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Ice Cube: Death Certificate
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With the release of Death Certificate, Ice Cube once again plunged into controversy. Apparently anti-Semitic references to Heller in "No Vaseline " and hostile words for Korean grocers in "Black Korea " triggered a wave of protests from organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; even Billboard condemned the record in an editorial. Cube's apparent racism and misogyny sparked considerable comment, though he and some of his defenders noticed that critics were silent on the subject of black-on-black violence.
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Firmly established as a solo artist, Ice Cube became a musical and cultural lightning rod, his music attracting alternating praise and disdain from the media and moralists. Despite being singled out in an unprecedented public statement of condemnation from Billboard upon its release, Cube's 1991 album, Death Certificate, debuted at #1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart and at #2 on the Billboard Top 200, and was soon certified platinum.
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As the title says, this stopgap release collects Ice Cube’s greatest hits, not his greatest songs. Fresh off an acrimonious split with seminal Los Angeles gangsta-rap quintet N.W.A, the fiery Cube re-emerged in the early ’90s stronger than ever with three classic albums — AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, Death Certificate, and The Predator — that fused rough, hydraulic funk with bleak ghetto manifestos. His strongest work from this period read like a prophecy of the destruction that would hit South Central Los Angeles in April 1992 following the Rodney King verdict.
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