In the latter part of the verse, Ice Cube announces his musical supremacy in the industry. For comparison’s sake, Ice Cube namedrops Charles Manson, a notorious murderer and cult leader of Manson Family. But it is also to be noted that the lyrics on these murder raps are quite literal. Ice Cube introduces the phrase ‘murder rap’ as something we fans can dance to and sing to. In the above interpretation by Ice Cube, he also mentions that ‘shotgun’ here also stands for knowledge. If ‘punks’ stand against him, he is ready to drop them down with a shotgun.
In the next few lines, Ice Cube goes on to emphasize that he is not a force to be reckoned with. He calls himself crazy, shoutouts their hometown Compton and introduces the group as one of the notorious cliques. In the first three lines, Ice Cubes sums up everything about himself, the song and the group N.W.A. The opening line to the song sets N.W.A.’s labelling of the song type as ‘street knowledge.’ Verse 1 Dre once said they never intended it to be that. Watch “Straight Outta Compton” Music Video by N.W.A.Īlthough this genre and the song is categorized ‘gangsta rap,’ Dr. We don’t take sides.”ĭue to the controversies at the time, the song was banned from many media channels thus limiting its airplay to a minimum. Maybe that’s why we sell so many records because the people in the community all tell the kids what to do, the police are watching them 24-7, so when they party, they don’t want to hear, ‘Don’t do this and don’t do that.’ Our raps are documentary. In the black community, the ministers and teachers don’t deny that the problems we rap about exist, but they’d rather sweep it under the rug. We use the same kind of language as the kids use every day. In an interview with Sunday Correspondent Magazine in 1989, Ice Cube addressed the controversies behind the song “The parents, the police and the people of the local community are scared of what we say. The crude lyrics made the song to be both wildly accepted and rejected by the masses. The song addresses the issues of police violence against African Americans back in the day and tries to emphasize that these rappers will not succumb to the police’ brutality and injustice. This is N.W.A.’s first entry to US top 40 chart. biopic ‘Straight Outta Compton’ was released in September 2015, the song reached #38 on Billboard Hot 100. Although the initial rankings of the song were poor on charts, after the N.W.A. Dre was spinning records in his garage, and now he’s a billionaire,” Poppleton says.“Straight Outta Compton” single was released as the lead single off the album titled the same.
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A movie about the rap group’s rise hits theaters Friday. Dre” Young, O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson, Lorenzo ‘”MC Ren” Patterson and Antoine “DJ Yella” Carraby. That was long before the members became household names: Eric “Eazy-E” Wright, Andre “Dr. He and his art director, Kevin Hosmann, followed the members of N.W.A. “Straight outta Cal Arts,” quips Eric Poppleton.
The photographer was a 28-year-old white guy scraping by a year after graduate school. that revolutionized gangsta rap and redefined hip hop. It was the cover art for “Straight Outta Compton,” the pioneering debut album by N.W.A. The photograph is considered one of the most provocative to ever grace an album cover: six guys staring toward the ground, one pointing a handgun. Eric Poppleton had no idea his photograph for N.W.A.’s debut album in 1988 would come to symbolize gangsta rap.
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