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Hello by Ice Cube

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Ice Cube

Hello

Release date: 2000

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About This Track

A reunion track from Ice Cube's sixth solo album 'War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc)', released in 2000 as the record's third single. The song reunites three former N.W.A members: Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and MC Ren, the latter two contributing production and verses alongside Cube's lead performance. The track opens with a repeated refrain asserting originality in gangsta rap, a claim to authorship that runs through the entire piece. Ice Cube's verses move between street-level detail and boastful posturing, whilst Dr. Dre and MC Ren trade lines that reference their shared history. The production keeps a steady, menacing groove, allowing the three voices to circle one another without collision. The lyrical content is confrontational throughout, built around themes of dominance, distrust, and the spoils of success. References to violence and criminal enterprise sit alongside more playful wordplay, the tone swinging between genuine threat and performative swagger. It's a document of three voices who helped define West Coast rap in the late eighties, reconvening a decade later with their core approach intact.

"Hello" is a single by Ice Cube, released 2000. Full lyrics are available below.

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Ice Cube

Ice Cube

Lyrics

Hello

Look at these niggaz with attitudes
Look at these niggaz with attitudes
Look at these niggaz with attitudes
Look at these niggaz with attitudes

(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?
(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?
(Hello)

The motherfuckin' world is a ghetto
Full of magazines, full clips and heavy metal
When the smoke settle I'm just lookin' for a big yellow
In six inch stilettos

Dr. Dre perculatin' keep 'em waitin'
(Hello)
While you sittin' here hatin', yo' bitch is hyperventilatin'
Hopin' that we penetratin', you gets natin'
'Cause I never been to Satan for hardcore administratin'

Gangbang affiliatin'
MC Ren'll have you wildin' off a zone and a whole half a gallon
(Get to dialin')
911 emergency
(And you can tell 'em)
It's my son, he's hurtin' me
(And he's a felon)
On parole for robbery

Ain't no coppin' a plea, ain't no stoppin' a G
I'm in the 6 you got to hop in the 3, company monopoly
You handle shit sloppily I drop a ki properly
They call me the Don Dada

Pop a collar, drop a dollar if you hear me you can holla
Even Rottweilers follow the Impala
Wanna talk about this concrete?
Nigga I'm a scholar

The incredible, heterosexual, credible
Beg a hoe, let it go, dick ain't edible
Nigga ain't federal, I plan shit
While you hand picked motherfuckers givin' up transcripts

Look at these niggaz with attitudes
Look at these niggaz with attitudes

(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?
(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?

Villain blows up yo' spot
Take yo' notebook yo' bitch and yo' glock
This motherfucker thought the coochie had a padlock
You slapped her ass that's alarmin'

'Cause she want my worm like Common
We chin check niggaz, them thin check niggaz
Run trains on gold diggers beware these fo' niggaz
Scarin' motherfuckers like Steven King flicks

Makin' niggaz clear the room like a dyke flea a dick
Makin' 2nd II None shit, nigga like Quik
So when I bomb first nigga who you rollin' with?
Fuck that ice on your wrist, fuck yo' fine ass bitch

'Cause you could lose it in a tussle nigga watch me hustle
Watch niggaz kiss my ass without flexin' a muscle
Bitches all in the back they knees waitin' to buckle
Same time same channel don't change the dial
Niggaz4life, fuckin' your wife', these niggaz wild

(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?
(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the muh'fuckin' thanks I get?
(Hello)

Did I fall off? Got you in your room
Rippin' every 'Chronic' poster on your wall off
Just 'cause I put away the sawed off
Now I got you sittin' back with a smirk
Listenin' with your arms crossed

Questionin' Dre's credibility
(What?)
Wondering if it's still in me to produce hits
Y'all be killin' me

As if I need to make mo', I got a mansion
And six cars that are paid fo', suck my dick!
(Hello)
We came a long way from not givin' a fuck
Sellin' tapes out of a trunk to movin' this far up

Now we got the whole world starstruck
Made a million plus and still don't give a motherfuck
Motherfucker I'm Dre, I don't need your respect
I don't need to make another album bitch I don't gotta do shit
I do it because I want to not to stay in the game
Fuck the fame, I'm still stayin' the same, lil' bitch!
(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?
(Hello)
I started this gangsta shit
And this the motherfuckin' thanks I get?
(Hello)
Look at these niggaz with attitudes
Look at these niggaz with attitudes
(Hello)
Look at these niggaz with attitudes
Look at these niggaz with attitudes
Look at these niggaz with attitudes

Track details

Hello

2000Single
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Release year
2000

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Dr. Dre, Eminem, Ice Cube, MC Ren, Mel-Man
    Producer
    Dr. Dre, Mel-Man
    Bass
    Mike Elizondo
    Keyboards
    Chris “The Glove” Taylor, Tommy Coster, Jr
    Additional Instrumentation
    Chris “The Glove” Taylor
    Assistant Engineer
    Jim McCrone, Tom Gordon
    Background Vocals
    Traci Nelson
    Mastering Engineer
    Brian Gardner
    Mixing Engineer
    Dr. Dre, Richard Huredia
    Recording Engineer
    Richard Huredia
    Video Director
    Philip G. Atwell
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