Ice Cube is reminding hip hop fans that his iconic “No Vaseline” packed more bang for its buck than any other rap diss track around … he didn’t just kill soloists, he annihilated an entire squad!!!
The Don Mega was Sunday night’s co-headliner for California Roots Festival ’24, where W.C. joined him and they gave the crowd a piece of his mind about today’s beef culture … a hot-button topic in the Drake–Kendrick Lamar aftermath of 2024 Rap Wars.
Cube showed love to Tupac Shakur‘s “Hit ‘Em Up,” Nas‘ “Ether” and K. Dot’s “Not Like Us” — all brutalizing tracks in their own right, but because his “No Vaseline” knocked out the entire N.W.A and their manager Jerry Heller … he says he deserves the crown!!!
He admitted the song was created eons ago — when tensions were high — but, now he’s showing Dr. Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, and the late Eazy-E love, rather than lyrically picking at the scab.
The debut of “No Vaseline” infamously played out in the Oscar-nominated N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton” and certified Cube as the best rapper on the planet at the time … a scenario similar to Kendrick’s recent events.
Kendrick’s “Not Like Us” has over 200 million Spotify streams and over 60 million YouTube streams in under a month … inevitably living at the top of fans’ minds for the foreseeable future.
But Cube’s clearly going to war for his own legacy … wouldn’t expect anything less!!!