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“It Was a Good Day”—Ice Cube

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Rise of NWA and the Dawn of Gangster Rap

Ice cube read his first rhymes at 14 as a freshman in high school egged on in typing class by a friend named kiddo. Young ice cube love public enemy and the Beastie Boys and run DMC. He lived in South Central but he was bused to a much fancier high school. In Garrett Kennedy's book cube says that the daily bus ride gave him a chance to see that the world was bigger than Compton.

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