Ice Cube/wc/mack 10 Reunite On 'terrorist Threats'

[DudeAsInCool]

'Terrorist Threats': Westside Connection

In the last six months, making references to the events of 9/11 and their aftermath has somehow become gangsta, a way for rappers to make their rhymes sound hard core. This is exemplified in the ill-titled "Terrorist Threats" from the Westside Connection, a CD-length reunion of Ice Cube, WC and Mack 10. Its thesis is that rap is terrorism (not the best analogy to make under the Patriot Act), leading to ridiculous lines that rhyme, for example, West Sider with Al Qaeda.

More than current political events, this CD is concerned with current hip-hop events. And though nothing here matches the Mannie Fresh beat of their collaboration two years ago on the single "Connected for Life," the Westside Connection's long-awaited latest is still an impressive disc. One of its best songs attacks the softening of hip-hop (with the chorus "there's so many rappers in love on the radio"). Another highlight rails against the other extreme, hard-core rappers who try to live what they sing (rapping "before you bust a verse," go "snatch a purse").

NY Times.com 12/8/03

[jipper]

Only sellout gangster wannabes like ice cube would produce such crap..

[method77]

Only sellout gangster wannabes like ice cube would produce such crap..

agree with that. You'll never see MC Ren or Yella... etc make that stuff

[treveinta]

don't hate cause cube is making money...