07. Ice Cube - Turn Off the Radio

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is the debut album by rapper Ice Cube.[1] It was released after his acrimonious split from his former group N.W.A. It was originally released on May 16, 1990. Primarily produced by Public Enemy's production team' The Bomb Squad, the album was an unexpectedly large critical and commercial success, and remains one of the defining hip hop albums of the 1990s.
Track Listing :
1 Better Off Dead
2 Der Nigga Ya Love to hate
3 AmeriKKKa die Most Wanted
4 Was Sie Hittin 'Feind?
5 Sie kann nicht verblassen Me / JD 's Gaffilin'
6 Once Upon a Time in den Projekten
7 Schalten Sie das Radio
8 Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside)
9 Ein Gangsta 's Fairytale
10 Ich bin nur Out for One Thang
11 Get Off My Dick and Tell yo bitch, hierher zu kommen
12 Die Drive-By
13 Rollin 'Wit das Lench Mob
14 Wer ist der Mack?
15 Es ist eine Welt der Männer
16 The Bomb
17. Ice Cube - Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) (Remix)
18. Ice Cube - Jackin' For Beats
19. Ice Cube - Get Off My Dick & Tell Yo Bitch To Come Here (Remix)
20. Ice Cube - The Product
21. Ice Cube - Dead Homiez
22. Ice Cube - JD's Gaffilin', Pt. 2
23. Ice Cube - I Gotta Say What Up!!!
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[@TKsh1]

Considering this album was a success without any radio play or commercials, this song makes even more sense.

[@kennk420]

Ice Cube and the Bomb Squad... Forever the hardest. Match made in heaven, man.

[@abrahampalmer8761]

This song right here is so much more relevant than ever before

[@belleami7675]

Say👏🏾that 👏🏾 baby! #HipHop50

[@hyperdog67]

Yeah, but what happened to Cube? Ass kissing for Trump? Nah..I can't fuck with today's Cube.. this in my opinion was his best album.

[@millertcby]

Best Album Ever

[@kevinheatcoat2190]

HAHAHhahahahhahahahaha Its A Funny Song.

[@trajoanmayberry3808]

Death Certificate:Hold My Beer

[@Arsenal8999]

Definitely in my top 3 💯

[@kevinheatcoat2190]

@@trajoanmayberry3808 2020 Hold My Corona.

[@Dynaman21]

I think I remember hearing this was his response to Don Cornelius saying he hated rap, on top of black radio not wanting to air hip hop back in the day. I think Cube won.

[@TKsh1]

Too bad none of the rappers in the past 20 years had ever reached the quality and production of Ice Cube, now it's just Vanilla Ice...

[@VinylAthletes]

I wish there was an instrumental version for the whole album so we can fully appreciate the Bomb Squad’s genius

[@kevinscott59]

Vinyl Athletes Preach

[@kan50805]

Those are so easy to find

[@vicvega24]

Sample clearances I think lol

[@retro-litetheater2331]

@ 0:30 the background music is originally Issac Hayes song called House Of Beauty from a 1970 something movie Truck Turner. Never seen the movie but the music is legendary.

[@henryledford8835]

1974

[@keithwitcher5130]

Ice Cube of NWA Turn Off The Radio song is a classic. Movie actor John Turturro made me laugh talking at 0:08 in Do The Right Thing movie that Spike Lee directed. Ice Cube Amerikka's Most Wanted album is good. I like the album pictures. I like Ice Cube.

[@Kitu74]

This is a top 10..all time hip hop album..facts

[@alejandrosantos2611]

I wish this track was longer

[@zeetroyman]

the riff on this tune is a total banger!

[@alejandrosantos2611]

@@zeetroyman absolutely

[@zeetroyman]

@@alejandrosantos2611 still listening to this banger homes! scotland represent! hope all is good

[@ib3kii664]

That intro.... damn

[@lifeismeaningless5512]

Yeah, they hate us blacks

[@pimpiniseasy2778]

@@lifeismeaningless5512 “they hate us blacks” either you have an inferiority complex or you aren’t black either way u sound stupid

[@lifeismeaningless5512]

@@pimpiniseasy2778 it’s true. The fuck, there’s a lot of white supremacy groups on the internet. But I don’t care though. And i do have an inferiority complex, all my life I’ve been taught white is right. They have a whole religion based on it.

[@zipzip8239]

@@lifeismeaningless5512 im white and 44, i dont think i have ever known a white person that hates black people.

[@brucerawlinsjr.9656]

@@zipzip8239 good for you...whites still hate blacks.

[@ldove8819]

He is so underrated…… classic

[@deletingyoutube2306]

How is he underrated? Everybody know this man

[@EtzaelVargas]

@@deletingyoutube2306 onggg lmao

[@jahnkonoo]

*Hip Hop at it's Supreme Greatest!*

[@Willie-fy5lr]

Cube was definitely in his prime on this album just like ren was on niggaz4life man I wish we had them both on niggaz4life.

[@romeoechofoxtrot18]

I want that instrumental by far some of Cube's hardest beats only second to really doe and Westside slaughterhouse

[@alphegetekere8081]

Listen to the whole album, produced by The Bomb Squad who produced for Public Enemy. When Ice Cube left NWA he turned to the East Coast.

[@romeoechofoxtrot18]

@@alphegetekere8081 oh I know my hip hop history

[@erdevon3257]

Now Icecube has hits on the radio!🤣

[@jeffreyharrell1258]

🤣😂😂🤣🤣true!!!!!!!!

[@zeetroyman]

in fact the rift to this banger is on par with the intro to black belt jones... if i could have both on loop in the car id be a happy man!

[@deletingyoutube2306]

📣 STILL RELEVANT TODAYYYYYYY!

[@azQClothing]

Turn off that radio 😆🔥💯👌

[@kevinheatcoat2190]

And Turn OFF The TV Too.

[@OMEGAxWARRIOR]

A message to the Oreo cookie… I feel like Kanye West needs to hear this.

[@kevinheatcoat2190]

Turn Off That Cocksucking Radio.

[@xenojive]

I feel like Ice Cube needs to hear this

[@OMEGAxWARRIOR]

@@xenojive that’s funny

[@gaba-goo3733]

@@xenojive lol yall really wanted Ice Cube to become like Biggie and 2pac. He was too smart

[@ronnieguillot8519]

Oh reeeeeealy? Explain why you think that.... I dare you.

[@19zach75]

That's "Tommy Davidson" from "In Living Color" fame ranting at the end about "cut him off"😂😂😂

[@Chessbox09]

Damn I thought was him! I knew it🤣

[@TheStreetFoolosopherMr187]

😂😂😂😂

[@erdevon3257]

Brilliant album though, you can hear the public enemy influence 👌

[@willholmes1690]

Public enemy was the east coast version of nwa beats n topics was similar cept the gang shit but social point of veiw was similar n Everytime anyone walked into a record store n saw a new albums from pe or nwa we knew we was buying the very best that hip hop had to offer 88-92 .

[@willholmes1690]

Keep in my chuck d is cubes idol n favorite rapper ever for good reason cause these two together was a dream come true for me

[@abubakirhassan6913]

Public Enemys producers produced this album

[@hughes3323]

One of his best!!!

[@mduntr7503]

That beat tho... Damn that shit was hittin...

[@FingerBreakerWu]

TURN OFF DAT BOOLSHEET!

[@seanvogt221]

I think the beginning of this track and the sellout comment was referring to MC Hammer.

[@tsartodd]

@1:34 how i feel about most pop music nowadays.

[@zeetroyman]

scotland 2020, much love! what a banger of a tune!

[@kevinheatcoat2190]

2020 Turn Off The Radio.

[@MultiBthompson]

One of the most underrated rappers

[@randallrosfeld4366]

A message to the Twinkie, no matter how much you wanna switch here's what they think about you.....

[@MrKillafolston]

Love the execution!!!!!

[@timothydavis6216]

Radio one underground B side Remembers the Great ones 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@skolopija]

do the right thing-spike lee

[@paulgabbard7543]

Like all old school hip-hop rap music old school hip-hop mix music old school hip-hop jam music old school hip-hop 90s music old school hip-hop ICE CUBE-TURN OFF THE RADIO

[@sulaimaanahmad]

classic much. 🎶🎶🎶

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

sweet song !!!

[@brixtonlondon3684]

Fire🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@greenboxmedia6291]

"All I got is my nine And to calm the savage beast here's the Alpine"...DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS...👊🏿

[@DrVonNostrand]

Now Cube is starring in "Are We There Yet 3"

[@frickinaj]

The german song titles in the description though

[@mousey31]

I dedicate the intro to Candace Owens.

[@frenchmontana3089]

Now u gotta dedicate it to the man Ice Oreo Cookie his self😂

[@Punicia]

@plantation Free Candace Owens is a wench.

[@Punicia]

@plantation Free Owens is a disgrace. She bred with a white dude. Disgusting.

[@Punicia]

@plantation Free She's an insult to Black men and communities everywhere.

[@gr33kfr3ak8]

@@Punicia what’s so disgusting about interracial relationships?

[@anthonygray1087]

That's what someone needs to say today's raido

[@alphegetekere8081]

That intro was from Do The Right Thing directed by Spike Lee

[@unsaltedpringle6813]

I like to think cube got tired of N.W.As crap left and went crazy.

[@cbrownlee1]

0:35 R.I.P Ricky Harris

[@ThugNinja]

Chris Brownlee I didn't know that was him lol

[@dawolf4274]

Yup ! He was on a Cypress Hill, cut or 2 also... funny cat.

[@Cw311z]

Straight R&B, Straight R&B, Straight R&B. RIP DJ Eazy D!ck. WBALZ!

[@TheStreetFoolosopherMr187]

Yup and he was the husband of Dee Barnes 😂😂😂

[@willholmes1690]

This version cube on niggaz4life with that version of ren would have been out of anybody reach to ever come close to making a better record over that production

[@johnwebb2442]

This song is for Jason Whitlock and those five black police officers that beat Tyre Nichols to death.

[@Smd-yj6pv]

Song played: "Un-break my heart" by Toni Braxton. Schelby Davis: Me as an angry listener: Turn off that bullshit! Turn off the radio! OH MY GOODNESS! I hate that song!

[@juansebastiangarzonsanchez]

The best Album in the old school.

[@cariocabassa]

Is it from the "Do the right thing" movie???

[@kevinscott59]

Del the funkee homosapien on the outro.

[@olschoolTonyCarter]

Yep Deltron 3030 lol.

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

Cubes cousin! Is this before Del was in the Hyroglyphics?

[@rasungod7257]

@@eminemisdogshit4626 before "I Wish My Brother Was Here".

[@craig205]

@@eminemisdogshit4626 technically hieroglyphics was always a thing, a friend rap group but it was before they became an official group

[@seanboddie3852]

One of My Favorites danm that new bullshit...

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

This is aplicable to kanye, Eminem and all those other pop rappers

[@kegusto5359]

In realtà era incazzato con EAZY-E ...

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

Message to Eazy E and jerry heller.

[@FingerBreakerWu]

2:17 Donald Trump calls the Howard Stern Show (c. 1990)

[@ondretanks4282]

Sample of Let's Gets Small by Trouble Funk

[@Goatchild90]

A message to Kanye West (Ye), no matter how much you wanna switch, here's what they think about you 0:07

[@ericm.felton9386]

This song should be remade.

[@michaelcampbell4535]

Eric M. Felton yeah

[@joegladue8339]

Lol good intro cube was the man

[@cixxthachiller6874]

#LegendaryClassic

[@O.GHuztleMayne512ATX]

I miss shit like this

[@kevinheatcoat2190]

2020 Turn Off The Radio.

[@johnwalter5875]

Wow...Greatness....&^$#@! Speechless..

[@zipzip8239]

isnt this the guy who makes disney movies?

[@Chris-es6ps]

Hmmm, I see that you paid attention to his works. Good for you.

[@HighNoon23]

How u like the radio NOW?

[@fabzlab1980]

I'm talking to you Pino...do the right thing farq top 40s

[@zeetroyman]

happy 30th anniv!

[@bigmahony313]

Man I want to see this

[@rwyatt26]

Kool & The Gang - Rated X is sample source

[@dopeman6754]

What’s that song that changes while the radio is changing at the beginning? Sounds like a RnB song

[@YolkSandwich]

2:17 tommy davidson?

[@UniteFoundation1]

This was my shit!!!!!!!

[@oliviermuller9606]

What about the real rythme of Afrikkka, god bless it

[@nathanielgrant3909]

Here because of the film Hoop Dreams!

[@RsRj-qd2cg]

I first heard this in Hoop Dreams. I thought they were listening to a pirate radio station lol

[@nathanielgrant3909]

@@RsRj-qd2cg there was a good deal of studio production music, back then 80s/90s designed to sound like pirate radio lol. The opening words are from Spike Lee's film 'Do the Right Thing' a must watch if you liked Hoop Dreams

[@JGreer313]

1:32 😐😐😐🤔🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@allthewoointheworld]

what is that sample doe hahah

[@arthurworkman4399]

what film was that from 0:07 -- was it the movie "Colors" Starring Sean Penn?

[@MrShaneHardy]

Do the Right Thing

[@eddiebarnum6020]

🤔😳🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍

[@LoftusBlake]

Dj face down in a river,no its not a threat but a promise

[@iantucker7338]

AMW

[@arcane231]

Hard tuning

[@albaniandisciple625]

Kerceno has right, he really dissed NWA first?

[@zahirali7959]

0:50

[@ginsengchickensoup]

🌺🍀🌻💮🌹

[@7879obarber]

im mixed with white and black but always got called white boy by all blacks so i dont feel that ima always go with the white side

[@harleydad1975]

Whoops....looking back now lol Seriously though that wasn't even a white guy that lead in the hate.

[@jflatty5389]

deejay face down in the river

[@ErickReyesRomeroBanks]

Turn on the radio take a listen What you're missing Personally I'm sick of the ass kissing What I'm kicking to you won't get rotation Nowhere in the nation Program directors and DJ's ignored me Cause I simply said fuck Top Forty And top thirty top twenty and top ten Until you put more hip hop in Then I might grin but don't pretend that you're down with the see And go and dis me in a magazine How could you figure the brother could dig ya DJ face down in the river No it's not a threat but a promise I'm as Crazy as they come see Mama didn't love me All I got is my nine And to calm the savage beast here's the Alpine Turn off that bullshit! Turn off that motherfucking radio! Turn off that bullshit! Turn off that motherfucking radio! Turn off that bullshit! Play the music motherfucker put the music on Damn! Tune in to the radio listen for a minute Yo G stick a fucking tape in it Cause all the radio do is gangle That R and B love triangle If you're out there kicking it with the brothers You don't care about lovers You want to hear a young nigga on the mic Going buck wild Throwing and flowing and showing new styles That's where I'm coming from Reality that's what they're running from So if you're down with Ice Cube let me know that you know Yo turn off the radio You know what? You know what? Basically those black guys and those rap guys They don't know what the fuck they're doing I hate those fuckers I hate em Especially that one guy The AmeriKKKa's most wanted Ice Cube, I hate that fucker Get him off the air, get him off, get him off Get that rap shit out of here! Just get me a gat so I can smoke this motherfucker!

[@HydrogenMist715]

1:33

[@londonlover69]

Wha

[@GantryJSmith]

Great rap artist and album a classic, no doubt, but I don't get why this song is dissin R & B rap music samples most of their music or sound from, I get the point he made about radio stations and programming back then not playing rap regularly yet, but biting the hand that feeds you is Bullshit. And that's what our communities need to avoid. period

[@joegladue8339]

Gantry J. Smith stfu lol

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

When this came out no serious rapper wanted mainstream success. Now virtually every new rappers a sellout

[@willieholmes8206]

Public enemy n nwa had the hardest beats 88-92 n similar causee Dre often sampled there's but Dre beats was much heavier even today I hear niggaz4life then this album n nwas niggaz4life valbum sounds better cause the beats was heavier

[@lewisjones4130]

TURN OFF THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC

[@cl6ssic]

têm um barulhinho irritante nessa música :(kkk

[@your_alfaaz4771]

A message to the Oreo cookie: No matter how much you wanna switch Here's what they think about you [Sample] “You gold teeth, gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, three-hundred-and-sixty-degree basketball dunking, titsun, spade, Moulan Yan. Go the fuck back to Africa. Go the fuck back to Africa. Go the fuck back to Africa.” [Interlude] Think about it, fuckin' sellout Here we go on station 103.787 and we're listening to… We won't be listening to, uh... Ice Cube, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted Because that’s bullshit get that shit outta here Straight R&B, straight R&B, straight R&B Where the motherfucking plug at? I'm about to disconnect his ass Turn off that motherfucking radio [Verse 1] Turn on the radio take a listen What you're missing Personally I'm sick of the ass-kissing What I'm kicking to you won't get rotation Nowhere in the nation Program directors and DJ's ignored me Cause I simply said fuck Top Forty And top thirty top twenty and top ten Until you put more hip-hop in Then I might grin but don't pretend that you're down with the scene And go and diss me in a magazine How could you figure the brother could dig ya DJ face down in the river No it's not a threat but a promise I'm as Crazy as they come see Mama didn't love me All I got is my nine And to calm the savage beast here's the Alpine [Interlude] Turn off that bullshit! Turn off that motherfucking radio! Turn off that bullshit! Turn off that motherfucking radio! Turn off that bullshit! Play the music motherfucker put the music on Damn! [Verse 2] Tune in to the radio listen for a minute Yo G stick a fucking tape in it Cause all the radio do is gangle That R&B love triangle If you're out there kicking it with the brothers You don't care about lovers You wanna hear a young nigga on the mic Going buck wild Throwing and flowing and showing new styles That's where I'm coming from Reality that's what they're running from So if you're down with Ice Cube let me know that you know Yo turn off the radio [Interlude] You know what? You know what? Basically those black guys and those rap guys They don't know what the fuck they're doing I hate those fuckers I hate em Especially that one guy The AmeriKKKa's most wanted Ice Cube--I hate that fucker Get him off the air, get him off, get him off Get that rap shit out of here! Just get me a gat so I can smoke this motherfucker! [Outro] Hello? Hi, this is D.E.L Hey, I'm calling from 3838 Twin Oaks Way Yeah, I just wanted to call to say fuck the radio!

[@jonathanjohnson9236]

Turn off that Bullshit 1:32

[@zachnelson4537]

Its Mr Potato heads fault.

[@vdelrio999]

Great music but i dont care for the skits and dialogue samples.

[@skazzycfc]

0:24

[@monnelfrmane6898]

1:46

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0:50

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0:47