Prepare for a once in a lifetime night of hip-hop’s finest tracks from the last quarter century. Godfather of rap ICE CUBE plays classics from his 25 year career Sunday week 19th April at Tripod.
Check out this recent live set list from Ice Cube’s tour, including mega-hits from his N.W.A. days:
Click, Clack - Get Back!
Natural Born Killaz
Why We Thugs
Smoke Some Weed
Check Yo’self (The Message Remix)
Bow Down
Gangstas Make The World Go Round
Gangsta Nation
West Coast Voodoo (WC)
Nigga Ya Love To Hate
Straight Outta Compton
Gangsta Gangsta
You Can Do It
It Was A Good Day
Bop Gun (One Nation)
Do Ya Thang
We Be Clubbin’
Go To Church
Support on the night comes from Dublin rapper OPHELIA and DJ Frank Jez.
Pod Concerts is proud to present the godfather of gangsta rap, playing his first show in Ireland for 15 years.
Living legend Ice Cube returns to Dublin after a decade and a half, touring his incendiary latest album Raw Footage. His 60 minute show will feature all the classic songs from his 25 year career, including tracks from his time with genitors of hip-hop N.W.A.
Released in August of last year, Raw Footage has been hailed as some of the best material since Amerikkka’s Most Wanted from the pioneer of west coast rap.
Politically charged and artistically cutting-edge, the album features guests such as Musiq Soul Child, Nas, Scarface and Dub C. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and Top Rap Albums Chart, and at number five on the Billboard 200 chart.
POD Concerts presents
ICE CUBE
Sunday April 19th
Tripod – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 7:30pm
Tickets €42.50/48.50 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.icecube.com
www.myspace.com/icecube
Praise for Raw Footage:
Cube spits some of his sharpest rhymes in years (Rolling Stone)
This is Cube's strongest performance musically and lyrically in many many years (Rapreviews.com)
Arguably his best work contextually since Death Certificate itself…celebrates the triumphs of an OG returning to protect a legacy—both his and his culture's (Vibe)
His rhymes are wittier and more tightly coiled than most of his younger peers (Boston Globe)
The impassioned delivery and stripped-down G-funk grooves are still more potent than plenty of efforts by rappers half Cube's age (Billboard)
About Ice Cube:
Known to be one of the Most Important figures in rap history, Ice Cube began his career with the Notorious West Coast Gangsta Rap Group N.W.A two decades ago. At the height of the group’s success, Ice Cube broke away to start his own solo career. His initial release, “Amerikkka's Most Wanted” (Priority, 1990) sold over a million copies. His sophomore solo effort, "Death Certificate" (Priority, 1991), a concept album about the fall and rise of the black man, debuted at #1 on the R&B Album chart, #2 on the Top 200 album chart and went on to sell over two million copies. His impressive musical career also includes the multi-platinum success of both his double album “War and Peace,” and hit albums “Lethal Injection,” “Bootlegs & B-Sides,” “The Predator,” and the gold certified, independently released “Laugh Now, Cry Later.” Ice Cube has sold over 10 million albums to date.
Following a triumphant return to the mic after 6 years in 2006 with the critically acclaimed release of Laugh Now, Cry Later, which debuted at #2 on the R&B/Hip Hop sales chart and #4 on the Top 200 sales chart, making it the years highest selling independent release in hip hop, the Godfather of Gangsta Rap, Ice Cube is ready to take center stage once again with his ninth solo effort. The highly anticipated new album, entitled Raw Footage was released on August 19th courtesy of his own independent imprint, Lench Mob Records.
Raw Footage includes guest features by artists such as Musiq Soulchild, Nas, Scarface and Dub C. The hip hop legend also collaborated with producers Maestro, Emile, DJ Crazy Toones, Fred Wreck, Palumbo Beats, and Teak “Da Beatsmith” Underdue and Dee Underdue to name a few.
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