Word: icing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ICE 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...
...Basketball vs. Fairfield, 6 p.m. W. Hockey vs. SLU, 7:30 p.m. M. Ice Hockey at Princeton, 7:30 p.m. M. Squash vs. Navy/MIT/Brown, 3 p.m. W. Squash vs. Brown/Smith, 5 p.m. W. Swimming at Brown...
TOMORROW Football vs. Yale, 12:30 p.m. M. Fencing vs. Brown, 4:30 p.m. W. Fencing vs. Brown, 3:00 p.m. W. Ice Hockey vs. Cornell, 7 p.m. Wrestling at E. Stroudsberg Tourn. M. Fencing at MIT, 11 a.m. W. Swimming, at Columbia (w/Army), 1 p.m. M. Ice Hockey at Yale...