Boyz N Tha Hood Analysis

This was their first album under a record label that they created themselves so this is what happened to get there. The style of hip-hop prior to N.W.A was vastly different as what they rapped about wasn’t always about the streets. No one spoke up about living in poverty and witnessing or even engaging in gang violence but they instead spoke about the party life because that was what was sold to vast majority of the audience. When more artists who talked about their life as they see it instead of partying all the time, the audience started to shift towards those “gangsta” rappers and they made those artists who they were still in their golden age. An article that discusses about music in America states that “harshness of inner-city life. Labeled hardcore, this rap form …show more content…
Cube showed the rhyme to Dre, who made an instrumental track for it” (McDermott, 2002, p 30). One of the original members, Ice Cube, wrote all of Boyz N Tha Hood but the one who would perform it would eventually land on Eazy-E himself. This single launched way towards the album by making Ruthless a neighborhood hero. Everybody always wonder how did N.W.A get started but its roots trace back to two members, one who had the idea, and one who had the money for it. These two would be Eric Wright and Andre Young and this article says that “Eric has money--street money, dope money--and wants to go straight. Dre, meanwhile, bugs Yano, who knows every low-level somebody in the record business in all of Los Angeles, to start a record label. Dre wants a place to put out his own music” (McDermott, 2002, p 13). Eazy-E wanted to get out of the dope dealing game because only one can last so long with only so much money and Dr. Dre wanted to work for himself by making his own music and releasing it under a real record