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Of the '80s and much more into reality rap and street rap. ♪ the police coming straight from the underground ♪ ♪ young 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 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 that ice guy is all right but the re...

Political raps of public enemy of the '80s and much more into reality rap and street rap. ♪ the police coming straight from the underground ♪ ♪ young 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 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, ...

We're all going to have a say in where hip-hop goes. ♪ mad thinking about stomping ♪ i'm from the south bronx ♪ [ bleep ] compton >> you going to continue making a lot of money off this? >> long as it's violence it's rap music, whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person who walks away is ice cube. ♪ tried to kill me >> same reason ice cube left the group is the reason i left. you know, tired of making other people money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some -- ♪ ♪ deep cover on the incognito tip ♪ >> suge knight, who wasn'...

Album, "the chronic." not only do you get dre but then you also get snoop dogg. ♪ one, two, three and to the four ♪ ♪ snoop doggy dog and dr. dre is at the door ♪ >> ooh, boy. snoop doggy dog and dr. dre at the door. it's crazy. they knocked the door down, baby. ♪ g thing baby ♪ we're crazy >> 70% of rap music, including gangsta rap, was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. >> other music is more like a fairytale story. where now we can hear somebody...

There's heartache involved. it's all encompassed in one amazing piece of art. >> "the miseducation of lauryn hill." >> with her record-breaking fifth grammy win, lauryn hill echoed what many might have been thinking. >> this is crazy, because this is hip-hop music, and you know what i mean? >> she's going to be, big -- well, she already is a big, big star. you get five grammys you are. >> a lot of people think she's going to really redefine the connections among hip-hop, pop, for everybody. ♪ hi, kids do you like primus ♪ ♪ want to see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyel...