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Ice Cube's "Death Certificate" album has two very distinctive sides to it; a death side followed by a life side. While there are similarities between the two sets of tracks, such as a negative portrayal of white men and police officers and a picture of the oppression of black men in the inner city, they both have significant differences in their portrayals of society during the time of the album, 1991.
The "death" tracks are a reflection of how Ice Cube views his life and his society in South Central Los Angeles when the album was created. He paints a very grim picture. There are eight main tracks that have to do with "death" and they all cover a different aspect of struggles in the inner city. Cube covers the angst expressed towards the cops and America as a whole in the track "The Wrong N*gga Ta F*ck With." He talks about how America is trying to ban hip hop and he is disgusted with "R&B and the Runnin' Man," a direct diss to the Vanilla Ice dance and that genre of......

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