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Ice Cube
Raw Footage
Release Date: 2008 08 19
Running Time: 0:00
Label: William Morris Agency
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Dealing with the good, the bad, and especially the ugly, Raw Footage is an appropriate title for Ice Cube's eighth album. Some kind of subtitle that mentioned the yin and yang of life would have made it perfect because the tracks here are as inclined to paradoxes as the man himself and offer just as few excuses. If you want insight into how a man justifies making family fun movies by day and hardcore rap by night, the only answer offered is that you grow up in this cruel world and you deal any way you know how, something that drives the great "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It." This key track may not be "fair and balanced," but it's honest and revealing as Cube embraces what he wants from the good -- a literate life that damns those who "read your first book in the penitentiary" -- and the commonly accepted bad as he attacks Oprah and everyone else who has a problem with hardcore rap using the "N" word. The 187 in "Why Me?" could be a metaphor for the attacks from Cube's detractors ("You want to take the life God handed to me/Send it back to him 'cuz you ain't a fan of me") while "Jack in the Box" suggests he's already won the war with "Fool, I'm the greatest/You just the latest/I'm loved by your grandmamma/And your babies." The album's guiding principle, "only thing I expect is self-check," is dropped in "Get Money, Spend Money, No Money," but the great news is that all these standoffish and self-serving rhymes are written with that whipsmart wit and sit on a bed of wonderfully minimal beats from lesser knowns like Young Fokus and Emile. The only time things sound slick are when an Eddie Kendricks sample meets Angie Stone's vocals on "Hood Mentality," or when the so-big-in-2008 Young Jeezy shows up for the disappointing and out of place "I Got My Locs On." The bombastic intro and interludes with Keith David could go too, but otherwise this no-answers, gritty ego trip will satisfy his fans while pushing everyone else away even further. David Jeffries, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1What Is a Pyroclastic Flow?Ice Cube, Murphy:54
2I Got My Locs OnYoung Jeezy, Harmon, Jenkins, Ice Cube, Jackson, PnO3:43
3It Takes a NationHaynie, Ice Cube, Emile, Jackson3:26
4Gangsta Rap Made Me Do ItIce Cube, Maestro, Jackson, Brooks4:41
5Hood MentalityUnderdue, Underdue, Underdue, Davis, Ice Cube, Underdue, Jackson, Griffith5:11
6Why Me?Underdue, Jackson, Underdue, Underdue, Ice Cube, Underdue4:00
7Cold PlacesUnderdue, Jackson, Underdue, Underdue, Underdue, Ice Cube4:12
8Jack N the BoxHenderson, Ice Cube, Bizness, Jackson, Whitacre4:22
9Do Ya ThangIce Cube, Jackson, Palumbo Beats, Palumbo4:04
10Thank GodReif, Jackson, Underdue, Brocker, Ice Cube, White, Underdue, Underdue, Underdue5:28
11Here He ComeJackson, Finister, Griffin, Symphony, Ice Cube, Dough Boy4:32
12Get Money, Spend Money, No MoneyHaynie, Emile, Ice Cube, Jackson4:07
13Get Use to ItIce Cube, Game, WC4:25
14TomorrowCampbell, Campbell, Jackson, Ice Cube3:40
15Stand TallIce Cube, Lopez, DJ Crazytoones, Lopez, Calhoun, Devaughn, Jackson3:46
16Take Me AwayReid, Thomas, Ice Cube, DJay Cas, Jackson, Young Fokus4:03

Other Releases:
Raw Footage [Clean]
Release Date: 2008
Label: Lench Mob

Raw Footage [Bonus Tracks]
Release Date: 2008
Label: Edel Records

Raw Footage [Best Buy Bonus Tracks]
Release Date: 2008
Label: Lench Mob


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b_oliver36 950 Thu Aug 21 2008 16:45:39
Raw Footage is one of the best rap albums of 2008. Ice Cube ripped this album. My favorite tracks are It Takes a Nation, Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It, Hood Mentality, Cold Places, and Get Money, Spend Money, No Money.
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