Ice Cube - Raw Footage '2008

Tracks list

Tracklist:
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[0:55] 01. Ice Cube - What Is A Pyroclastic Flow?
[3:44] 02. Ice Cube - I Got My Locs On
[3:27] 03. Ice Cube - It Takes A Nation
[4:42] 04. Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
[5:12] 05. Ice Cube - Hood Mentality
[4:01] 06. Ice Cube - Why Me?
[4:13] 07. Ice Cube - Cold Places (Explicit)
[4:23] 08. Ice Cube - Jack N The Box
[4:05] 09. Ice Cube - Do Ya Thang
[5:29] 10. Ice Cube - Thank God
[4:33] 11. Ice Cube - Here He Come
[4:08] 12. Ice Cube - Get Money, Spend Money, No Money
[4:26] 13. Ice Cube - Get Use To It
[3:41] 14. Ice Cube - Tomorrow
[3:47] 15. Ice Cube - Stand Tall
[4:04] 16. Ice Cube - Take Me Away



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1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
Total length: 01:04:32
Main artist: Ice Cube
Composer: Various Composers
Label: EMI America Records
Genre: Hip-Hop, Rap
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
© 2008 Capitol Records, LLC/Best Side
â„— 2008 Capitol Records, LLC/Best Side


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 /TiVo



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