Raw Footage

Raw Footage is the eighth studio album by rapper Ice Cube, released on August 19, 2008. The first single, "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It", was released with a music video appearing on his MySpace page on January 3, 2008. The second single is "Do Ya Thang" was released with a music video on his website on July 1, 2008. Guests on the album included The Game, Butch Cassidy, Musiq Soulchild, Young Jeezy and WC. The album is his most political effort since The Predator was released over a decade earlier. In the single "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It", Ice Cube talks about the fact that Gangsta rap is often blamed for crimes. The album was released on an independent label, and had minimum media support, thus it, despite being very good, only sold 70,000 copies in the first week.