Track Listing

1. Pushin' Weight - Ice Cube & Mr. Short Khop
2. Check Yo' Self - Ice Cube & Das EFX
3. We Be Clubbin'
4. 100 Dollar Bill Y'all
5. Once Upon A Time In The Projects
6. Bow Down - Westside Connection
7. Hello - Ice Cube & Dr. Dre/MC Ren
8. You Can Do It - Ice Cube & Mack 10/Ms. Toi
9. You Know How We Do It
10. It Was A Good Day
11. Bop Gun (One Nation) - Ice Cube & George Clinton
12. What Can I Do
13. My Summer Vacation
14. Steady Mobbin'
15. Jackin' For Beats
16. Nigga Ya Love To Hate
17. In The Late Night Hour

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46849 in Music
• Released on: 2001-12-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
Few rappers have capitalised on their own notoriety as efficiently as Ice Cube. Exhibit A: track 16 of his Greatest Hits, 1990's fabulous "The Nigga You Love to Hate", where among the gunshots and p-funk samples the masses chant at our hero, "Fuck you, Ice Cube!". Cube, of course, got a taste for infamy in NWA alongside Dr Dre, inventing both gangsta rap and the sleek West Coast sound that dominated the 90s. As a solo artist, he pursued a black radical agenda as well as indulging in ghetto fantasies and developing a parallel career in films. Nowadays, he may be better known for the Fridaymovies, but much here proves his surly but oddly elegant rhyming, classic funk samples and hard-edged beats can still impress. As is traditional with greatest-hits compilations, there are niggling complaints: a few too many tracks from the less artistically rewarding late 90s, for instance, and the absence of personal favourites such as "When Will They Shoot?" from 92's The Predator. Nevertheless, it's hard to resist graphic, often funny narratives such as "Once Upon a Time in the Projects" and "It Was a Good Day". Or, indeed, "In the Late Night Hour", a new track with inescapable production team The Neptunes.--John Mulvey

CD Description
'The Greatest Hits' features 13 tracks from Ice Cube's eight solo albums, along with 'Bow Down' from his Westside Connection side project and 'We Be Clubbin'' from the soundtrack to the film 'Players Club'. Also includes two previously unreleased tracks.

Customer Reviews

Too many omissions
When Ice Cube went solo, he did what only Notorious B.I.G. has been able to replicate. His first two albums were hip-hop classics. The word classic gets thrown around quite a bit, but "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" and "Death Certificate" were close to perfect. After these two, there was no way he could do it again was there? But then he went and dropped The Predator and Lethal Injection cementing his place in the hip-hop hall of fame.

So why is it that I have given his Greatest Hits 3 stars? Because unlike his classic albums, this doesn't seem to flow well as a cohesive album, more a bunch of tracks thrown together (I realise that essentially, that's what it's meant to be, but it should at least try and disguise it with some sort of flow).

Whoever decided to start the album with a song as average as "Pushin Weight" needs to rethink their day-job. For a man as prolific as Cube, surely he deserves something like "N*gga ya Love To Hate" or his biggest commericial success "You Can Do It". In fact, the start of this album leaves this reviewer feeling a bit empty with only "Check Yo'self(remix)" hitting home as a classic song in the first four. Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against Cube putting new songs on the album as I happen to like "100 dollar bill y'all". But I feel that "We Be Clubbin" would have benefited with being replaced by the remix featuring DMX.

I've never been a huge fan of "Bow Down" and I feel that "The Gangsta, The Killa, The Dope Dealer" would have been a better representation of the Westside Connection.
Once "Hello" kicks in though, things start to get better, as from here, through "You Can Do It", "You Know How We Do It", the classic "It Was a Good Day", "Bop Gun" and "What Can I Do" its a big string of brilliance.

Then we hit "My Summer Vacation" and "Steady Mobbin'". While I've got nothing against these songs, I do feel that Death Certificate has been gipped to a certain extent by just grabbing the 2nd and 3rd song off it seemingly because they were easy to mix together.

Overall, this album has some great songs on it, the best being "Nigga Ya Love To Hate", "Check Yo'Self", "It Was A Good Day", "Once Upon A Time In The Projects" and "You Can Do It" (although with the amount of airplay its been getting recently - four years after its release - I would tend to hit the skip button). I just feel that there were too many great songs missing - the biggest offenders being "No Vaseline", "Ghetto Bird" and "Gangsta's Fairytale". I also feel that out of the 20 tracks of Death Certificate, some better songs could have been chosen from it.

If you want to get Ice Cube's best work, buy one(or all) of his first four albums. This CD just doesn't do his legacy justice.

DEFINATELY ICE CUBES GREATEST HITS
I had bought 'Amerikaz most wanted' and i wasn't that impressed. I thought that Ice Cube had been acting a bit childish on some ocasions. After buying this album for the tracks 'Check yo self' and 'It was a good day' i was shocked! They weren't any where near the best songs on the album. All the songs are great! After buying this album i am definatly an Ice Cube fan.

The only song i wasn't kean on was 'The n**** ya love to hate' which i had already owned on my 'amerikaz most wanted' album, (personaly i thought that song was crap) but all the other songs have got great beats and rapping.

The best songs are 'Hello' and 'Bow down'.

The album is way better than i thought it would be. If you are going to buy an Ice Cube album then definatly get this one, you won't be disapointed. Trust me!

True West coast hip-hop from the master of G-funk
This is a collection of Ice Cube's (former N.W.A) greatest hits...and let me tell you IT IS! This record has phat beats, funky bass and master production. Tracks range from chilled melodic songs such as "It was a good day" to G-funk like "check yo self"(uses "the message" recorded by grandmaster flash" and "Bop gun" but also has serious west coast gangsta tracks such as "bow down"(featuring mack 10 and WC) and "hello"(featuring N.W.A)To be brief this album is a must for anyone who likes DR.DRE,Easy E,Snoop and 2PAC, or to anyone who has heard "you can do it" and is interested in his other material or anyone who has never heard good hip-hop! whether you like underground or mainstream you will like this album.