Since the rise of NWA (Niggas with Attitude) in the late 1980’s and 1990’s gangster rap is a very popular genre of rap that seems to dominate the scene. Today we are entering our third generation of gangster rap that seems to be dominated by artist Kendrick Lamar. NWA (first
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N.W.A is known by most as the original west coast rap group. Hailing from south central, they were the toughest guys making the most in your face music about their day to day lives. It was something we had never seen before, and it was cool. With lyrics like “see,
Ice Cube, now a well-known actor and former member of highly successful rap group N.W.A, created a song in 2008 called “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It.” Just within the first few seconds, the direction of the music video and song is set. The public reflection of rap is not
During the filming of a commercial for Straight Outta Compton, the biopic focused on the seminal rap group NWA’s rise to success and acclaim in the face of adversity, Suge Knight (a successful star in the music industry) allegedly ran down in his car two of the men attached to