New York, NY (Top40 Charts) We mark the 30th anniversary of Ice Cube's platinum selling sophomore release Death Certificate, considered to be one of the hardest hip-hop albums of all time. To celebrate, Ice Cube released the complete digital deluxe edition of Death Certificate featuring the bonus "Tryin' To Maintain."
On October 29, 1991, Ice Cube released his highly anticipated second studio album Death Certificate, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and went platinum the first two month of its release, going on to sell over 5 million copies worldwide.
Produced by OG Cube cohorts, Sir Jinx, and the Boogiemen (DJ Pooh, Bobcat, and Rashad Coes), Death Certificate takes a potent look at life in South Central through the eyes of one of reality rap's greatest and grittiest storytellers. Roughly organized as two thematic elements of a larger whole, it opens with Cube's explanation: "The Death Side: a mirror image of where we are today; The Life Side: a vision of where we need to go."
Death Certificate was heralded a musical masterpiece and Ice Cube ultimately received the accolades he deserved for his incisive and revelatory socio-political commentary.
The Funeral
The Wrong N**** To F*** Wit
My Summer Vacation
Steady Mobbin'
Robin Lench
Givin' Up The Nappy Dug Out
Look Who's Burnin'
A Bird In The Hand
Man's Best Friend
Alive On Arrival
Death
The Birth
I Wanna Kill Sam
Horny Lil' Devil
Black Korea
True To The Game
Color Blind
Doing Dumb Shit
Us
No Vaseline
Only One Me
Good Cop Bad Cop
Dominate The Weak
Trying To Maintain.
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