The Sounds of Summer- Day 78 of 95: “It Was A Good Day.”- Ice Cube. Ice Cube’s highest charting single- from back in 1993- #15. The song has been called a ‘career highlight”- and has been ranked among the top 100 rap songs of all time. The song has a summer feel about it to me. Mr. Cube would say of the song–

The inspiration was my life at the time … I was at the top of the rap game. It was the summer of ’92 and I was in a hotel room, really in a state of euphoria. I had all the money I had dreamed of. I was in a good frame of mind. And I remember thinking, ‘Okay, there’s been the riots, people know I will deal with that. That’s a given. But I rap all this gangsta stuff—what about all the good days I had?