Ice Cube Songs - It Was a Good Day Lyrics

Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day

Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Predator
Released: 1993

It Was a Good Day Lyrics

Break me, shit, yo

Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd
No barking from the dogs, no smog
And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog
I got my grub on, but didn't pig out
Finally got a call from a girl want to dig out
Hooked it up on later as I hit the do'
Thinking will i live another twenty fo'
I gotta go cause I got me a drop top
And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop
Had to stop at a red light
Looking in my mirror not a jacker in sight
And everything is alright
I got a beep from Kim and she can fuck all night
Called up the homies and I'm askin' y'all
Which park, are y'all playin' basketball?
Get me on the court and I'm trouble
Last week fucked around and got a triple double
Freaking brothers every way like M.J.
I can't believe, today was a good day

Drove to the pad and hit the showers
Didn't even get no static from the cowards
Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me
Saw the police and they rolled right past me
No flexin', didn't even look in a niggas direction as I ran the intersection
Went to $hort Dog's house, they was watchin' Yo! MTV Raps
What's the haps on the craps
Shake 'em up, shake 'em up, shake 'em up, shake 'em
Roll 'em in a circle of niggaz and watch me break 'em
With the seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven
Seven even back do' little Joe
I picked up the cash flow
Then we played bones, and I'm yellin' domino
Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A.
Today was a good day

Left my niggas house paid
Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelfth grade
It's ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic
The Lakers beat the Supersonics
I felt on the big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny
And my dick runs deep so deep so deep put her ass to sleep
Woke her up around one
she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun
Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting
Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
I was glad everything had worked out
Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out
Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder
Two in the morning got the fat burger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Ice Cube's a pimp (yeah)
Drunk as hell but no throwing up
Half way home and my pager still blowing up
Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I got to say It Was a Good Day

Hey wait, wait a minute fool stop the shit
What the fuck am I thinking about?

Writer/s: ISLEY, MARVIN / GOODMAN, ALBERT / JACKSON, O'SHEA / RAY, HARRY MILTON / ROBINSON, SYLVIA / ISLEY, O'KELLY / JASPER, CHRISTOPHER / ISLEY, ERNIE / ISLEY, RUDOLPH / ISLEY, RONALD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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It Was a Good Day

The song was meant to be a contrast to the other songs on Ice Cube's album, The Predator, which was recorded in the wake of the LA Riots of 1992. According to Cube, "The inspiration was my life at the time... I was at the top of the rap game. It was the summer of '92 and I was in a hotel room, really in a state of euphoria. I had all the money I had dreamed of. I was in a good frame of mind. And I remember thinking, 'Okay, there's been the riots, people know I will deal with that. That's a given. But I rap all this gangsta stuff – what about all the good days I had?"

The song's music video is the first half of a two-part series. It is the prelude to the video for "Check Yo Self," which depicts Ice Cube being arrested in front of his home and being sent to prison.

The song is exactly 4:20 in length, an allusion to the song's depiction of hedonistic activity (specifically, marijuana use). (thanks, Fujiko - Lexington, KY for above 3)

The slinky groove on this song is sampled from an Isley Brothers tune called "Footsteps in the Dark."

Ice Cube ends this song on a negative note, ordering his DJ to stop the record and declaring, "Stop this s--t! What the f--k I'm thinking about." Turns out the good day may have been imaginary.

This was Ice Cube's most popular song, getting lots of spins on Urban radio stations and some play on Top 40 stations with bold program directors. Of course, the version used on the radio was heavily edited, but there was little mistaking what he meant by "my Jimmy runs deep."

It was Ice Cube's highest Hot 100 chart placing, and an especially lucrative one since he wrote the song entirely by himself (credited to his real name: O'Shea Jackson). Many of his other chart entries are collaborations, including his recording with the female rapper Yo-Yo on "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo" (#36, 1991) and "Check Yo Self," which he recorded with Das EFX (#20, 1993).