Yesterday was a good day because Ice Cube came to Fort Worth.
Cube played a high-energy show to a highly enthusiastic crowd at Dickies Arena. The rapper has been a force in hip-hop since 1988, when N.W.A. brought gangsta rap to national attention with their landmark album Straight Outta Compton. As one of the group’s primary lyricists, Cube’s sharp storytelling and raw perspective helped shape the record and pushed hip-hop into the cultural mainstream.
Ice Cube has been outspoken ever since, making music for four decades that is apologetic and sometimes controversial, but always from the heart. He’s still making relevant music, releasing the album Man Up this year and embarking on a world tour aptly entitled, Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude, and if Thursday night’s show is any indication, he is far from finished…