Ice T is the cop on Law & Order. Ice Cube is a Producer/Director/Actor famed for his role in Boyz In The Hood and Ride Along. also the owner of Big 3 basketball league.
Killed me with the Ice T / Ice Cube mixup..But I gotta say this is my new favorite past time..Pops Is the best with his open mind..Love yalls chemistry.
@@mr.m9979 Nope. Not serious at all considering they're still learning. Said what I said. Shit I used to get Ben Stiller and Steve Carell mixed up so the time. I used to get Beyonce, Tyra Banks and Ciara mixed up. Literally not that serious.
😂🤣Dad your facial expressions on some of those explicit deleted parts had me LOL!! Son… you’re bogus, you knew he would react that way on those parts! 😂😂🤣
The Isley Brothers "Footsteps in the Dark" is probably one of the most used samples in Hip Hop and for good reason...it's a beautiful song. "Today was a Good Day" is definitely a classic!
In the end when he says, "Hold on what am I thinking about?" It was him basically snapping out of the fantasy he was thinking about. Because at that time in that area there were no days like the one he's describing. I grew up in Inglewood at the time and I remember when the song came out, it could put you in a trance which was dangerous because you weren't paying attention. Which was never good, you didn't want to get caught slipping.
The dad appears to be the same age as many legendary rappers born in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The music they discuss is typically artists who are his peers.
@@HealingQuest777 Flavor Flav, older than my mother was born in 1959. Chuck D, 1960, Heavy D, 1967, and Dr. Dre was born in 1965. Jay Z was born in 1967 but modified to 1969.
When I grew up in an Atlanta hood in the 90’s, this song as a child meant more to me than any other. Especially when you actually have that ONE good day where everything is going right. No killings, no robberies, no accidents, real breakfast out of nowhere, ect lol
I would recommend “My mind playing tricks on me” by Gettoboys it’s a really great song a lot of people have there own interpretations of the song would like to see you guys cover that song
Interesting fact: The Isley Brothers incorporated these rap lyrics into their live shows. I saw them in Tacoma Washington a couple years ago and almost lost my shit when I heard it lol
Brain gone 🤯... The instrumental to ice cubes song was sampled from the Isley brothers song and the Isley brothers are incorporating ice cube's lyrics into their live shows... I get it, I guess they inspired each other.
I recommend DMX- Slippin. He talks about his life and how he struggled throughout his childhood and adulthood with drug addiction. It will probably move your dad to tears
I like that your dad notice that what should just be a good and regular day for others is just not always like that within the black community. Not having to use a weapon or get harass by the police are normal occurrences for most people within the black community…… I just really enjoy this channel
Your dad is very cool, I cringe him listening to the “bad words” 😂 Bit you dad knows, he’s and old school dad so he knows the times. Much respect to you and your dad. ✊🏾
Dude my dad used to do the same when i tried to show him music growing up except he barely spoke english so he really tried and gave the songs credit and compliments but his ending conclusion always was he didnt like it or too much profanity and i wouldnt get that mad since he buttered it up but still gave it a chance and honest opinion love him and miss him everyday Rip Apa
It hurts me to say this, but your breakdown of this song is slightly incorrect (13:30)….I think you guys start to understand a little better at (17:25) Please allow me to give you some additional background. I will set the scene…. This is the 90’s in L.A where gang activity is at its height. Crack has hit the scene causing violence to rise. Police are harassing/profiling the African American and Latin communities. Racial tension is through the roof. There is distrust between the LAPD and the communities of color. Ice Cube is not reminiscing on his better days. What he is describing is what is considered a “Good Day” in South central. The average day is almost the complete opposite of his lyrics. That might be hard to believe for some, but for people that come from these types of communities all over the U.S. can relate. To some people the sound of police sirens are as common as the music from the ice cream truck. This song is a all time classic!!! You guys are great! Please continue to introduce your dad to hip hop. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💯💯 this is cool to see someone’s first reaction to what you have lived.
@@lornegreen6755 I mean it’s kinda obvious. The last lyric in the song really emphasizes the “daydreaming” theme or that a good day doesn’t last. The actual music video helps tho
I gotta admit and give props when it's due. You two are awesome, this is the best analyst's / reaction I ve seen. You guys bring out the art form form in rap. Your dad is getting why rap is soo popular. The way you analyze music is awsome I can see your dad looking at you like, dang he's me 2.0 😆. Keep it up man. I would like to see reactions of artist songs that give good messages then throw your dad off with a violent song of that same artist. That would be funny lol.
@@cmathews5909 I beg your pardon! His father is quite eloquent in his reactions, so I don't understand why he couldn't bring that same energy to his music🙄
I highly recommend "dancing with the devil" by immortal technique, an amazing story and if you like it you can also check out "children's story" by Slick Rick or "loves gonna getcha" by KRS One/Boogie down productions and as a bonus there's a good song from Nas " life's a bitch " You , your Dad and the rest of us would love to watch a reaction to these stories. Last one: Too $hort "The Ghetto" another great story, Cheers.
A little more context, cube made this song because he wanted to show that the hood does have good times. Similar reasons to why he made Friday. The hood was protrayed as this venomous place that only solemn things happen to it. However, Cube wanted to show the fun side and comedic side of the hood and humanize my brothers and sisters
@@frontroom Your dad hasn't listened to too much modern stuff. Since it's been a lot of 90s early 2000s rap (Which is bar far the best rap music imo) you should have him react to Childish Gambino - Redbone.
@@studentofthesaviors.o.s That would be great. I'm sure I have played it in his presence, but im sure he has never really payed attention to it. I'm looking forward to doing rap from the 2010s in the near-future.
@@frontroom Have you reacted to rap pre 90's & 00's? That would be the old old school. 80's hip-hop sadly is not looked upon anymore, despite being the foundation of the whole movement. Less gangster, more conscious before the music industry plagued it with gansta rap. The best track of that era remains "The Message" by Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five. Public Enemy "Fight the Power" woke up a whole generation. Very impactful era.
He was depicting a "good day" in the life of an LA gang banger back in that day. Ice Cube himself was not a gang banger, but he grew up and lived at ground zero in that time in LA. Those kind of days seldom happened at all in the 80'd and 90's. Kind of like Chicago now..
Not having a father in my life growing up or ever for that matter.. it is really nice to watch yall do this together. Be thankful for these moments. And I'm sure there are many like myself that always wondered and imagined how this would be. This is great.. subscribed right away.
Yep, as a 30-year-old dude who grew up without a father, I really feel that. It's amazing to see how a father-son bond looks like. I am really happy for Kai to be able to experience this. If I have kids some day, I would definitely invest in that relationship like Kai's dad does.
If dad hasn’t heard it before, I highly recommend The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Considered one of the greatest rap songs of all time and a solid classic with a social message.
This song is a CLASSIC. My brother is 12 years older than me, and I remember cruising around in his lowrider Impala with him blasting this jam, Nuthin But A G Thang, Gin & Juice, and Let Me Ride 😎 good ol days
I love how your dad embraces your interest in music he wouldn’t generally listen to. Very inspiring as a dad myself. I always try to have an interest in anything my kids like. Seeing the GZA album back there….. show that man some Wu Tang!!! It’s for the children. Love what y’all are doing.
Your dad is awesome, very open minded to music that typically comes with hatred due to racial stereotypes. I would love to see his reaction to some of Kendrick Lamar's deeper songs like, "How much a dollar cost" , or "Sing about me/dying of thirst". Lots of emotion and deeper thinking imo.
Subscribed - I love your dad’s genuine response’s to our music. Just to let you know we wouldn’t mind to one day hear the music that has meaning to him as well 🙏🏾
You should have shown him the actual video, but I love that someone who doesn't listen to hiphop can see that this music is deeper than what it is portrayed to be.
It's a trip to hear a young man and his father talk about my life in long beach...lol . It is very important kids respect a lyricist like Cube and keep this form of music , which has been expiring , alive. Thank you.
Bro Long Beach in the 90s was crazy, it’s still crazy now but gang banging back in the day was the culture in long beach. Proud to be from there but I’m glad I’m not there anymore. My childhood was not like regular childhoods lol
I started laughing my head off from 10:29 cause you can just see on bro face he know what's coming loooool, and it just got progressively funnier as the verse went on
Maybe you can also introduce watching these videos with your dad.... “It Was A Good Day” is a classic Hip Hop video. The imagery... it just goes hand in hand with the lyrics. A lot of the slang that he may not catch audibly, is available to him visually so that some of those lyrics make more sense (for someone from without the culture).
It wasn’t a good day. The cops was waiting on him late that night been watching since early that morning. He thought it was a good day. It sounded good and productive in that moment until the calm met the storm. Great Reaction Fellas
Dude my dad used to do the same when i tried to show him music growing up except he barely spoke english so he really tried hard and gave the songs credit and compliments but his ending conclusion always was he didnt like it or too much profanity and i wouldnt get that mad since he buttered it up but still gave it a chance and honest opinion love him and miss him everyday Rip APA
The story of Cube's name was when he was 13 he used to try to talk to all his older brother's girlfriends. In the neighborhood when people got rid of old refrigerators, they dropped them off at the end of a street not far from him. His brother grabbed him up one day and told him he was going to take him down there and throw him in one of those freezers and by the time anyone found him, he'd be a ice cube. The name stuck and later was solidified by his cold lyrics.
OMG THIS is soooooooo AMAZING!!!! You are opening a grand portal for the human race! I find this to be entertaining, relaxing and very iconic. Thank you 😊🙏🏼🌍💫💕
I just love your pops openness to learning about hip hop. I am an old hip hop head and nearing 50 years old and grew up on these classics. One of the challenges with introducing folks to hip hop is that there are so many nuances to the music from the production/sampling, flows, slang, and even beef and issues outside of the music. Sometimes you have to know back stories with certain artists to catch references in the lyrics and significance.
Y’all should react to NY State of Mind by Nas. Considered one of the greatest if not the greatest rap song of all time and apart of album Illmatic aka “The Bible of Hip Hop”
Your son has an old soul. Love it. I'm 44 and yes, this is what I still listen to. Good job son and for the father, thank you for having an open mind and willing to try our music out! Our music has a reason for the season! It's some of our lives and I'm ecstatic that you, dad, is willing to leap out and see our pain that we turned into music. Love yall!
This song meant more for me than what you could imagine. I found it playing GTS San Andreas 8 or 9 years old... I was literally addicted to that game for like 3 years, that song meant everything to me when it started. I just get the best car available at that time and go for a ride throughout the map ahahahaha
Similar story for me but with “sweet home Alabama” my dad and I would play nascar and that was the only song we liked so we disabled every other one and would just race each other all day with that song blasting.
I think a few of the lyrics went over your dads head & that took away from just how significant this song is to not only the rap community but to the overall life experience for an everyday American. The concept of getting through a day filled with the simplest activity is what is considered “good” in America for a large portion of its population. No outlandish tale of hitting the lotto or traveling to some exotic city or any other life luxury. A good day is defined as not being awakened due to the bark of your dog, having breakfast without pork (that line is significant b/c of the cultural history Black Americans have with pork - it was definitely a staple & survival food during darker times also b/c it is directly connected to the religious shift from Christianity to Islam within the community so the idea of a typical Black American “church mom” giving pork up was at the time blasphemous), also finally going all the way with the girl you had a crush on since the 3rd grade (again focus on the metaphorical value of the lyric - not with a supermodel but your 3rd grade crush made the day “good”), playing ball, dice, & dominoes with your friends without conflict (the significance of that is at the time a lot of gun-violence in the 90s would occur following a defeat or humiliating lost after a game of pick-up basketball ball or dice) so getting through a game and winning without being shot was satirically “good”, no stop by the police (over-policing was rampant in L.A. during that time - if you ever watched the fx show OJ vs the people there is a scene in one episode that depicts the over-policing when Johnny Cochran a public & powerful attorney is frivolously pulled over by the lapd). I could go on & on…no smog in l.a. means “good” (remember Kobe Bryant essentially lost his life b/c of la smog so that proves how powerful that simple line is). Also the significance of the song & it’s importance comes from the comedy and satire used in Cubes pen - a typical literary-device used in many raps to mellow out some of the grim content (looked up & saw the Goodyear blimp & it read Ice Cube’s a pimp - how random and funny is that lyric lol). The best I can explain this song’s underlying meaning is by juxtaposing it with let’s say Fleetwood Mac’s song Gypsy. Stevie Nicks writes “so I’m back to the underground back to the floor that I love”. She’s basically speaking of a simpler and happier time before the fame when she was broke. That was peace, that was happiness. Cube does the same thing metaphorically but just hip hop. Also I was bummed that you guys didn’t watch the video b/c the video was in some ways more impactful than the song. Anyway I love your content with your dad. Keep up the good work.
That was waaaaay too much. I actually read it anyway but this channel ain't "that". An in depth analysis like this deserves it's own spotlight/ channel. #JustAThought 🤷🏽♀️
Really need to introduce your dad to Rakim... pretty much most modern MCs were heavily influenced by him. He took hip hop from basic cat and hat flows to the more complex lyrical structures.
Break em' Shit! Yo! Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God I don't know but today seems kinda odd No barking from the dogs, no smog And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog I got my grub on, but didn't pig out Finally, got a call from a girl wanna dig out Hooked it up on later as I hit the do' Thinking will I live, another twenty-fo' I gotta go 'cause I got me a drop top And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop Had to stop at a red light Looking in my mirror not a jacker in sight And everything is alright I got a beep from Kim and she can fuck all night Called up the homies and I'm askin' y'all Which court, are y'all playin' basketball? Get me on the court and I'm trouble Last week fucked around and got a triple double Freaking niggas everyway like M. J I can't believe, today was a good day Drove to the pad and hit the showers Didn't even get no static from the cowards Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me Saw the police and they rolled right past me No flexin', didn't even look in a niggaz direction As I ran the intersection Went to Short Dog's house, they was watchin' Yo! MTV Raps What's the haps on the craps Shake em up, shake em up, shake em up, shake em Roll em in a circle of niggaz and watch me break em With the seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven Seven even back do' Little Joe I picked up the cash flow Then we played bones, and I'm yellin' domino Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L. A Today was a good day Left my niggaz house paid Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelve grade It's ironic, I had the booze she had the chronic The Lakers beat the Supersonics I felt on the big fat fanny Pulled out the jammy, and killed the poor nanny And my dick runs deep, so deep, so deep Put her ass to sleep Woke her up around one She didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion I was glad everything had worked out Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out Today was like one of those fly dreams Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams No helicopter looking for a murder Two in the morning got the fat burger Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp And it read Ice Cube's a pimp Drunk as hell but no throwing up Halfway home and my pager still blowing up Today I didn't even have to use my A. K I got to say it was a good day Hey wait, wait a minute fool Stop the shit What the fuck am I thinking about?
damn i know we cant watch copy righted stuff, but you should have your dad watch movies like NOTRIOUS, Get Rich or Die Trying, All Eyez on Me and straight outta compton. Then just show us clips from the movie of a strong/important scene.
This song was unusual at the time it came out because there was so much turmoil going on in the black community (as there still is) and rappers at the time were only rapping about the negative activities happening in their neighborhoods, so Ice Cube not only having a good day but then choosing to rap about how nothing bad happened to him for just a day was super refreshing to hear at the time and made the song popular
This song is always good to listen i feel like it gets even better the more you hear it, a good song to react to is Eminem's Toy Soldiers its a storytelling song The song is about Eminem's attempts to calm an angry community of rappers, He speaks highly about the struggles he had with The Source's editor Benitzo, and also speaks highly about the fued with Ja Rule saying he tried to stop the fued, but lost it when he heard him making fun of his daughter in his diss song "Loose Change". The song was also about the feuds of Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, and because of this song Eminem refused to get involved with 50's later feuds which included: Jadakiss, Fat Joe, Game and Young Buck.
Heck, I'm waitin' to see them bridge the gap to some Eazy-E era NWA, 2LiveCrew and Geto Boyz. Even Ice T (Classic or Body Count). Just tell him that these are to be thought of as looking glasses into a different life experience and some of the issues in the songs are not going to be something he can (or even feels like he should) relate to here. Look beyond that. There's lots of movies you watch that contain material you wouldn't condone yourself. This is no different.
Your dad is wholesome. I wish I could have that with my father.. unfortunately drugs and that other life is still his priority even after becoming a father of children on my own. You tell your dad he’s inspired me to be a better listener… don’t stop what you guys are doing. Regardless of the $$ or exposure.. Can’t wait to see more!
Just found you’re channel guys. I’m already fully engaged! Keep the content coming, if you’re gonna educate you’re dad in rap you should most definitely play f**k the police timeless classic and so much behind it and what it represented at the time. Iconic!!
Was born in 1980 and grew up listening to rap and still do now. My dad bought me my first rap tapes and we always listened to rap together. It’s funny to see you enjoy it with your dad and he enjoys some of the classics. You’re dad seems like a really nice guy. Good vids man👍
Ice-T is the cop in Law and Order SVU. Y'all should explore his catalog, he was the first gangsta rapper to break through into mainstream music. Check out his early single "6 'N the Mornin' " off his debut album Rhyme Pays. Ice-T is often cited as the godfather of gangsta rap, releasing his debut album a full year before NWA released Straight Outta Compton. He would go on to be a founding member of Body Count, the first rap metal band who released their controversial song "Cop Killer" which put him and the band on the FBI's watchlist. Even now he still releases music with heavy social commentary such as "No Lives Matter" and "Black Hoodie", both songs about racism and police brutality.
you guys are taking me back man, love the channel.. love the relationship you guys have, and the connection to the music. Salute, it has inspired me to want to start a podcast with my dad.
I found it particularly interesting when the dad I finally interpreted 24 has 24 years. It shows how we all think so differently based on our lives experience. For some it can be hard to imagine waking up and thinking “am I gonna make it passed today. Will I see tomorrow “? It’s a blessing to not have to think about that.
Ice Cube, in my eyes the greatest performer in the rap game, in terms of live events. He is an entertainer and does great in concerts. Not my favorite rapper but favorite entertainment in concert from a rapper
In SoCal, this song is an anthem. When it plays, everyone sings. The point of the song is a rare “good day” is when nothing bad actually happen, though that’s just a dream.
Great reaction! I was born in the very early 90s and these songs played in the background of my life. So refreshing to get a fresh perspective on songs I wish I could listen to for the first time again. The point of the song I've always felt is that nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary is happening, so a 'normal day' would be a good day for him. Also, remember that with everything that was happening at the time, African Americans were painted as violent, with thoughts like 'oh there they go again taking advantage of the situation with violence and looting etc.' So the song points out, from an African American view (particularly someone from the area of the incident) that all they want in a day is the bare minimum to be considered and accepted as human. To have a normal day. They don't want the violence or pain either. A normal day, would be a good day.
