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The intro to Ice Cube’s debut album, Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, finds him being sent to the electric chair and executed.
Producer Hank Shocklee used skits to engage the listener and keep them hooked throughout the album. While Amerikkka’s Most Wanted was noted for the production of The Bomb Squad, Cu...
[Skit: Prison Guard, Ice Cube, Julian Bond]
(Yeah, got him now)
Hey, Cube! Cube, boy!
What, what? Whattup?
Get your ass UP!
(Ohh, shit)
Time to go!
Ooh, man, shit
We goin' for a 'little walk
(Close 7!)
'Ey, man. 'Ey, man!
What?
I never did like you
Open it up!
Strap him in! All right, calm down. You got any last words?
Yeah. Yeah, I got some last words... fuck all y'all!
Switch
Was America willing to maintain order, no matter what the cost?
Better Off Dead was written by Ice Cube.
Better Off Dead was produced by Sir Jinx & Ice Cube & Eric Sadler.
Ice Cube released Better Off Dead on Wed May 16 1990.
Hank Shocklee, of The Bomb Squad, said this about the skits on the album:
It was important to me that the album had glue to it. The most underrated part of that album was the skits….Everything should just meld together into each other, you can’t let anything die down. Once you’ve got the listener...