Consumer Guide Album

Ice Cube: Kill at Will [Priority EP, 1990]
I don't want to claim the criticism is getting to him--still talking tough on this interim EP, he remixes "Get Off My Dick and Tell Your Bitch To Come Here." But he's keeping his woman problem to himself and putting the gangsta shit in perspective: "The Product" tells a young black con's story from his pops's nut, "Dead Homiez" cops to a sadness a lesser outlaw might consider unmanly. With Sir Jinx running the board, the beats never work up to carpet-bomb density. And if Ice Cube keeps rhyming like this, you won't care. A-