'What I'm kicking to you won't get rotation/Nowhere in the nation' he spits on the classic 'Turn Off the Radio,' which when coupled with the intoxicating Bomb Squad production and Cube's cocksure delivery that's just below a shout, makes one think he's the only radio the inner city needs. Ripping it quickly over a loop from George Clinton's 'Atomic Dog,' Cube asks the question that would be central to his early career, 'Why there more niggas in the pen than in college?,' while sticking with the mutual distrust and scare tactics N.W.A used to wipe away any hopes of reconciliation ('They all scared of the Ice Cube/And what I say what I portray and all that/And ain't even seen the gat'). Save the dramatic intro where a mythical Ice Cube is fried in the electric chair, his debut is filled with eye-level views of the inner city that are always vivid, generally frightening, generally personal, and sometimes humorous in the gallows style. With AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted the rapper expanded upon Compton, making a more full-bodied album that helped boost the role of the individual in hip-hop. When Ice Cube split from N.W.A after the group's seminal Straight Outta Compton album changed the world forever, expectations were high, too high to ever be met by anyone but the most talented of artists, and at his most inspired.

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