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in 1989 |
ice cube went to new york to work with bomb squad |
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bomb squad |
the production team behind public enemy |
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resulting album from ice cubes work with bomb squad |
amerikka |
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amerikkka |
was a hip hop landmark united front |
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all the critics in new york |
ice cube felt like he didnt get love |
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nelson george thinkgs all the crics in new york is |
NOT the new oppening salvo in the new bicostal war |
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all the critics innew york nelson george thinks is |
a manifestation of an ongoing love hate complex the big apple seems to foster in the res of america,especially the west coast |
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melting pot of new york |
arrogance, creativity, and willful multiculturlaism which upsets redneck congressmen. concerning clergy, and irritating conservatives at least since Gershwin wrote "rhapsody in blue" |
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insecurity comes from hip hop |
starting in new york |
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new yorkers |
have swagger that the world detests and envies |
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new york has |
country-city contrast |
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Langston Hughes |
captrued thecountry city contrast in his Jesse B Semple stories about southern boy moving to harlem |
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new york never embraced the |
blues beacuse too country |
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jazz and blues related to |
disco and funk |
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new york didnt embrace |
uncut funk the way much of the rest of the country did. combine that with new yrokss overall feeling of superiority, and you have a mix of tast and attitude that affected top music very early on |
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the contempt of new yonkers for non new york rap began with |
teh disdain in manhatten for the sugar hill gang |
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the bridge and the bridge is over |
debated mc shan about the birth of hip hop |
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new york and philly |
rididculed rap records from outside the northeast and the north east attitude, that everything made outside the eastern corridor was outstandard, was accepted by the first generation of rap consumers |
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first non new york mcs to get national coverage were from |
philly |
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lady b |
promoted philly tunes on radio show WHAT |
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fresh fest tour of 84 and dmcs headling tour |
pushed musics borders farther west |
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regional taste |
exists |
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las best knwon rapper |
ice t |
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ice t was too |
new york oriented |
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rappers cant identitfy |
with where they are from |
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2 live crews 2 live is what we are made of 1988 |
made history by being irst non new yrk rap group to sell over 500k copies of an album |
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2 live crews albums succeeded because |
it didnt sound like new york rap |
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used poetic call and response chants |
watts prophets |
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late 60s la trio |
watts prophets |
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rappin black in a white world is considered |
a classic that is equal to eastern music to poetic afficionado |
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only exposure for watts prophets |
on quincy jones show in 1975 played lovers rap |
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locking and poping |
from la |
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loking and poping |
got exposure on sould train in 70s |
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people would pop and lock at the |
radio ... club equal to the roxy |
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uncle jams army |
collective of djs and promoters that gave venues of 16k at la |
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real first hip hop sound tended ot be |
electro pop |
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wreckin cru |
dres first band ...electropop |
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eazy e started |
ruthless... his own label |
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ie cube befriended |
dr dre |
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sir jinx |
ice cubes dj and production partner |
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it was supposedly dr dres idea that |
eazy record himself instead of the new york people HBO |
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first album on ruthless was |
boyz in the hood |
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eazy hooked up with |
jerry heller |
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jerry heller |
old school biz member of the permanat buisness |
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straight out of compton was |
a revolution |
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east coast had a |
postiive rhetoric |
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rhymes of nwa were composed of two of the best lyricists ever |
ice cube and the doc |
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between 1988 and 1990 |
hostility grew between new york |
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new yorks insecurity was |
tom dogs f*ck compton 1991 |
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nwa, luther campbell, geto boyz, and too short |
would reinvent the definition of what a good rap record was |
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tommy boy prez monica lynch published a opinion piece in 1991 |
has new york fallen the f*ck off |
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the members of nwa release hits |
dissing eachother |
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the dismanteling of nwa was |
extremely succesfull for all in it even those non nwa affiliates |
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dr dre |
ruled gangsta rap |
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dres approach to sampling, use of funk grooves, and high pitched key board backings |
informed most of west cost hip hop |
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dres signature works |
nwa.. straight outta compton, the chronis, doggystyle |
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dre was filled with ______ that made it a true hip hop statement |
genius, pain, and contradictory values |
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hustled st ides malt liquor in the hood |
ice cube |
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because of his keen analytic mind, a novelists care for narrative, and a biting rhyme flow |
ice cube is one of the most fascinating men to ever rock a mike |
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directed friday and players club |
ice cube |
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cube hired diretor |
f gary gary to direct friday |
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eazy e was truest to his particular game |
eazy e was truest to his particular game |
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eazy e found |
dr dre, ice cube, the doc, teh ren, and bones thugs and harmony |
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eazy e took |
jerry hellers side against that of his homies |
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eazy |
fed his ego, made money, and got women greed was his downfall |
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marion knight |
the forced behind death row records |
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marion knight |
threathened eazy e with baseball bats and a offer he couldnt resist |
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eazy e lost ruthless |
because of marion knight |
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eazy died of aids |
in march 1995 |
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more love for the death of |
tupac and biggie than of eazy es |
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in 1992 suge knight and david kenner |
made a deal for death row records with interscope records that altered hip hops landscape analogous to the def jam -- cbs union in 1986 |
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death row- interscope union |
had suge knight and dr dre |
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def jam and cbs |
had russell simmons and teddy riley |
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death row and interscope would |
take gang mentality and make it pop |
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democratic people were very hiprocritical |
page 140 |
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combs |
prospered in the east coast west coast war |
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the imagined fued was |
as destructive to hip hop as crack was to the black community |
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tupac was shot on |
november 1994 in the lobby of times squares quad recording studio |
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tupac emergd from digital underground in |
1991 |
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shotting of tupac |
signifyied the war |
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two gun man pumped five shots into him |
and stole 40k in jewelry |
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between his conviction and sentence |
he got it in the head that puffy, big, and others set him up for the shots,while in upstate new york |
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suge came to |
tupacs rescue... bailed him out 1.4 mil - got tupac on death row |
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tupac died |
in september 1996 |
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tupacs death ended the |
west coast east coast war |
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the style that begun iwht ice t, was popularized by nwa, and skillfully packaged for amss consumption by dr.dre and suge knight was over |
the style that begun iwht ice t, was popularized by nwa, and skillfully packaged for amss consumption by dr.dre and suge knight was over |
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the recordings from compton |
told the story of the poverty, guns, and despair taht everyone noticed after the 1992 riots |