People forget that "The Chronic" was actually a very political album

[TraceOneInfinite]

Don't forget, "The Chronic" was actually very political.  Dre sets the tone for the album in "Let Me Ride", stating- "No Medallions, No Dreadlocks, No Blackfists/.... it's just that gansta shit!", which to me is saying that the streets were fed up with being conscious, and that it was time to start busting guns. 
At the time of it's release, racial tension and violence were boiling over on the West Coast, the Rodney King trial, police brutality, and the LA riots were hot topics at that time, as evident in Dre's track "The Day The Niggaz Took Over", the theme to this song is the LA riots!  In that song there is a line, "Break the white man off somethin lovely/ I don't love them so them can't love me".  Lyrics like this were prevelent throughout the Chronic album, and could even be considered as lyrics with the potential of inciting a riot, this is no small thing, a riot is civil war. 
You also have tracks like "Lil Ghetto Boy" that are all about problems facing the black community, blacks being imprisoned- "I spent 4 years in the county with nothin but convicts surround me", poverty "Make all them ends you can make/cause when you broke you brake", the track is about African nationalism and unity "If I have to die today, for this African to have a future/I'm a dead mutherfucker", and black empowerment, "We expose ways for the youth to survive/ Some think it's wrong but we tend to think it's right". 

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who didnt know this?

[Machiavelli]

who didnt know this?

[TraceOneInfinite]

who didnt know this?

Well, maybe you already know everything, and that's great, congratulations, but this thread was in response to another thread about Paris, in the thread it was said that "Sonic Jihad" was a better album than "The Chronic" because the chronic wasn't politically conscious.

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o ok

[music is like magic]

(I'ma say this and I'ma end mine
   If you ain't down, for the Africans here
   in the United States, period point blank..
   If you ain't down for the ones that suffered in South Africa
   from apartheid and shit
   Devil you need to step your punk ass to the side
   and let us brothers, and us Africans, step in
   and start puttin some FOOT, in that ass!!)

[Dr. Dre]
Sittin in my living room, calm and collected
Feelin that gotta-get-mine perspective
cause what I just heard, broke me in half
and half the niggaz I know, plus the niggaz on the Row is bailin
Laugh now but cry much later
Ya see when niggaz get together
they get mad cause they can't fade us
Like my niggaz from South Central, Los Angeles
They found that they couldn't handle us
Bloods, Crips on the same squad
with the Ese's help and nigga it's time to rob and mob
(And break the white man off somthin lovely, biddy-bye-bye
I don't love dem so dem can't love me)
Yo, straight puttin it down gettin my scoot on
It's jump in off in Compton so I gots to get my loot on
and come up on me some furniture or somethin
Got a VCR, in the back of my car
that I ganked from the Slausson Swap Meet
And motherfuckers better not try to stop me
Cause they will see that I can't be stopped
cause I'ma cock my Glock and pop til they all drop
 smoke something up.

[weaksauce19]

It would be a mistake to be talking about Westcoast Political Albums without mentioning Above The Law's - Uncle Sam's Curse. 

[Doggystylin]

Its really not that political. You can make anything out of the simple lines and lyrics of The Chronic. You presented some lines that could mean anything and be directed towards anything and provided the story and meaning for yourself. If it was really that political the lyrics would speak for itself.

[Don Seer]

yah infinite.. i know _exactly_ where this comes from in your mind.. (paris thread)

WHY  do you insist your 'insights' deserve a new tyhread instead of making your point in the place that sparked the thought in your brain.. and ACTUALLY means you lose the original thread since your point isn't even there!

[The Predator]

Dres music been the least political out of the ex nwa crew.

[westkoastanostra]

weaksauce19 
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It would be a mistake to be talking about Westcoast Political Albums without mentioning Above The Law's - Uncle Sam's Curse. 

true...that album was political also...ATL gets hella slepped on

[TraceOneInfinite]

yah infinite.. i know _exactly_ where this comes from in your mind.. (paris thread)

WHY  do you insist your 'insights' deserve a new tyhread instead of making your point in the place that sparked the thought in your brain.. and ACTUALLY means you lose the original thread since your point isn't even there!

I thought it would be a nice discussion, so I posted it up, because not alot of people on this forum are Paris fans, but almost everyone is a Dre fan, so people might not of read my thoughts on Dre if they were contained in a Paris thread.

If you don't like my threads then get out of it, but instead your almost always the first person after Englewood (Woodrow) to reply to any of my posts.

[Trauma-san]

Don't forget, "The Chronic" was actually very political.  Dre sets the tone for the album in "Let Me Ride", stating- "No Medallions, No Dreadlocks, No Blackfists/.... it's just that gansta shit!", which to me is saying that the streets were fed up with being conscious, and that it was time to start busting guns. 
At the time of it's release, racial tension and violence were boiling over on the West Coast, the Rodney King trial, police brutality, and the LA riots were hot topics at that time, as evident in Dre's track "The Day The Niggaz Took Over", the theme to this song is the LA riots!  In that song there is a line, "Break the white man off somethin lovely/ I don't love them so them can't love me".  Lyrics like this were prevelent throughout the Chronic album, and could even be considered as lyrics with the potential of inciting a riot, this is no small thing, a riot is civil war. 
You also have tracks like "Lil Ghetto Boy" that are all about problems facing the black community, blacks being imprisoned- "I spent 4 years in the county with nothin but convicts surround me", poverty "Make all them ends you can make/cause when you broke you brake", the track is about African nationalism and unity "If I have to die today, for this African to have a future/I'm a dead mutherfucker", and black empowerment, "We expose ways for the youth to survive/ Some think it's wrong but we tend to think it's right". 

Yeah, I'll bet you used to sit in your room and have daydreams about all the niccas killing your family, you sick fuck.  What's it like to be part of a movement that doesn't concern or respect you?  What a fucking fool.  You ought to join a fuckin' feminism movement, then you'd fully hate *EVERYTHING you are... of course to do that, you'd have to have some respect for women, which we all know your feelings on that, pre-arranged marriage and women in Burkas. 

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yah infinite.. i know _exactly_ where this comes from in your mind.. (paris thread)

WHY  do you insist your 'insights' deserve a new tyhread instead of making your point in the place that sparked the thought in your brain.. and ACTUALLY means you lose the original thread since your point isn't even there!

I thought it would be a nice discussion, so I posted it up, because not alot of people on this forum are Paris fans, but almost everyone is a Dre fan, so people might not of read my thoughts on Dre if they were contained in a Paris thread.

If you don't like my threads then get out of it, but instead your almost always the first person after Englewood (Woodrow) to reply to any of my posts.

but engle hasent even replied yet...

[Doggystylin]

Don't forget, "The Chronic" was actually very political.  Dre sets the tone for the album in "Let Me Ride", stating- "No Medallions, No Dreadlocks, No Blackfists/.... it's just that gansta shit!", which to me is saying that the streets were fed up with being conscious, and that it was time to start busting guns. 
At the time of it's release, racial tension and violence were boiling over on the West Coast, the Rodney King trial, police brutality, and the LA riots were hot topics at that time, as evident in Dre's track "The Day The Niggaz Took Over", the theme to this song is the LA riots!  In that song there is a line, "Break the white man off somethin lovely/ I don't love them so them can't love me".  Lyrics like this were prevelent throughout the Chronic album, and could even be considered as lyrics with the potential of inciting a riot, this is no small thing, a riot is civil war. 
You also have tracks like "Lil Ghetto Boy" that are all about problems facing the black community, blacks being imprisoned- "I spent 4 years in the county with nothin but convicts surround me", poverty "Make all them ends you can make/cause when you broke you brake", the track is about African nationalism and unity "If I have to die today, for this African to have a future/I'm a dead mutherfucker", and black empowerment, "We expose ways for the youth to survive/ Some think it's wrong but we tend to think it's right". 

Yeah, I'll bet you used to sit in your room and have daydreams about all the niccas killing your family, you sick fuck.  What's it like to be part of a movement that doesn't concern or respect you?  What a fucking fool.  You ought to join a fuckin' feminism movement, then you'd fully hate *EVERYTHING you are... of course to do that, you'd have to have some respect for women, which we all know your feelings on that, pre-arranged marriage and women in Burkas. 

another pussy drought huh?....tough times...let it all out