Word: cubes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CUBE WAR & PEACE VOL. 1 (THE WAR DISC) [rating: 3 musical notes] PREVIOUS ALBUM Lethal Injection, 1993 COPIES SOLD 1.7 million...
...founding member of the rap group N.W.A., Ice Cube can lay claim to being a true O.G., an Original Gangsta. But he has always been too smart, too observant, to fall into the trap of being just a thug-life-living gangsta rapper. He's an actor: he co-starred in Boyz N the Hood, and he's set to start in the action movie Three Kings with George Clooney. And he's a social critic, attacking, in his lyrics, the penal system, politicians and sometimes America in general...
...back with his first solo album in five years, the initial installment of a two parter. War is loud and aggressive; Ice Cube was recently featured on the hard-rock Family Values tour, and he knows how to make noise. He also knows how to tell a story: Ghetto Vet is a cold-eyed look at the life of a wheelchair-bound victim of gunfire. A number of songs here are cartoony and over the top, but they are mostly redeemed by pulsating numbers like Pushin' Weight...
Bryan Turner, head of Priority Records, got the buzz going on War by shipping copies of the song Ghetto Vet to hundreds of nightclub deejays. Says Turner: "Cube's got his own fan base. Alanis [Morrisette] and Garth have nothing to do with what we sell...
Trengove specializes in realistic reproductions of water. He makes twelve different types of cubes, from the standard ice cube to the "amorphic" ice cube to the "soda" cube. His custom made liquid spills, splashes, pours and drips have earned the praise of several high profile New York photographers...