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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.[3] It was released soon after AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and capitalized on Cube's newfound solo success.

Kill at Will

EP by

Ice Cube

Released

December 18, 1990

Recorded

1990

Genre

Hip hop

Length

21:53

Label

Lench Mob
Priority

Producer

Ice Cube
Sir Jinx
Chilly Chill

Ice Cube chronology

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
(1990)

Kill at Will
(1990)

Death Certificate
(1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A−[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[4]
NME	(7/10)[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]
The Source	[7]
The Washington Post	(favorable)[8]

The last track, "I Gotta Say What Up!!!", contains a diss directed toward N.W.A in response to the group dissing Ice Cube on their 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin'.

Critical reception

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."[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) (Remix)" (featuring Chuck D)	Sir Jinx	4:11
2.	"Jackin' for Beats"	Chilly Chill	2:57
3.	"Get off My Dick and Tell Yo Bitch to Come Here (Remix)"	Sir Jinx	3:38
4.	"The Product"	Sir Jinx	3:35
5.	"Dead Homiez"	Ice Cube	3:55
6.	"JD’s Gaffilin’ (Part 2)"		0:36
7.	"I Gotta Say What Up!!!"	Sir Jinx	3:06

Partial list of samples

"Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) (Remix)"

"The Payback" by James Brown
"Funky Drummer" by James Brown^{[citation needed]}
"Standin' on the Verge of Gettin' It On" by Funkadelic
"Bop Gun (Endangered Species)" by Parliament
"Straight Outta Compton (Extended Mix)" by N.W.A
"Bring the Noise" by Public Enemy

"The Product"

"Good Times" by Kool and the Gang
"Rated X" by Kool and the Gang
"Jungle Boogie" by Kool and the Gang
"You Can Make It If You Try" by Sly & the Family Stone
"Train Sequence", narrated by Geoffrey Sumner
"Funky Drummer" by James Brown
"The Nigga Ya Love to Hate" by Ice Cube
"Illegal Search" by LL Cool J

"I Gotta Say What Up!!!"

"Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" by Isaac Hayes
"Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss
"Who Stole the Soul?" by Public Enemy

"Dead Homiez"

"Rollin' Wit the Lench Mob" by Ice Cube
"Do Like I Do" by Smokey Robinson

"Jackin' for Beats"

"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" by James Brown
"The Payback" by James Brown
"Funky President" by James Brown
"Funky Drummer" by James Brown
"I Know You Got Soul" by Bobby Byrd
"Hot Pants - I'm Coming, I'm Coming, I'm Coming" by Bobby Byrd
"Bop Gun (Endangered Species)" by Parliament
"Sing a Simple Song" by Sly & the Family Stone
"Big Ole Butt" by LL Cool J
"So Wat Cha Sayin'" by EPMD
"Heed the Word of the Brother" by X-Clan
"They Call Me D-Nice" by D-Nice^{[citation needed]}
"Ashley's Roachclip" by The Soul Searchers
"Bon Bon Vie" by T.S. Monk
"Tramp" by Lowell Fulsom
"Psychedelic Shack" by The Temptations
"Hector" by Village Callers
"The Big Beat" by Billy Squier
"The Haunted House", narrated by Laura Olsher
"Welcome to the Terrordome" by Public Enemy
"The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground
"Rebel Without a Pause" by Public Enemy
"100 Miles and Runnin" by N.W.A

Later samples

"Dead Homiez"
- "Young Black Male" by 2Pac from the album 2Pacalypse Now
"The Product"
- "Young Black Male" by 2Pac from the album 2Pacalypse Now

Album singles

"Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside)"

Released: 1990
B-side: "Dead Homiez"

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[10]	34
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[11]	5

Year-end charts

Chart (1991)	Position
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[12]	38

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[13]	Platinum	1,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

AllMusic review
Robert Christgau review
Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 444.
Entertainment Weekly review
NME review
The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 340.
The Source review
The Washington Post review
"Ice Cube". Trouser Press. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
"Ice Cube Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
"Ice Cube Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
"Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1991". Billboard. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
"American album certifications – Ice Cube – Kill At Will". Recording Industry Association of America.

v t e Ice Cube
Studio albums	AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Death Certificate The Predator Lethal Injection War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc) Laugh Now, Cry Later Raw Footage I Am the West Everythang's Corrupt
Extended plays	Kill at Will
Compilations	Bootlegs & B-Sides Featuring...Ice Cube Greatest Hits In the Movies The Essentials Icon
Singles	"True to the Game" "Wicked" "It Was a Good Day" "Check Yo Self" "Really Doe" "You Know How We Do It" "Bop Gun (One Nation)" "The World Is Mine" "We Be Clubbin'" "Men of Steel" "Pushin' Weight" "Hello" "You Can Do It" "Until We Rich" "Why We Thugs" "Go to Church" "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" "Do Ya Thang" "I Rep That West" "Good Cop, Bad Cop" "Arrest the President"
Other songs	"No Vaseline"
Related articles	Discography N.W.A Westside Connection C.I.A. Da Lench Mob Lench Mob Records Cube Vision O'Shea Jackson Jr.

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