Ice Cube's 'Death Certificate' Digital Deluxe Edition Available Today

Album celebrates its 30th Anniversary

"Ice Cube's most important (if not his best) album, and one of the most essential works in rap history." - Pitchfork

"This release stands as testament to the longevity of Hip-Hop whose beginnings as an outlet for those written off in society has evolved into one of culture's most definitive communities to date." - The Source

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Oct 30, 2021, 22:32 ET

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the 30^th anniversary of Ice Cube's platinum selling sophomore release Death Certificate, considered to be one of the hardest hip-hop albums of all time. To celebrate, Ice Cube released the complete digital deluxe edition of Death Certificate featuring the bonus "Tryin' To Maintain." The digital deluxe edition of Death Certificate can now be downloaded and streamed, HERE.

ICE CUBE’s ‘DEATH CERTIFICATE’ DIGITAL DELUXE EDITION AVAILABLE TODAY. Album celebrates its 30th Anniversary.

On October 29, 1991, Ice Cube released his highly anticipated second studio album Death Certificate, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and went platinum the first two month of its release, going on to sell over 5 million copies worldwide.

Produced by OG Cube cohorts, Sir Jinx, and the Boogiemen (DJ Pooh, Bobcat, and Rashad Coes), Death Certificate takes a potent look at life in South Central through the eyes of one of reality rap's greatest and grittiest storytellers. Roughly organized as two thematic elements of a larger whole, it opens with Cube's explanation: "The Death Side: a mirror image of where we are today; The Life Side: a vision of where we need to go."

Death Certificate was heralded a musical masterpiece and Ice Cube ultimately received the accolades he deserved for his incisive and revelatory socio-political commentary.