Music
March, 1993
Dave MarshAs luck would have it, I first heard Ice Cube's The Predator (Priority) right after listening to a speech, The Last Message, on The Malcolm X Story LP (Sugar Hill). Malcolm delivered it the night after his home was firebombed, only weeks before his assassination. He worried that his life was in jeopardy, partly because his split with the Nation of Islam had been misunderstood by almost everybody. Yet his oratory was at its height. Ice Cube raps a year after the fire storm caused by 199...
