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America’s Most Offensive? Ice Cube’s Death Certificate Revisited

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America’s Most Offensive? Ice Cube’s Death Certificate Revisited
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Angus Batey looks back 35 years at the 360-degree attack of one of the most creatively independent yet offensive hip hop albums ever made. First published October 2011
Classic albums are supposed to be celebrated, but Death Certificate doesn't permit unqualified responses. It's a record made by a young man as talented at needling his listeners as he was at constructing and delivering some of the angriest lyrics in the hip hop canon, and is impossible to love without qualification. If you're not

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