Do We All Agree That Ice Cube Is The Greatest Westcoast Rapper Of All-Time?

[Plutarch]

Well the Mexicans have been here....for a while. Most mexican immigrants ain't putting in no real work. It's the children of the immigrants for the most part and such things happen in places like South Central LA where gang culture is bred. Them Central American Immigrants is crazy. MS don't play.

Surenos control their portions of LA(Mainly East Los, SGV, and some other shit)and exert power through their dominance in the illegal drug trade, Thanks to help from the Mexican Mafia.

They're not overrunning South Central, the mix has been occurred. South Central is a ghetto where LA likes to keep us minorities, lot of people don't even travel outside the hood much. In fact a lot of Black people have moved out the hood to places like Palmdale, Lancaster, Victorville, so South Central seems a lil less Black so to speak but for the most part it's the same.

Some Surenos are clearly racist tho and are not too fond of Blacks, its not an all out race war tho. Latinos have lived amongst Blacks for a cool minute in South LA. Most of the time it's a gang or drug beef. Sometimes kids like to play Gangsta and get hurt, too many young ones false flagging and get caught slipping for it. It's LA life, u get used to it.

oh so it's like that then. I always wondered about la life. good post.

 

[lion_heart]

Cube's early catalog is pretty much unmatched.

 

[waterproof]

Ice-Cube is the 2nd greatest emcee on the west coast period!! and is in the top 10 emcee's in hip-hop of all times. Ice Cube is one my favorite emcee when i was a kid, i was such a Ice Cube fan my homies used to call me CUBE and that was in middle school. Ice Cube was the voice of black youth and was The Conscious of NWA. From 1990-1993 Ice Cube was the King of Hip-hop and was the face of hip-hop and was The King of the West Coast.

Classic Albums by Ice-Cube - NWA "STOC", AMERIKKKA MOST WANTED, DEATH CERTIFICATE, WEST SIDE CONNECTION "BOW DOWN" that 4 certified HIP-HOP CLASSIC'S

and dont forget Da Lench Mob's Gureilla's In the Mist which was a west coast classic album

 

[Lincoln]

In terms of having an overall career, classic albums and all, I guess you could say Cube is the greatest. But even here in California, I don't know a lot of people that listen to him regularly. I think Kurupt is a way better writer, I like Kid Frost's newer style more than Cubes, and there are quite a few more artists from the west coast that I would rather listen to.

 

[waterproof]

1. If it's strictly rapping there are other WC rappers out there who are better than Cube and I'm talking beyond the 90's, all across the board; lyrics, flow, etc. U might just not be up on all thats West Coast. I'm from LA and prefer East Coast NY shit most the time tho.

His production skills add to the overall impact of his songs. Songs which appear on his rap albums and attribute to his overall greatness as a rapper. Maybe if Quik didn't rap on his own production so much I wouldn't reference it at all and my opinion of him might be different because as we all know u can be great rapper, but with the wrong production no one gives a fuck i.e. Canibus.

2.Cube has actually had a lot of longevity in the game, moreso than alot of other rappers, he just transitioned into Hollywood Movies, no problem with that. He ain't relevant in Hiphop no more tho unless u wanna talk about his classics.

Quik is way more relevant in the streets, Believe Dat.

The rapping and the production that goes along with his songs are way more representative of the West Coast and what we regard as Classic and real West Coast Music.

IDK much about Quik either slept on him for a bit and still haven't peeped all of his music, good amount tho.

LOL idk about Eight getting the best of him tho.

3.I'm not trying to provide evidence. His body of work speaks for itself. They're two different artists tho and the music aint the same considering its West Coast.

Yo i been listening to Cube since 88 from 88-93 not to many emcee's was fuckin with Ice Cube on the mic from 88-93, when Cube want to get lyrical cube can hang with the best of them.

 

[H-Rap 180]

quik still hangs around the tree top's. cube doesn't even venture into south central let alone compton.

You must be 12 years old if you think its cute for a 40 year old man married with children to be hanging around gang-bangers instead of raising his kids in a safe environment.....theses dudes is grade-A corny.

Ice Cube s the greatest West-Coast rapper based off his music catalog, influence, battles, and longevity.

 

[Mumo X]

Ice Cube s the greatest West-Coast rapper based off his music catalog, influence, battles, and longevity.

its easy for naysayers to forget that Cube wrote 80% of NWA Lyrics and he the only emcee to hav his sophomore top his debut. And lets not forget he gave us 4 straight Classics. Thats quite impressive. So yeah, i agree with you that Cube has a legitimate claim to be the GOAT rapper from the west coast. "Death Certificate" is a top 5 hiphop record.

 

[lion_heart]

Ice-Cube is the 2nd greatest emcee on the west coast period!! and is in the top 10 emcee's in hip-hop of all times. Ice Cube is one my favorite emcee when i was a kid, i was such a Ice Cube fan my homies used to call me CUBE and that was in middle school. Ice Cube was the voice of black youth and was The Conscious of NWA. From 1990-1993 Ice Cube was the King of Hip-hop and was the face of hip-hop and was The King of the West Coast.

Classic Albums by Ice-Cube - NWA "STOC", AMERIKKKA MOST WANTED, DEATH CERTIFICATE, WEST SIDE CONNECTION "BOW DOWN" that 4 certified HIP-HOP CLASSIC'S

and dont forget Da Lench Mob's Gureilla's In the Mist which was a west coast classic album

I think you are crazy, so who is the greatest?

 

[HipHopFiend91]

You must be 12 years old if you think its cute for a 40 year old man married with children to be hanging around gang-bangers instead of raising his kids in a safe environment.....theses dudes is grade-A corny.

Ice Cube s the greatest West-Coast rapper based off his music catalog, influence, battles, and longevity.

i never said that though re read my post it had nothing to do with raising kids, cali made a point about dj quick still hanging around his old neighborhood and ice cube not.

like i said none of that matters but if were talking street cred dj quick has more that was my point.

 

[KeepinItHundred]

cube is just lucky that ras kass fell off

 

[musicology1985]

To me it's Ice Cube, DJ Quik, Snoop Dogg, E 40 and Richie Rich (in no order)

 

[blackstarr]

To me it's Ice Cube, DJ Quik, Snoop Dogg, E 40 and Richie Rich (in no order)

Co Sign Double R is criminally slept on...but I agree with the threadstarter Cube is Nr. 1 Kurupt comes 2nd!

 

[YamoleySensei]

O'shea >>>>>> Tupac

 

[andre_1024]

Pac, Cube, Quik, 40 in that order...

 

[waterproof]

I think you are crazy, so who is the greatest?

If think i have sane mind. who is the greatest West Coast Rapper! And we are talking about Impact on the west coast, who represent the west coast and it's culture, and when you think of the West Coast you think of these, who carried west coat on their back.

WEST COAST GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIMES
1) 2pac
2) Ice Cube
3) Eazy-E
4) Too Short
5) Snoop Dogg
6) E-40
7) DJ Quik
8) Ice-T
9) C-Bo
10) Spice-1

WEST COAST GREATEST EMCEE OF ALL TIMES
1) 2PAC
2) Ice Cube
3) Ras Kass
4) THE D.O.C. (yeah i know he's from the south but he was a West Coast Emcee, Just like 2 Live Crew is from The West but their a Southern Group and Premier is from TX he's a East Coast Producer)
5) Kurupt
6) MC REN
7) Xzibit
8) B-Real
9) Del the funkyhomosapien
10) Fat Lip

 

[NothingButTheTruth]

Ice Cube is the best to ever come out of the west..it aint even for debate imo.

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[blackstarr]

Im not even gonna count Pac cause TO ME the brother is in a league of his own same with Nas when discussin the greatest eastcoast rapper.
Heres how MY LIST would look

Cube
Kurupt
Ras Kass
Quik
Spice 1

 

[CaliGuerillaBlazin]

In terms of having an overall career, classic albums and all, I guess you could say Cube is the greatest. But even here in California, I don't know a lot of people that listen to him regularly. I think Kurupt is a way better writer, I like Kid Frost's newer style more than Cubes, and there are quite a few more artists from the west coast that I would rather listen to.

Real Talk.

Yo i been listening to Cube since 88 from 88-93 not to many emcee's was fuckin with Ice Cube on the mic from 88-93, when Cube want to get lyrical cube can hang with the best of them.

Ain't no denying cube held it down for a certain time period, he's a talented rapper. Phenomenal story-teller.