“I didn’t think a studio would have the courage to make … not the way I wanted it made,” admits an in-a-daze Cube to VIBE. Suddenly, damn near the entire world was put on to Compton, the small yet troubled Los Angeles suburb of which N.W.A. Dre” Young, the criminally underrated Lorenzo “MC Ren” Patterson, jovial Antoine “DJ Yella” Carraby and enterprising visionary Eazy-who in 1995, shockingly died of complications from AIDS-raised a conspicuous middle finger at Ronald Reagan’s conservative white America that definitely wasn’t of the belief that #BlackLivesMatter. Lead lyricist O’Shea “ Ice Cube” Jackson, groundbreaking producer, Andre “ Dr. in the big screen release of Straight Outta Compton, onlookers witnessed the former drug dealer/unlikely rapper and Ruthless Records impresario’s very same impish spirit in all its Jheri curl, Raiders hat glory.īut it was far from all smiles.
By 1994, he'd also become the host of a Los Angeles radio music show on KKBT-FM.When fanboys and girls, the curious and skeptics packed theaters to see legendary hip-hop outfit N.W.A. Bush (the rapper was invited after his name was reportedly pulled from a list associated with charitable donations) and after speaking up for one of the officers involved in the beating of Rodney King. AIDS-Related DeathĮazy incited controversies of a different sort by attending a 1991 Republican fundraiser that featured President George H.W. In 1992, he released his own solo EP, 5150 Home 4 tha Sick another EP was released the following year. Eazy, a consummate businessman who commented on how rap controversy could be used to spur album sales, continued running Ruthless Records, discovering acts like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Dre embroiled in litigious disputes that also saw the two attacking and lampooning each other in their respective work. broke up in the early 1990s, with Eazy and Dr. Seen as a major influence on the gangsta rap themes that would later dominate commercial hip-hop, the group became known for extremely violent and misogynistic lyrical content, with much of its sales fueled by adolescent male suburbanites.
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