On October 29, 1991, Ice Cube released his highly anticipated second studio album Death Certificate, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and went platinum the first two month of its release, going on to sell over 5 million copies worldwide.
Produced by OG Cube cohorts, Sir Jinx, and the Boogiemen (DJ Pooh, Bobcat, and Rashad Coes), Death Certificate takes a potent look at life in South Central through the eyes of one of reality rap’s greatest and grittiest storytellers. Roughly organized as two thematic elements of a larger whole, it opens with Cube’s explanation: “The Death Side: a mirror image of where we are today; The Life Side: a vision of where we need to go.”
Death Certificate was heralded a musical masterpiece and Ice Cube ultimately received the accolades he deserved for his incisive and revelatory socio-political commentary.
- The Funeral
- The Wrong N**** To F*** Wit
- My Summer Vacation
- Steady Mobbin’
- Robin Lench
- Givin’ Up The Nappy Dug Out
- Look Who’s Burnin’
- A Bird In The Hand
- Man’s Best Friend
- Alive On Arrival
- Death
- The Birth
- I Wanna Kill Sam
- Horny Lil’ Devil
- Black Korea
- True To The Game
- Color Blind
- Doing Dumb Shit
- Us
- No Vaseline
- Only One Me
- Good Cop Bad Cop
- Dominate The Weak
- Trying To Maintain
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