I’ve reviewed Ice Cube’s Raw Footage for The Quietus. I loved it! Opens it thus:

That the first rapper you hear on this, Ice Cube’s ninth LP isn’t Ice Cube is telling. That it’s Southern trap-star Young Jeezy is even more so. 21 years deep into the game, 20 since his group NWA scared the living shit out of America, Cube chooses a man initially dismissed as just another coke rapper, now widely regarded as the most important hood-commentator of his generation to make the link between then and now. Lil Wayne would have been the populist choice. Jeezy is the right choice. Both men wield their worlds like swords, both men terrify wankers.

Read it here.

— Sunday, September 7th, 2008