In 1995, Cube had reunited with former N.W.A. However, this record included some of Cubes best songs Really Doe, Bop Gun (One Nation), You Know How We Do It & What Can I Do? After 1994, he suspended music activities and got focused on movies and promotion for other rappers. Dre's The Chronic, was not well highly appraised by music experts. Lethal Injection which was released in the end of 1993 and represented Cube's first attempt at imitating the G-Funk sound of Dr. However, after The Predator, Cube started losing his fan support. Singles from The Predator included It Was a Good Day and the Check Yo Self. The album remains Cube's most successful release, with over three million copies sold in the US. The Predator was the first album to top both pop and R&B charts. Ice Cube released The Predator in November 1992, dedicating this record to the continuing LA uprising of 1992. Cube participated in Lollapalooza in 1992, which contributed to his audience growth. This time human rights activists, politicians, religious leaders and some critics blamed him for being anti-white racism, misogynist, and anti-Semitic. His second album Death Certificate was a more mature work with irksome social problems focused lyrics. Also in 1991, he released the sensational EP, Kill At Will, the first hip hop EP to go both Gold and Platinum. This success was followed by Ice's cinema debut in John Singleton's drama, Boyz N the Hood. The easy-to-understand, yet rude and straightforward, lyrics caused Ice many problems. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted was a revolutionary effort making rap as popular as never before.
Cube's first solo album was released in New York City, with his group Da Lench Mob, and the Bomb Squad (Public Enemy's production team), in 1991. However leader of the band Ice Cube was not satisfied with the terms of the contract leaving him a tiny sum. In 1988, they released Straight Outta Compton, a piece of rap classics. (short for Niggaz With Attitude) formed by Ice Cube, Dre, and other rappers. Then Ice Cube launched cooperation with Eazy-E writing songs for the group N.W.A. Dre released the EP My Posse as CIA band.
At age sixteen, Ice Cube developed an interest in hip hop music, and began writing raps and performing at parties hosted by Dr. Ice Cube was born as O'Shea Jackson in South Central Los Angeles, California.
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