missing.These are the hits they are missing.

AMERIKKKA'S MOST WANTED (1990)
It's A Man's World (ft. Yo-yo)
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

KILL AT WILL EP
Dead Homiez

DEATH CERTIFICATE:
No Vaseline (Classic Diss, By The Way)
Colorblind
Us (My personal favorite song off the album that claims young black males need to wake up.)

THE PREDATOR:
Wicked

LETHAL INJECTION:
Lil Ass Gee
Really Doe
Ghetto Bird

BOYZ N THE HOOD SOUNDTRACK:
How To Survive In South Central

HIGHER LEARNING SOUNDTRACK:
Higher

FRIDAY SOUNDTRACK:
Friday

2PAC's STRICTLY FOR MY N.I.G.G.A.Z Album:
Last Wordz- 2PAC (FT. ICE CUBE and ICE -T)

MACK 10's SELF-TITLED ALBUM:
Westside Slaughterhouse- Mack 10 (ft. Ice Cube and WC)

NEXT FRIDAY SOUNDTRACK:
Chin Check (The N.W.A. Reunion)

SCARFACE's THE DIARY Album:
Hand Of THe Dead Body- Scarface (ft. Ice Cube)

PUBLIC ENEMY's FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET Album:
Burn Hollywood Burn- Public Enemy (ft. Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube)

And also, they should've included King Of THe Hill, the diss track Cube made referring to Cypress Hill.

This album has Ice Cube's main good hits, but are missing the deeper ones. For a person trying to buy this album, I suggest you get all four of the early Ice Cube Albums, and forget THe War Aad PEace Vol.1 and Vol.2 albums.

ANYWAY, WATCH OUT FOR ICE CUBE'S NEW ALBUM, LAUGH NOW, CRY LATER!

I like this greatest hits collection, but it's too obvious that few singles are missing, which would be "Really Doe", "Ghetto Bird", "Wicked" and "Friday". I could have done without "What Can I Do? Remix" and the two new songs.
Chronological order of the songs and the "We Be Clubbin' Remix" feat. DMX instead of the original would have been a cool addition as well. Other than that this collection is great, just shy of 5 stars. Ich Cube is one of the greatest. One

With mostly very good tracks on this collection of Ice Cube's greatest hits, I like to listen to it a lot. This contains songs from a while back, and also has more modern songs. Some the songs are made for the clubs, but some of 'em are just nice to listen to at home. My fav songs are 'Hello' feat. Dr. Dre and Mc Ren, 'You Can Do It' feat. Mack 10 and Ms. Toi, 'Check Yo Self (Remix)' feat. Das Efx, 'Once Upon A Time In The Projects', 'It Was A Good Day', 'We Be Clubbin', 'Bow Down' feat. Mack 10 and WC (This is actually one of their group songs on a CD of theirs), and 'In The Late Night Hour' feat. Pusha T (This song is very new school, so for fans solely of old school Ice Cube tracks, this probably won't be one of your favs.) I really like most of the tracks, and I'm going to listen to it more. Bottom Line: It's definitely worth the money even if I wouldn't rate it 5 stars.

Let me start off by saying that I think that 99 percent of hip hop today is pure and utter crap.However,there is that 1 percent of truly talented and good rappers out today.Im more into old school rap and he is probably the best ever.His beats and rhymes are very original unlike many rappers today.He also sings about many things in life unlike just rapping about bling bling and cars.This compilation is a good compilation with many of his classic hits.Its not a perfect compilation because its missing one or two songs,but its worth getting if you dont own all his albums.Thats it for now.

With West Coast hip-hop currently enjoying a prominence equal to its G-Funk heyday this Ice Cube retrospective is a timely reminder of just who was the real LA radical.

After walking out on seminal gansta' rap godfathers NWA in 1989 following a royalties dispute, Ice Cube embarked on a trio of albums that are amongst the best ever to emerge from the streets beneath LA's elevated roadways. 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted' made Ice Cube's manifesto abundantly clear: raw beats and hard-hitting, often militant, social commentary. Cube was turning the tools of his and Dre's gangsta creation - the first-person violent narratives - into politicised commentary on the increasingly decaying LA communities that surrounded him.

Crucially, it was the production genius of Public Enemy beatmakers, The Bomb Squad, that brought these urban tales into sharp focus. And, in many ways, Ice Cube's combination of sunny Clinton funk and crackling violence makes even better bedfellows with the Sadler/Shocklee sound than Chuck D's pointed political rhyming. For a while, Ice Cube was Chuck's dark cousin.

With 'Death Certificate' and 'The Predator' he didn't win himself any fans in the Jewish, gay or feminist communities and largely compromised the power of his political position with NOI and right-wing prejudices. Both were, however, unparalleled works of innovation and drama and remain largely unsurpassed in the West Coast hip-hop canon. As complete concepts - particularly 'Death Cerfificate' - they make Dr. Dre's 'Chronic' sound like a couple of singles and a lot of filler.

Things started to go wrong with 'Lethal Injection', by which time Snoop was becoming a global star of unprecedented proportions in the hip-hop world and G-Funk was bumping out of every car on every street. Ice Cube felt the pinch and, dispensing with the radical sonic fuzz crafted by the Bomb Squad, he took to the boards himself with the help of Da Lench Mob's Sir Jinx and others to turn out oodles of slick P-Funk. Little of it had much impact other than the perfect 'It Was A Good Day' re-tread of 'You Know How We Do It'. His blossoming acting career now seemed to be in the driving seat and the coming releases, 'War And Peace' Vols 1 & 2 did little to salvage his reputation for sonic radicalism.

This retrospective simply commands that we acknowledge Ice Cube as one of hip-hop's greats and an innovator beyond even current West Coast deity of choice Dr Dre. Both will be remembered for 'gangsta rap' and Dre will be remembered for his proteges Snoop and Eminem as well as two waves of uniquely genre defining production sounds. Cube though, should settle for an entry in hip-hop's big book under 'radical'.

His best work combines the talents of hip-hop's most innovative producers with the ferocity and excitement of one of the music's great storytellers at the peak of his game. If they don't know it already, trust me, it'll be on his 'Death Certificate'.