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 the breakfast with no hog I got my grub on, but didn't pig out Finally, got a call from a girl I wanna 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 niggas every way, like MJ I can't believe, today was a good day (shit!) 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 Short 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 niggas 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 (shit!) Left my niggas' house paid Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelve grade It's ironic, I had the booze she had the chronic The Lakers beat the Supersonics I felt on the big fat fanny Pulled out the jammy and killed the punani 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 Drunk as hell but no throwing up Halfway home and my pager still blowing up Today I didn't even have to use my AK I got to say it was a good day (shit!) Hey, wait, wait a minute, fool Stop this shit What the fuck am I thinking about?
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 the breakfast with no hog I got my grub on, but didn't pig out Finally, got a call from a girl I wanna 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 niggas every way, like MJ I can't believe, today was a good day (shit!) 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 Short 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 niggas 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 (shit!) Left my niggas' house paid Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelve grade It's ironic, I had the booze she had the chronic The Lakers beat the Supersonics I felt on the big fat fanny Pulled out the jammy and killed the punani 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 Drunk as hell but no throwing up Halfway home and my pager still blowing up Today I didn't even have to use my AK I got to say it was a good day (shit!) Hey, wait, wait a minute, fool Stop this shit What the fuck am I thinking about?
“It Was a Good Day” foi lançada em 23 de fevereiro de 1993 como o segundo single do terceiro álbum solo de Ice Cube, *The Predator* (1992).
A produção da faixa ficou a cargo de DJ Pooh, enquanto a letra foi escrita pelo próprio Ice Cube.
A música alcançou o nº 7 na Billboard Hot R&B/Hip‑Hop Songs e chegou ao nº 15 na Billboard Hot 100, sendo o single com melhor posição de Ice Cube nessa parada até hoje.
No videoclipe, dirigido por F. Gary Gray, são mostrados detalhes do dia descrito na letra, como a vitória dos Los Angeles Lakers sobre o Seattle SuperSonics e a ausência de smog em Los Angeles.
O single recebeu diversas reconhecimentos: 81ª posição na lista da About.com das maiores canções de rap, 77ª nos “100 Greatest Songs of the 1990s” da VH1, 36ª nas “100 Greatest Hip‑Hop Songs of All Time” da Rolling Stone e 28ª na lista de 2008 da VH1 sobre as melhores músicas de hip‑hop.
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