Boyz n the Hood

from the streets of Compton, California, an unapologetic and incredibly honest music group, brought life-changing lyrics and beats to the music industry. From 1986 to 1991, N.W.A shined light on their realities and everyday lives of living in the hood. Also in those five years, the group endured years of controversy due to their extremely explicit lyrics and song topics on drugs, crimes, and police brutality. The group was a very well known for their hatred of the police system. In spite of…

Film makers continue to misrepresent African-Americans in movies depicting them as characters, such as the brash women, domestic workers, thugs, and the “magical negro”. The brash African American women is depicted as being rude and having an attitude towards people in her immediate surroundings. The brash women are depicted as being loud mouth and not caring for what other people might think of her. These images are bad for people who do not live near an African-American community could…

Friday, when you hear that word most people think of the day before Saturday and the one right after Thursday. It’s the last day of the week before the weekend and for the most part the last day of work or school. But when I think of Friday I think of the movie. Some famous lines from the movie is “Bye Felisha,” “No sugar? Yall aint never got two things that match. Either yall got Kool-Aid no sugar, peanut butter no jelly, ham no burger.” But I’m not here to talk about the movie I’m here to talk…

prejudice words toward women, dropped albums like “Straight Outta Compton” with Eazy releasing work as a solo artist. After another, Ruthless Group opted not to record a song by Jackson and Young, and Wright joined with the two men to record “Boyz-n-the-Hood” as Niggaz with Attitude…

A very controversial and rebellious group from the 1980’s, is N.W.A. The group started in 1986 with Easy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre; they went on to include Mc Ren and DJ Yella. They were famous for their songs “Straight Outta Compton”, “Fuck tha Police”, and “Express Yourself”. N.W.A brought gangsta rap into the mainstream of music at the time and as a result influenced thousands of people. They also brought to light issues of the time, such as police prejudice against blacks and the…

Dre produced single under with his group C.I.A. (Cru' In Action!). After the collaboration, Ice Cube showed Eazy-E the lyrics to "Boyz-n-the-Hood".] Eazy-E, although initially rejecting the lyrics, eventually recorded the song for N.W.A. and the Posse, the debut album for the group N.W.A that also included Dr. Dre,MC Ren, and DJ Yella. Ice Cube was the only member of N.W.A who is not from…

scenes resonated well with young black males in the audience, and ensured profits. One example is the Menace II Society by the Hughes Brothers. The film, which provoked controversy during its release, contains a brutal and despairing depiction of the hood. It also casually deals with murder, drug dealing, victimization of women, and hopelessness While inner-city and suburban adolescent audiences loved the film, others were much more critical. Many complained…

following many sorts of stress and injury however blunted after delayed anxiety (Judd et al., 2014; Miller et al., 2007). Kliewer (2006) found that cortisol expanded from pre-errand to post-undertaking (i.e., viewing a video cut from the film Boyz 'n the Hood took after by a talk) among youth who had been tormented, and in a later report, Kliewer and colleagues (2012) reported, among African American urban young people, that companion exploitation was related with more noteworthy thoughtful…

The American Cocaine Era, from the Early 1980s to early 1990s, is viewed from many as a thing of the past but the very effects that it has had on society and cities such as Los Angeles has withstood the test of time. Los Angeles felt the blow from crack cocaine early on as 1980s as it was a new way for addicts to get their “kicks.” In fact by 1982, “Los Angeles hospital emergency rooms reported the nation's greatest increase in cocaine overdoses,” which now established Los Angeles as a city that…

Ron Aguirre was a Mexican-American inventor from Rialto, California. He is best known for being the first individual to install hydraulic pumps on a car in 1959. The purpose of this was to raise and lower the ride height at the driver’s convenience. The first vehicle to receive this customization was Aguirre’s 1956 Chevrolet Corvette, which he called the ‘X-Sonic’. Aguirre’s innovation was, and still is, a predominate feature associated with Mexican culture. Another feature of Mexican culture…