O’Shea Jackson, higher identified to the world as Ice Dice, made many folks mad when he was fed up with the BS and launched this scathing album, appropriately entitled Dying Certificates, 32 years in the past on this date.
The album cowl itself speaks volumes. A Caucasian corpse with a toe tag that reads “Uncle Sam” draped with the celebs and stripes with the lately self-made solo artist pledging allegiance is as anti-establishment as you will get. Not solely had Ice Dice been free of his scenario with the legendary Niggaz Wit Attitudes, however he had additionally been launched right into a sea of data that may make his metamorphosis from a mere emcee and rhyme author of a “gangsta” rap group to an unparalleled entertainer in contrast to anybody else. The LP’s insert is simply as highly effective as the quilt, with Ice Dice and his Lench Mob crew doing the information to the Nation Of Islam’s Remaining Name newspaper.
The album options melodic, but truthful messages from the late Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad all through the period of the album. Songs like “I Wanna Kill Sam” and “Attractive Little Satan” echo NOI sentiments, however that doesn’t take away from the surgical lyricism from the previous NWA frontman coupled with manufacturing from Sir Jinx, the Boogiemen, and Dice himself. Timeless gems like “Black Korea” and “A Fowl In A Hand” tackles real-life points within the city neighborhood and the situations he addressed nonetheless ail our society at the moment, but are considerably ignored by at the moment’s artists.
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Some of the memorable tracks from Dying Certificates is, after all, the notorious “No Vaseline” geared toward Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ren Yella, and their monetary arm Jerry Heller. Within the track, Dice spits darts like, “..lookin like straight bozos/ I noticed it comin’ that’s why I went solo/ and saved on stompin’/ whereas y’all motherfuckers moved straight outta Compton..” and went straight at Heller’s neck with rhymes like, “..it’s a case of divide and conquer/ ’trigger you let a Jew break up my crew/ home nigga gotta run and conceal/ yellin’ Compton, however you moved to Riverside..”. N.W.A. by no means recovered from Dice’s blow, which made this file the last word diss file of all time. Ice Dice’s continued success which continues to be evident at the moment, is simply the icing on the cake of how he “dropped 4 niggas, now he’s makin’ all of the dough.”
The Supply sends a supreme shout-out to Dice, the Lench Mob (you too, Kam), Dr. Khalid (RIP), and everybody else concerned with this timeless basic!
