Songoftheday 6/17/19 - Nineteen ninety three much more be ounce Ice Cube comin' with the half ounce, not just knee deep jeep fulla' smog atomic dog...
from the album Lethal Injection (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from rapper and actor O'Shea Jackson, aka Ice Cube, who landed his four top-40 pop hit as a lead artist in the spring of 1994 with the second single from his Lethal Injection album, "You Know How We Do It". His follow-up to that song would be a track named after two cuts from bands fronted by funk master George Clinton, who appears on the record. "One Nation" is from "One Nation Under A Groove", which was recorded by Funkadelic in 1978 and serves as the main sample groove for this. "Bop Gun" was a track from Parliament from 1977, and the lyrical content provides the plotline for the music video, which has Clinton infiltrating a party populated by the likes of Bootsy Collins and rapper WC. And the song itself was trimmed from its original eleven-minute length to a radio-friendly edit...
"Bop Gun" became Ice Cube's fourth top-40 pop hit in October of 1994. The song also climbed to #37 on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine, while peaking at #6 on their Rap Singles chart. Internationally, the single went to #22 in the UK.
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Here's Ice Cube in concert in 2011...
And with Clinton and WC in 2013...
Up tomorrow: An artist says goodbye (temporarily) to his identity.
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