78. "This is where I'm at" In response to Reply # 2
Hell I got a lot of respect for Ren. Love Cube and respect Dre. I love Easy's solo stuff. I can't say I'm a fan of NWA and for most people in NY we never got on board with it. It was just too outlandish for folks on the East Coast.
The misogyny and homophobia and promotion of gang violence in their group and solo work put me off. As did their real world antics. So I didn't buy their albums but I heard all of them. Their music was the soundtrack of my teen rebellion - for example I was 16 years old when The Chronic dropped. The older I got and the more I learned in school and about the world and myself the less patience I had for their b/s.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 12:41 PM
4. "if you didnt you were a mark ass buster" In response to Reply # 0
did I say that right?
Pittsburgh has a Midwestern vibe so everyone loved that shit.
I left when Cube left tho... I went right back to my PE and BDP
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 01:06 PM
27. "East Coast loved NWA too... " In response to Reply # 10
the industry prolly didn't but any Lil nigga watching yo MTVRaps loved them dudes.
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 01:13 PM
33. "its the same people who claim they didnt throw tantrums as toddlers" In response to Reply # 28
fucking liars...
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59. "Nah bro- East Coast " " liked NWA" In response to Reply # 28
I didn't because I wasn't all for the cursing and shooting and hoes and busters etc that Nggz4life threw down. I liked "We Want Easy" and I liked the 1st Album because it was actually about something. The first record. Everything after was too far gone for my tastes.
I was an ICE CUBE GUY ALL DAY with Death Certificate. Lethal Injection was cool then I kinda moved on from him also. I was a big Ren guy because he was lyrical.
The D.O.C. was by faaar and away my favorite out of that camp. Far and away!
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 04:10 PM
60. "I was a big DOC too... his album got the most burn" In response to Reply # 59
I barely remember the niggaz4life album.
I was all about the first album and Cubes Amerikkkas most wanted.
but we really fucked with that first NWA album
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71. "This is me to a tee." In response to Reply # 60
Nobody does it better was my shit. I don't even think I bought NFL. By that time I was much more into Native Tongues stuff. But the 100 miles and running ep was my fave release from them and the go to breaking song of it's day.
I can't condone that shit now and I feel like I'm kinda just processing that recently. I hadn't really dusted any of that shit off in a long time and revisiting it makes me realized how much I've changed. I now realize that I over-intellectualized that shit in a lame attempt to appease my moral standards with the visceral appreciation I had of the music. I had a bunch of bullshit arguments about them subversively making a political statement. Nah, for the most part they were selling glorified street life shit to dweebs who thought gangbanging was cool from afar. That's really how they made most of their money.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 12:43 PM
8. "Its like asking a gamer if they liked the first Grand Theft Auto" In response to Reply # 5
who the Fuck is going to say no? lol...
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 12:45 PM
11. "so did i... but only cause they played them nonstop ." In response to Reply # 7
mtv made,you love and hate shit the same day it dropped.
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19. "A Bitch iz a Bitch blew my mind. Lol" In response to Reply # 16
My friend's older sister had a copy on the b-side of some single. We could not stop laughing at that shit. I was just learning to cuss so it was great. I knew I shouldn't listen to the song or repeat the lyrics though.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 01:11 PM
32. "sheeeit, my mom came downstairs and banned rap from the house" In response to Reply # 24
when she heard NWA
we thought she was asleep
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 01:10 PM
29. "yup, NWA and Ghetto Boys Gangsta of Love had me 0_0" In response to Reply # 19 Mon Aug-17-15 01:10 PM by legsdiamond
and who the Fuck is thinking of misogyny back in 1986ish?
songs stayed on repeat because they was cussing like crazy
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 02:24 PM
49. "type some shit that you would believe and MAYBE i will believe it too" In response to Reply # 41
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57. "for me, It was Slick Rick "Treat'em Like a Prostitute". Like for the" In response to Reply # 29 Mon Aug-17-15 03:56 PM by Fishgrease
sake of my pubescent living, who allowed this to be the very first fuckin song on the album?
I had just bought it, unwrapped it and was about to put it in my ever handy walkman (i'm lying it was some GPX portable tape player with just a stop, ffw, and play button but back then we called 'em all WALKMANs)...Anyway, my moms (younger but white friend) says " go head and put it in the car stereo....
Next thing I know " You see the mailman's dicks way down your wifes throat" is blastin through the speakers and my mom and her friends are driving and crying in laughter.
we finally get back home and my moms friend asks me to "dub" her a copy of the tape.
17. "Me neither, really." In response to Reply # 15
I didn't buy the tapes but all my ppl had them so i didn't to, really. Plus my parents didn't allow me to play Hip-Hop in the house so I'd have to sneak it if I wanted to hear it at the crib. Lol
18. "we didnt have cable but that one summer i stayed with my great" In response to Reply # 0
aunt in Upper Marlboro, MD. I had my own room in her house with cable - The Jukebox network would play "Straight Outta Compton" like every hour. I persuaded my great aunt to buy me the NWA tape. Funny enough, K Mart only sold "clean" versions, so I was disappointed to find that Fuck Tha Police wasnt on my tape. When I got back to Bmore, I walked to the record store and bought the explicit version.
I didnt listen to efil4zaggin until much later, like about 5 years ago. The shit was horrible. I'll agree, Dre's production was on point and Ren stepped his bars up. But shit like 'findem fuckem flee" and "automobile" and "niggas 4 life" were unlistenable.
I fucked with Dre and Cube's solo shit though. And really, I only messed with "we want eazy" and "Radio" of Eazy's joint.
48. "Thank you for remembering The Jukebox Network" In response to Reply # 18
Channel 37 on United Artists Cable. That was really what got me into hip hop as a kid. Rap still wasn't played a lot on radio (at least in Baltimore) in the late 80s. My older sister once ran up a huge cable bill ordering "Hey Young World" about 10 times.
I went to see SOC this weekend and was trying to explain to a younger date about it and how I knew the songs, and she kept shouting me down that there was only "The Box" which was its mid 90s successor.
23. "I started with PE. Liked the Ice Cube guest spot. Got into Ice Cube." In response to Reply # 0
and then discovered NWA through Ice Cube as a point of entry. So I liked the NWA stuff that included Ice Cube and rode with TeamCube when it was Cube v. NWA.
It's kind of interesting though because I feel like there was a strong OKP contingency who were very vocally against misogynist hip-hop. I even feel like Biggie got a cold reception here in the early days of OKP.
It's a position that come to be seen as corny over time (I remember Mos Def and them running away form the conscious label) and that contingency doesn't seem to be around OKP like it was back in the day for better for worst.
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 01:34 PM
39. "Biggie got a lukewarm reception from the backpackers..." In response to Reply # 23
same with Jay...
but most people fucked with MWA hard cause they were saying shit we never heard before on records.
only reason the East Coast turned on them is cause they blew up fast as fuck without an easy coast cosign
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 02:30 PM
51. "it happened.... but its nothing to brag about" In response to Reply # 42
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26. "RE: Did/do you like NWA" In response to Reply # 0
Too young...
Came round to rap around Deep Cover time.. damn sure rocked The Chronic hard as shit..
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30. "I liked their solo stuff more. NWA was decent but not great to me" In response to Reply # 0
Both in terms of quality and in terms of impact, because yes you had things moving in a direction that heightened awareness but did it do it in the right way? I am still not sure. It seems like this film is a good opportunity to watch it, listen to their stuff and reevaluate now all these years later. Maybe I will. But their stuff never really moved me and of course sounds pretty dated now.
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31. "Nah, I was like 10 when they first came out" In response to Reply # 0 Mon Aug-17-15 01:22 PM by flipnile
So I didn't care for all of that gangster rap, and couldn't relate to the lyrics. Also, those dudes looked corny as fuck to me. No young hood dudes around me were rocking perms or jheri curls.
43. "really didnt know much about them when they came out" In response to Reply # 0
i was a stone cold east coast hip hop head and real provincial back then. So all my hip hop experience revolved around LL, PE, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, EPMD and such. Plus they didn't get any significant radio play on my radio so the exposure was limited to seeing them on an occasional video.
They were "those cats" and i couldn't really get into anything that wasn't east coast back then.
But i was definitely a Cube and Dre fan, when they broke off from the group.
The Deep Cover joint was the first west coast song i really loved. And The Chronic and Death Certificate stayed on repeat.
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-DJ R-Tistic- Member since Nov 06th 2008 51986 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 05:43 PM
64. "I got into Rap in 92, and didn't catch up on them til maybe 97-98" In response to Reply # 0
But knew all the history by 93-94 once Real Muthaphukkin G'z came out. I didn't listen to the entire debut album start to finish until 2007, and I felt it was completely underrated. We always talked about Chronic and Doggystyle, and I felt this album was damn near as good, just that it was older and sounded older.
I didn't even hear "Alwayz into somethin" til like High School, 2000-2001. You just never heard those songs on L.A. Radio after I started listening, although we heard songs like "Pay ya dues" alll the time
LAbeathustla Member since Jan 24th 2004 33858 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 05:47 PM
65. "if you wasnt around when eazy shit dropped..you prolly dont get it" In response to Reply # 0
wasnt hardly NO cursing on rap records before that eazy record dropped with the girl skipping rope in the beginning...NYC shole wasnt cursing like that
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Mon Aug-17-15 09:59 PM
69. "yup" In response to Reply # 65 Mon Aug-17-15 10:06 PM by legsdiamond
That album was THE SHIT when it dropped.
the production, cussing, slang... totally new to us.
People in here either too young, lying or revising history cause they don't want to admit they liked this misogynistic RAP music when it dropped
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>That album was THE SHIT when it dropped. > >the production, cussing, slang... totally new to us. > >People in here either too young, lying or revising history >cause they don't want to admit they liked this misogynistic >RAP music when it dropped
73. "Their albums together were okay." In response to Reply # 0
Their second album is almost unlistenable even though the beats are amazing. Their "solo" albums are cemented their legacy more effectively than their actual albums tbh.
"They used to call me Baby Luke....but now? The whole damn 2 Liiiive Crew."
75. "12 y/o in Sam Goody deciding between SOC and Kid n Play 2 Hype" In response to Reply # 0
I was with my older cousin and was like damm which one should I get? the one with the dude pointing a gun and a explicit lyrics sticker or the one with 2 dudes dancing one wearing a shirt with 2 and the other with Hype?
Like I said I was 12 so it wasn't that hard to decide got home, put the tape in my walkman and it was a wrap. I'd never heard that much cursing, gunshots, and anti-drug message before.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79555 posts
Tue Aug-18-15 12:18 PM
79. "sheeeit, I watched House Party 2 and was jammin'" In response to Reply # 77
they were clean, corny and fun but those songs were funky as shit.
Full Force laced those dudes with some nice dance shit. I loved that whole Heavy D, Kid n Play R&B ish shit.
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