Ice Cube - I Am The West

So what's with all the pussy footing, bitching, and moaning and whining about this CD?

I just bumped it, certainly not a classic CD, but far from wack. There's 3-4 pop/club/southern sounding tracks that I can see narrowminded people blindly hating on... is that enough to get you to ignore the rest of the CD? Some dope, classic cube tracks on here. This is a solid 3.5 for me and on par or better than Raw Footage.

It doesn't appeal to me, point blank.

I'm a huge Cube fan and own all of his albums so you can't honestly call me a hater. This album is WACK IMO. After spinning it twice I have zero desire to spin it again. About the only Cube album that's as bad as this one is the Peace disk, and I'd probably be more likely to spin that again than this.

3 stars on a good day.

There's like 9 or 10 crack songs on the CD and you have no desire to hear them again?

There's only about 5-6 on this joint I like at best. This ain't the Cube I've come to know and love. He completely switched up his style and I'm not feelin it. I hope he doesn't stay in this direction for the rest of his career.

And SRP, there's a lot of albums that I love that you think are wack (despite the fact that they're considered some of the dopest albums of all time) so you can't honestly criticize me for not liking this album.

I'm gonna do what I usually do with albums in which I'm not feelin the whole product. Take the songs that I do like, put them on my iPod and screw the rest. I'll likely spin this album once more just to confirm which tracks are good, but I don't see my rating changing much, if at all.

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

There's only about 5-6 on this joint I like at best. This ain't the Cube I've come to know and love. He completely switched up his style and I'm not feelin it. I hope he doesn't stay in this direction for the rest of his career.

And SRP, there's a lot of albums that I love that you think are wack (despite the fact that they're considered some of the dopest albums of all time) so you can't honestly criticize me for not liking this album.

I'm gonna do what I usually do with albums in which I'm not feelin the whole product. Take the songs that I do like, put them on my iPod and screw the rest. I'll likely spin this album once more just to confirm which tracks are good, but I don't see my rating changing much, if at all.

I cosign for the most part. This album has 7-8 trks I can semi digest. The rest is typical lame ass bullshit. Cube is too old for an album like this. Right now I got it at a 3.0-3.25.

ive only heard 2 songs--Rep That West is mehhh

but the Kool-Aid song is DOPE

It was ok...the reason it's so disappointing is because we all know Cube can do better. I'll give it 3.0...and that's being nice really.

KRob TheRapGod wrote:

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

There's only about 5-6 on this joint I like at best. This ain't the Cube I've come to know and love. He completely switched up his style and I'm not feelin it. I hope he doesn't stay in this direction for the rest of his career.

And SRP, there's a lot of albums that I love that you think are wack (despite the fact that they're considered some of the dopest albums of all time) so you can't honestly criticize me for not liking this album.

I'm gonna do what I usually do with albums in which I'm not feelin the whole product. Take the songs that I do like, put them on my iPod and screw the rest. I'll likely spin this album once more just to confirm which tracks are good, but I don't see my rating changing much, if at all.

I cosign for the most part. This album has 7-8 trks I can semi digest. The rest is typical lame ass bullshit. Cube is too old for an album like this. Right now I got it at a 3.0-3.25.

That JYD avatar is fuckin' awesome... lol

R.I.P. JYD

I give it a 2.5 stars, it was disappointing to me. Cube was back to his standards with Laugh Now, Cry Later, but with this one I think he returned to the War & Peace era. Shiny beats which sound very South, and some controversy on lyrics, since he represents this and that, but how can a rapper support real hip hop and rap over this kind of beats? I liked Hood Robbin' very much, by far the best cut on the album, it is real hip hop, old Cube spittin' about social topics. If the whole album was intended this way, it would've been much better. I'm a big Cube fan, I think he can do way better than this.

Drink the Kool Aid is really dope, i havent heard this whole album though but dont really plan to

Never liked this album. I thought Raw Footage was better.
2.0 stars