And so, the man with the hardest-charging cadence on the West Coast decamped to New York to record AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, which he asked Chuck D to help him with. An elder legend in the rap game, Chuck D, had cautioned the 19-year-old emcee to think of his longevity and to play it smart. The most shocking was that he abruptly left the group.
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Rogers got paid from a rap song that dramatized a drive-by and had rhymes about the “Three Little Pigs in a Coupe de Ville, lookin’ for the wolf to kill.”Īt the height of N.W.A.’s success in the late 1980s, Cube made a series of very unexpected choices. That’s right, there was once a time in America when Mr. He was getting, like, five cents a record until we took that part off.” Rogers theme at the beginning of this shit - ‘it’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood,’ and all that. “Cube you write movies in your songs,” he gushed.)Īs Cube introduced the song “Gangsta’s Fairytale,” he added, “It’s a trip because, off this song, Mr. (Unsurprisingly, all sorts of celebrities popped in - from Snoop, to Fat Joe, to DJ Premier, to Common, who fanboy’d out in the comments. Rogers was getting money off gangsta rap,” Ice Cube laughingly recalled for the folks who attended his Instagram Live listening party on Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. The public-television legend wanted to make sure he got his cut for AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted.
But Cube managed to upset the sweater-clad, ever-smiling, no-cussing children’s television host so much that Mr. When Ice Cube released his debut album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, the firebrand rapper with the hard-hitting flow pissed off a whole lot of Americans - including, it turns out, Mr.