Da Lench Mob was Ice Cube's 1992 side project, but unlike most instances when a rap star will help his boys out, this was a great album, and this is (in my opinion) a great song. The video -- with heavily-edited lyrics -- looks like the movie Predator and is about as militant as it gets.
There were a lot of things that were great about Da Lench Mob (other than the fact that they were unapologetic racists). First, Ice Cube was not the lead rapper, that was J-Dee. Cube was just another member, fitting in with the rest of the group. Also, the interplay between all four members (Jay-Dee, Ice Cube, Shorty and T-Bone) was so flawless. They finish each others lines and weave in and out of verses, and not a moment of music is wasted. You will see in this video.
J-Dee later went to jail for a long long time, and Da Mob tried to replace him with Maulkie for their second album, Planet of Da Apes, but it just wasn't the same. Too bad for J-Dee, also too bad for us rap fans.
You try to pay me off with a banana
But J-Dee is blacker than a city called Atlanta
Give me some elbow room, I need some elbow room
So I can boom shak-a-lak-a boom
That's the sound of the twenty guage
Lock us up and the Lench Mob can break out of any cage
You never even hear of this, I'm taking care of this
Lench Mob environmental terrorists
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