Kill at Will | |
Type: | EP |
Artist: | Ice Cube |
Cover: | Icecubekillatwill.jpg |
Released: | December 18, 1990 |
Recorded: | 1990 |
Length: | 21:53 |
Label: | Priority |
Prev Title: | AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
Prev Year: | 1990 |
Next Title: | Death Certificate |
Next Year: | 1991 |
Kill at Will (titled At Will in its censored version) is an extended play by American rapper Ice Cube, released in 1990 via Priority Records. It was released soon after AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and capitalized on Cube's newfound solo success.
Trouser Press praised "the lighthearted 'Jackin’ for Beats' (which bites EPMD, PE, Digital Underground, LL Cool J and others) and the devastating 'Dead Homiez', in which [Cube] solemnly contemplates the murder of a friend over an evocative mix of horn, guitar and piano."[1]
Robert Christgau stated: "I don't want to claim the criticism is getting to him--still talking tough on this interim EP, he remixes 'Get Off My Dick and Tell Your Bitch To Come Here.' But he's keeping his woman problem to himself and putting the gangsta shit in perspective: 'The Product' tells a young black con's story from his pops's nut, 'Dead Homiez' cops to a sadness a lesser outlaw might consider unmanly. With Sir Jinx running the board, the beats never work up to carpet-bomb density. And if Ice Cube keeps rhyming like this, you won't care."
"Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) (Remix)"
"The Product"
"I Gotta Say What Up!!!"
"Dead Homiez"
"Jackin' for Beats"
"Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside)"