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If you’ve ever seen or heard Ice Cube’s famous song, It Was A Good Day and scratched your head wondering what day he was referring to, you’re in luck. Ice Cube left a lot of hints in his lyrics for the 1993 song from The Predator.

He revealed the concept behind the song (via Wikipedia):

The inspiration was my life at the time … I was at the top of the rap game. It was the summer of ’92 and I was in a hotel room, really in a state of euphoria. I had all the money I had dreamed of. I was in a good frame of mind. And I remember thinking, ‘Okay, there’s been the riots, people know I will deal with that. That’s a given. But I rap all this gangsta stuff – what about all the good days I had?

Donovan at Murk Avenue has laid out all of the clues surrounding the exact good day that Ice Cube was referring to in his song.

The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…

JANUARY 20 1992
National Good Day Day

The only correction we would have for Donovan would be the song title, which is not “Today Was A Good Day”, but “It Was A Good Day”. Still, well done, sir. If the news would have hit on the twentieth year anniversary of the “Good Day”, that would have been awesome.

Will you celebrate Ice Cube’s Good Day next year?

Hat tip: Stephen

Today is Ice Cube’s 42nd birthday! We wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to all of the celebrities whose birthday is today, June 15th!

Rapper Ice Cube, whose birth name is O’Shea Jackson, turns 42 today.

Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle turns 26.

Good Charlotte keyboardist and guitarist William Dean Martin turns 30.

Country singer Waylon Jennings would have been 74 this year.

Harry Nilsson would have been 70 this year.

Canadian punk rock singer Bif Naked turns 40 this year.

American video jockey Idalis DeLeon turns 45 today.

Happy Birthday!

Ice Cube was all set to release his new album, I Am The West this summer, but has since been delayed — all due to paperwork issues.

He said, “I’ve been working my ass off trying to get it done for you but I ran out of time. The music is right but the paperwork isn’t and since I’m working with a few new producers the contracts are taking a little longer than usual, so I missed my turn-in date.”

It’s being reported that his new album might get released this September. Are you excited for some new music from him?

Ice Cube is planning on working on a collaboration with Dr. Dre for his new album, “I Am The West.”

The album is due out this summer, but Ice Cube is trying to get his former NWA buddy in on the effort. He said, “I wanna answer a few questions you have for ya’ boy – Beats by Dre? Not yet. Haven’t asked him, but I will. Any collabos? Not yet.”

Of the concept for the album, Cube said, “I would give you guys the concept but I’mma save that and let you see it for yourself. Now I know it seems like my record is West Coast crazy – Yeah it is. But I got a lot of real shit to say on this record just like I always do. So my political fans won’t be disappointed. But sometime the Big Dog gotta piss on a few trees to let these puppies know what it is. They can’t fuck wit me lyrically or physically. They all talks shit from a distance cause they know, I may do comedies but I aint no joke.”

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Ice Cube Has A Bedazzler? – Gossip Sucker

Image Credit: Phil H via Flickr/Creative Commons

This is such a funny flowchart, that I had to share a small portion of the image with you. For maximum coolness, follow the chart as you listen to the song.

Via Reddit

Image used with permission by it’s original author via Flickr.

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Ice Cube has released the official video for his new track Why Me?

Check it out:

Your thoughts on Cube’s new stuff?