Ice CubeBest Ice Cube Albums Ranked
7.6
Avg Score
17
Opinions
17
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 17 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Ice Cube's catalog across 17 albums from 17 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Ice Cube album is Death Certificate (1991) with a 9.4/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Greatest Hits and The Essentials. The discography on Wavelength spans 1990 to 2024. It Was a Good Day ranks as the highest-rated Ice Cube song on Wavelength with a 9.1/10 average.
Death Certificate
“Death Certificate is Ice Cube’s most important (if not his best) album, and one of the most essential works in rap history.”
Greatest Hits
“There are two ways to sequence a greatest hits album: chronologically or by degrees of popularity. Ice Cube's new compilation ignores these methods entirely. Gasp in wonderment: the album begins with a rambling pandemonium of tracks (brand new stuff, songs from the *War and Peace* fiasco, a couple of his classic early 90s songs, "Bow Down") and then, somewhere around the eleventh song, the album d”
The Essentials
“Against the odds, the latest Ice Cube career comp mostly succeeds in balancing his MTV hits with the trenchant deep cuts that actually made him essential in the first place.”
I Am the West
“Ice Cube was once gangsta rap’s great chronicler of everyday brutality. Twenty years and a hugely successful family-comedy movie career later, he’s content to spend his self-released ninth disc brandishing his OG rep ("Google me, bitch!") and defending his fading West Coast ("I’m down with Angelenos/Go downtown and give a bum a C-note"). But his […]”
I Am the West
“Probably the least financially beneficial project he could be devoting himself to these days: Ice Cube issues an independent rap record.”
Laugh Now, Cry Later
“After Are We There Yet? and a foray into reality TV, the gangster rap pioneer attempts a hip-hop comeback.”
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