Video: Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It

I’m really feeling this new Ice Cube song/video.

It is far from all of the mindless ringtone rap out now.

The main thing I like is the message he is sending. And while people who don’t like or listen to hip-hop might not understand, I think it’s pretty clear as to what he is trying to say:

Are you gonna blame rap music for everything?

“It sets the tone for what my record is about,” Cube noted of the song. “It also sets the tone for … I think people have been waiting for rap to be relevant to their lives [again]. Not just to be all about one man’s glory, or whoever’s on the mic bragging about what most of the people can’t buy. It comes to the point where the music used to be the voice of the voiceless, and I wanna take it back to [that]. My album, Raw Footage, I don’t expect no commercial success from this record, and I’m not looking for it. I’m looking for the mature, intelligent, hardcore hip-hop fan to be pleased, satisfied and cherish the record. By being independent on Lench Mob records, I don’t have to worry about pleasing some program director or some record exec or anybody like that. Just please the fans, people who love Ice Cube. People who love it raw.”

Check it out for yourself…

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