38. "Well the key is no matter how you slice it - it doesn't make sense" In response to In response to 35
you asked the million dollar question right there
why is Eazy E in the same room as George W. Bush?
I'm still waiting on someone to make sense out of just that.
Cats saying I wasn't around, it's stupid - whatever - doesn't really matter cause that does nothing for the conversation.
The real question is the effects a group like NWA had..
ask yourself this.. before NWA..
it was about Hiphop - rhyming, breaking, djing, graffiti.
Sure there were trends, BBoy trends, afrocentrism. Mainly on the East Coast so called 'conscious' rap led folks in a social direction, a political one, and in some regards a spiritual one. Fake or not.
Then post NWA - all the things going on out West suddenly started happening out east. Heads were shocked when they saw them, heads weren't dressing or talking like that. That changed.
Labels changed - I mean you can deny this all you want but if heads don't realize those basics in the convo then it's likely they weren't there.
I'm not even saying I believe it - I'm playing devil's advocate - but no one has answered the question.