“It Was A Good Day” by Ice Cube

"It Was a Good Day" came out on February 23, 1993, the second single from Ice Cube's third solo album, The Predator, and it finds the man kicking back to walk you through a day when nothing went wrong. Ice Cube wrote it, and DJ Pooh produced it on a laid-back G-funk bed that lets every detail breathe.

The lyrics are a list of small mercies, down to the Lakers beating the SuperSonics and a Los Angeles sky with no smog in it, and the calm is the point. It reached 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, his best showing there, and F. Gary Gray directed the video. Rolling Stone later put it 36th on its list of the greatest hip-hop songs of all time.

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