Straight Out Of Compton Essay

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.

It was 1993. The melody division was overwhelmed by the hints of exemplary shake and more up to date elective gatherings, for example, smashing as well as Nirvana Pumpkins. The musical Hip-Hop industry had understood basic and business achievement during the era of 1993 when Dr. Dre's The Chronic arrived in the industry. Be that as it may, on the 9th of November, 1993 Wu-Tang Clan, a friendly gathering of rappers rose with a claim that they will alter the scene of rap, as well as the music business all in all.

The black community is changing and the hip hop is changing as well. Many of the founders of this genre have found success and fame. They have become producers and have their own recording label. This is the case of Jay Z who is has a music service designed to put the power back into the hands of the artist. This is very encouraging because it will allow the artist to be true to his art and not hold back because he needs to follow what the big corporations feel is profitable. In the case of singer, actor and producer, Ice Cube, his attitude toward his art have changed. At the beginning, he was angry and wanted to express that frustration through his music and he wrote the song, “Fuck Tha Police”. Now, he understands that saying fuck

Nelson George states that “Gangsta rap is direct by- product of crack explosion. Unless you grasp that connection nothing else that happened in the hip hop’s journey to national scapegoat will make sense. This is not a chicken-or-the-egg riddle —first came rocks, then gangsta rap” (136). To prove his point he examines the connection between drug culture of the inner city areas and the hip hop music. The money collected from illegal drug deals spent on recordings of gangsta rap music. George says “Suspicion of women, loyalty to the crew, adoption of a stone face in confronting the world, hatred of authority—all major themes of gangsta rap-owe their presence of lyrics and impact on audiences to the large number of African-American men incarcerated in the ‘90s” (138). I agree with his statement that gangsta rap is a directed by- product of crack explosion, because social and racial issues for instance drug dealing influencing the lyrics of music and this explosion of heroin and crack in communities gave birth to gangsta rap.

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.

Rap music officially started in 1978 in the Bronx, New York. According to the author, most Americans

Since gangsta rap was first introduced by the group N.W.A., this type of rap music has sold more albums than any other form of rap. Gangsta rap in some ways glorifies violence, drugs, and easy money. N.W.A. wrote a song about killing cops that created a firestorm of controversy. As a result of several such controversies, the Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics labeling system was enacted in 1985 (Lommel 68). This system required the music industry to label songs that have explicit language and limit the sale of these albums to adults.

The genre created in very poor districts, like the Bronx, in New York by African-American and Latino teenagers. They learned how to use turntables by working as DJs at discos. DJs and MCs would play at free block parties. An MC is an abbreviation for Master of Ceremony his/her job is to focus on skills, lyrical ability, and subject. So, during block parties, the DJ would play music and the MC encouraged guest to have fun. Parties went on MCs slowly started to rhyme while they were performing. Hip-Hop was only played live at first until Sugar Hill Gang released Rappers Delight in 1979. Rappers Delight was a huge success for hip-hop. Personally, I consider the Sugar Hill Gang the founding fathers of Hip-Hop.

b. Gangsta Rap was created in the 1990’s and was made popular by groups such as NWA.

In the 1960’s started a group up with two others called CIA. The group and mostly Cube was caught by Andre Romelt, better known as Dr. Dre. These two grouped together with other rappers known as DJ Yella, Eazy E, and MC Den. They all formed N.W.A. N.W.A.s hard hitting lyrics rocked the music company. Anchored by their first awesome hit F*** the police, the record made them the most contentious group ever in music. The group's second album, straight outta Compton in 1988 rocked them to amazing games.

They were highly respected because of what they have gone through and what they have been going through in their lives at the moment. Police brutality was a big problem in south central LA, and what really sparked this situation was the video that came out in 1992 of police beating Rodney King an incent taxi driver. In a press conference N.W.A said “Fuck Tha Police”, and ever since that comment LAPD has been all over this group. They have been harassed, beaten, and assaulted every time they rap in front of a group of people by LAPD. People respected them more because they didn’t stop, they took the beating so they can produce their music for the public. And that was the same attitude Marshall Mathers known as Eminem had when he wanted to rap.

During the Nineteen Seventies the underground urban movement called hip-hop began to develop within the South borough of New York City. Encompassing graffiti art, break dance, rap music, and fashion, hip-hop became the dominant front of the African Yankee and Hispanic communities within the Nineteen Eighties. Tagging, rapping, and break dance were all creative variations on the male competition and street gangs. Sensing that gang members' violent urges may be changed into artistic ones, Afrika Bambaataa founded the Zulu Nation, a loose confederation of street-dance crews, graffiti artists, and rap musicians. The recognition of hip-hop unfolds quickly to white customers through movies, music videos, radio play, and media coverage. The attention

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)

Birthed in South Bronx, hip hop music and its style penetrated America in the late 1980s after MTV began playing heavily on rotation rap videos and launched Yo! MTV Raps in 1988. Music videos were like a soundtrack that people needed a wardrobe to wear.

So many tribes. So many factions. Straight, queer. Black, white. Male, Female. Tall, short. Fat, thin. Happy, unhappy. Trapped, free. Oppressed, Liberated. Doubting, self-assured. Old, young. Birthing, dying. Wasted, realised. So many lives, so many stories. Some reach fruition, while others are stifled never fulfilling their fullest potentials. Some of us are born into privilege and yet others live and and die out on the street. For the vast majority of us however, we are born, we live what is termed an average life and we die. We become markers in a field someplace. There 's not a single one of us however who shouldn 't be here. We each have our own reason for being. We are each a part of life and shouldn 't ever feel apart from it. We are needed. Why then is there so much struggle? So much competition. Such a great need for supremacy and righteousness. Many of us squander what we have here hoping for something better around the corner or perhaps in the next life. Paradise is here, all around us all of the time, well it is in theory at least. I 'm fortunate to live in a part of the world which allows me freedoms. The freedom to live as I choose. The freedom to write posts without having to worry about people turning up, taking away my basic rights to express myself and hauling me off to some murky prison cell to languish and perhaps make me doubt my very existence. Even if that were the case, someone somewhere would be caring enough to appeal for my conviction to be