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3.4 ( 47 total votes )
Killer Mike - Pressure ft. Ice Cube
Artist: Killer Mike
Featuring: Ice Cube
Producer: Tha Bizness
Album: Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II
Label: GTO/Grand Hustle
It sure is an exciting time to be a hip-hop fan. With all of the racially-charged, controversial albums dropping this summer (e.g. Nas’s Untitled and AZ’s N4L), you can’t help but notice a growing trend of “neo-blacktivism” in popular rap. In the stale world of bottle-popping and booty-shaking that we have grown so accustomed to, these thought-provoking lyricists are speaking their minds not a second too late. Killer Mike is the latest emcee to tackle the racial divide, with the release of his fifth album, I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II. Pressure, his current single, starts off with a Malcom X clip and never looks back. Tha Bizness contributes a hard-hitting beat while Ice Cube shouts his anger away on a guest verse. All in all, it’s not the next big radio hit, but they’re saying what needs to be said, and that’s all that matters.
This song first appeared on the
Independent Chart
on August 4, 2008
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 434 |
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BEAT IZ BANGING,KILLER MIKE GOT A HARD FLOW AND ICE CUBE WAS GUD TO GET ON THIS TRACK TOO..ID RATHER BE A DEAD MAN THEN A SLAVE..
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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not feelin it.. ice cube should stop rappin about now
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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real negative... don't need negativity... too depressing!
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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naw naw...TOO AGGRESIVE & ANGRY!...cant stand dis right here.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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Banger Big Baby!!!!!!
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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Reishm4: I am sorry to open your eyes but this world is depressive and unfair. This is not a depressive track, on the contrary, it is uplifting--it's a "wake-up call." This is the art of storytelling: past and future. I like the message that killer mike and Ice Cube deliver in this song. I give this track banger status for its lyrical content and for the matching beat.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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this is angry. doesnt make me like it any more or less, i wuld LIKE This track with a different beat to it. so lyrics= 4 beat= 1, 2.5 stars.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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sounds like Ice cube wrote the entire song. Cube is makin some noise this year i see. Sounds like a old school type cube joint. I like it!
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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"rather be a dead man than a live slave"...exactly!...i like the aggresive/rough style rappin'...beat thumps
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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Real Gangsta Rap.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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this shit cool
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 3212 |
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Horrible can't listen to this
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 385 |
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Ahh, reminiscient of Ice Cube's days in Westside Connection, BOW DOWN! When I come to your town! Bow Down!
L.O.S.E.R. - Lyrical Operative Supplying Excellent Rhetoric :) |
| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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wowww Cube ripped this track..i cant understand why some of you guys can possibly give this song a 1..im not surprised at Patty's rating though because you seem to give any good hip hop track the worst possible rating and for this track you don't give any reason for it..ya its your opinion but stop ruining the ratings of good hip hop tracks..if you dont understand the lyrics here that they are saying then why do you keep rating..the message, lyrics and beat were dope.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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I liked how the beat came in with the talking. Btw, is that talking in the intro from the movie American Gangsters? Doesn't matter going off topic... It's a 4 because the beat is hot and the lyrics as well.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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hiphop613 your comment is totally useless! I gave this song a 1 not because I don't understand the lyrics, but because to me it's garbage. Do I have to avoid rating because I make you get angry? Who cares! I don't like it and I gave it 1 star. If you read better my comments and ratings, you'll see I rarely give 1, I'm not too critical. To me this is a bad song, I don't care if the lyrics are good...I believe to what my ears hear, and they didn't like what they heard! I'm sorry.
And who are you to say a song is a good hip hop song? To you it can be good, to another it can be awful...everything is very personal! There are some songs I consider well producted but I don't like them, so I give them 2 or 3 stars. And last but not least, I ALWAYS give a reason in my comments...but this time I only wrote that I didn't like the track, I didn't like anything in it...It was useless to explain why. So please before writing stupid comments think about it! Everytime I give a 1 there's always someone who jumps on me. This is a FREE-OPINION site I guess |
| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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Wow! Can't believe the low rating. But it figures. Hip hop has been "dumbed down" so much that you all can't recognize true lyricism and talent anymore. Killa Kill is one of the top five emcees in the South. Whether you agree with his views or not, you've GOT to respect him on that m-i-c! Meanwhile, the Soulja Boys and Shawty Lo's sell out stadiums. That's just ass backwards.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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Nah this is trash. And I'm not hating.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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your criticisms of hip-hop songs is garbage. No you do not have to avoid rating but I guarantee that you do not listen to hip hop tracks from most of these hip-hop artists (like cube on the track) on the daily..so why do you go and low ball the ratings on an artist for no reason. You dont care about the lyrics? Then get off this site and look for a site with just beats and go rate those. Someone always jumps on you because you give useless comments. Anyways, it is your own opinion but I guarantee that a lot of hip hop heads on this site think that your comments are wack. It is fine if someone does not like the track but you consistently give bad ratings for no reason. Hater.
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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dIS HOT
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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check out who gave it a 1 star...case closed!
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| Posted on Jul 24, 2008 |
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Exactly. This that venom. And the beat is heat. This aint no @*#$! music.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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4/5 ... Nice to hear more gangsta rap again
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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Ice Cube, oh ya it's a CLASSIC. And you guys need to add Ice Cubes new song "Get Used To It" with Game and WC.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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hiphop613 I honestly don't care what people think about my comments here. There's also someone who likes them, I'm sorry for you! In life we will be criticised for many things, the important is to go ahead. And I'll do so! Even if I bring down the ratings that doesn't mean Killer Mike and Ice Cube won't sell or won't be heard on the radio. Mine is only an useless opinion, like yours and everyone else's! We are nothing in the music industry, so be calm please! If u don't like my way of rating don't read me
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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i like this
good message.. real lyrics you'd never hear some shit like this on a wayne album.. this is real. |
| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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Ps: I am not the only one who gave this 1 star...have you got personal problems towards me? I'm thinking so. If you want your comment to have any point, then name also WOW:), matthew and iSwagg.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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no. this song is not good. ice cube is an actor. his time has past. and cussing in a...man this song just isnt good.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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Well Charm Parker you rated this song 1 so get ready for a crucifixion lol! Forgot to write that I have liked Ice Cube in the past, I remember that I was addicted to "You Can Do It" belonging to the Save The Last Dance Soundtrack. Only because an artist is good, that doesn't mean his songs are always good! We have different tastes and those like hiphop613 have to get with it.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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ha..im not gonna waste my time giving a proper response to that..u tryin to give a lesson about life on a hip hop site loll..anyways i know there are others who kno what im talking about. peace.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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ps for those who think cubes time is over go listen to 'gangsta rap made me do it'...classic.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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You have started discussing, if it was for me there would have been peace, always! if you attack me I reply, it's logical. Peace, then
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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i give this a 5 star just cuz some of the low ratings....its a good song...a story told and listen to
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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Song bangs but it is not great. I do like the content and the passion.
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| Posted on Jul 25, 2008 |
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This tracks a banger for it's lyrics and the beat knocks pretty hard Killer and Cube both lay down some heart felt ish not a joint for the radio but definitely a strong album banger.
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| Posted on Jul 26, 2008 |
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Good beat good lyrics.
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| Posted on Jul 26, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 868 |
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this track is kuu,i'll spin it
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| Posted on Jul 26, 2008 |
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lol @ Patty and hiphop...
iGuess... iMean but watz da point... |
| Posted on Jul 27, 2008 |
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This track is hot I like the swag cube had on his verse.
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| Posted on Jul 27, 2008 |
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nice track, great lyrics and flow. Killer Mike does his thing
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| Posted on Jul 27, 2008 |
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yea dis is a tad much, and how angry can ice cube be makin kids movies and wat not? i mean c'mon, lets be serious
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| Posted on Jul 29, 2008 |
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Beat is pretty dope... ice cube comes hard on this, no homo
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| Posted on Jul 29, 2008 |
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i'm glad new age artist are starting 2 work with the ledgens of rap seems realla. now we gotta get ice t & soulahboy on the same page
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| Posted on Jul 29, 2008 |
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yeah dis is @*#$! rap..not like that Bullshit walk it out supaman bullshit.
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| Posted on Jul 29, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 222 |
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Ice Cube speaks
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| Posted on Jul 31, 2008 |
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