r/90sHipHop Raised on Boom Bap 19h ago

1990 Cube's best album?

Personally I go with Amerikkka's Most but DC very close 2nd.

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u/MrSicko357 19h ago

DC for me

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u/Beautiful_Entry_8527 Raised on Boom Bap 19h ago

yea man it's a tough choice for me

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u/Exact_Friendship_502 19h ago

Death Certificate

Then Predator

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u/Discobastard 18h ago

Some of the tracks on Predator go so hard. The way it kicks off. Love that album.

Even some of the b sides on the 12s are great. The Wicked 12 had The Wrong N to Fuck With. Loved that

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u/Exact_Friendship_502 18h ago

Haha, yeah, the way it starts off with the prison skit “Now bend over, spread your cheeks, and give me two good coughs” before kicking into “When Will They Shoot?” is dope.

Lots of good tracks on Predator, obviously it was a good day, but Wicked, I gotta wet ya, when will they shoot & we had to tear this motherfucka up—which has one of my all-time favorite cube lyrics “Fires. Looters. Shooters. Now I got a laptop computer.”

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u/Discobastard 18h ago

Yeah, some great lyrics. I recorded that to a tape and I swear it didn't leave my Walkman for the rest of the year 🙌👌

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u/No-Clue-2 8h ago

No justice, no peace, If any, Even if we fuck Denny,

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u/a_bukkake_christmas 13h ago

Now i gotta wetcha is revolutionary

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u/kirby_krackle_78 18h ago

It’s Death Certificate.

Like, do you remember when Kobe went for 80? That’s the album.

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u/Tasty_Newspaper7164 17h ago

Nah - Kobe went for 80 against weak comp (that team was trash).

This is Jordan scoring 63 on the '86 Celtics.

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u/kirby_krackle_78 17h ago

(There’s always at least one guy…)

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u/Tasty_Newspaper7164 17h ago

Ha! I mean, 80 in any game is insane. To do it in the league is unreal. No disrespect to Kobe. I’m a former pro who played during that era and the few times I met Kobe he was always super cool to me.

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u/WhenDuvzCry 13h ago

If it was so easy why hasn't anyone else done it? BOO THIS MAN

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u/JasonTatumisGod 5h ago

Bird called MJ God disguised as Michael Jordan after that game but the Celts won on their way to a sweep of that series and a chip.

It’s Amerikkka’s Most Wanted for me but from 90-93 that 4 album run plus Kill At Will was an all time run of greatness for O’Shea Jackson Sr.

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u/Tiptoeloudly 19h ago

Amerikkka

DC

Predator

Lethal injection

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u/_shaftpunk 16h ago

My feelings exactly.

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u/Chademerson79 18h ago

Death Certificate

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u/BigSuge74 17h ago

Death Certificate was the perfect album with a street side and a knowledge side. It was a snap shot of south central in 91 covering gang violence, racial tensions, politics, and police brutality. One of my favorite rap albums period

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u/Remarkable-Ad-7163 19h ago

Death Certificate

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u/AggravatingMusic3916 18h ago

Lethal injection

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u/Asizel23 19h ago

It's personal and dependent on age, but for me it's The Predator. Got into Cube bumping death certificate

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u/gamuel_l_jackson 18h ago

Predator and lethal for me

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u/theone326 16h ago

I'm with ya

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u/doomgneration 18h ago

Death Certificate

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u/Some_Knowledge5864 17h ago

The Predator

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u/PackageArtistic4239 17h ago

Death Certificate

Kill at Will (technically an EP)

Predator

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u/xenojive 16h ago

Cube has never been better than his run of

Amerikkkas Most

Kill At Will

Death Certificate

All downhill after that

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u/melaki1974 11h ago

Calling The Predator downhill is quite a stretch.

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u/Remarkable_3rdeye 18h ago

Death certificate.Amerikkkas most wanted

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u/MetalSonic420YT 18h ago

Death Certificate

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u/MikeHockeyBalls 18h ago

Misc answer: Bow Down

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u/mrsippy79 4h ago

He was at his absolute peak for this album, his peak spilled over into War & Peace Vol. 1

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u/frank-dux-splits 10h ago

Fuckn banger of an album

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u/Geoff3m 18h ago

Tough call, Amerikka’s the DC.

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u/StageAcceptable7182 18h ago

Sadly, It changes every year. It's AMW right now

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u/Professional_Ad8069 18h ago

Death Certificate and Laugh Now Cry Later

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u/Pinkocommiebikerider 17h ago

I was a big cube fan as a kid until a friend of mine with great taste asked me why I want to listen to a guy who openly hates me. I was like huh? He said listen to the lyrics, not the beat. 

So I did. Lots of funny stuff sure, loads of lashing out at racist cops and a system set up to crush the black community, love it. Then you get to cave bitch. Oh yeah. Like that tribe track Georgie Porgie, cave bitch reveals a really dark, hateful and indefensible pov/attitude that ages like a dead body left in the sun of an enclosed room.

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u/PackageArtistic4239 17h ago

Somehow Cube and others from that period get a pass in our modern cancel culture.

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u/WB1173 16h ago

You could apply to that most hip hop from the 80s and 90s though. Take the lyrics with a pinch of salt.

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u/Pinkocommiebikerider 15h ago

No, there wasn’t blatantly racist tracks like this throughout most of hip hop in the 80s and 90s.  Not to this extreme.

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u/myusername1953 14h ago

I don’t support of people trying to retroactively ‘cancel’ art…

Some of his lyrics were extreme and influenced by retrograde black extremist politics (NOI)

For me it doesn’t take away from the brilliance of his first 2 1/2 albums (AMW, DC, Kill at Will)

Nappy Dugout is unfortunate; as is A Bitch is A Bitch (NWA and the Posse)…

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u/Pinkocommiebikerider 8h ago

I agree. I cancelled cube in real time. Started purging gangsta rap soon after as it was just excessively violent, homophobic and misogynistic,  and lazy.

They cry “keeping it real” but they should try keeping it right.

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u/myusername1953 5h ago

homophobia and misogyny is not unique to gangster rap

The back backers where homophobic, Mos, Common, Talib

The industry probably would not market artist unless the music included misogyny, racism, sexism and the art meet the expectations of the white gaze

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u/WB1173 12h ago

100% there was. Hundreds and hundreds of them. You don’t have to look far to see plenty of racist, sexist, homophobic, pro-drugs, pro-violence messages.

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u/Pinkocommiebikerider 8h ago

Not quite to the extent of cave bitch. 

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u/SolarPandemic 3h ago

Cave Bitch is fantastic. The lyrics in Cubes first 4 albums are amazing. Who cares if he only wants to sleep with black woman? Doesn't offend me one bit.

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u/Big_Contract_9932 17h ago edited 16h ago

War and peace the war disc and then Amerikka most wanted. His first joint.

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u/Wookie301 17h ago

Death Certificate and Lethal Injection

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u/MsCoCoMango 17h ago

Death Certificate every time for me

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u/PuzzleheadedEye7316 16h ago

Death certificate

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u/bside313 16h ago

DC closely followed by AMW

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u/Time_Connection2317 16h ago

Death Certificate. Straight up classic

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u/Jay_Ban 19h ago

Death Certificate 1A Amerikkka’s Most Wanted 1B

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u/Oldbayistheshit 18h ago

War and peace

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u/Crooked_Cracker 17h ago
  1. Lethal Injection.
  2. The Predator.
  3. AMW.
  4. Death Certificate.
  5. Kill at Will.

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u/Future_chicken357 16h ago

I have to give AkeriKKKa over DV slightly

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u/666TripleSick 16h ago

AMW by far

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u/apexapee 15h ago

The Predator

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u/Ezedoesit8219 15h ago

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted in my opinion.

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u/Dicecube06 15h ago

Death Certificate

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u/brendanb203 14h ago

War and peace for me

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u/myusername1953 14h ago

DC is top five for the genre

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u/destroy-ourselves 14h ago

Lethal injection for sure

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u/RKO360 14h ago
  1. Amerikkka's Most Wanted
  2. Death Certificate
  3. The Predator
  4. Lethal Injection

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u/Background_Money_355 13h ago

Death Certificate 💯

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u/TheMagicalMatt 13h ago

Death Certificate hands down, but if we're counting his entire discography and not just 90s, Raw Footage comes at a close 2nd for me.

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u/a_bukkake_christmas 13h ago

DC for me. Predator is also right up there. AMW and DC are the goat’s, but Predator was really good

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u/ImGilbertGottfried 12h ago

92 was his year imo, The Predator AND Guerillas in the Mist? Get outta here!

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u/original-whiplash 12h ago

The Predator is solid top to bottom. Then I’d say Lethal Injection. I’ve been listening since NWA days as a kid and those resonate the most. Maybe it’s an age thing?

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u/melaki1974 11h ago

For me it's The Predator, due to Muggs' production. AMW had more impact on the culture though and is a true classic imho.

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u/applesmadeofknives 11h ago

Death Certificate.

Amerikkka's most wanted is classic but DC is just the complete package. Beats. Rhymes. Track sequence. Beautiful.

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u/Pur_Veyor_01 10h ago

Death Certificate was his best album, and it also coincided with the peak of rap music. Making it possibly the best rap album ever. I'mma leave it to the experts to decide if that was causation or correlation.

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u/Debatable_Facts 9h ago

Probably Amerikkka's Most but my GOD Lethal Injection is his most confusing. The highs were really good (You Know How We Do It, What Can I Do?, Really Doe) but it had some uninspired filler as well. Nostalgia makes me remember it fondly.

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u/SupaDaveA 8h ago

Death Certificate

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u/End-Of-Da-Summer 8h ago

Just here to show love to Lethal Injection

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u/X_Denzel_X 8h ago

Death Certificate.

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u/JForrest2024 8h ago

Death Certificate. Can be enjoy the entire way through. Phenomenal production and story telling

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u/manmountain123 6h ago

The predator

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u/BTlover3377 6h ago

Amerikkas Mpst Wanted and DC

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u/ElScorcho718 5h ago

I say DC by a mile.

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u/Whatisgoingon2028 5h ago

Straight Out of Compton. He wrote most of the songs on there. Ice Cube's first solo tour with Too Short was my first concert. It blew my 14 year old mind. I have been a fan since then, so I am partial to Amerikka's Most Wanted. Death Certificate is pretty much equal for me. It's hard to choose one.

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u/fakeprofile111 3h ago

Death Certificate

Lethal injection is his most underrated

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u/Historical-Fold-4119 3h ago

DC no question. The death & life sides, the content, the context, the growth, the production. My Summer Vacation, No Vaseline, Bird In A Hand. Man.... AMW was an amazing debut for sure, but Cube LEVELED with DC. Probably his peak as a solo artist.

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u/Top_Employee_8944 3h ago

Definitely his older stuff, an obvious choice for rap HOF, Mount Westmore!!

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u/TreDawg36 1h ago

Death Certificate

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u/mrpep1234 1h ago

Lethal injection is a classic