DOCSLIB.ORG

The Rhetoric of N.W.A.'S “Fuck Tha Police”

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Rhetoric of N.W.A.'S “Fuck Tha Police” Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research Volume 6 Article 10 2018 The Rhetoric of N.W.A.’s “Fuck Tha Police” Annelise Green Pepperdine University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/pjcr Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Green, Annelise (2018) "The Rhetoric of N.W.A.’s “Fuck Tha Police”," Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research: Vol. 6 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/pjcr/vol6/iss1/10 This Online Exclusive is brought to you for free and open access by the Communication at Pepperdine Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research by an authorized editor of Pepperdine Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research (Exclusive Online) 9 And now the telling of… The Rhetoric of N.W.A.’s “Fuck Tha Police” Annelise Green Assigned in COM 301 (Rhetoric and Social Influence): Professor Joel Lemuel While rhetoric completely saturates the creating victory over injustice. average life in speeches, advertisements, and media, no other rhetoric leaves as much as an The Artifact impact as music. In a song, the message can be “Fuck Tha Police” (FTP) is a song by delivered in a unique, engaging way that leaves Niggaz Wit Attitudes, or the N.W.A. It was the audience listening to it over and over again released on the album Straight Outta Compton (or getting it stuck in their heads). Beyond in 1988. The N.W.A consisted of Dr. Dre, Eazy‑ intriguing the audience to process the song in E, DJ Yella, Ice Cube, and MC Ren. They stayed an arguably more engaging way than any other together from 1986 to 1991. The album Straight kind of rhetoric, music provides opportunities Outta Compton sold 750,000 copies before to explore rhetorical strategies on a deeper N.W.A went on tour (Simon, Schuster, & level. Serpick). Straight Outta Compton was a One song that has been particularly double‑platinum album that popularized the successful in crossing over generations is “Fuck gangsta rap genre (Simon, Schuster, & Serpick). Tha Police,” (FTP) by the gangsta rap group MC Ren and Ice Cube wrote the actual lyrics of N.W.A, which is the artifact to be analyzed in the song “Fuck Tha Police”, while the entire this paper. First, the artifact will be introduced N.W.A performed it. and relevant context will be discussed. The The lyrics of FTP follow the narrative of methods utilized to analyze the song’s rhetoric a courtroom scene. Members of N.W.A. act as (dramatism, framing, and perspective by the prosecuting attorneys in a trial against a incongruity) will be explained before analysis of police officer. The stanzas detail testimonies the song. All of these components will aid in the from each rapper describing incidents where a analysis of the effectiveness of FTP’s rhetoric police officer has wronged them in some way. and whether or not N.W.A. achieves their goals. In the concluding scene, the police officer is When writing FTP, N.W.A. had the intentions of found guilty and convicted. raising awareness of systematic injustice with cops and the justice systems, informing people Context of the predetermined life created by racism Each member of the N.W.A grew up in a toward the African‑American community within neighborhood plagued with dangerous crime. Compton, and finally to reorient feelings MC Ren grew up in Compton, where he was a towards cops/judges/black urban youth. FTP gang member and drug dealer before turning to accomplishes its goals by symbolically putting music (Connelly, 2016). Ice Cube was born in the police on trial, detailing a tragic narrative South Central Los Angeles, which was shaped by that is hard not to be sympathetic towards, and drugs, guns, and violence. Due to his high ultimately performance in school, Cube’s parents sent him Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research (Exclusive Online) 10 to a suburban high school (Ice Cube, 2016). The impoverished communities of Compton to the surrounding affluence of his high school made more privileged communities of the larger Cube question why the violence of his United States. As Ice Cube once stated, “We neighborhood wasn’t getting the national wanted to highlight the excessive force attention, and help, it deserved. Cube saw and…the humiliation that we go through in many of his friends either murdered or sent to these situations. So the audience can know why jail before graduation (Ice Cube, 2016). Each we wrote ‘Fuck Tha Police,’ and they can feel member of the group grew up in a community the same way,” (Carter, 2015). Clearly from this afflicted by these problems that statement, N.W.A. intended to reach an array of were especially affecting the African‑American audiences in order to expose the truth of the population (Tse, 2015). These situational factors injustices happening in Compton at the time. were the inspiration and ultimate background Therefore, the rhetors wanted as many people for the politically driven lyrics of “Fuck Tha (particularly the justice departments) to hear Police.” their voices and note that they were being Compton didn’t become an epicenter of victimized. street violence overnight. The rise of the original gangs, the Crips and Bloods, began in The Methods the 1970s (Tse, 2015). When these gangs Before in‑depth analysis, the started getting heavily involved in the drug methodologies used to process the rhetoric of trade, LAPD Chief Daryl Gates used an almost FTP will be introduced. Namely, dramatism and military approach to handling crime (Tse, 2015). perspective by incongruity were used to analyze By the time it was 1988, the situation had only FTP. worsened. In fact, in 1990, Compton had a Dramatism is a methodology developed murder rate of almost 91 homicides per by Kenneth Burke that relies on the principle 100,000 residents (Tse, 2015). Adding racial that life is a drama and that these principles can profiling to an impoverished community put a be applied to all forms of communication. By lot of undeserving residents in the line of fire. comparing life to a drama, it is easier to The members of N.W.A used music to understand why people do the things they do express their unfortunate reality. They were by providing a direct route to human motives able to protest non violently with song. In an and human relations (Mangham & interview with Rolling Stone, Ice Cube recalls Overington, 2005). In this way, rhetoric can be that “Our music was our only weapon,” in broken down into different aspects of the response to the LAPD (Grow, 2015). The dramatic pentad: agent, act, scene, purpose, inflammatory lyrics were designed to be and agency (Burke, 1978). These describe the disruptive in order to really highlight the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the injustice of police brutality. The medium of rhetoric, respectively. Also within a drama are music allowed frustrations to be expressed in a the frameworks, or how the story is presented way that was shareable to a mass audience. to an audience. A drama can either be tragic or Due to its inflammation, message, and medium, comic (Burke, 2014). In the tragic frame, there is the album snowballed into a are clear victims and perpetrators with an Phenomenon. obvious understanding of an unavoidable, Audiences of “Fuck Tha Police,” ranged undesirable fate (Burke, 2014). In a comedy, from African‑Americans within the nothing is set in stone and there is a Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research (Exclusive Online) 11 serendipitous unknown for the resolution of the media, African‑Americans (especially in low story (Burke, 2014). Dramatism was chosen to income neighborhoods) are framed as violent analyze FTP because dramatism depicts how criminals. Because of how prominent rhetoric is used to construct social realities, African‑Americans are communicated, or such as the dramatic courtroom scene. framed, the social frameworks created become Frame analysis can be determined a central element in cultural and individual through pentadic analysis. Burke argued expectations of African‑Americans (Goffman, throughout his writings that every story has 1974). If the audience believed the rhetors to each element of the pentad, but that different be dangerous criminals, it would be difficult to components of the pentad can be emphasized persuade them. The rhetors had to transform to help communicate a message (Burke, 1978). the stereotype from criminals into victims of For instance, if a narrative emphasizes the racial profiling and police brutality that the agents/agency, that could communicate a level audience could sympathize with. In addition to of control that the protagonists have over the the frame transformation of African‑Americans, situation. With the power to manipulate what is the police had to be reframed as well. The going on, stories that highlight agent or agency general frame for policemen is that they are are comic. If the story emphasizes the purpose spotlessly moral. Even if there was violence or scene, the protagonists don’t necessarily caused by policemen in the media, it is framed have control over what happens. This provides as a policeman protecting himself. The expected a significance to that character paralyzation that frames of policemen do not include the option produces a tragic frame. of policemen being immoral. N.W.A directly Burke was also instrumental in transforms that perception into one of violent introducing the concept of perspective by criminals, painting the convicted policeman as a incongruity. This idea was presented in “redneck, white‑bread, chicken‑shit response to certain logical appeals making an motherfucker.” The most potent persuasive audience feel threatened, or that their strategy used to reframe the stereotypical understanding of the world is challenged.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • An Explorative Study of the No Snitching Mentality in the African American Community
    MOUTH SHUT, EYES OPEN: AN EXPLORATIVE STUDY OF THE NO SNITCHING MENTALITY IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY Tianna Williams B.A , California State University, Sacramento, 2007 PROJECT Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK at CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO SPRING 2011 ©2011 Tianna Williams ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii MOUTH SHUT, EYES OPEN: AN EXPLORATIVE STUDY OF THE NO SNITCHING MENTALITY IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY A Project by Tianna Williams Approved by: __________________________________, Committee Chair Teiahsha Bankhead, Ph.D., LCSW ____________________________ Date iii Student: Tianna Williams I certify that this student has met the requirements for format contained in the University format manual, and that this project is suitable for shelving in the Library and credit is to be awarded for the project. __________________________, Department Chair ___________________ Robin Kennedy, Ph.D. Date Division of Social Work iv Abstract of MOUTH SHUT, EYES OPEN: AN EXPLORATIVE STUDY OF THE NO SNITCHING MENTALITY IN THE AFRICA AMERICAN COMMUNITY by Tianna Williams The aim of this explorative quantitative study is to examine the culture of silence (also referred as the ―no snitching‖ mentality) that exists in the African American Community. Such attitude encourages African Americans to be uncooperative with the police, in which explicit messages are present in some rap and hip hop lyrics, illustrated in music videos, and designed on clothing apparel that advocate for this behavior (United States Department of Justice, 2009a). African Americans compared to Whites and other minorities represent a disproportion number of victims of homicide and incarcerated adults in the United States (United States Department of Justice, 2006; United States Department of Justice, 2010).
    [Show full text]
  • “Straight Outta Compton”—NWA (1988)
    “Straight Outta Compton”—N.W.A (1988) Added to the National Registry: 2016 Essay by Ben Westhoff (guest post)* “Straight Outta Compton” LP N..W.A Gangsta rap existed before “Straight Outta Compton,” but N.W.A’s landmark 1988 album popularized the genre and serves as its standard bearer even today. The mythology of the artists behind its creation also continues to loom large: Eazy-E, the Compton crack dealer who used his profits to finance a hip-hop career; Dr. Dre, his neighbor who’d most recently been DJ-ing in flamboyant, sequined outfits for a song-and-dance group; Ice Cube, the ostentatious high school rapper from South Central Los Angeles whose writing gifts matched his aggressive delivery. But it was the characters they imagined--both militarized street kids sick of being humiliated by the cops and brash punks on the hunt for sex and cheap booze--that shaped the album, marching in time to Dr. Dre’s assault of chopped samples, wailing sirens, guitar riffs, and rapid drum machine beats, all of it more tuneful than it sounds on paper. Rounded out by the group’s other firebrand rapper, MC Ren, Dr. Dre’s production partner, MC Yella, and electro-rap holdover Arabian Prince--not to mention hugely influential ghostwriter D.O.C.--N.W.A reshaped hip-hop music in their own image. They called it “reality rap,” but in the beginning it was far from clear that N.W.A would rap unvarnished lyrics threatening the status quo. Dr. Dre and Ice Cube’s earlier music disparaged the gang lifestyle, and just about everyone in the group admired Prince.
    [Show full text]
  • Karaoke Mietsystem Songlist
    Karaoke Mietsystem Songlist Ein Karaokesystem der Firma Showtronic Solutions AG in Zusammenarbeit mit Karafun. Karaoke-Katalog Update vom: 13/10/2020 Singen Sie online auf www.karafun.de Gesamter Katalog TOP 50 Shallow - A Star is Born Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver Skandal im Sperrbezirk - Spider Murphy Gang Griechischer Wein - Udo Jürgens Verdammt, Ich Lieb' Dich - Matthias Reim Dancing Queen - ABBA Dance Monkey - Tones and I Breaking Free - High School Musical In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley Angels - Robbie Williams Hulapalu - Andreas Gabalier Someone Like You - Adele 99 Luftballons - Nena Tage wie diese - Die Toten Hosen Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden Ohne Dich (schlaf' ich heut' nacht nicht ein) - You Are the Reason - Calum Scott Perfect - Ed Sheeran Münchener Freiheit Stand by Me - Ben E. King Im Wagen Vor Mir - Henry Valentino And Uschi Let It Go - Idina Menzel Can You Feel The Love Tonight - The Lion King Atemlos durch die Nacht - Helene Fischer Roller - Apache 207 Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys Über Sieben Brücken Musst Du Gehn - Peter Maffay Summer Of '69 - Bryan Adams Cordula grün - Die Draufgänger Tequila - The Champs ...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears All of Me - John Legend Barbie Girl - Aqua Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol My Way - Frank Sinatra Hallelujah - Alexandra Burke Aber Bitte Mit Sahne - Udo Jürgens Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Wannabe - Spice Girls Schrei nach Liebe - Die Ärzte Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley Country Roads - Hermes House Band Westerland - Die Ärzte Warum hast du nicht nein gesagt - Roland Kaiser Ich war noch niemals in New York - Ich War Noch Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht - Drafi Deutscher Zombie - The Cranberries Niemals In New York Ich wollte nie erwachsen sein (Nessajas Lied) - Don't Stop Believing - Journey EXPLICIT Kann Texte enthalten, die nicht für Kinder und Jugendliche geeignet sind.
    [Show full text]
  • Hip Hop As English Curriculum A
    BETWEEN THE LINES: HIP HOP AS ENGLISH CURRICULUM A THESIS Presented to the University Honors Program California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the University Honors Program Certificate William Godbey Spring 2018 1 2 Acknowledgements This thesis would not have been possible without the help and guidance of my advisor, Professor David Hernandez. This was a somewhat unorthodox topic, yet he not only took it in stride, he believed in my ability to continue the conversation on this topic in a new and insightful way. I owe him great thanks for this. I would also like to thank my family for their never-ending support and love not only through this process, but through the entirety of my college experience. Especially to my mother, who was always a phone call away if I ever needed assistance or to touch base back home. I owe you all so much for your encouragement and belief in me. and to Breanika Schwenkler, for always having my back. 3 ABSTRACT Between the Lines: Hip Hop as English Curriculum By William Godbey Spring 2018 This thesis examines the effectiveness of introducing hip hop into English curriculum at a high school level. To showcase this, this thesis presents a framework, broken up into three sections, that highlight the ways hip hop lyrics can be used to teach a variety of different literary devices, historical contexts, and how to analyze a text beyond its surface value. The three sections include Simple Literary Devices, Complex Literary Devices, and Contexts. Each section is demonstrated with a unique song and artists, to show how this framework could function as well as the versatility of talent in hip hop.
    [Show full text]
  • Music Theory Midwest Thirtieth Annual Conference University of Cincinnati May 10–11, 2019
    Music Theory Midwest Thirtieth Annual Conference University of Cincinnati May 10–11, 2019 THURSDAY, MAY 9 5:00 Dinner for Workshop Participants (Elephant Walk, 170 West McMillan Street) 6:30 Pre-Conference Workshop (3240) *closed meeting Musical Analysis as Social Analysis Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan), Leader FRIDAY, MAY 10 8:00 Registration (Atrium) 8:45 Welcome (3250) Stephanie Schlagel, Interim Associate Dean, College-Conservatory of Music 9:00–10:00 Once More, with Feeling: Harmony and Form in Musical Historical Readings (Baur Room) Theater (3250) Michael Buchler (Florida State University), Chair Jonathan Guez (College of Wooster), Chair Decaying Reprise and Crumbling Signposts in Stephen Sondheim’s Music and Language in Herbert Spencer’s Evolutionary Thought Into the Woods Miriam Piilonen Nathan Beary Blustein Northwestern University American University “Or Perhaps a Little Bit More”: Modulation in Leonard Bernstein’s The Transgressive Modernism of Berg’s String Quartet—as Told by Broadway Musicals Adorno Dan Blim Sam Reenan Denison University Eastman School of Music 10:10–11:10 Mode through the Ages (3250) Voice (Baur Room) Megan Kaes Long (Oberlin College and Conservatory), Chair Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan), Chair Heinrich Glarean, Jakob Paix, and the Problem of Polyphonic Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards: Recurring Archetypal Characters Mode and the Semiotics of Vocal Timbre in the Music of Tom Waits Joshua Klopfenstein Joshua Albrecht University of Chicago Kent State University Partial Orders of Modal “Brightness”
    [Show full text]
  • Free Straight Outta Compton Movie Download
    Free straight outta compton movie download Continue Download the film Straight Outta Compton in high quality, the most dangerous rap group in the world has always been more than just a clever trick used to sell albums; it actually meant something when applying to the N.W.A. Seed West Coast rap group was more than just a threat to the smug hip-hop status quo of the late 80s; they literally had people in this country fearing for their lives. Download straight Outta Compton on DVD With Every Controversial, Incendiary Lyric, aimed at the police or corrupt system of failing black young people they were the voice for those who had been ignored for too long. Despite some of the flaws inherent in almost all musical biopics, the long-paced Straight Outta Compton does not strike a blow to the volatility of the era and the often brutal history of the band about rags to wealth. Due to the rash of cases of police brutality being exposed across the country, Straight Outta Compton feels particularly timely and relevant. It was the real battleground of drugs, poverty and police misconduct on the streets of Los Angeles that turned the group into a group of brothers ready to inflict some kind of lyrical punishment. The film begins, surprisingly, with an action sequence featuring Eric Eazy-E Wright (Jason Mitchell) as he runs a cracked lair to avoid the SWAT team invasion. Download the straight Outta Compton film in high quality to see whether he was literally charmed over the rooftops as a secret agent to discuss, but the scene establishes that these guys are hardly saints, and did his best to survive.
    [Show full text]
  • STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON by Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus
    STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON By Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus Revised 8/16/08 Xenon Pictures (310)451-5510 EXT. JOE LOUIS STADIUM - NIGHT Emblazoned across the black screen is: DETROIT MICHIGAN. August 1989. FADE IN: EXT. JOE LOUIS STADIUM - DETROIT - NIGHT Queues of youthful CONCERTGOERS are frisked by COPS as they present their tickets and move through some turnstiles into the stadium area. We move upward until we land on a MARQUIS that says APPEARING TONIGHT: NWA. INT. JOE LOUIS STADIUM - NIGHT It's a packed house. Swarms of TEENAGERS from the floor to the cheap seats wait in rabid anticipation for the performers to take the stage. Small fights, like brush fires, break out here and there. We come to rest on a TEENAGER holding a sign above his head. It says "Fuck Tha Police." Closer to the stage, two large flanks of DETROIT COPS emerge from either side and form an imposing WALL, cutting off the view of the patrons in front. Their movements seem almost machine-like as they move in lockstep with one another, a grim determination on their faces. They stare at the minimal stage dressing: TWO MIXING BOOTHS with turntables and some MICROPHONES. INT. BACKSTAGE HALLWAY - NIGHT HOLD on a pair of black canvas HIGHTOPS. There's a slight bulge near the ankle of one of the pants legs. We angle up from the sneakers to see EAZY E towering above us. Eazy's 5'5" frame belies his larger than life personality. He has the barrel chest of a much larger man and his thoughts are strategically concealed behind dark sunglasses that add a touch of menace.
    [Show full text]
  • The Evolution of Commercial Rap Music Maurice L
    Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2011 A Historical Analysis: The Evolution of Commercial Rap Music Maurice L. Johnson II Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS: THE EVOLUTION OF COMMERCIAL RAP MUSIC By MAURICE L. JOHNSON II A Thesis submitted to the Department of Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Degree Awarded: Summer Semester 2011 The members of the committee approve the thesis of Maurice L. Johnson II, defended on April 7, 2011. _____________________________ Jonathan Adams Thesis Committee Chair _____________________________ Gary Heald Committee Member _____________________________ Stephen McDowell Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members. ii I dedicated this to the collective loving memory of Marlena Curry-Gatewood, Dr. Milton Howard Johnson and Rashad Kendrick Williams. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the individuals, both in the physical and the spiritual realms, whom have assisted and encouraged me in the completion of my thesis. During the process, I faced numerous challenges from the narrowing of content and focus on the subject at hand, to seemingly unjust legal and administrative circumstances. Dr. Jonathan Adams, whose gracious support, interest, and tutelage, and knowledge in the fields of both music and communications studies, are greatly appreciated. Dr. Gary Heald encouraged me to complete my thesis as the foundation for future doctoral studies, and dissertation research.
    [Show full text]
  • Flanagan's Running Club – Issue 36
    Flanagan's Running Club – Issue 36 Introduction The first rule of Flanagan's Running Club is everyone should be telling everyone they know about Flanagan's Running Club! After all, sharing is caring. Details of how to sign up is in the epilogue. There is no need to panic, there is no actual running involved, it is not a running club in that sense. The title is made up from extending the title of my favourite book – Flanagan’s Run by Tom McNab. So enjoy the read. On This Day – 10th July 1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. 1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. 1913 - The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 -F (57 -C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth. 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. 1985 - The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira. It’s Nikola Tesla Day Statehood Day (Wyoming) 365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be A Londoner - Magical Moments in London's History Telstar, the first satellite to supply a live transatlantic television feed, and the first privately sponsored space launch, was blasted into orbit today in 1962. Although launched by NASA, it was actually co-designed by the General Post Office and internationally co-ordinated from the BBC Television Centre in London. It also successfully relayed through space the first telephone calls and fax images. Chuck D Presents This Day In Rap And Hip-Hop History N.W.A.
    [Show full text]
  • N.W.A's Influence on Society
    #1 N.W.A’s Influence on Society Abstract I conducted research on the influence that the musical group N.W.A had on society in the late 80’s and as well as their influence on today's society. N.W.A is very well known for having changed the music industry, and they have been a controversial group since their debut album “Straight Outta Compton” was released on August 8, 1988. The album's songs were based on the group members' personal lives. N.W.A was putting out music and rapping about topics that at the time no one would dare to do.While conducting my research I found out why they were such a controversial group in the late 80’s; till this day they are still seen as controversial. Research Questions 1. In the 80s why was this group controversial? Is N.W.A still considered controversial today? 2. Why was “F _ _ _ Tha Police” one of their most popular and well known songs? 3. What are the members of the group doing now? “Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It’s reality rap. It’s about what’s really going on.” - Eazy-E #2 How the Group Formed ● Was formed in 1987 by Eazy-E who co-founded a record label called “Ruthless Records”. ● Eazy-E recruited Dr. Dre and Ice Cube to write for his label. ● Ice-Cube & Dr. Dre wrote a song for a different group under Ruthless Records, but they decided not to record. So Eazy, Ice, & Dre recorded “Boyz-n-the-Hood” under the group name N.W.A.
    [Show full text]
  • MICHAEL ABRAMSON Ciets TOTALK ABOUT HIS NWA DAYS, Hl$ FRIEND EAZY-E, YELLA and Hl$ NEW ALBUM
    FIGURATIVELY FORCED TO PERFORM BY THE EMBARASSMENT OF PREVIOUS EFFORTS Arts and Entertainment Supplement -to the Da i I MICHAEL ABRAMSON CiETS TOTALK ABOUT HIS NWA DAYS, Hl$ FRIEND EAZY-E, YELLA AND Hl$ NEW ALBUM. Over the course of the past year, A rtsw eek has spent a significant amount of ink re­ I wanted Dre and Cube to do something, butat the time, it would have been invading flecting on the death from AIDS of gangsta rap pioneer and all-around music legend - their space or something. I didn’t want to just come to them, after not talking to them Eazy-E. This is for several reasons, the primaiy one being that Eazy is simply an inter­ for so long, and ask them for something. I just didn’t even go through it The people I esting guy to read about as well as an enigmatic figure who, since ms entrance into the got with on this one were the people that was around Ruthless [the record label started world of popular music, was destined to be an icon. by Eazy]. So, I just stayed the same, that’s all. Me and Dre still talk to this day. I just But today, we close a chapter of the A rtsw eek experience. Today is the day we actu­ talked to him yesterday. ally print an interview with an ex-compatriot of Eazy’s and have several of our most What do you think abopt how Ruthless Records is being handled right now? fantastic questions about Compton’s most notorious hip-hop thugsta answered.
    [Show full text]
  • Name Artist Composer Album Grouping Genre Size Time Disc
    Name Artist Composer Album Grouping Genre Size Time Disc Number Disc Count Track Number Track Count Year Date Mod ified Date Added Bit Rate Sample Rate Volume Adjustment Kind Equalizer Comments Plays Last Played Skips Last Ski pped My Rating Abusadora (Dembow Remix by DJ O_D) Wisin & Yandel Perreo Reggaetón 4721754 196 2009 3/30/2011 9:12 P M 3/30/2011 9:48 PM 192 44100 MPEG audio file WWW.GOTDEMBOW.NET 174 6/11/2011 6:20 AM 5 Aiy-Eee Louisiana Pollywogs Louisiana Pollywogs - Louisiana Songs Fo r Kids Children's Music 2319451 231 1 1 17 17 1999 10/30/2010 6:58 PM 9/7/2010 3:59 PM 80 22050 MPEG audio file Cleaned by TuneUp! 9 5/2/2011 12:24 PM 1 11/3/2010 6:05 PM 100 Almost_Famous Eminem Recovery Hip-Hop 4685952 292 14 17 2010 8/28/2010 7:41 PM 9/7/2010 3:59 PM 128 44100 MPEG audio file www.Songgy.net 5 5/2/2011 12:20 P M 6 11/6/2010 1:39 PM Alwayz Into Somethin' N.W.A. Dr. Dre The Best Of N.W.A. Gangsta Rap 4324460 265 1 1 8 17 1991 10/30/2010 6:59 PM 9/7/2010 3:59 PM 128 44100 MPEG audio file Cleaned by TuneUp! 7 2/16/2011 12:08 PM 2 2/10/2011 12:51 PM Ameno (remix) Era Era [Limited Edition] 5476605 228 2 1998 7/31/2010 10:50 PM 9/7/2010 3:59 PM 192 44100 MPEG audio file 3 4/11/2011 7:55 PM 1 3/2/2011 11:04 AM Appetite For Destruction N.W.A.
    [Show full text]