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If Ice Cube's debut was a shocking attack that proved the N.W.A legacy would be stronger divided, his sophomore effort was a new kind of superstar pulling off the miraculous, a follow-up that equals its classic predecessor and tops it in some people's books. With a million copies of Death Certificate preordered, Cube was no longer the rock critics' darling. A million people listening was dangerous, especially since he was now slithering his influence into the suburbs. If the black rage didn't get you, the misogyny of "I'm gonna do my thing, with your daughter" probably would. Here, one of rap's greatest storytellers is able to draw hatred in under a minute with the short and direct "Black Korea," an angry protest song concerning Korean grocers that got him dubbed "racist" and "Ice KKKube" by some. The track is an extreme representation of how a much sharper and cutting this album is when compared with his debut, and even though the intro announces the full-length is divided into a "Death Side" and "Life Side," both are equally bleak. With the CD format, the two sides are indistinguishable and run over the listener with fast tales of drug dealing, drive-by shootings, and women who go from "Ms. Thing to Ms. Gonorrhea." This would be numbing if it weren't for the rapper's amazing lyrics, ground-shaking delivery, and insight like when "A Bird in the Hand" deals with the irony of selling crap to buy diapers ("Gotta serve you food that might give you cancer/Cuz my son doesn't take no for answer"). A bit of sweet relief comes with the brightness of the great single "Steady Mobbin'" and with the nostalgia and slow tempo of "Doing Dumb Shit." "True to the Game" ("Ain't that a bitch/They hate to see a young nigga rich") is arguably the quintessential Cube track and if all this weren't enough already, the N.W.A diss "No Vaseline" hangs off the album like a crowd-pleasing, Brick-sampling encore. Although next year's Predator would be a bigger hit, Death Certificate brings to a close the man's trilogy of perfect albums that began with N.W.A's Compton and explodes into a supernova right here.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
William Earl Collins, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Clinton, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bernie Worrell, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
O'Shea Jackson, Composer - David L. Spradley, Composer - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Clinton, Composer - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - Garry Marshall Shider, Composer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Boogie Men, Producer - The Boogie Men, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Alan Gorrie, Composer - Roger Ball, Composer - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Boogie Men, Producer - James Hamish Stuart, Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
DJ Pooh, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Boogie Men, Producer - The Boogie Men, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Al Jackson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - Booker T. Jones, ComposerLyricist - Donald Dunn, ComposerLyricist - Steve Cropper, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Clinton, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bernie Worrell, ComposerLyricist - Michael Hampton, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Boogie Men, Producer - The Boogie Men, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Rans, ComposerLyricist - Curtis Mayfield, ComposerLyricist - Peter Brown, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Clinton, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer - Dewayne McKnight, ComposerLyricist - Tony Davis, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
William Collins, Composer - RONALD DUNBAR, Composer - Mark Jordan, Composer - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Clinton, Composer - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - Garry Marshall Shider, Composer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Boogie Men, Producer - The Boogie Men, Producer - Donnie Ray Sterling, Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Mark Jordan, Composer - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ronald Isley, Composer - RUDOLPH ISLEY, Composer - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - O'Kelly Isley Jr., Composer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Boogie Men, Producer - The Boogie Men, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Mark Jordan, Composer - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Boogie Men, Producer - The Boogie Men, Producer - Teren D. Jones, Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
DJ Pooh, ComposerLyricist - Bobby "Bobcat" Ervin, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Sigidi, Composer - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - Sir Jinx, Producer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mbaji, Composer - Harold Lee Clayton, Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
DJ Pooh, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Lou Donaldson, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Boogie Men, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Raymond Calhoun, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Deadly Threat, Composer - George Porter Jr., Composer - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - Art Neville, Composer - Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, Composer - Leo Nocentelli, Composer - Kam, Composer - King Tee, Composer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Boogie Men, Producer - The Madd Circle, Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
William Earl Collins, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Clinton, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bernie Worrell, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Boogie Men, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
William Earl Collins, ComposerLyricist - Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Clinton, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bernie Worrell, ComposerLyricist - Sir Jinx, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Composer, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist - Sir Jinx, Producer - Mr. Stoker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony D. Wheaton, Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records LLC
Ice Cube, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Richard Bartell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 Lench Mob/Interscope Records
Lorenzo Patterson, ComposerLyricist - Tristan Jones, ComposerLyricist - Andre R. Young, ComposerLyricist - Harry Whitaker, ComposerLyricist - Ice Cube, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - T-Mix, Producer
℗ 2016 Cube Vision/Interscope Records
Ice Cube, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Davon Phillips, ComposerLyricist - Olasoji Adenuga, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 Cube Vision/Interscope Records
Teak Underdue, Composer - Dee Underdue, Composer - Dave Lopez, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ice Cube, Author, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2021 Lench Mob Records
Album review
If Ice Cube's debut was a shocking attack that proved the N.W.A legacy would be stronger divided, his sophomore effort was a new kind of superstar pulling off the miraculous, a follow-up that equals its classic predecessor and tops it in some people's books. With a million copies of Death Certificate preordered, Cube was no longer the rock critics' darling. A million people listening was dangerous, especially since he was now slithering his influence into the suburbs. If the black rage didn't get you, the misogyny of "I'm gonna do my thing, with your daughter" probably would. Here, one of rap's greatest storytellers is able to draw hatred in under a minute with the short and direct "Black Korea," an angry protest song concerning Korean grocers that got him dubbed "racist" and "Ice KKKube" by some. The track is an extreme representation of how a much sharper and cutting this album is when compared with his debut, and even though the intro announces the full-length is divided into a "Death Side" and "Life Side," both are equally bleak. With the CD format, the two sides are indistinguishable and run over the listener with fast tales of drug dealing, drive-by shootings, and women who go from "Ms. Thing to Ms. Gonorrhea." This would be numbing if it weren't for the rapper's amazing lyrics, ground-shaking delivery, and insight like when "A Bird in the Hand" deals with the irony of selling crap to buy diapers ("Gotta serve you food that might give you cancer/Cuz my son doesn't take no for answer"). A bit of sweet relief comes with the brightness of the great single "Steady Mobbin'" and with the nostalgia and slow tempo of "Doing Dumb Shit." "True to the Game" ("Ain't that a bitch/They hate to see a young nigga rich") is arguably the quintessential Cube track and if all this weren't enough already, the N.W.A diss "No Vaseline" hangs off the album like a crowd-pleasing, Brick-sampling encore. Although next year's Predator would be a bigger hit, Death Certificate brings to a close the man's trilogy of perfect albums that began with N.W.A's Compton and explodes into a supernova right here.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:45
- Main artists: Ice Cube
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Priority Records
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2021 Capitol Records LLC ℗ 2021 Capitol Records LLC
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