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- ♪ original gangster, og ♪ ♪ original gangster ♪ - gangster rap: the angriest kind of rap music. it glorifies brutality and sex. - gangster it ♪ , >> gangster rap, the angriest kind of rap music. it glorifies brutality and sex. >> gangster transect really starts to take hold in the early 90s. people moving away from the political rap of public enemy from the 80s and much more into the sort of reality rap and street rap. >> ♪ >> the group mwa is the harshest, most in-your-face of the...

♪ mother standing in the welfare line ♪ ♪ the way that you survive is crime ♪ ♪ my life is over so i might as well speak my mind ♪ lover: ice-t is the first west-coast gangster act. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning, police at my door. ice-t did it way before n.w.a. did it. ♪ straight outta compton ♪ ♪ crazy [bleep] named ice cube ♪ ♪ from the gang called niggaz with attitudes ♪ ♪ when im called off, i got a sawed off ♪ ♪ squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off...

From Nirvana to Dixie Chicks to Tupac, the 90s represent a decade of musical diversity that appeals to every musical taste.

♪ original gangsta ♪ ♪ o.g. ♪ ♪ original gangsta ♪ gangsta rap, the angriest kind of rap music. it glorifies brutality and sex. >> gangsta rap really starts to take hold in the early 90s. people are moving away from the political rap, say, of public enemy of the 80s, and much more into reality rap and street rap. ♪ the police coming straight from the underground ♪ ♪ a young n- got it bad because im brown ♪ >> the group nwa is the harshest most in your face of the gangsta-st...

Got out here?" havent you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a responsibility to my people and my culture because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. >> [lyrics] mothers standing in the welfare line. the way that you survive is crime. my life is over so i might as well speak my mind. >> ice-t is the first west-coast gangster rap. reality rap. dude, "6:00 in the morning, police at my door." ice-t did it way before n.w.a. did ...

On black stations. it is for a reason. they call it a mind resolution -- mind revolution. >> rebel without a cause was heavily influenced by rakim at what was going just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldnt you maybe be thinking about who are the people ive got out here? havent you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a responsibility to my people and my cultu...

Enemy of the 80s, and much more into reality rap and street rap. ♪ the police coming straight from the underground ♪ ♪ a young n- got it bad because im brown ♪ >> the group nwa is the harshest most in your face of the gangsta-style rappers. one song blasts the police in the most obscene terms. >> renn and ice cube, they write the rap, right? me and my boy yella get together and hook up a good beat we feel will go good with the rap and boom, there it is. platinum records. >> nwa at that p...

Politics met no radio airplay, even on black stations. it is rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. >> rubble without a cause was heavily influenced by rock kim, and heavily influenced by just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldnt you maybe be thinking about who are the people ive got out here? havent you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a respon...

Enemy of the 80s, and much more into reality rap and street rap. ♪ the police coming straight from the underground ♪ ♪ a young n- got it bad because im brown ♪ >> the group nwa is the harshest most in your face of the gangsta-style rappers. one song blasts the police in the most obscene terms. >> renn and ice cube, they write the rap, right? me and my boy yella get together and hook up a good beat we feel will go good with the rap and boom, there it is. platinum records. >> nwa at that p...

It was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldnt you maybe be thinking about who are the people ive got out here? havent you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. ♪ my mother standing in the welfare line ♪ ♪ the way you survive is crime ♪ ♪ my life is ...