N.W.A. = The worst thing to happen to hip-hop culture

[Go Getter]

**Besides out-of-touch record execs, lol.**

Why do I say this?

Because N.W.A was the biggest bunch of posers ever to 'bless the mic."

See CB4 starring Chris Rock....they totally smashed N.W.A. in that flick lol.

Getting down to the issue I feel like N.W.A. gave a false impression to the masses about blacks and what being from the hood entails.

After N.W.A. everyone wanted to claim a hood and make sure that where they lived had a rep like Compton had. Every rapper wanted to be 'hard.'

This false portrayal had urban white kids thinking that blacks really condoned this behavior and had black kids believing that the only way to be heard as a rapper or respected as a person was to be 'gangster.'

Now, as we all know, NWA was anything but gangster. Eazy-E was a petty dope dealer...that's about all. Dre came from a good home and so did Ice Cube. Ren and Yella? Well who cares.

Furthermore, they are the poster children for young rap groups being duped by shady lawyers and record execs. Dr. Dre lost millions to all kinds of folks until he finally realized [I guess] how to operate in the music biz. Eazy-E took advantage of his friends and berated those who were key to his success.

In my eyes they made some okay music but the bigger picture was that they were frauds and related to the lowest common denominator.....teens and dimwits.

[dough]

"Getting down to the issue I feel like N.W.A. gave a false impression to the masses about blacks and what being from the hood entails."

Does one group make a race? It's not NWA's fault that people tend to generalize.

[Go Getter]

"Getting down to the issue I feel like N.W.A. gave a false impression to the masses about blacks and what being from the hood entails."

Does one group make a race? It's not NWA's fault that people tend to generalize.

You are correct.

Some things shouldn't be but they are.

I have a friend from belize that said before the movie 'colors' there were no gangs in belize. After the movie kids were playing and taking up sides, blue vs. red. Weeks later they were shooting at each other.

It is their [NWA's] fault for promoting a false image to the masses though.

[dough]

You are correct.

Some things shouldn't be but they are.

I have a friend from belize that said before the movie 'colors' there were no gangs in belize. After the movie kids were playing and taking up sides, blue vs. red. Weeks later they were shooting at each other.

It is their [NWA's] fault for promoting a false image to the masses though.

If somebody shoots another man after watching goodfellas, do we blame DeNiro or the man with the gun?

[Go Getter]

If somebody shoots another man after watching goodfellas, do we blame Al Pacino or the man with the gun?

I see where you're going and I don't take responsibilty away from individuals, but in the same breath violent images, 'cool' trends, and sensationalized stories tend to attract the youth.

My point was that NWA had a harmful impact on hip-hop culture.

[JtotheIzzo]

so you are letting Ice T, The Geto Boys and Schooly D off the hook?

[CeoTypeDoe619]

Posers? Wow Op is a idiot

[Go Getter]

so you are letting Ice T, The Geto Boys and Schooly D off the hook?

1. The Geto Boys actually infused some positive messages in their songs.

2. If the groups acts you stated had as big of a cultural impact as NWA I might have made the thread about them.

[JtotheIzzo]

1. The Geto Boys actually infused some positive messages in their songs.

2. If the groups acts you stated had as big of a cultural impact as NWA I might have made the thread about them.

NWA positivity >>> Geto Boys positivity

[Go Getter]

Posers? Wow Op is a idiot

Yes posers, fake gangsters, exaggeraters, liars, whatever you want to call it.

I tried to use a term ISH would understand.

Do you agree or disagree?

[Go Getter]

NWA positivity >>> Geto Boys positivity

Please state facts.

And also, as I said earlier, if Geto Boys had as big of a cultural impact as NWA then maybe the thread would have been about them.

Schooly D? C'mon man you can do better than that.

[JtotheIzzo]

Please state facts.

Express Yourself?

[CeoTypeDoe619]

Yes posers, fake gangsters, exaggeraters, liars, whatever you want to call it.

I tried to use a term ISH would understand.

Do you agree or disagree?

Eazy E is a well known crip who grew up in compton
Ice cube grew up in south central LA
Dj Yella is from compton
Mc ren is from compton
Dre is from compton
You think they stayed in the house and just recorded music all day
@ being posers
Thats when compton was the worst city in the us

[Go Getter]

Eazy E is a well known crip who grew up in compton
Ice cube grew up in south central LA
Dj Yella is from compton
Mc ren is from compton
Dre is from compton
You think they stayed in the house and just recorded music all day
@ being posers
Thats when compton was the worst city in the us

Dr. Dre's parents are well to do....in the NWA documentary his own crew calls him a punk and talks about him getting shot at, suffering a flesh wound, and acting like a punk.

None of those cats were criminals at all.

I'm from the south side of Chicago and I am definitely NOT gangster...being from Compton doesn't make you a gangster.....see the attitude that you are expressing right now is exactly what I'm talking about.

"Oh they grew up in Compton so they must be gangsters/gang affiliated."

Gangsters don't get on the mic and confess to what they are doing.

Myer Lansky, Jeff Fort, Larry Hoover, Angelo Roberts....those are real gangsters.

[RedBlackAttack]

Bill Cosby has gone public with a similar viewpoint and taken a fair amount of heat for it. I think that he is partly right and that the idealized and romanticized tone that hustling on the street has taken is partly the blame of a culture that has been too influenced by what is essentially an act (most gangsta rap).

Still, the problems that exist in the inner city have more to blame than just the music being pumped out of speakers. Some of the problems are internal, some external.

Here is one of Cosby's rants that got him into some hot water...

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