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Ice Cube’s Gangsta Rap Legacy · Building 341

DJ Rubbaban: When Aries Spears said Ice Cube, blah, blah, blah, blah, doesn't have good singles, he's not good rapper. And he started, he wrote the first gangsta rap song that was popular. We can argue School ED and all these other people, but the first popular gangsta rap song he wrote for somebody else. Caddey B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll still take Cube's ⁓ worst and put against anybody else's body of work. You can't knock it. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah, and the tree he come from. See, a lot of these artists don't come from trees. ⁓ He comes from Dre's tree. You know what mean? And he comes from other trees and then, you know, DOC. Caddey B: Yeah. I would probably say that cube and Drey come from the same orchard. They're their own trees. But what they've sprouted from it been fruitful. DJ Rubbaban: Right. And you got to put Jinx in there. I Jinx was the backbone behind Cube and ⁓ all helped him write this, all that. And so it's just a lot of trees as you go. Caddey B: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got