Bob Zmuda Personality

During the 80s a controversial group of rappers came together and changed the game of Hip Hop for generations to come. Niggas with Attitude, otherwise known as N.W.A, was comprised of the rappers; Ice Cube, MC Ren, Easy E, Yella, and Dr. Dre. Theses rappers spoke the truth about life in the streets; the hustling, the trapping, the sexual encounters, the gang life, and the most important, the racism. They shined a light on these issues in a violent, sexually explicit, yet intelligent and revolutionary way. The Facebook page, *N.W.A* creates an environment that connects people of all races, backgrounds, and ages; with the goal of immortalizing, and spreading the original message of the group.

N.W.A (an abbreviation of Niggaz Wit Attitudes)[1][2][3] was an American hip hop group from Compton, California, widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap and west coast hip hop sub-genres, sometimes credited as the most important group in the history of rap music.[4] Active from 1986 to 1991, the rap group endured controversy due to the explicit lyrics that many considered to be disrespectful to women, and glorifying drugs and crime. The group was subsequently banned from many mainstream American radio stations. In spite of this, the group has sold over 10 million units in the United States alone.

had gained all throughout Los Angeles, California. During the 70’s-90’s, racism was still at huge. Nobody knew what was going on behind closed doors because we did not have social media back then. High tech phones/cameras and technology that advanced were not accessible at the time to actually view the rawness of what was going on in the field. Ethos is demonstrated by N.W.A. by their status. By status I mean that N.W.A. was a famous and well known rap group which featured only African Americans (Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren, DJ Yella). The five were originally big known rappers/producers prior to them coming together to form the group. So people already knew about them from a musical/hip-hop perspective and throughout the Los Angeles community, which is where they all resided from. N.W.A. had already gained that trust/credibility (ethos) from the community because of how high their status was at the time (famous

All this is what is required in a whole plot-developing sequence. In a brief scene of the film, a provocative meta-dig is given on tension between Ice Cube and his former band by the name NWA, whereby the anticipated thief wearing a branded Easy E T-shirt is beaten for his miserable attempts of

The success the N.W.A group artists consists of avoiding being taking advantage of by managers who do it because artists know less about paperwork, transactions and which type of business to do at the right point of time. O’shea Ice Cube Jackson got into a financial dispute between him and the N.W.A manager, Jerry Heller. The dispute was settled in-court in 1990. After the fact, Cube continued a successful solo career. After that the N.W.A continued working on the same path, despite of the obstacles by being criticized by politicians, Ban of sales from few retailers because it was the purest form “Gangsta Rap” full of violence, misogyny, but also a lot of humor, and pathos. Politicians spent amounts of energy to stop it from being something, it was simply wild. The politicians might take the side that says this specific type of music influence young African Americans to do crimes and do what gangs do as described in the songs yet, the beauty of it is that it’s purely honest, and making Compton visible on the world

In 1988 N.W.A put out the song called F*CK the Police that put out a worldwide misconception that made them the dangerous group in Hip-hop history. As a female growing up listening to hip-hop music from hearing Ol Dirty Bastard to Jay Z I can say for me hip-hop is a part of my life, so if that means that must do what they should do and that is to promote their fancy car, big booty slim thick girlfriends is a part of the Hip-Hop life then let it be then trying to bash hip-hop music. The hip-hop artist grows over time from (The Notorious B.I.G, 2 Pac, N.W.A, Wu-Tang, and Lil Kim) clan paved the way for Hip-hop artist today like Kendrick, Nicki Minaj, A boogie, Dave East.

Bob Ross was a painter, focusing mostly on landscapes using a ‘wet-on-wet’ style, and is most well known for his series The Joy Of Painting, and is still making ripples in the artist community today, about 23 years after his death. Many people still watch his tutorials via YouTube or Twitch, and even though Ross has long since passed, he will never truly die.

Kendrick brings rap back to its “roots” by reintroducing the narrative aspect of old school rap. When rap was first taking off in the late eighties, one group in particular helped mainstream it, N.W.A. Consisting of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Easy-E, this group

Picture this, you are teenager growing up in Los Angeles, on your way to school and you turn on the radio. “Yo thanks for tuning into to the hottest radio station in the streets of LA. Up next we got N.W.A. with their new single Appetite for Destruction.” That was common for nearly every person who lived in LA and enjoyed hip-hop music. During the early 90s and late 80s, West coast hip-hop was dominated by the gruesome realities of gangster rap and g-funk. Rap at the time was intense, authentic, and unbearable. Ultimately, this wave of “fuck you” sprouted from the injustices that plagued many impoverished communities. Individuals were angered from the oppressive acts that hindered any attempt to reach success, and gangster music within LA served as the platform to express the frustration under such terrible circumstances. Although the sound was revolutionary and taking over the entire nation, still Los Angeles needed a fresh of breath of air to display the artistic talent that came out of Los Angeles. New York could play with both sides of the hip-hop spectrum of light-heartedness to aggressiveness, but unfortunately for LA, they only had one sound. In New York, they had artists from Kid N Play to Public Enemy. If Los Angeles were ever going to snatch the throne from New York, they needed to do so quickly before the dawn of Golden Age ended.

Who determined content, and how, became the issue as demonstrated by the treatment of the 1992 album "Death Certificate" by the "Gangsta" rapper, Ice Cube. This album was determined to be so profane that Billboard Magazine asked merchandisers to refuse to sell or advertise it. Ice Cube's British label, Island Records, then edited two of the album's tracks before selling it and without obtaining permission from Ice Cube to alter his recording. In one of these edited songs, "No Vaseline", Ice Cube raps about his former N.W.A. bandmates with lyrics such as " Yo Dre… you been a dick, Eazy-E saw your ass and went in it quick. "Tried to dis Ice Cube but it wasn't worth it, cause the broomstick fits your ass so perfect."

A. Danny Hoch is an American playwright born in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York who is known for his one-person shows [1]. Although he was raised in “nominally Jewish single-parent household” in Queens, he states that he grew up around hip-hop culture, which influenced his work immensely [2]. Hoch is an outspoken activist on racism, cultural appropriation, and gentrification in a modern age where it is “hip” to be black, latino, and the like. He has denied roles in a Tarantino movie and Seinfeld because he believed they were racist [3]. In 2000, he founded the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival [4].

In the days following Lil B’s lecture at MIT, I found myself trying to make sense some longstanding unresolved feeling I’ve had regarding the illustrious Based God. Lil B is a polarizing artist, I used to identify with the Task Force’s cultish fanboy worship of him during the Blue Flame era. As time went on, I drifted, but was never able to connect with those who crusaded against him as some sort of antichrist of #realhiphop. For the former, Lil B appears infallible; a recording artist who can do no wrong and whose work can’t be measured by any sort of normalized standards of judgment. For more conservative hip-hop fans, Lil B’s unpolished and seemingly haphazard approach to creating music makes him a pariah that should be ostracized from the rap game.

Ice T and his journey to the top Many people thought that a hustler and thug would never make a name for himself. He introduced a new style of music that would influence the following generations. Tracy Marrow, Ice T, was a hustler and an orphan, he later became one of the biggest influences in a new type of music. Ice-T has made a huge impact on today’s generation.

I recently wrote an essay about the development of the star persona of Ice Cube, the rapper/actor who has made the unusual transition from hardcore gangsta rapper to leading man in such “family-friendly” films as Are We There Yet? The essay, entitled “With an Attitude: The Development of Ice Cube’s Star Persona,” will soon be published in the online film journal 16:9; I’ll link to it as soon as it’s up. The thesis of the essay is that, for all the apparent and unexpected alterations to his “street” persona, Cube’s film characters are nevertheless almost always coded as gangstas – an association that he has not been able (or has not wanted) to shake.

Hip-hop wasn’t a new form of music in 1989, in fact it started in 1982 with Run DMC, but nobody was ready for this form. The police and politicians didn’t like what N.W.A was saying in their lyrics, but all of the things they were rapping about were things that were going on around them on a daily basis. They were seeing people being shot, drug deals going down, and women being called b*tch*s. "I remember when Straight Outta Compton came out, where I lived we could all relate to what they were rapping about because it was our lifestyle."(Wilson. Interview). So basically art was imitating life. But as the decade took a turn into the ‘90’s, so did things for N.W.A. (Tha Biography of Tha E) Ice Cube left to pursue a solo career (Ice Cube- Westside Times) and after him Dr. Dre left to start Death Row Records with Marion "Suge" Knight in 1992. (The Untouchable Death Row Records)