Via Murk Avenue:
CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:
Nov 11 1988 114-103
Nov 30 1988 110-106
Apr 4 1989 115-97
Apr 23 1989 121-117
Jan 17 1990 100-90
Feb 28 1990 112-107
Mar 25 1990 116-94
Apr 17 1990 102-101
Jan 18 1991 105-96
Mar 24 1991 113-96
Apr 21 1991 103-100
Jan 20 1992 116-110
CLUE 4:
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
Nov 30 1988
Apr 4 1989
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
CLUE 5:
“Got a beep from Kim, and
she can fuck all night”
beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
CLUE 6:
Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991 too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..
The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…
JANUARY 20 1992
National Good Day Day
Jan. 31 UPDATE: Vulture reached out to Ice Cube for comment on this fantastical piece of nerdery. His reply, via publicist? “Nice try.”
NERD!!!!!+————————————————————- Dork.
Not to nerd out EVEN further, but that was MLK day as well.
correct
That study is flawed. Pagers were available all through the 80′s. SKYPAGER was the company. Countless 80′s rap songs refer to pagers. Top of my head.. Ice-T… Rhyme pays album, 1987… Tons of pager references. Old school 1. Nerds 0.
This, and a whole lot more, was already covered in great depth — see my comments further down.
And if the question is whether Ice Cube, specifically, could’ve had a pager before 1992, I think the best answer comes from Cube himself when he raps about having one in 1988′s “Straight Outta Compton,” title track… sometimes the nerds *are* old school.
*slow clap* Well done sir.
i think she’s a girl… there’s a picture of a girl on my little tab thing so that’s what im assuming… but i would totally join in on that slow clap still
She reblogged it. That’s why it says “via Murk Avenue.”
The pic of the girl is of Andrea Woo. This is her website.
Big Ups, Woo-zy!
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Rofl. Some damn good research there.
Any only a week too late to celebrate.
Next year, though. I’m making a goddamn facebook event so we remember to celebrate.
Dude…add me to that event and I will invite all my homies!
Someone has a lot of extra time on their hands. But it’s very important research, nobel prize worthy I’d say!
If you can figure this out, why is there yet no cure for cancer?!?
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Beepers were available in the 1980′s.
Indeed they were…I had one in 1987
they were even around in the 70s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager
Here’s an important clue you missed
“Thinkin’ will I live another twenty-fo”
This implies that he was 24 years old when the day occurred. He was born in 1969, so he would have turned 24 on June 15, 1993.
Disregard. Thinking about it for two more seconds, that clearly means 24 hours, not 24 years. It is a pretty big coincidence that it happened around his 24th birthday though.
wrong, 24 hours is what he is saying
you think gangstas think 24 years ahead?
HAHAHAHA.. golden comment.
He means another 24 hours.
that would be 24 hours, as in one more day.
Michael… its another 24hrs… how could he live to be 24 again?!?
He was saying “will i live another 24 hours”. You only turn 24 once; why would he live another 24 years old.
Good day, but he stills lives at home wif his moms. Loser.
Me and dad are still paying for sending you to college. Also I just finished folding your laundry, and there will be fresh baked cookies waiting for you when you come to pick them up.
You are a god.
Ha Ha
niice
From now until the end of time mama shall make breakfast with no hog on this day.
Just because beepers were only available on those days doesn’t mean he only had a beeper on him during those particular dates … does it? :3
yeah but all the other ‘clues’ whittle down the possible date.
awesome
Amazing
Dig it! I wish I had nothing to do besides research stuff like this too!
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Ice Cube’s a pimp
Seems this whole song is fiction
It is…can’t you learn to have a little fun?
There is an error in this theory. Beepers, or Pagers were most definitely commercially available in the 1980′s. The elimination of the dates in the 1980′s is based on a misreading of the wikipedia on Pagers where it states. “Until the popular adoption of mobile phones in the 1990s, pagers filled the role of common personal and mobile communications.” Close, but no cigar.
but Kim is a hoodrat. So she definitely wouldn’t have had a pager until the Smartbeep 2.99 a month plan was out. Cheap ass hoe.
Stop hating and give her props for this.
Evidence to support Vin’s theory, or rather the counter-argument:
September 24, 1991, A Tribe Called Quest drops The Low End Theory, featuring the track “Skypager” introduced by Q-Tip asking the general listening public “Do you know the importance of a Skypager,” clearly demonstrating the firmly cemented functionality of the technology in hip-hop culture. Phife further explicates by explaining, “The S in Skypager stands for sex,” citing that one of the key functions of a pager is exactly waht Ice Cube is using it for.
Does this mean it’s impossible that the date cited above is the correct “Good Day”? No. Does this open up this long-standing query again for further investigation? Certainly. Does the fact that we’re spending this much time on the topic, even in jest, mean that there are way too many people with way too much free time? Certainly does.
don’t you know how a pager works? you just call it with a regular phone. “Kim” wouldn’t have needed one to give Cube a beep. she could have called his beeper from a pay phone, home phone, whatever.
And was there confirmation that Cube “fucked around and got a triple double” the week before?
This argument is invalid as the scorers in Compton schoolyard pick-up games were notoriously inaccurate until they unionized in the late 90′s.
Also, what kind of d-bag keeps track of his own assists? Sure it rhymes, but I don’t want to play with someone as concerned with their own stats as that.
It was probably points, rebounds, and steals… Gangstas don’t share.
how about blocks?
You just made my life. THANK YOU.
This made me care more about Ice Cube than Ice Cube himself.
Too much time. On your hands.
Vin’s reply above about the pagers got me thinking, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the January 20, 1992 date is WRONG. As I see it, there are actually three problems with that conclusion:
1) Pagers certainly weren’t yet as widespread in ’88/’89 as they’d later become but, speaking as someone who was already in high school in those years, I can say that they were definitely were available — and I’d say that a South Central gangsta would’ve been a likely candidate to have one earlier than most. So we shouldn’t use that as the sole reason to eliminate ’88/’89 from consideration But on top of that, consider these additional facts we know about Cube’s personal life from the VH1′s “Behind the Music: Ice Cube” episode…
2) Cube started dated Kimberly Woodruff (his still-current wife) in the summer of ’88, before any of the those final four dates. He’s famous for having always been a loyal one-woman man, who always went home to Kim and his family rather than partying after shows, so we can assume he’s talking about the same Kim. But the lyric in question goes: “I got a beep from Kim, and she can fuck all night,” which comes after the mention that he’d been trying to fuck her since the twelfth grade. Now, I can see Cube spitting those lines about a day that happened while the two were just dating, but after she was already his fiancee and the mother of his child? I just don’t think so. Certainly not about a day in January ’91, when Kim was eight months pregnant! And highly unlikely January ’92 either, when their firstborn was one year old and they’d be married later that same year. And the final nail in January 20, 1992 coffin is…
3) We know that in ’88 and ’89, Cube still lived at home with his mom — the lack of cash-flow he saw from NWA, forcing him to stay at home, was part of what lead to him leaving the group. But Cube got into an argument with Priority Records five days after his first son’s birth in Feb. ’91 over his not getting paid an advance on his solo album — an advance with which he planned to get a house for himself, Kim, and their child. The argument lead to his smashing up the Priority offices with an aluminum baseball bat, which in return lead to his getting his advance. Thus, even if we assume a month or two before he actually cashed a check from the label, a couple months to get moving on a house hunt, a month or two of actual house-hunting, a month to close escrow, and a couple weeks to get settled in, we can also safely say that by Jan. 20, 1992, Ice Cube was no longer living with his mom, dropping Kim off somewhere after he’d fucked her.
So what does that leave us? We return our focus to the Nov. 30, 88 and April 4, 89 dates — which, you’ll recall, were eliminated solely on the basis of a false assumption about beeper availability. You’re now talking about dates in the wake of the release of “Straight Outta Compton,” when it was blowing up. We know Cube still lived at home with his mom during those years but you’re still dealing with touring, press, MTV, etc., all of which makes it tough to nail down one of those two dates as being calm enough for Cube to have such an uneventful day. However, there’s still one more heretofore unexplored clue left: after putting Kim’s ass to sleep, Ice Cube had a Fatburger at 2 a.m. Now, it’s nearly impossible to know now what the operating schedule was for an unknown Fatburger over twenty years ago, one thing is true for the vast majority of Fatburgers across the L.A. metro area: they close at midnight or earlier Sunday-Thursday, but stay open a couple hours later on Friday and Saturday nights. And what does a calendar tell us? That April 4, 1989 was a Tuesday.
November 30, 1988, though… Nov. 30, ’88 was a Friday. The day when Cube could grab a Fatburger at 2 a.m. The day earliest in his relationship with Kim — when referring to her as someone he’d been trying to fuck since the twelfth grade would be the most relevant; when getting paged and then dropping her off elsewhere would still make sense; before speaking flippantly about their sex life before she gave birth to his son would make his lyrics awkward and uncomfortable…
November 30, 1988 was the REAL date of Ice Cube’s good day.
(P.S. We will conveniently overlook the fact that in ’88, Cube was still driving an old Jeep — because it might not have been a pimpmobile with hydraulics, but it least it was a drop-top of sorts!)
This comment is probably the best comment ever posted in the comments section of anything anywhere on the internet and I am not being sarcastic. I never read the comments but someone linked me to this comment and it is very very well done.
Agree 100% w berto. Amazing
Lemme chime on in here, solid case, reasonably presented, The Ancient Greeks would be prouda you!
Holy shit dude! Well done sir, I think we can put this thing to bed. I love the comment, contradictory yet not argumentative, very thorough, and seemingly infallible. There should be some kind of award show for comments with you taking home the grand prize. Kudos
Holy shit.
Heh. For the record, this is what happens when I’m having insomnia at 2am after my wife had already gone to bed and I had nothing better to do — I stay up until 6am figuring this out!
I’m 1. a big nerd (obviously); 2. a big fan of “It Was A Good Day” (also obvious, hopefully); 3. a senior copy editor for a news service (detail- and edit-oriented to the point of being pedantic); and 4. older that Donovan Strain (so I was in high school in ’88 and knew people with beepers whereas he was three years old then and had to really on faulty, second-hand information).
Add that all together and when I noticed the pager discrepancy, this was just the type of thing I’ll latch onto. Don’t get me wrong — the original Murk Avenue post was awesome and hilarious and the first couple times I saw it, I was all set to plan a party next January 20th. But once I realized that there were holes in the science, I figured that if this was going to be done, it should be done correctly (or as close to it as possible, within the bounds of the overall gag). So I replied to a few blogs where I’d seen it, then put it on my own Tumblr at http://lahatiel.tumblr.com/post/16698555997/ice-cubes-good-day-really-november-30-1988 to let the public decide. Granted, internet ADD the viral first-mover advantage means he’ll get 10,000 reposts before I get 100 but hey, it’s all in good fun, right?
You, sir, are brilliant. Now if only someone could get their hands on the Goodyear flight schedule and look up November 30, 1998 to see if it was in the LA area, we’d have the final piece to the puzzle. Although I do think it is odd to have a blimp flying around at 2am. Perhaps it was for FAA certification?
The Goodyear Blimp fleet’s home airbase is actually located within 5 miles of the geographic center of Compton, and even the blimps are easily visible from the freeway driving into the city.
Hats off yo you sir. Well fucking done.
You DO know pregnant women can have sex right? It’s even addressed in a scene in Knocked Up.
Just because some might think it’s gross doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Yes, but weed and booze at eight months pregnant? Forgive me if I give Cube and his present-day wife a little more credit than that.
He would reference her as his “woman” or something more possessive if she were his wife at the time, I would think. He didn’t have other words to describe her than “that girl I’ve been trying to fuck since 12th grade”. It was the best day of his life, probably b/c he ‘hit that’ for the first time, thus backing up the Nov 30, 1988 date.
Yes, we pregnant women most definitely can have sex. We’re growing baby number 6 and have never had any complications in that department.
Of course it’s a Friday…
Can’t…..stop……laughing!!!!!!!! Well done, well done.
Actually, he doesn’t refer to “Kim” as the girl “he’d been trying to fuck since the twelfth grade”.
The lyrics go “Picked up a girl been trying to fuck since the 12th grade.”
He mentions Kim in the first verse. This line comes in around the 3rd verse. He never follows up on whether or not he picked up Kim or just some other girl.
Yes, but this whole silly exercise is predicated on matching up the details to Cube’s real life, right? Well, in Cube’s real life — based on the VH1 “Behind the Music: Ice Cube” episode and various written profile articles, he and Kim were already together before any of these hypothetical dates came about, as they got together in mid-1988. Cube is also well-known as a very loyal, faithful, one-woman man who would go home to Kim at night when all the other N.W.A. members were going out to afterparties. Therefore, based on the “rules” such as they are of matching this to reality, Kim’s the only girl involved.
Except November 30th 1988 was a Wednesday, not a Friday…
That’s correct — and I’d realized that back then and covered that in a follow-up blog post back on the same day as my original analysis, Jan. 29th: http://lahatiel.tumblr.com/post/16743011955/a-mistake-of-my-own
How did you look up the smog days ? Is there an almanac that lists that?
This is very impressive. Kudos to you, my friend. I think that Nov. 30, 1988 seems most viable. While he did not convert to Islam until the 90s, it does not mean that he could not appreciate a non-hog breakfast otherwise. I have not eaten hog in years, and am not a Muslim. Another indication that 11/30/88 is viable is his references to drinking and smoking weed. He did not do either by the early 90s, after his conversion.
The beeper/pager thing was kinda dumb but it’s pretty clear that Ice Cube wasn’t talking about sometime in the 80′s.
A missed clue that it was in the 1990′s is that Cube said that he appreciated that his mother “cooked breakfast with no hog”, which refers to pork being haram (forbidden) in Islam. According to his Wikipedia entry, “Ice Cube stated that he is a Muslim, having converted sometime in the 1990s.” Which still eliminates the two remaining dates from the 80′s.
True, he didn’t convert until the early 90s, but he could have looked back on it fondly post-conversion, thinking that it was something good that happened without even realizing it was good at the time. I’d be more willing to accept that, and an 80s date, than either Kim beeping him for weed, booze, and sex when she was eight months pregnant, or her beeping him for weed, booze, and sex after which he dropped her off somewhere and then went to his mom’s house — when he and Kim already had their own house with their one-year-old son.
Of course, for all the time and effort I put into my post above, I did make a mistake myself (that’s what I get for putting in my time and effort between 2am-5am). Nov. 30, 1988 was actually a Wednesday, not a Friday. think I was looking at the 1989 calendar while checking April 4, and then accidentally clicked forward instead of back. But, if there are actually any correlations between Fatburger schedules today and what they were 20 years ago, there are Fatburgers in Hollywood, L.A. (more mid-city, not South Central), and the Valley that are open until 3-4am,even on weeknights. A bit out of the way for Cube to drive, drunk and high, for a burger… but not totally outside the realm of possibility, I guess.
Lahetiel, you have the most sophisticated analysis yet!
Ozzy, I’m laughing so hard right now. Well played.
We must infer that on 1/20/92, Cube also did not use his AK-47…
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I think I just developed a huge crush on you.
There’s another clue. The song claims no one got killed in South Central. Of course, it’s a misnomer/stereotype that it really happens that often, but it could be a clue. Also, you can look for when Fat Burger was established near S. Central.
No one he knows got killed. Listen again friend.
Good stuff
Does no one remember the very end of the track where he wakes himself from his daydream of the perfect day? It’s no one date, but an amalgamation of things that if all occurring in one 24 hour period would be the ideal day.
“Hey wait, wait a minute Pooh
Stop the shitt
What the fuck am I thinking about?”
Also, he’s trying to illustrate that instead of just daydreaming you, the listener, should go out and find your own truth, love and happiness.
Thanks for being a buzz kill buddy
Has anyone tried to contact Lil Joe to ask when it was he got back doe’d?
Straight Genius.
This is what I call going in! What do you do for a living wow!
Occam’s Razor: No way in hell the day in question wasn’t a Friday, end of story. In related news, the internet has officially outlived its usefulness.
Andrea and Lahatiel … this is pure genius. Thx.
More importantly, when was the bad day?
When did he shed his gangsta image in favour of selling his soul to be in children’s movies?
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This is excellent! It shows how popular culture and deductive reasoning can help us further figure out the deeper meanings of our popular cultural history and its significance in our everyday life…or it is really just funny.
Simply awesome
I like the 11/30 conclusion because, well, it’s my birthday and therefore always a good day.
Also consider, “picked up a girl been trying to f*** since the 12th grade”- he should have been in 12th grade in 1986/87
She looks like a good day to me, if you know what I mean. Very nice lookin.
If the deductions are wrong, you can still narrow it to within a weeks times frame if anybody knows which edition of The Final Call they are reading when they are playing craps at 2:06 (I am pretty sure it is The Final Call). It was founded in 79′ but I am not sure if was weekly then as it is now.
Investigative journalism at it’s finest!
Mystery solved!
Regardless, Jan 20 1992 was a good day because it was Martin Luther King day. It may also have been the first time Arizona celebrated MLK day. Sounds like a pretty good day to me.
Thank you for this!
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yo, all we need to know is the date that the goodyear blimp read “ice cube’s a pimp”. we need to check the logs on that and we will find ice cube’s good day.
Actually, let’s just disregard the goodyear blimp message, since we can assume having smoked some danky chron, guzzled a forty or two, put Kim’s butt to sleep, and procured the juiciest of fat burgers, Ice Cube could probably look up at aforementioned blimp and read whatever he damn pleased. It was still a good day.
Come to think of it, in Fuck tha Police, Ice Cube says: “Fuckin with me ’cause I’m a teenager/ with a little bit o gold and a pager”, so clearly Ice Cube did have a pager in the late 1980s, since Straight Outta Compton was released August 8th, 1988.- Adam S.
Best. Post. Ever.
This is awesome.
Finally we know
U r a sav for this one! i had to post this on fb.
On January 20th, 1992, I believe I was in the middle of third grade. Considering Christmas had just passed and Sonic the Hedgehog had come out in 1991, I was most definitely still on a Sega Genesis bender on this day, thus most certainly making it a good day.
Fuck you, Eric.
They totally need a Nobel Prize for internet journalism, that’s one killer investigation.
Now, all that’s left is to use the scientific method to discover what Rebecca Black’s favorite day of the week is…
You are AWESOME, Andrea. The intersection of logic and 90s gangsta rap – turns out it is WAY cooler than it sounds.
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You can’t argue with facts like these.
Can you please calculate the current level of the rap game before someone brings it to the next level.
I can start with Clue 1: Level 2 & 3 was probably 1995 when both Showbiz & AG and the Alkaholiks released songs called “Next Level”. But most of the research would have to be from interviews before albums dropped, that’s when I hear the next level. Ahhh what level? I’m a level 13 mage.
What about at the 2:07 mark of the video. It clearly shows a paper with the headlines, “Africa’s Misery”. Finding out what papers were locally available at the time, since the name is partially hidden. Then taking that info to the library and looking up the micro-fiche for said headline. That would break it down even more.
WE COULD ALWAYS JUST ASK ICE CUBE & ALL WILL BE GOOD! WEEEEE
Did you also check to see if “no one got killed in south central LA” that day? I bet not.
I remember that day very well because it’s my birthday. He didn’t get a triple double on the court.
I would have figured the good day in question would have been earlier, but WOW, really good job singling it down by elimination.
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Good year blimp = sporting event = LA Lakers home game
Now who can tell me what day Snoop Dog was rolling down the street, smokin indo and sipping gin and juice? Perhaps the same day?
(joins in the slow clap) well done indeed….
I love this in every way.
When Cube see this shit, he’s going to STRAIGHT TRIP OUT! LOL
I tell you what I like ” MOST ” about this WHOLE THING….
Is that we now know for SURE this is a LEGIT song.
Now, how many of your other favorite rappers tell even 1/2 the truth? LOL
Did come out sort of like confetti???? Ooops, wrong song.
CRAP! I missed it!
Coincidentally, I didn’t have to use my AK that day either.
This is amazing. I would really like to see this done with other songs, movies, or events. Still scratching my head in wonderment.
Couldn’t you have just looked up when the good year blimp read “Ice Cube is a Pimp” and then realized it was never and this song isn’t literal and you were just wasting your time…
@NzA LMFAO!!!!!!!!! You took the logic right outta my brains HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! But I too got a beep from Kim but I had already dug it out the night before so Cube got my sloppy seconds. Weed and Beer just make things seem better than they actually are, she couldn’t do it all night either, bitch fell asleep by 1AM come on People THINK!
One thing though, the Lakers wouldn’t have beaten the Supersonics until the evening, and it’s the first thing he’s talking about in the morning. It’s a lot more likely that he was still happy about the Laker victory from the night before, kinda waking up and gloating. I’m going with January 21st.
Not true, the Lakers game reference doesn’t come until the 5th verse — the only things that happens after he mentions the game is effing Kim and dropping her off (after waking her up at 1am), getting Fatburger (at 2am) and seeing the blimp (the ease of which is covered elsewhere).
Before the game, on the other hand, comes breakfast, pages, basketball at the park, shower, heading to Short Dawg’s, watching “Yo, MTV Raps!,” craps, and dominos. Then he picks up Kim and they start smoking and drinking, then the game gets mentioned before talk of their having sex — they obviously watched the game while drinking and smoking, then got down to business afterward.
In the meantime, I’ll just leave this here (it was 11/30/88): http://lahatiel.tumblr.com/post/16698555997/ice-cubes-good-day-really-november-30-1988
Ok Geniuses Can you pin down the era of time Slick Rick’s Children’s Story took place? When exactly did people wear PJs and behaved like they Ought ta Good? http://youtu.be/HjNTu8jdukA
And if you are really a student of History then impress us all by breaking down Ras Kass’s ‘Nature of the Threat’ ——-> Are all his dates accurate? Are his breakdowns accurate? http://youtu.be/JdJgVf4l1A0
Did 2 $hort even have a house in LA?
Also, did anyone get in touch with Goodyear? I mean, they have to have a record of when someone paid them to have their Blimp read “Ice Cube’s a PIMP…” Just sayin’….
!!!
Only in California is January 20th a “good day.” Come to Minnesota, and I can all but guarantee that January 20th will be a crap day. That aside, this is freakin awesome!!!
Obviously he was 24, so there is a huge clue there.
No, that line about ‘seeing 24′ meant living another 24 hours.
my copy of good day is copywritten in 1992..so it was released in 92 not 93….just sayin….so i’m going with the 88 date!!!
Came to this page in trying to track down the dates of Beastie Boys’ debuts and appearances on Yo MTV Raps (specifically Hey Ladies)–MCA passed today…it is most definitely not a good day…
This post and the comments are a riot: well-played Andrea et. al.! I always wondered with the Lakers SuperSonics ref., but you have taken this to a new level!
Might I suggest a 20 yr. retrospective: The Lakers beat the (OKC) Thunder…he texted the godaddy.com blimp and it read “Ice Cube’s a Sellout (Have we made enough sequels yet IV?)”