It's June 10, 2024, 04:58:06 AM
no...at least it didn't start out that way but when Cube left the group there was a void that really wasn't filled and their topics started getting more satirical on their next album
1 fact, 1 opinion:1) The murder rate in Compton in the mid 80s was off the charts high. Everything in the album from the dope dealing, banging, fast money, nihilistic lifestyle was all real even if they only witnessed it second hand, it was all around them thanks to Reagan and his dope drops to suppress the hood. Note they disbanded the Crack Cops in the mid 80s in an area absolutely flooded with rocks for no apparent reason other than to allow it to flourish and ravage the community. 2) The entire operation was a Psy-Op by the Feds to move rap into something more destructive and keep the prison complex filled and to neutralize the growing Black Consciousness movement. Look at how much handy dandy free press they got again and again and again to raise the profile as counter culture alternative to Public Enemy, BDP, Eric B and Rakim. LL Cool J when in reality NWA were the first plants in the game. Over the top, cartoonish violence, shock value trolltastic lyrics over exceptionally well produced beats. Literally music to drive by.Actually thats 2 facts. The trajectory of rap, what labels push and what is popular to this day prove that. Genocide music. How many lives have been messed up, directly and indirectly, by these tunes and miss me with that "Its only music" because we all know you've got buck at some point in the 90s with a rap soundtrack that you simply wouldn't have done without it. The shift was very harsh and abrupt, super obvious from the street lyrics woven with consciousness and uplifting people caught up in the struggle earlier to "Sell dope" (govt wins) "Shoot people" (govt wins) "Go to jail" (govt wins) with none of the positivity/unity that was a threat and could've birthed their dreaded Black Messiah aka 2Pac. What caused B+Cs to become a worldwide phenomenon? What is directly responsible for the current devolved state of rap? What do labels push more and more of? Who profits? Seeing a pattern yet?
After watching the video I sort of agree. What I will say is that numbers don't lie. There are far more dance, party, battle rap songs in the NWA catalog than there are Gangster ones. Now I feel like they were stereotyped by the media and given the Gangster rap stigma. Based on some of their symbolism such as the skull n bones, the red and black and the black and white that the group had used, I do believe that their is a conspiratorial component to the group. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that they deserve the bad rap of creating Gangster rap via the CIA or any of those types of theories. @Duckasuckin: Hip Hop itself has had a freemasonic hand on it if not from the start, definitely from early on. The term grandmaster is one that is used in the lodge, the various b boy stances used in breakdancing are freemasonic recognition poses, the knowledge of self concept which is the fifth element of hip hop is rooted in freemasonry. Not to mention the countless rappers who are freemasons. etc.