The point is the first lyric after Cube’s little one-act number. He was an arrogant sonofabitch.īut that’s not the point. I’d drive to class in my 1977 Pontiac Parisienne, blasting Ice Cube and fantasizing about delivering my own “The wet t-shirt contest motherfucker!” line. Even though I was living in a basement apartment in Buffalo, NY with a hammock for a bed, no heat, and a framed poster of Marlon Brando in motorcycle leathers hung above my bed because I thought it would attract women. Even though I was far from Compton, both socioeconomically and geographically. ![]() It was 1992, I was a sophomore in college, and I loved it. Gunshots follow, and we realize “wet t-shirt” refers to the hapless sucker falling in a rain of bullets and blood, cut down in the semi-prime of his life by a vengeful Ice Cube. Ice Cube: The wet t-shirt contest motherfucker! They roll up on some hapless sucker, and this happens: The song begins with a little one-act number, Ice Cube and his friend strolling through what we assume are the mean streets of Compton. Which brings us back to “Now I Gotta Wet’Cha,” a tale of gangster posturing wrapped in Solomon Burke samples. This Cube feels on the big fat fanny, pulls out the jammy, and kills-kills!-the punanny. ![]() This Cube doesn’t mince words or waste time. Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny. It’s ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic, ![]() Picked up a girl been tryin to fuck since the twelve grade. This is not the Cube who gave us the 2007 family laff riot Are We Done Yet? No, this is the Cube of N.W.A., the Cube of “Fuck Tha Police,” and the Cube of these lyrics from “It Was a Good Day”: It’s an excellent album, both danceable and grim, courtesy of Ice Cube and DJ Muggs’ typical sound-loping beats, P-Funk horns, Sly and the Family Stone guitar jangles, and nasty lyrics. Thus spake Ice Cube in the single “Now I Gotta Wet’Cha” from his 1992 album The Predator.
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