Los Angeles emcee, songwriter, actor, movie producer, CubeVision founder & BIG3 founder Ice Dice not slowing down musically together with his twelfth album. The cousin of Del the Funky Homosapien & Kam, he began as a part of the C.I.A. gained notoriety as a member of N.W.A till departing after their historic debut Straight Outta Compton. Dice later received his personal Precedence Data deal as a solo artist, teaming with The Bomb Squad for his personal debutAmeriKKKa’s Most Wished & later Kill at Will. Loss of life Certificates went on to grow to be one other west coast hip hop landmark on account of a few of its racially & politically charged content material, together with his Lench Mob Data debut The Predator primarily addressing loads of the racial tensions in america on the time. Deadly Injection was extra g-funk heavy and the Battle & Peace double-disc effort marked the top of the previous Westside Connection member’s Precedence contract. Chuckle Now, Cry Later distributed by Virgin Music & EMI Data was a stable comeback nearly 2 a long time in the past subsequent summer season after primarily specializing in appearing through the first half of the 2000s & then Uncooked Footage had it’s highlights though it was first rate as a complete. I’m the West grew to become his most negatively acquired physique of labor & the Interscope Data-distributed Everythang’s Corrupt confirmed to be an enchancment though nonetheless common. Man Down final fall was a reasonably nice homage to his Day 1s & the sequel Man Up is right here 10 months later.

“Man Energy” produced by E-A-Ski begins by asking if one has masculine skills from inside whereas “What You Gonna Do About It?” disses the type of people that solely communicate of doing issues as an alternative appearing upon it. “Freedumb” consciously discusses how persons are getting spied on by way of their smartphones whereas “Guess What?” talks about being within the minimize determining if the focused suspects are both for or in opposition to him.

We’ve Dice making it clear as day that one ought to “Neglect Me If You Ain’t wit Me” main into the one single “Earlier than Hip Hop” speaking about life prior to creating music over a Hallway Productionz instrumental. “Act My Age” that includes Scarface dabbles with lure a bit for an ode to MCs over 35 simply earlier than “Ratchet Ass Mouth” cautions concerning the type of ladies you shouldn’t date.

“Respect My Area” poses the query if anybody needs to battle him whereas “California Dreamin’” offers off a g-funk vibe for a tribute to the sunshine state. “That Salt & Pepper” exhibits off his grown man standing for 115 seconds over a cool Erick Sermon beat & after “Convey All people” charismatically talks about being untouchable, “All Work No Play” finishes with a message to the O.G.s who really feel the identical method he does.

Regardless of what others must say about Ice Dice’s music in previous 2 a long time or so & don’t get me began with Battle of the Worlds flopping, I’d say that Man Down is the higher of the two albums we’ve gotten from him previously 10 months though Man Up’s very a lot first rate. I recognize that he solely received 1 visitor on right here in distinction to the quantity Man Down had, however the manufacturing here’s a little weaker as a complete.

Rating: 6/10