THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

681-Ice Cube-It Was a Good Day.

1993-Number 27 single.

Best Bit-At 4.18.We all have our own idea of the perfect day, this is Ice Cube’s.

Ice Cube was born O’Shea Jackson on June 15th, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States.Evidently his stage name has nothing to do with him trying to portray a ‘cool’ gangster persona, Ice Cube explained that it was down to his elder brother,’He threatened to slam me into a freezer, and pull me out when I was an ice cube, I just started using that name, and it just caught on.’In 1987 he formed one of Rap music’s most influential groups N.W.A. with Eazy-E, and Dr.Dre (see also best songs 128 and 564,) he left in 1989 to start his solo career. To date he has released 10 solo studio Albums,’The Predator’ from where this track first appeared, gave him his only Number 1 Album on the ‘Billboard 200 Album chart’ in 1992.

‘It Was a Good Day heavily samples the song ‘Footsteps in the Dark,’ a 1977 song by The Isley Brothers (see also best songs 823-382 and 176) from their Album ‘Go For Your Guns’. The song has been covered and sampled by many other artists throughout the years, probably first by the American Gangsta Rap group ‘Compton’s Most Wanted’ on their 1991 Album ‘Straight Checkn ‘Em,’ calling the song ‘Can I Kill It?’

Ice Cube has explained his inspiration behind the songs lyrics.’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 how I will deal with that, that’s a given, but I rap all this gangsta stuff, what about all the good days I had?’

‘Hey wait, wait a minute fool, stop the s…, what the f… am I thinking about.’