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It ain't over mothafucker.
I was digging around for something and found Bulworth just staring at me. Regarding the movie, it sure was dumb from what I remember. Warren Beatty was some sort of politician that suffered some sort of mid-life crisis and decided he'd get in tough with his inner-urban blackness. It tried to tackle race issues, but it just wasn't good enough to keep me too interested. Also, starring Halle Berry, she's pretty.
It's a decent soundtrack and if you can find it, buy it for the simple fact that the liners feature a picture of Beatty with Cappadonna, RZA, Pras and Mack 10 in front of the American flag. Surreal.
1) Zoom - Dr. Dre and LL Cool J - Dre got the high pitched squeal in there. I was never a big fan of this song and it was about 4 years after I listened to anything new from LL. It's an okay song and a weird combination.
2) Ghetto Supastar - Pras feat. ODB and Mya - This is a great song (you know that) and fooled me into buying Pras' solo LP. I miss ODB and for those of you youg kids, it has that cute girl from Dancing With the Stars.
3) How Come - Canibus and Youssou N' Dour - This is around the time when I still enjoyed me some Wyclef. I like this song.
4) Bulworth - Method Man, KRS, Prodigy and Kam - Let's see what happens if we throw a bunch of rappers in a hat and pick four. That being said, this is a nice track produced by DJ Muggs.
5) Holiday/12 Scanner - Witchdoctor - I never got into Witchdoctor and I'm not a huge fan of this song. It's listenable, but not my kind of song.
6) The Chase - RZA - A nice song also produced by RZA. It features a dope piano loop and some hectic/dope verses. Although, he did seem to cut his verses at least one short, as the last 2 minutes or so are just the beat.
7) Eve of Destruction - Eve - This beat is nice and has been used before, but I can't place it right now. It's driving me nuts, oh, I think on that Louis Logic/JJ Brown LP. I think it's an old song (possibly), but it's not listed in the liners. The song's okay, I'm not an Eve fan, so, yeah.
8) Maniac in the Brainiac - Mack 10 and Ice Cube - This is an okay song, not great, but not bad. I guess Cube is the brainiac and Mack 10 is the maniac, according to the chorus.
9) Freak out - Nutta Butta feat. Anonymous - I'm sure someone out there knows who these 2 are, but I don't remember them. It samples the Le Chic (is that right) song and is produced by Teddy Riley. Not my style.
10) Joints and Jams - Black Eyed Peas - The Peas before Fergie. I liked this song and ended up buying their debut LP, but didn't listen to it much.
11) Run - Cappadonna - RZA produced and decent. I'm not a huge Cappadonna fan, but this song predates the Ghostface song from The Pretty Toney LP, which has a similar chorus.
12) Lunatics in the Grass - B Real - This is a pretty good song. It's basically a Cypress song, but there's some dude named Jacken on here.
13) Kill Em Live - Public Enemy - This is okay. I wasn't really checking for PE around the time this came out.
14) Bitches are Hustlers Too - D-Fyne - Don't remember this chick and this song isn't that good.
11/05/2009
Bulworth, the Forgotten Soundtrack (1998)
10/14/2009
Hip-Hop Soundtracks Pt. 2
Here are some more soundtracks from the 90’s for you. I am saving some of the best for last, so I’ll be getting those up in the next couple posts I get up, but there’s some good stuff here as well.
Friday – 1995
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I don’t think I have to say a lot about this movie. Most hip-hop heads have seen this movie and know that it’s a classic to us. The movie was written by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh, who became one of the many people to be closely affiliated with Cube to end up feeling shafted in some way by him (i.e. Kam, King Sun, Da Lench Mob, et al). This is a pretty solid soundtrack that mixes new songs (at the time) and some classic r&b/funk.
1) Friday – Ice Cube – A great song that contains quite a few commonly used funk samples.
2) Keep Their Heads Ringin’ – Dr. Dre – Dre and Cube patched things up and Dre provided this head nodder. Hey you, sitting over there, you better get on out of your chair.
3) Friday Night – Scarface – A funky track from Face. There’s another dude on this track too and if I ever knew who it was at one time, it escapes me now.
4) Lettin’ Niggas Know – Threat – Threat made a few small waves in the mid-90’s and I like this track. I’m not too familiar with his career and he has one of those names that makes it hard to search the web for more information. One thing I did learn is that rapper Asher Roth apparently helped foil a bomb threat. That’s what I got for searching Threat and rapper. For some reason, I think of him and Mista Grimm as having similar careers that just never quite took off.
5) Roll It Up, Light It Up, Smoke It Up – Cypress Hill – A bit of a departure for Cypress, as they didn’t usually talk too much about smoking weed usually. This song is okay, but I always found it hard to listen to songs that were exclusively about weed. Yeah, I know the movie has a large weed plotline.
6) Take A Hit – Mack 10 – This is a Cube produced track and it’s pretty solid. I can’t place the sample, and for some reason, it isn’t listed in the liner notes.
7) Tryin’ To See Another Day – The Isley Brothers – Not my thing.
8) You Got Me Wide Open – Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell – A blah song produced by Cube and Bootsy.
9) Mary Jane – Rick James – Classis Rick James song that I assume is about a lovely lady named Mary.
10) I Wanna Get Next To You – Rose Royce – Love this song.
11) Superhoes – Funkdoobiest – Hey, it’s that group with that dude that did that porno, Sun Doobie. You’ll have to ask Eminem about the acting ability of Mr. Doobie. Decent song and I always liked his unique flow. I think he’s making albums in Canada w/ Battle Axe these days.
12) Coast II Coast – Tha Alkaholiks – This was the name of the Liks’ second LP, but this song is only on here. It’s not one of their best, but solid, from one of my favorite groups.
13) Blast If I Have To – E-A-Ski – Kind of a generic West coast track.
14) Hoochie Mama – 2 Live Crew – Big booty ho’s hop wit it!!! Pure crap. But, play it for your friends and have a laugh.
15) I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Roger – Not sure if they made this for the soundtrack, or if this was around before. Pretty crappy cover if you ask me. It would fit in today w/ all of the auto tune we have going on now.
Overall, I think this is a solid soundtrack and one of the ones I’m glad I purchased.
High School High – 1996
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I never saw this movie and I never once thought about ever seeing it. Sorry, Jon Lovitz. This soundtrack is a mix of hip-hop and r&b, so there’s some filler.
1) So Many Ways – The Braxtons – You might like it. I don’t.
2) I Got Somebody Else – Changing Faces – Okay, EPMD used this sample as well, but I can’t place what song. Help me out if you know.
3) Wu-Wear: The Garment Renaissance – Rza feat. Method Man and Cappadonna – My favorite song about a line of clothing with a list of preservatives.
4) Get Down For Mine – Real Live – Another EPMD used sample, this time I know what it is, Manslaughter. I don’t know anything about this group, or person, but I would rather listen to EPMD. This song gets some points for the scratching though; I can never get enough scratching. I wish more artists would feature a DJ cutting it up.
5) I Just Can’t – Faith Evans – This song is okay.
6) Your Precious Love – D’Angelo and Erykah Badu – An Ashford and Simpson cover. It’s not great.
7) The Rap World – Large Professor and Pete Rock – Nice song, even with Pete Rock on the mic.
8) Queen Bitch – Lil’ Kim – Hey, it’s Lil’ Kim before she looked like a plastic doll. I’d have to say she’s my favorite Lil’ next to Fame, but it’s a really big drop off.
9) Why You Wanna Funk? – Spice 1 feat. E-40 and The Click – I feel like for every 1 artist that was doing some great things with funk in the 90’s, there were another 10 that were butchering it. This song falls in the butchering category.
10) I Can’t Call It –De La Soul – Nice track from De La. I haven’t listened to this in quite some time, but I’m going to be adding it to my rotation again.
11) Bohemian Rhapsody – The Braids – I always dug this cover of the Queen hit. I know this group had an album sometime after this soundtrack came out, but I don’t think it did much, and I haven’t heard much of them since. By much of, I mean nothing.
12) High School Rock – KRS One – This is a pretty dope track from the Blastmaster with a Rakim sample as the hook.
13) Peace, Prosperity and Paper – A Tribe Called Quest – Never heard of them. I like this song and wish this group made an album. That’s a joke, yo.
14) Wild Side – Jodeci – I liked Jodeci a lot. I just hated when K-Ci and Jojo sang all over every rap chorus in the 90’s. If you liked Jodeci, you will like this song.
15) The Ultimate – The Artifacts – This is a great song and it’s on their second (last) album.
16) The Next Spot – Sadat X and Grand Puba – This is another song worth your time, so download this and check it out if you don’t have it.
17) Skrilla – Scarface and Facemob – This is a nice song, I’m not really feeling the chorus, but it’s solid. The little De La interpolation in there is nice. I’m not too familiar with him to be honest, but I think Devin the Dude is in there, as part of Facemob.
18) Semi-Automatic: Full Rap Metal Jacket – Inspectah Deck, U-God and Street – I always loved this beat. It’s definitely something you can pin on Rza, that’s for sure. Nice song.
19) The Good, the Bad and the Desolate - The Roots – There’s not much too special about this track, but it’s good. I never really liked the reggae dude over the chorus.
20) C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train), Pt. 2 – Quad City DJ’s – These guys sure made some junk. For some reason they were able to get some songs tagged on the end of soundtracks. I really don’t think a sequel was necessary. A prequel on the other hand, might have been refreshing, as I would love to know what the Quad City DJ’s were doing before they rode the train.
Overall, I think this is an average soundtrack. There are some songs worth checking out and some filler you don’t need. This is pretty standard for a lot of these soundtracks.
Menace II Society – 1993
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I loved this movie, although it’s been a while since I’ve seen it. It came out after Boyz N the Hood, but I liked it more. For those that might not know, Pac was supposed to be in this movie, but was dropped for some reason. So, in true Pac fashion, he had some associates beat down the Hughes brothers, who ended up suing Mr. Shakur.
1)Nigga Gots No Heart – Spice 1 – Not a bad song, nice and mellow. Spice 1 never had the tightest flow, but this is a good song.
2) Streight Up Menace – MC Eiht – Jeah. He really overused his jeahs. This is a good song, again real mellow, but I like the orchestral-type sample/beat. I think he had a small role in the movie as well.
3) Packin’ a Gun – Ant Banks – This isn’t my favorite track, but it’s listenable.
4) Top of the World – Kenya Gruv – Not really my cup of tea.
5) Only the Strong Survive – Too Short – Beeeeyotch! Not a bad song, but not one of my favs.
6) All Over a Ho – Mz. Kilo – I can tolerate this song. She was in the same mold as Bo$$, who ended up getting her second LP shelved because she was CB4ing it. I couldn’t find much on Mz. Kilo though.
7) Guerillas Ain’t Gangstas – Da Lench Mob – I always liked this song and I think Lench Mob fans would enjoy this track. Don’t worry, no Maulkie on here.
8) You Been Played – Smooth – I always enjoyed this song. I think this is one of the best tracks on here, but I’m sure a lot of people would disagree. I remember hearing a few other songs from Smooth and I wasn’t impressed.
9) Lick Dem Muthaphuckas – Brand Nubian – A little East coast rap here. I like this song and you should check it out.
10) Death Becomes You – Pete Rock and CL Smooth w/ YG’z – NY again. I definitely skew to the East, but I’m an equal opportunity listener. Anyway, this is a nice song.
11) Unconditional Love – The Hi-Fives – Generic r&b for that ass!
12) ‘P’ is Still Free – Boogie Down Productions – We’re in a little East side run here. Pretty dope track.
13) Stop Lookin’ At Me – Cutthroats – Man, I forgot about this song, as far as I can remember, these guys were Onyx-like and affiliated w/ Guru.
14) Pocket Full of Stones – UGK – Mellow track. I was never a UGK fan, so feel free to savage me.
15) Can’t Fuck Wit a Nigga - DJ Quik – I was never a Quik fan either. I did enjoy Quik dissing Everlast by saying he looked like a woman, this coming from the skinny dude with jheri curls. I don’t remember who started this beef, I think it may have been Everlast on the Legend single, but I think this came out first, so maybe this was the start of it.
16) Trigga Gots No Heart – Spice 1 – See track 1.
I enjoyed this soundtrack at the time it came out and it really fit in with the film. They packed the album with a plethora of West coast artists and smattering of East coast and Southern artists. How’s that for mastering the English language? I think this is definitely worth having.
4/16/2009
5x5 Day Four: The Best Sophomore "Slumps"
The dreaded Sophomore slump. Is it real, or something that is made up? I'm sure enough artists will tell you it's real, but when you start looking at the bigger picture, I'd almost be willing to go out on the limb and an artist's/group's second album is a finer piece of music. Once I started going through some of the classics out there, it's quickly noted that a lot of them are the second album of their career. They seem to have the right combination of hunger and knowledge to drop the classic. Not saying that first year wonders such as Nas, Snoop, and even arguably N.W.A. exist, but the list of solid second albums are rather impressive.
1. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Of course, my personal favorite album of all-time is Slaughtahouse by Masta Ace, which could or could not be considered his second album (is INC a group?), so to keep it simple, I stuck with the universal greatest album of all-time, PE's It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. What is arguably one of, if not the, greatest hip hop album of time, It Takes A Nation.... was an album that everyone came with their best. Chuck and Flava perfected their shtick and the Bomb Squad set off to make an album that broke all the laws of music, and succeeded.
2. A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
You either love or hate Tribe's debut album, but their second album is a certified classic. The music was more dense and in some cases, darker. They also incorporated more of a jazz sound to it, in places (don't call it a jazz rap album, I hate that), but it's sound was defined by more bottom on the beats. The bass on this album is really only something you notice on a nice system. Lyrically, I think Q-Tip being better and the night and day difference from the first album to Low End Theory in Phife is what really put's it over the top.
3. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
How do you comeback from an image that you are not all that happy with on your first album? You "kill" that image and reinvent yourself. That's exactly what De La Soul did. You thought they were fun loving hippies that were rapping over Turtles breaks about flowers? Think again. On De La Soul is Dead, they brought a more mature and even somewhat darker effort. The production once again was top notch in the form of Prince Paul, and it might even be considered his greatest achievement.
4. Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Do you count this as his sophomore release? He did after all have a release with NWA. For the sake of argument, I'm going to call Death Certificate his sophomore release, since it is just that as a solo artist. We've already had the debate between his first two albums as far as which was better, but Death Certificate is an album which packs so much emotion into the sixty plus minutes that it has you. There is anger, humor, fear, and they are all rolled into one in the form of Death Certificate.
5. Mobb Deep - The Infamous
No, really, it's their sophomore release. I know it's easy to forget about Juvenile Hell, and Havoc and Prodigy are almost like different artists by the time they got around to dropping The Infamous, but their second album was head and shoulders above their debut album. I think Havoc coming into his own really gave a defining sound of darkness for The Infamous that really sets this album apart from the rest.
Honorable Mentions
Redman - Dare Iz The Darkside
Common - Reminisce
Run DMC - Kings of Rock
5/27/2008
This Or That.....Ammerikkka's Most Wanted Vs. Death Certificate
We all have our personal opinions when it comes to hip hop albums. An album I might term "classic", the next man might think is garbage. You can have some heated discussions when it comes to discussing hip hop in general, as my man J-Zone says, three things you don't discuss in public: religion, politics and hip hop. But to me, that is the beauty of it all, discussing hip hop and being a pseudo know it all. After all, is that what we are all here for? Isn't that why a lot of you have listened to me rant for the past two and a half years?
Believe it or not, I'm a fairly opinionated person. There are certain aspects of hip hop or just life in general, that I will argue until I'm blue in the face. Certain albums, I just believe are better than others. Now, I have my weird tastes and the such. I pump Son Of Bazerk albums more than your average person and my favorite hip hop album of all time is "Slaughtahouse", not necessarily your average taste in the general hip hop fan. But I love discussing the music. I love hearing people's opinions. I realize that not everyone thinks like me. I think you all should think like me, but the reality is that not everyone does. It's fun to hear people make an educated argument about why they believe something should be so. It's also just as much fun to hear some moron make an ass of themselves by just saying stupid shit.
For that simple reason, I thought it would be fun to start a new weekly feature on WYDU entitled "This or That". I'll take two albums, both which are somewhat similar to each other and I'll discuss my thoughts and views on them then we'll let everyone vote on which one they think is better. As I said, I'd like to keep them similar in style and era. For me, it's impossible to compare Ice T's "Rhyme Pays" to Mos Def's "Black On Both Sides". It's like comparing apples and oranges and pretty much irrelevant. But comparing two albums by the same artist makes more than enough sense. That's exactly what we'll do for the most part, asking questions like: "Low End Theory" or "Midnight Marauders"? The debates that are basically age old debates anyway with no right or wrong answer (at least not in the general consensuses). What better way to start of the series in the right way than asking which album people prefer the most; "Ammerikkka's Most Wanted" or "Death Certificate", by our man, Ice Cube.
**Vote in the poll provided in the left hand column or feel free to drop a comment stating your reasoning, or both**
ICE CUBE: "AMERIKKKA'S MOST WANTED" or "DEATH CERTIFICATE"??
Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Ammerikkka's Most Wanted dropped in a time when hip hop was starting to undergo yet another metamorphosis. A lot of people list the original "golden age" as happening in 86-88. In 1986, artists such as KRS-One, Eric B. & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and others, over took Run DMC's throne on top and ushered in a new age. After 1988 though, rap was faced with another transitional period. A lot of us old fogies will admit that '89 and '90 were both ho-hum years in the grand scheme of things. Gangsta rap had already seen a rise in popularity with Ice-T and N.W.A. lighting the fuse in the late 80's, but it would be Ice Cube's Amerikkka's Most Wanted that would be the leader in the "next generation" of hip hop realists. We'll skip over the details on how Ice Cube separated from N.W.A., in all it's stickiness and drama. What would happen after Cube broke north was his meeting with one of the greatest production crews of all-times, The Bomb Squad. After realizing he couldn't work with Dre, he wanted, what he perceived as the best producers on the east coast, and that would be Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, Eric Sadler and Chuck D. The combination led to what is possibly the best "West meets East" collaboration the hip hop nation has ever seen. The Bomb Squad brought out that anger perfectly. They were known for their dense and complicated music that was a perfect sonic backdrop for Cube to vent his anger. The sound was one that sounded west coast in origin, but still had the trademark Bomb Squad sound. They even did the west coast gangsta stroll music better than most of the west coast cats on "Who's The Mack", I dare you to say anyone could have executed the sound for that track any better.
Cube was known for the member with the lyrics in N.W.A. On the solo creep, Cube had even stepped up his lyrical prowess as he unleashed an all out assault on many topics that plagued South Central Los Angeles. Ice Cube was down right angry on AMW. There is no better way to say it, he was straight up pissed off. The lead off track, "The N---a Ya Love To Hate", sets up the mood as Cube doesn't waste anytime letting the world know that he is a brother that has been scorn:
I heard payback's a motherfucking nigga
That's why I'm sick of gettin treated like a goddamn stepchild
Fuck a punk cause I ain't him
You gotta deal with the nine double m
The damn scum that you all hate
Just think if niggas decide to retaliate
They try to keep me from running up
I never tell you to get down it's all about coming up
So what they do go and ban the AK?
My shit wasn't registered any fucking way
So you better duck away run and hide out
When I'm rolling real slow and the lights out
Cause I'm about to fuck up the program
Shooting out the window of a drop-top Brougham
When I'm shooting let's see who drop
The police the media and suckers that went pop
And motherfuckers that say they too black
Put em overseas they be begging to come back
They say keep em on gangs and drugs
Yyou wanna sweep a nigga like me up under the rug
Kicking shit called street knowledge
Why more niggas in the pen than in college?
Now cause of that line I might be your cellmate
That's from the nigga ya love to hate
It would only get worse on the title track "Amerikkka's Most Wanted", Cube dropped lyrics of fury over a James Brown sample. These two tracks would set up the whole mood for AMW. Whatever topic Cube might want to touch on, from a craps game gone bad ("What They Hittin' Foe") to an X-Rated ghetto fairytale ("Gangsta's Fairytale") to knocking up the neighborhood hussy ("You Can't Fade Me"), the Bomb Squad had Cube's back with a menacing track that fit the mood perfectly.
Death Certificate
In his next full length feature, Death Certificate, all hell broke loose, literally, before it's release in November of '91. Cube had all kinds of groups in an uproar over questionable lyrics. Many people were branding him as a racist as the white media sat up and took notice due to some of his lyrics. I can recall news shows such as "Nightline", "ABC Tonight" and several of the conservative cable news talk shows taking shots at Cube and this album. I'm sure a lot of the heat was left over from the whole Ice-T/Cop Killer controversy with Time Warner. Ethnic groups such as Korean store owners, were fired up about Cube's bluntness when dealing with the racial tension, but really it was just a predecessor of what was to come with the riots the coming spring. In all, it was the perfect firestorm Cube needed to sell units when it dropped.
Gone was the Bomb Squad and in stepped in several of my personal favorites as well as some of the most underrated beat makers on the left side. Sir Jinx and The Boogiemen (DJ Pooh, Bobcat, & Rashad) handled the majority of the the production duties found on Death Certificate. While I wouldn't say the contained a more "west coast flavor", it did build off of the foundation the Bomb Squad laid previously. Filled with familiar chunky funk samples such as "Hip Hugger", "Funky Worm" and other P-Funk staples, Death Certificate to me represented Ice Cubes anger that was more focused at it's target. Once again, Cube lead off the album with two excellent bangers, full of venom and anger over true gangster funk. "The Wrong N---a Fuck Wit" might as well be part two to either "The N---a Ya Love To Hate" or "Amerikkka's Most Wanted", as Cube unleashes the same fury and anger as expressed on those two songs.
On Death Certificate though, it's not nearly about the beats as it was on Amerikkka's Most Wanted. I'm not sure if it was the fact that it wasn't the Bomb Squad or the fact that Cube stepped up his game on Death Certificate. Cube wove ghetto tails like no one else could or still can. "My Summer Vacation" and "Steady Mobbin'" come off like a hood novel, especially the later track, which details Cube's trek through South Central LA:
Bustin caps in the mix
Rather be judged by twelve than carried by six
Cause I'm gettin major
Fuck Pac Tel, move to Sky Pager
Told all my friends Don't drink 8 Ball, cause St. Ide's is givin ends
Fools get drunk and wanna compete
Slapboxin in the street
Niggaz get mad, tempers are flarin cause they got a few bitches starin
Just for the nappy heads
But scandalous bitches, make for happy Feds
I'm making my duty to cuss em out, cause I just don't trust em
And if you tell on me I'm bombin on Betty
Bitch shoulda known I was steady mobbin
"Steady Mobbin'" is quite possibly one of the greatest west coast songs ever. Cube doesn't stop there, as he tells tales of despair and helplessness on what ultimately ends up to be a two sided concept album (back when albums were formatted to the cassette media). On the "Death Side", Cube paints a picture of what really goes down in the hood. From sheisty bitches that give you the clap in "Look Who's Burnin", to the tales of slangin' 'caine on the corner in the hard edged "A Bird In The Hand". It's the "Death Side", that Cube lays down all the dark shit that happens in any ghetto U.S.A. It would be the "Birth Side" that would ruffle a few feathers of America, further cementing the thought that conservative America is fine when a black artists is speaking about the fucked things going on in his hood, but when it comes out to the suburbs, shits not kosher. Tracks like "Black Korea", in which Cube fires lyrical bullets at the Korean shop keepers found throughout the black neighborhoods in LA, are filled with anger which might be justified, but still fueled the controversy that surrounded this albums release. It would also cement Cube as more than just a gangster rapper, he would be seen as a black leader and on the same level as the X-Clan, Public Enemy and other Afrocentric leaders in the black community.
Trav's Final Verdict
While Amerikkka's Most Wanted is nearly perfect, a couple tracks don't seem to fit, namely "The Bomb", the albums last track. Don't get me wrong, the energy and some of the lines Cube drops are tops, but the song just doesn't seem to fit in the overall scheme of things. It probably would have fit better on the Kill At Will EP that dropped later in the year. Other weaker tracks tend to distract from the overall finish of the product as well. "It's A Man's World" is one of the weaker tracks as well. I've long felt that Death Certificate was a more polished version of AMW, in terms of beats and Cube's skills writing songs and in his lyrics. One could knock the overuse of several well worn samples in the Boogiemen's and Sir Jinx's repertoire, but as I mentioned before, Death Certificate isn't supposed to be about beats. The beats more than adequately provided the proper canvas for Cube to paint his picture of what kind of shit went down in the Los Angeles ghettos. Everything is just crisper and more focused on Death Certificate. It even spawned possibly the most vile and venomous dis track ever in "No Vaseline". Cube's fury is more focused and that lead to album that made more of an impact on society as a whole.
Winner: Death Certificate
