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ICE CUBE easliy..

i know he was upfront and it would be the most obvious to choose,
Cube was the lyricist for the Group and his whole flow was ATTITUDE in it, he always sounded angry..

Eazy, Ren and Dre sucked. Cube kept that group afloat. They were big after he left, but only because of their image. Eazy E was one of the worst rappers of all time. Especially since Cube wrote his lyrics.

^^ its the dam truth...

also What did YELLA do????

i mean i know he made some beats but wasnt that DRE's job!?!?

N.W.A - one of the most destructive forces in music to date. i blame them entirely for that Gangsta rap bullshit and thw whole "lets the make the word Nigga cool again"

ezi pezi, ice cube, death certificate, the predator , lethal injection ,.... zat enuf reasons why ????

A toss-up between Basil and Faloola
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Ice Cube. Silly question.

I don't think anybody is going to NOT say Cube, myself included. He wrote most if not all of the lyrics, had the best flow (one of my favorite lines: "when I got a sawed-off, bodies are hauled off... his delivery just kills with this line). Eazy may have had the voice, and Ren was alright, but for my money, it's Cube all day. And his solo lps proved it too. Look at efil4zaggin, NWA's album after Cube left, the group became a more violent 2 live crew, and lost all the spark that made them so listenable. Sure, Dre's production skills were dramatically improving, but the lyrics suffered. I still can't listen to that album, and Automobile is just retarded. Even the 100 Miles and Runnin EP was just "ok". So yea, I'm ramblin on but can ya blame me? ICE CUBE 4 Ever. Can't wait for his new album. although his early stuff is the best.

Xavier23 said:

Ever heard of Ice-T?? Oh wait you're 20 years old, you obviously haven't got a clue about anything when they were "big"...
Anyway Ice Cube was the coolest and most talented member...
Eazy E. was the nicest and most down-to-earth of 'em all, even though he sounded like a frog on acid...
MC Ren was cool...
Dr. Dre was, and actually still is, a fucking no talent bastard...
Yella did nothing of significance (I hear he's doing porn nowadays...)
N.W.A. was cool...

Neversin.

smokeverbs is right. Cube is the only truly great MC of the bunch.

Tho Ren was overlooked

ThaCat said:

Yes, this is what I was thinking. He had the best lyrics, clever raps, and the most convincing attitude.

Neversin said:

so what's ur point?? they started the whole gansgta rap bullshit and actually did(and continue to do) nothing producitve. and no one seems to care about the glorification of the word "nigga" . however i bet if some of ya's ask ur grandmama she will surely tell u some of the pain and suffering she went through because of that word. ( that is of course, if she's black)

Xavier23 said:

Glorification of the word "nigga" certainly didn't start with N.W.A.

sthom146 said:

yes but im sure most other rap groups of the time didnt actually put in in thier names

sthom146 said:

sure didn't. if anything comedians glorified the hell out of it first. nigga this and nigga that. thats why i don't listen to the majority of rap/hip hop now

I agree Ren was overlooked....and back then he was a tall brolic sexy chocolate brotha too...

ThaCat said:

Ice Cube is nowhere near what he use to be on plastic back then...

Moonwalkbjrain said:

damn right it didn't. in the blaxploitation films in the 70's they used the word "nigga" in the movies, back and forth, just like they do now, but all of a sudden its my generation supposedly "glorifying" it, when its been glorified during the time my parents were getting down in the clubs back in the day.

In fact if you want to go back into history, SOME of the blacks who were lucky enough to receive an education when it was a crime for blacks to get one, were calling the blacks who didn't have an education or most blacks who in most cases were "southerners", whom they felt were an embarrassment to the race because of their lack of so-called book sense were often criticized by the educated ones as being "too country" and acting like "niggas".
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Goddamn. I knew this topic would end up going in this direction. Forget it.

Neversin said:

Ice cube hands down, easy e second, he was like the axl rose of hip hop back then. As for Xavier, you can blame all of societies ills on hip hop all you want. N.W.A did break down doors and barriers as far as freedom of speech is concerened. Plus if you didnt come from their enviornment (South Central LA ' Compton,) you wouldnt understand why they said what they said. Johnny Cash said he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, does that make him a gangsta cowboy?

Soulchild82 said:

so whats ur point??? so because they come from compton that makes it perfectly okay for them to glorify the word 'nigga'?? thats like saying Hitler waz a good man because we dont understand the boundaries he broke down for racist,white ethnocentic Germany

Ice Cube...he wrote mostly everybody's shit (besides the very underrated Ren)...Dude was a monster in that group before Dre stepped from the shadows....

See nobody still doesnt Know what YELLA did for the Group.

maybe its about time we hear YELLA make an ACCAPELLA!! lol..

Eazy Motherfucker!

Xavier23 said:

no xavier that aint his point. i dont think he's sayin that cuz they from compton its ok to say nigga nigga nigga. he's reffering to the rest of their lyrical content. fuck the police and all that

is this some kinda trick question maybe... ?
Ice Cube

Xavier23 said:

Since you don't have a clue about "Gangsta Rap" from those days (freedom of speech) your ramblings are quite pointless, it's easy to put the blame on something you're clueless about isn't it...
I bet you think Richard Pryor is a retard too eh?
If you actually took the time and listened to their social commentaries you'd understand where they were coming from and their use of the word "Nigga"...
And well comparing NWA to Hitler is quite retarded...

Neversin.