Eazy-E's vocal style was marked by his youthful, high-pitched voice and
his lyrics focusing on the elements of urban street life such as guns,
drugs, relations between residents and the police, and sexual activity.[1] He had also for some time hosted a hip-hop radio show on Los Angeles-based radio station KKBT.[2]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmMO8iilaE
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N.W.A. "Boyz in the Hood" featuring Eazy-E
Eazy-E's vocal style was marked by his youthful, high-pitched voice and
his lyrics focusing on the elements of urban street life such as guns,
drugs, relations between residents and the police, and sexual activity.[1] He had also for some time hosted a hip-hop radio show on Los Angeles-based radio station KKBT.[2]
O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage nameIce Cube, is an American rapper, actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer. He began his career as a member of C.I.A and later joined the rap group N.W.A.
After leaving N.W.A in 1989, he built a successful solo career in
music, and also as a writer, director, actor and producer in cinema. In 2010 embarked upon a television production career with the TBS series Are We There Yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M
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Ice Cube "It Was A Good Day"
O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage nameIce Cube, is an American rapper, actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer. He began his career as a member of C.I.A and later joined the rap group N.W.A.
After leaving N.W.A in 1989, he built a successful solo career in
music, and also as a writer, director, actor and producer in cinema. In 2010 embarked upon a television production career with the TBS series Are We There Yet.
Born on June 15, 1969 in South Central Los Angeles, California, the son of Doris Jackson (née Benjamin), a hospital clerk and custodian, and Hosea Jackson, who worked as a groundskeeper at UCLA.[4][5] His cousins are Teren Delvon Jones, also known as Del tha Funkee Homosapien, who is a part of the rap group Hieroglyphics and is best known for his work with the Gorillaz; and Kam of rap group The Warzone.[6] At age sixteen, Jackson developed an interest in hip hop music, and began writing raps in Taft High School's keyboarding class.[6] He attended the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall of 1987, and studied Architectural Drafting.[7] With friend Sir Jinx, Jackson formed the C.I.A., and they performed at parties hosted by Dr. Dre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afr6I74ms9k
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Ice Cube - Check Yo Self
Born on June 15, 1969 in South Central Los Angeles, California, the son of Doris Jackson (née Benjamin), a hospital clerk and custodian, and Hosea Jackson, who worked as a groundskeeper at UCLA.[4][5] His cousins are Teren Delvon Jones, also known as Del tha Funkee Homosapien, who is a part of the rap group Hieroglyphics and is best known for his work with the Gorillaz; and Kam of rap group The Warzone.[6] At age sixteen, Jackson developed an interest in hip hop music, and began writing raps in Taft High School's keyboarding class.[6] He attended the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall of 1987, and studied Architectural Drafting.[7] With friend Sir Jinx, Jackson formed the C.I.A., and they performed at parties hosted by Dr. Dre.
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), primarily known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an Americanrecord producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels, such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West CoastG-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBu2uxdvNmI
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Dr. Dre "Let me Ride"
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), primarily known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an Americanrecord producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels, such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West CoastG-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.
I welcome posts into this thread, thank you for the Urban music.
Regarding the miscellaneous thread , you are all welcome to balance the books politically, debate is encouraged.
Everyone has the right to an opinion, freedom of expression, is the characteristic of a democratic society.
I keep the politics in the politics section... Debate is encouraged there, not in the general discussion section...
This includes political humor and satire... You do not know my political stances as much of my posting is purely inflamatory...
But if you were RichardA, then because I said something provocative or contrary then I must be a stupid liberal... and assume that because I question his rhetoric, I must be uninformed...
And if you were RichardA you would find every method and nuance to bring politics into the general discussion and accuse everyone of being clueless democrats because we called him on his propaganda...
Please exercise your freedom of political expression in the politics forum... I encourage you to, you can be the Conservative american voice pretending to be from another country role now that RichardA is boxed...
But I hold you to higher standard, because unlike RichardA, you know how to post the appropriate thread in the right forum...
You do it well in the food and fitness, so you cant pretend that you some how dont understand the concept of keeping appropriate topics in appropriate forums...
assuming you are not RichardA of course...
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Quote Originally Posted by GBP:
I welcome posts into this thread, thank you for the Urban music.
Regarding the miscellaneous thread , you are all welcome to balance the books politically, debate is encouraged.
Everyone has the right to an opinion, freedom of expression, is the characteristic of a democratic society.
I keep the politics in the politics section... Debate is encouraged there, not in the general discussion section...
This includes political humor and satire... You do not know my political stances as much of my posting is purely inflamatory...
But if you were RichardA, then because I said something provocative or contrary then I must be a stupid liberal... and assume that because I question his rhetoric, I must be uninformed...
And if you were RichardA you would find every method and nuance to bring politics into the general discussion and accuse everyone of being clueless democrats because we called him on his propaganda...
Please exercise your freedom of political expression in the politics forum... I encourage you to, you can be the Conservative american voice pretending to be from another country role now that RichardA is boxed...
But I hold you to higher standard, because unlike RichardA, you know how to post the appropriate thread in the right forum...
You do it well in the food and fitness, so you cant pretend that you some how dont understand the concept of keeping appropriate topics in appropriate forums...
1991's Niggaz4Life would be the group's final album. After Dr. Dre, The D.O.C. and Michel'le departed from Ruthless to join Death Row Records, and allegations over Eazy-E being coerced into signing away their contracts (while however retaining a portion of their publishing rights), a bitter rivalry ensued.
On the cover the title appears as a mirror-image of the text
"NIGGAZ4LIFE". The name of the new album had been revealed in
"Kamurshul" from N.W.A's previous release 100 Miles and Runnin', but only by playing a vinyl
copy backwards could the otherwise unintelligible sound be deciphered
as "niggaz for life". Since the album contained the word "Nigga" in it,
on some publications it has to be edited out as Straight Out of Compton 2
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N.W.A. "100 Miles and Runnin"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6YOq2xn3k4
1991's Niggaz4Life would be the group's final album. After Dr. Dre, The D.O.C. and Michel'le departed from Ruthless to join Death Row Records, and allegations over Eazy-E being coerced into signing away their contracts (while however retaining a portion of their publishing rights), a bitter rivalry ensued.
On the cover the title appears as a mirror-image of the text
"NIGGAZ4LIFE". The name of the new album had been revealed in
"Kamurshul" from N.W.A's previous release 100 Miles and Runnin', but only by playing a vinyl
copy backwards could the otherwise unintelligible sound be deciphered
as "niggaz for life". Since the album contained the word "Nigga" in it,
on some publications it has to be edited out as Straight Out of Compton 2
N.W.A. and the Posse was a 1987 Macola Records release that compiled various Dr. Dre-produced tracks and was marketed as an album by N.W.A. It includes previously released tracks by N.W.A, Eazy-E, the Fila Fresh Crew,
and Rappinstine. The cover photo is the same as N.W.A's "Panic Zone"
single and features people who don't even appear on the record. The
album peaked at #39 on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[1]
On the album cover, their group name has a full stop at the end, while in later albums, it doesn't.
N.W.A. and the Posse was re-released in 1989 by Ruthless Records, substituting another N.W.A song for the one by Rappinstine. The album was certified gold by the RIAA in 1994.[2]
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N.W.A. "Dopeman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eOsobzli0
N.W.A. and the Posse was a 1987 Macola Records release that compiled various Dr. Dre-produced tracks and was marketed as an album by N.W.A. It includes previously released tracks by N.W.A, Eazy-E, the Fila Fresh Crew,
and Rappinstine. The cover photo is the same as N.W.A's "Panic Zone"
single and features people who don't even appear on the record. The
album peaked at #39 on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[1]
On the album cover, their group name has a full stop at the end, while in later albums, it doesn't.
N.W.A. and the Posse was re-released in 1989 by Ruthless Records, substituting another N.W.A song for the one by Rappinstine. The album was certified gold by the RIAA in 1994.[2]
"Panic Zone" was the 1987 debut EP by Americanhip hop group N.W.A, whose songs were later featured on the compilation N.W.A. and the Posse, which was a reissue of 12" EPs and singles released by Macola Records, the then manufacturer and distributor of Ruthless Records, N.W.A's label.
Apart from the title track and "8-Ball", the record also included "Dopeman", a song about a local drug dealer
who is waited on hand and foot by frequent clients whose lives have
been ruined as a result of their consumption of his products.
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N.W.A. 8 ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C2AabXqsmU
"Panic Zone" was the 1987 debut EP by Americanhip hop group N.W.A, whose songs were later featured on the compilation N.W.A. and the Posse, which was a reissue of 12" EPs and singles released by Macola Records, the then manufacturer and distributor of Ruthless Records, N.W.A's label.
Apart from the title track and "8-Ball", the record also included "Dopeman", a song about a local drug dealer
who is waited on hand and foot by frequent clients whose lives have
been ruined as a result of their consumption of his products.
The song "100 Miles and Runnin'" is also notable for being Dr. Dre's final uptempo record, which had been a common feature of late-'80s hip hop. After this, he made a lower-tempo, synthesizer based sound known as G-funk, starting with "Alwayz Into Somethin'" from Efil4zaggin in 1991. G-funk dominated both the West and East Coast music scene after Dre left the group.
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NWA - Alwayz Into Somethin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aleRvCrXp4
The song "100 Miles and Runnin'" is also notable for being Dr. Dre's final uptempo record, which had been a common feature of late-'80s hip hop. After this, he made a lower-tempo, synthesizer based sound known as G-funk, starting with "Alwayz Into Somethin'" from Efil4zaggin in 1991. G-funk dominated both the West and East Coast music scene after Dre left the group.
In comparison to its predecessor, the album was also heavier on misogyny,
which it became notorious for. The album's final nine songs were laden
with more sexist profanity and references to various sexual acts;
provoking the ire of the PRMC[1], liberal and conservative politicians, and civil rights activist C. Delores Tucker[2].
It was the first album to top the Billboard charts with the word "nigga" in its title since Richard Pryor's Bicentennial person in 1976.
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NWA-She Swallowed It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnODDqYUoUs
In comparison to its predecessor, the album was also heavier on misogyny,
which it became notorious for. The album's final nine songs were laden
with more sexist profanity and references to various sexual acts;
provoking the ire of the PRMC[1], liberal and conservative politicians, and civil rights activist C. Delores Tucker[2].
It was the first album to top the Billboard charts with the word "nigga" in its title since Richard Pryor's Bicentennial person in 1976.
US faces growing problems in
regulating fortune tellers
Fears that vulnerable people are being exploited have led to a growing
push to regulate commercial fortune-tellers in the United States.
Fortune telling is big business. One in seven Americans has consulted a psychic or fortune-teller
In some parts of New York there are psychics and tarot card readers on
almost every block, charging anything from $5 (£3) to over $100 (£63)
for a consultation
As of this month, every fortune-teller in the city of Warren, Michigan
must have a licence to operate. To get this they must undergo a police
background check, have their fingerprints taken and pay an annual fee of
$160. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11409477
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NEWS 1
28 September 2010Last updated at 08:30
US faces growing problems in
regulating fortune tellers
Fears that vulnerable people are being exploited have led to a growing
push to regulate commercial fortune-tellers in the United States.
Fortune telling is big business. One in seven Americans has consulted a psychic or fortune-teller
In some parts of New York there are psychics and tarot card readers on
almost every block, charging anything from $5 (£3) to over $100 (£63)
for a consultation
As of this month, every fortune-teller in the city of Warren, Michigan
must have a licence to operate. To get this they must undergo a police
background check, have their fingerprints taken and pay an annual fee of
$160. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11409477
In an interview with Blender magazine, Lil Wayne revealed one of his favorite bands from childhood to be rock group Nirvana, and cites them as a major influence in his music.[90]
Lil Wayne made his debut on ESPN's daily sports round table show Around The Horn on February 10, 2009.[93]
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Lil' Wayne "Sky is the Limit"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2fL_teQbUk
In an interview with Blender magazine, Lil Wayne revealed one of his favorite bands from childhood to be rock group Nirvana, and cites them as a major influence in his music.[90]
The song was a diss track aimed towards Ice Cube's former bandmates in the group N.W.A and their manager, Jerry Heller. Ice Cube recorded this song after the comments N.W.A made towards him in their albums 100 Miles and Runnin' and Efil4zaggin. The first minute of the song is a reference to N.W.A's "Message to B.A.", in which they call Ice Cube "Benedict Arnold". Ice Cube then begins his full-blown diss on the group and their manager.
Ice Cube addresses Eazy-E and Heller with particularly harsh words, criticizing Eazy's decision to align himself with Heller ("Heard
you both got the same bank account!/Dumb nigga, What you thinkin'
about?!/Get rid of that devil real simple, put a bullet in his temple.") and accusing both Eazy-E and Heller of unfairly exploiting the rest of the group ("You little maggot, Eazy E-turned-person/With your manager, fella - fuckin' MC Ren, Dr. Dre, and Yella.") Ice Cube also refers to his decision to leave Ruthless Records in the lyric; " You
lookin' like straight bozos, I saw it commin', that's why I went solo
... You got jealous when I got my own company. But I'm a man, and ain't
nobody helpin' me."
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Ice Cube "No Vaseline"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvRc7pwnt0U
The song was a diss track aimed towards Ice Cube's former bandmates in the group N.W.A and their manager, Jerry Heller. Ice Cube recorded this song after the comments N.W.A made towards him in their albums 100 Miles and Runnin' and Efil4zaggin. The first minute of the song is a reference to N.W.A's "Message to B.A.", in which they call Ice Cube "Benedict Arnold". Ice Cube then begins his full-blown diss on the group and their manager.
Ice Cube addresses Eazy-E and Heller with particularly harsh words, criticizing Eazy's decision to align himself with Heller ("Heard
you both got the same bank account!/Dumb nigga, What you thinkin'
about?!/Get rid of that devil real simple, put a bullet in his temple.") and accusing both Eazy-E and Heller of unfairly exploiting the rest of the group ("You little maggot, Eazy E-turned-person/With your manager, fella - fuckin' MC Ren, Dr. Dre, and Yella.") Ice Cube also refers to his decision to leave Ruthless Records in the lyric; " You
lookin' like straight bozos, I saw it commin', that's why I went solo
... You got jealous when I got my own company. But I'm a man, and ain't
nobody helpin' me."
Allmusic calls Death Certificate "even harder and angrier than AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted...
It continues the sharp insights and unflinching looks at contemporary
urban lifestyles that his solo debut only hinted at; in short, it's
hardcore without any gangsta posturing." They also call it "funkier,
noisier, and more musically effective (than AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted)."
Rating: Recommended "...adrenalin-drenched funk...integrates
vitriolic politics with raw street knowledge...achieves an almost George
Clinton-esque sense of celebratory freakiness..." - Spin (1/92, p. 72)
Death Certificate received a "meager" $18,000 promotion
budget, and neither of its singles received much airplay, although the
album's two singles, "Steady Mobbin'" and "True to the Game," received
music video treatment.[14]
Allmusic calls Death Certificate "even harder and angrier than AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted...
It continues the sharp insights and unflinching looks at contemporary
urban lifestyles that his solo debut only hinted at; in short, it's
hardcore without any gangsta posturing." They also call it "funkier,
noisier, and more musically effective (than AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted)."
Rating: Recommended "...adrenalin-drenched funk...integrates
vitriolic politics with raw street knowledge...achieves an almost George
Clinton-esque sense of celebratory freakiness..." - Spin (1/92, p. 72)
Death Certificate received a "meager" $18,000 promotion
budget, and neither of its singles received much airplay, although the
album's two singles, "Steady Mobbin'" and "True to the Game," received
music video treatment.[14]
While making Death Certificate, Ice Cube was allegedly affiliated with the Nation of Islam, which had a large impact on the majority of the album's content. Death Certificate
was roughly organized as two thematic elements of a larger whole, and
opens with Cube's explanation: "The Death Side: a mirror image of where
we are today; The Life Side: a vision of where we need to go." The first
half, therefore, is replete with the tales of drug dealing,
person-mongering and violence expected of a gangsta rap
album in 1991. The second half provided somewhat of a synthesis between
that genre and the type of prescriptive messages more often found from
artists wholly divorced from the gangsta image.
Both sides, however, provide a more introspective and encouraging
outlook that fits with the common conception of gangsta rap. The Death
Side's "A Bird in the Hand" laments a young man's slide into a life of
drug-dealing after finding that the best jobs available to him with
little education and a jail record simply won't pay the bills.
While making Death Certificate, Ice Cube was allegedly affiliated with the Nation of Islam, which had a large impact on the majority of the album's content. Death Certificate
was roughly organized as two thematic elements of a larger whole, and
opens with Cube's explanation: "The Death Side: a mirror image of where
we are today; The Life Side: a vision of where we need to go." The first
half, therefore, is replete with the tales of drug dealing,
person-mongering and violence expected of a gangsta rap
album in 1991. The second half provided somewhat of a synthesis between
that genre and the type of prescriptive messages more often found from
artists wholly divorced from the gangsta image.
Both sides, however, provide a more introspective and encouraging
outlook that fits with the common conception of gangsta rap. The Death
Side's "A Bird in the Hand" laments a young man's slide into a life of
drug-dealing after finding that the best jobs available to him with
little education and a jail record simply won't pay the bills.
There is no shortage of nihilistic or, at least, criminal posturing
either, with the Life Side's "Black Korea" threatening rioting and arson
alongside Black entrepreneurship as a response to the preponderance of
Korean grocery stores in ghettos across the United States. The track was
seen as a response to the death of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African American
girl who had been shot by a Korean store owner on March 16, 1991
because the owner thought Harlins was trying to steal a bottle of orange
juice. Considering that the release of the track preceded the Los Angeles Riots, in which many of the people targeted were of Korean descent, Ice Cube was accused of inciting racism by some groups.
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Ice Cube - Black Korea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcL3e1tJT4U
There is no shortage of nihilistic or, at least, criminal posturing
either, with the Life Side's "Black Korea" threatening rioting and arson
alongside Black entrepreneurship as a response to the preponderance of
Korean grocery stores in ghettos across the United States. The track was
seen as a response to the death of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African American
girl who had been shot by a Korean store owner on March 16, 1991
because the owner thought Harlins was trying to steal a bottle of orange
juice. Considering that the release of the track preceded the Los Angeles Riots, in which many of the people targeted were of Korean descent, Ice Cube was accused of inciting racism by some groups.
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