it s rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. a rebel in his own mind rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was 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. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t you got a responsibility to them rather than what you you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t 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 over so i might as well speak my mind ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning
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 i m 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 point is the biggest hip-hop band there is. first time i heard nwa i was like, oh, that ice guy is all right, but the rest of this is garbage. that was pretty much the attitude initially of most people who were part of the new york hip-hop scene. nwa ain t sick to me dre step up to the door and get
my life is over so i might as well speak my mind ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning police at my door. ice t did it way before nwa did it. straight outta compton ice cube from a gang called with attitude i got a sawed off squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off the los angeles rap group nwa drew fire from police because its album “straight outta compton” talked in brutal and vulgar language about retaliating against cops for their anti gang sweeps in the l.a. area. nwa gave us the gritty, grimy gang-banging streets of compton. this is what s going on with us. as i leave believe i m stomping when i come back boy i m coming straight outta compton i want my mtv
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 i m 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 point is the biggest hip-hop band there is. first time i heard nwa i was like, oh, that ice guy is all right, but the rest of this is garbage. that was pretty much the attitude initially of most people who were part of the new york hip-hop scene. nwa ain t sick to me dre step up to the door and get up the east coast kind of felt like, well, we invented hip-hop, you re
stations. it s rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. a rebel in his own mind important of a rhyme to scatter rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was 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. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t 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 over so i might as well speak my mind ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning police at my door. ice t did it way before nwa did