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...America pop culture has always glorified criminals, real and fictional. Michael Corleone. Bonnie and Clyde. John Gotti. The current "gangsta" genre in rap is no exception, reveling in crimes and misdemeanors, drive-bys and lootings. And for one of its leading practitioners, Ice Cube, 23, crime certainly pays. His new album, The Predator, entered Billboard's pop as well as its R.-and-B. chart at No. 1 -- the first time a performer has pulled off that double feat since Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life...
Unlike other anti-heroes America has mythologized, from Billy the Kid to Bugsy Siegel, Cube's gangsta persona has a moral compass. But apparently he hasn't found magnetic north yet: The Predator ends with the shooting of a corrupt cop as he reaches for a doughnut...