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Lethal Injection

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This is the best cd Cube has ever made, period. Why only 4 stars? I dunno. But this definetely deserves 5 stars because it has the best songs you'll ever hear out of gangsta rap like One Nation (Bop Gun), Ghetto Bird, Really Doe and so many more. I know it only has 12 tracks but, people, listen to the quality on this record...It's phonomenal. I have hardly seen any rapper or music artist, for that matter put so much quality and chance into an album. I hope you go by my word and make this cd a part of your collection.

Ice Cube's 4th full album Lethal Injection would produce more great results comming off his most commercial LP (back in the early 90's) The Preditor. Compared to albums such as Amerikka's Most Wanted/Kill At Will and Death Certificate, a more older Ice Cube would come on this album with less gang related topics and less pro-black rhyme structure. Hooking up with a producer named q d III most parts throughout the album come off sucessful, and at the same time, more laid back (I guess Cube's production skills wern't in full swing yet back in '93). "Really Doe", "Cave B***h" (despite how racial you think that song is), "Lil A** Gee" would be the only few songs that will take you back to the early days of Ice Cube. The latter would be a song on the effect on little kids getting caught up in gangbanging. "Ghetto Bird" is an ode to those high speed chases that often occur in Los Angeles. The soft atmosphere occurs on most tracks as songs like "You Know How We Do It", "Make It Ruff, Make It Smooth" and "When I Get To Heaven" would play off well, but at the same time, might have left old Cube fans scratching their heads ("Down For Whatever" couldn't have been any slower). Despite the eleven minute long song "Bop Gun", that will make you nod your head to the uplifting p funk tune of George Clinton's (who ironically appears on this track) "One Nation Under A Groove".

If you purchased this after 2003, you would get four extra tracks (mostly taken from his Bootlegs & B Sides album) of remixes of the hits. ATCQ's Ali Shaheed Muhummad would remix "What Can i Do" with a beat that doesn't sound like Cube would be confortable with but pulls it off anyway. Cube himself would remix "You Know How We Do It" making it sound better than the origonal.

Overall, this album is solid release from Cube that I enjoyed at most parts. No he doesn't carry the same tone as he did back in his NWA days, but hits us with something more relaxing. People say that this is Cube's worst album that he released between 1990 and 1993, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad album (personally I believe The Preditor was his worst), and has been sucessful in many points, reading that it was his second most selling album behind The Preditor. This one I recommend picking up, it carries its weight for the majority.

Lyrics: B+
Production: A-
Musical Vibes: B
Overall: B+

Favorite Tracks: Really Doe, Ghetto Bird, You Know How We Do It (both origonal and remix), Cave B***h, (Bop Gun) One Nation, When I Get To Heaven, What Can I Do (Remix), Lil A** Gee (Remix)

lethal injection is awesome....there is awesome west coast beats on this album. "You know how we do it" is one of the best songs i have ever heard. Peep this album

Every great album is gonna have its haters as well as its admirers. This isn't nearly as good as his first 2 releases, but it's still an Ice Cube album, which means its great regardless. He opted for a more "G-Funk/Gangsta" sound (production and lyric wise) and abandoned his politically charged message of his first 3 albums.

Best songs:

.Ghetto Bird
.What Can I Do?
.When I Get to Heaven
.Really Doe

One of my favorite rap albums ever! Especially the song You know how we do it. Classic Cube is the best cube, if your a fan you need this album.

I'll start by saying that this was and still is my favorite Cube album. For years I've heard that this is where Ice Cube began to fall off as an mc. Truth is that this was arguably his last great album. In fact the only low point is the disappointing track "Down 4 Whatever". Outside of that the rest of the album is full of West Coast Classics. I still turn up the stereo when i hear Bop Gun, and Ghetto Bird was the jam way back when (peep the instrumental in the opening minutes of Menace II Society). This along with all the predecessors are a worthy purchase.

The rhythm of the jinx or hoodoo music is ok. I use to listen to the album quite a bit when I was younger but as I get older I think this guy is just subliminal. I did not know you could jinx when you actually advertise yourself to the public or when responding to others comments not directed at them? the power of the jinx has gone too far. The beats are none other than subliminal it is what to be expected. Like all rap albums like this though when ice cube is 60 or 65 you will listen to probably Marvin Gaye or the Supremes, or anything Motown or Chess.

In late 1993, Ice Cube releases his 4th full length album (5th if you count Kill At Will EP). He still has some heat in his often angry social and political lyrics. But, he does chill a litle more, as do the beats. Beatwise, this is my favorite Cube album. Sir Jinx, Laylaw (Above the Law), QD III, Madness 4 Real, 88X Unit, and Brian G lace cube up with some smokin' G-Funk beats. His previous albums had some funky beats that were more pre g-funk and more raw, while these are more polished. QD III laced "You Know How We Do It" is one of my favorite g-funk songs of all time. The beat is sunny and laidback with a touch of soul, and there is a piercing whiny synth making the joint a great one to roll to. Cube's rhymes add to the relaxed effect of this classic. "Ghetto Bird" is a pulsating joint where Cube flees the cops, ducks the police chopper, jacks someone's ride, and goes to his woman's house and digs her out. The beat is bouncy with another whiny synth. "Make It Ruff, Make It Smooth" (f/ K-Dee) is a raucous good time. Cube is the ruff loc, and K-Dee is the smooth mack over a bouncy, twangy lowrider beat. "When I Get To Heaven" is a little more controversial. He discusses the corruptness and emptiness of the church declaring it "nuthin' but a fashion show." He knocks on religion. Take it how you want you to. The beat is chill and twangy and has a cool vibe with a flute in the hook. "Lil A-- Gee" is a tale of a younster growin' up fast and causin' trouble and panic mad young. "Cave B----" is an angry, controversial, and somewhat humorous knock on white women and how Ice Cube wants nothing to do with them. The beat has a little more East Coast bump to it and sounds dope in the system. Then we have the full album version of "Bop Gun(One Nation)," a p-funk meets g-funk classic with George Clinton adding his gruff vocals and Ice Cube gettin' it crunk, a dope g-party jam. This version is 11 minutes long! The beat "Enemy" has the early Ice Cube vibe to it with angry lyrics and an old-school beat sounding circa Death Certificate. Ice Cube still uses the c-word towards white folks like on the older albums here. Now, if you have the 2003 rerelease, there are 4 bonus joints- mixes for "What Can I Do" (Westside Mix, and Eastside Mix), the former a lowrider ready bouncer, and the latter a jazzy a-la-Tribe Called Quest, QD III's awesome remix for "You Know How We Do It," and N.O. Joe's Eerie Gumbo Funk mix for "Lil' A-- Gee," and his version has that Texas Mobb style he is known for and a sick whiny synth. As for the album, I feel it's a classic for anyone lovin' gangsta rap, G-Funk, controversial and social aware rap because it caters to all those milieu.

I wish Cube did more CDs with this G-Funk style

Favorite song : Ghetto Bird classic

Must get CD

love the concept if you're white and is easily offended this isn't for you cave bitch is a song where cube disses white women and gives praise to the beautiful black woman enemy is a song where cube says kill all the white devil and even mocks dr. king cube also states his views on christianity on when I get to heaven, you know how wwe do it, really doe are straight classics I love this cd my favorite is bop gun with george clinton a remake of funkadelic's one nation under a groove ice cube sampled the hell out of p funk and working with the doctor was a must for him.