Nearly a month after legendary and iconic Westcoast Hip-Hop pioneer, Ice Cube, dropped his latest critically-acclaimed solo album, Man Up, and a little over a month since dropping the album’s powerful Hallway Productionz-produced lead single, Before Hip Hop. Cube, who is currently in the middle of his Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude headlining tour. Returns to the powerful single with a just as dope, if not better remix of the track, he is calling the, Before Hip Hop Premix that features two more of the greatest emcees and lyricist’s, as well as two more fellow Hip-Hop icons and pioneers in LL Cool J and Chuck D.
Ice Cube, LL Cool J and Chuck D, all showing and proving why they are still three of the greatest emcees to ever touch a mic. LL dropping such standout bars as, “Hard to stay current, all these serpents and cartel. Got to dive deeper, learn to float catching reapers and sharks after dark. It is an art, Mona Lisa. Before Hip Hop. Martin laid in Ebenezer. You lucky I am rocking parties. Your body would be in a freezer.” Before Chuck D drops his knowledge about before hip hop with such bars as, “Before Hip Hop brothers still reached for the trunk. It wasn’t just bass, it wasn’t just funk. Side eyes for the sidewalks talking all that junk. Before Hip Hop they funk you right on up. Before Hip Hop we fought until we got caught. The law putting both our black asses in court. Before Hip Hop records still got bought. 33s and 45s. Before New York crime news at nine. No neighborhood support. Before Hip Hop we all still came up short. Before Hip Hop, the cameras, we still got caught. Frank, smoke, told mama jokes. Before Hip Hop cops, we still got choked. Before Hip Hop, we still was broke. Before guns, money and that cot damn coke. But don’t blame it on Hip Hop, ‘cause we still got hope.” To close out and add to Ice Cube’s already steady and powerful message from the original track.
