Los Angeles emcee, songwriter, actor, movie producer, CubeVision founder & BIG3 founder Ice Dice not slowing down musically together with his twelfth album. The cousin of Del the Funky Homosapien & Kam, he began as a part of the C.I.A. gained notoriety as a member of N.W.A till departing after their historic debut Straight Outta Compton. Dice later received his personal Precedence Data deal as a solo artist, teaming with The Bomb Squad for his personal debutAmeriKKKa’s Most Wished & later Kill at Will. Loss of life Certificates went on to turn into one other west coast hip hop landmark on account of a few of its racially & politically charged content material, together with his Lench Mob Data debut The Predator primarily addressing a whole lot of the racial tensions in america on the time. Deadly Injection was extra g-funk heavy and the Battle & Peace double-disc effort marked the top of the previous Westside Connection member’s Precedence contract. Chortle Now, Cry Later distributed by Virgin Music & EMI Data was a strong comeback nearly 2 many years in the past subsequent summer season after primarily specializing in appearing through the first half of the 2000s & then Uncooked Footage had it’s highlights though it was respectable as an entire. I’m the West grew to become his most negatively obtained physique of labor & the Interscope Data-distributed Everythang’s Corrupt confirmed to be an enchancment though nonetheless common. Man Down final fall was a reasonably nice homage to his Day 1s & the sequel Man Up is right here 10 months later.
“Man Energy” produced by E-A-Ski begins by asking if one has masculine skills from inside whereas “What You Gonna Do About It?” disses the sort of people that solely converse of doing issues as a substitute appearing upon it. “Freedumb” consciously discusses how individuals are getting spied on by their smartphones whereas “Guess What?” talks about being within the lower determining if the focused suspects are both for or towards him.
We now have Dice making it clear as day that one ought to “Neglect Me If You Ain’t wit Me” main into the one single “Earlier than Hip Hop” speaking about life prior to creating music over a Hallway Productionz instrumental. “Act My Age” that includes Scarface dabbles with lure a bit for an ode to MCs over 35 simply earlier than “Ratchet Ass Mouth” cautions in regards to the form of girls you shouldn’t date.
“Respect My House” poses the query if anybody desires to battle him whereas “California Dreamin’” offers off a g-funk vibe for a tribute to the sunshine state. “That Salt & Pepper” exhibits off his grown man standing for 115 seconds over a cool Erick Sermon beat & after “Carry Everyone” charismatically talks about being untouchable, “All Work No Play” finishes with a message to the O.G.s who really feel the identical manner he does.
Despite what others need to say about Ice Dice’s music in previous 2 many years or so & don’t get me began with Battle of the Worlds flopping, I’d say that Man Down is the higher of the two albums we’ve gotten from him prior to now 10 months though Man Up’s very a lot respectable. I recognize that he solely received 1 visitor on right here in distinction to the quantity Man Down had, however the manufacturing here’s a little weaker as an entire.
Rating: 6/10