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Certain Songs #671: Ice Cube – “Dead Homiez”

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ice-cube-kill-at-will Album: Kill At Will EP
Year: 1990

Given the fact that I loved Straight Outta Compton and he was working with The Bomb Squad — the crack team that helped make Public Enemy one of the greatest groups of their time — I kinda expected that I’d love Ice Cube’s debut solo album, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted more that I did.

That said, I did like the follow-up, Death Certificate, and in between the two records, the Kill at Will EP, which featured the amazing “Dead Homiez.”

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20 Musical Moments to Die For

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Somewhere underneath all of that hair is Neil Young. This month, on Musical Moments to Die For: secrets, influences, and secret influences, all book-ended by the two best bands to ever come from Athens, GA.

We’ve also got the front-runners for greatest guitar and organ solos ever; Neil Young’s most despairing moment; and not one, not two, but three variations of the beat solidified by the late, great Ellas McDaniel.

As always, I’m not necessarily talking about hooks here, more like traps. The parts of these songs that bring me back to them over and over again.

This is the sixth in a series: The first one had 25, the second one had 24, the third one had 23, the fourth one had 22, the fifth one had 21.

And yeah, you probably see the pattern and think you know the endgame, but I can promise you that there’s a twist!

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