AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Listen to it.

It's his first album that he released after he did America's Most Wanted with the KKK on it.

That was Bruce by the Bomb Squad.

And I listened to this And I'm like, holy shit.

These folks really do feel like they are from South Central.

Even having Ice Cube, who at this time was posting WA, he has America's Most Wanted, which is a platinum album at the time.

Where him being in a movie kind of lends itself to another level of authenticity.

But how everyone talks in this movie is really 1990.

sense of the phrase together.

Ice Cube's journey is so, so interesting where his debut solo album is.

is america spelled with three k's america's most wanted and then he ends up making children's movies

he also has a degree in architectural drafting from the phoenix institute of technology

That's it.

I actually like America's Most Wanted more than Death Certificate, but they're both so fucking great, so you can't go wrong with either.

Yeah, that's what I said at the beginning of mine when I said that shit.

People go back and forth, but what's the best album? I personally think Death Certificate, but America's Most Wanted is right

there.

I think Chuck D's verse on Endangered Species might arguably be his best.

So going back to the East Coast, but very West Coast influence.

I'm going Mafioso shit because I picked a lot of Mafioso shit, but this album to me is one of the best.

Yo, yo, yo, yo, stop the presses, dude.

her death certificate or America's Most Wanted in its entirety,

but he

paid his hard-earned money to go

And then, so I started looking at the track listing for both of those albums, and all I remembered was the singles.

And I was like, oh, my God.

I never really heard America's Most Wanted in full top to bottom.

And then I looked at Death Certificate, and I thought I did hear that one.

But Dre's style, and, you know, this doesn't take anything away from Dr. Dre, but Dre's style was influenced by the Bomb Squad.

So Ice Cube was kind of still getting the energy and the sound he wanted on America's Most Wanted.

it was just now y'all know i'm a big ice cube fan so tone when you when you heard of this whole scenario ice cubes leaving nwa and he's working with the bomb squad you know with public enemy and all that what did you think about that whole situation

I remember like it was yesterday.

And then you start hearing rumors that, well, East Coast Group is going to produce him as the Bomb Squad.

Who's the Bomb Squad? Then you do a little bit of research, reading stuff.

And you're like, the guys that make Public Enemy? ice cube what is that you know what i'm saying like what is that and then you hear america's most wanted and you like what is this like this is incredible where you can you can debate america's most wanted being a top five West Coast album of all time and a top 10, top 15, top 20 hip hop album of all time and one of the greatest debut albums by a solo MC in hip hop history.

ASQ writing was great.

I mean, I'll say this much, um, uh, the, the unit that Public Enemy produced, uh, th- they're called The Bomb Squad.

There's, there's nine albums in their production canon that I almost feel became the blueprint for everything that came afterwards, you know? I mean, there's even EDM electronic producers that will probably say, like, if you ask them, like, "What's, what's your North Star?" They're probably gonna say, "You know, the moment that I heard, uh, Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet." So, you know, after the success of Fear of a Black Planet, um, I'll say that, uh, their production on Ice Cube's very first record, America's Most Wanted-

Mm-hmm

... um, is a great example of that.