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>> ice-t is a west coast rap. doing 6:00 in the morning, police at my door. ice-t did it way before mwn did it. ♪ ♪ straight outta compton ♪ ice cube from a gang called with attitude ♪ ♪ 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 language about retaliating for 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 ...

>> public enemy, the young black male situation in america, we feel we're all public enemies. we have a logo that has a cross. we feel that represents ourselves, and anybody in our situation. >> public enemy had already been the most political rap group, at the time and still probably the most political rap group ever. they were not afraid to invoke the nation of islam. they were taking from black oppositional politics that was different from the mainstream ones. no one else had really had the courage to consistently use that as a base of operation. sampling is a musical practice. but i always...

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 retal y retaliating against cops for their 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 ♪ say hello to the new unlimited data plans from at&t and never pay overages again. so now the whole family can binge,... ...surf, shop, navigate, listen, game, stre...

And it was in our style. so we were a lot more defiant. though we were nonviolent. but we were more in your face, because we were in new york. >> 1989, america's racial contradictions are coming home. on the one hand, this is the peak of school desegregation. and then on the other hand, there's a rise of hate violence. and into this cauldron of racial tension, there was a release of the power. >> public enemy, the young black male situation in america, we feel we're all public enemies. we have a logo that has a cross. we feel that represents ourselves, and anybody in our situation. ♪ we got ...

Tension, there was a release of the power. >> public enemy, the young black male situation in america, we feel we're all public enemies. we have a logo that has a cross. we feel that represents ourselves, and anybody in our situation. >> public enemy had already been the most political rap group, at the time and still probably the black group ever. they were taking from black oppositional politics that was different from the mainstream wronz. nobody really had the -- to consistently use that as a base of operation.