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album - The Predator (Re-Issue)
artist - Ice Cube
label - Priority Records
genre - Rap
retail - 03/11/2003
rip - 02/22/2003
ripper - Kournikova
quality - 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 1:19 The First Day Of School
02 4:36 When Will They Shoot?
03 1:32 I'm Scared (Insert)
04 3:55 Wicked
05 4:03 Now I Gotta Wet'cha
06 4:03 The Predator
07 4:20 It Was A Good Day
08 4:24 We Had To Tear This Shit Up
09 2:02 Fuck Em' (Insert)
10 4:34 Dirty Mack
11 4:06 Don't Trust Em'
12 3:19 Gangsta Fairytale 2
13 3:42 Check Yo Self
14 4:37 Who Got The Camera?
15 2:31 Integration (Insert)
16 3:22 Say Hi To The Bad Guy
17 3:54 Check Yo Self (The Message Remix)
18 4:28 It Was A Good Day (Remix)
19 3:25 24 With A L
20 4:07 U Ain't Gonna Take My Life
72:19 total playing time - total size 99MB
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r e l e a s e n o t e s
More re-issue's with extra tracks
Enjoy
Released in the aftermath of the 1991 L.A. riots, The
Predator radiates tension. Ice Cube infuses nearly every
song, and certainly every interlude, with the hostile mood
of the era. Even the album's most laid-back moment, "It Was
a Good Day," emits a quiet sense of violent anxiety.
Granted, Ice Cube's previous albums had been far from
gentle, but they were filled with a different kind of rage.
On both AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990) and Death Certificate
(1991), he took aim at society in general: women, whites,
Koreans, even his former group members in N.W.A. Here, Ice
Cube is more focused. He found a relevant episode to magnify
with the riots, and he doesn't hold back, beginning with the
absolutely crushing "When Will They Shoot?" The song's wall
of stomping sound sets the dire tone of The Predator and is
immediately followed by "I'm Scared," one of the many
disturbing interludes comprised of news commentary related
to the riots. It's only during the aforementioned "It Was a
Good Day" that Ice Cube somewhat alleviates this album's
smothering tension. It's a truly beautiful moment, a career
highlight for sure. However, the next song, "We Had to Tear
This Motha ù ù ù Up," eclipses the relief with yet more
calamity. By the time you get to the album-concluding "Say
Hi to the Bad Guy" and its mockery of policeman,
hopelessness prevails. The Predator is a grim album, for
sure, more so than anything Ice Cube would ever again
record. In fact, the darkness is so pervasive that the wit
of previous albums is absolutely gone. Besides the
halfhearted wit of "Gangsta's Fairytale, Pt. 2," you won't
find any humor here, just tension. Given this, it's not one
of Ice Cube's more accessible albums despite ironically
boasting a few of his biggest hits. It is his most serious
album, though, as well as his last important album of the
'90s.
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