1. Track " Fuck that Police” was not originally intended for an album
At first, Dre didn't want to include this track on the album and asked "What else do you have?". But after he and Eazy-E were arrested for shooting people with pentball guns at a bus stop, Dre decided to put the song on the album.
2. "Straight Outta Compton" would be one of the very first albums to receive the label: "These songs contain profanity..."
Since then, the well-known label has appeared "Parental control":
3. Tracy "The D.O.C." was an unofficial member of the group
For many of you, The D.O.C. , perhaps less known than N.W.A, in part because he was not one of the main members of the group, but he was the one who did the intro to the song “Parental Discretion From Advised ” and also wrote lyrics for N.W.A.
4. In 1989, only one radio station dared to play the track “ Fuck tha Police” aired
It was the Australian radio station Triple J. They played the track for six months until the politicians and the police banned it. In response to the ban, the radio station aired the track N.W.A. "Express Yourself" to repeat for 24 hours.
5. The band didn't like the label "gangster rap"
N.W.A. preferred that people call their music "reality rap".
6. In the beginning (before N.W.A.) Dr. Dre did electro-rap
He was a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru. It was a band from Compton that recorded music around 1983. Dre later left the band because Eazy-E convinced him to become part of the N.W.A.
7. Ice Cube dissed Eazy-E in 'Boyz N Tha Hood'
In December 1989, three years after N.W.A was formed, Ice Cube left the group at the height of its popularity. As a result, a beef started between Ice Cube and Eazy-E. Ice Cube and N.W.A. periodically began to make each other diss. Ice Cube also persuaded the director of the film "Boyz-N-The-Hood" by John Singleton to include the following episode in the film: a passer-by in a We Want Eazy T-shirt rips off a gold chain and tries to run away, but in the end they catch up with him. Thus, Ice Cube hinted that only obsos listen to Eazy-E.
8. The group began its existence from a flea market
Eazy-E was looking through mixtapes at a flea market until he came across Dre records. Eazy-E contacted the flea market owner and got a Dre number.
9. Ice Cube studied to be an architect
Ice Cube went to tech before realizing he wanted to be a rapper. After the first semester, Ice Cube dropped out of college to focus entirely on rap.
10 The FBI Was One Of The Few Who Helped The N.W.A. Sell Their Records
On MTV banned clips of N.W.A. and music on radio stations. The police wrote in the press that their music encourages violence and promotes drugs, the FBI also tried to impose prohibitive measures. But in the end, it all worked as a PR and marketing ploy, the group became even more popular and sales increased.
Eric Wright was expelled from high school and began to earn money through the drug trade. The music label Ruthless Records was founded with the proceeds. When two more members of Ruthless, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube wrote "Boyz-N-The-Hood", ... Read all
Eazy-E (real name Erіс Linn Wright) was, in fact, the author of the Gangsta-rap genre, the founder of the first label on West coast, member and creator of the cult rap group "N.W.A."
Eric Wright was expelled from high school and began to earn money by dealing drugs. The music label Ruthless Records was founded with the proceeds. When two more members of Ruthless, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube wrote "Boyz-N-The-Hood", the group "N.W.A." was formed, which, in addition to Dre and Ice Cube, included DJ Yella and MC Ren.
For relatively short period Ruthless Records released N.W.A albums and the Posse (1987), Straight Outta Compton (1988) and Eazy-E's solo CD Eazy-Duz-It (also 1988). The album sold 2 million copies, making it double platinum. This album featured the hits "We Want Eazy" and "Eazy-Er Said Than Dunn" (a remix of "Boyz-n-the-Hood", another hit, was also included). The album was produced by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella.
"Boyz-N-the Hood", "Fuck The Police", "Express Yourself" are tracks inscribed in gold letters in the annals of hip-hop. The historic, groundbreaking Straight Outta Compton album sold millions of copies. Even white teenagers from wealthy families dressed in black LA Raiders jackets and baseball caps and yelled "Fuck The Police."
After a few years, there were differences in the group. Ice Cube was the first to leave, then the creator of the new label, Suge Knight, invited Dre to his label. The incident didn't knock Eazy out of the saddle. Despite the fact that the NWA album "Efil4zfagin" (the "changeling" of the phrase Niggaz 4 Life), where Eazy-E became the frontman of the team, was not very successful and in some ways turned out to be a step back, Ruthless Records continued to exist and gave a start to life great band from Cleveland Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. But after the release of the weak mini-album "It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa" with another spit in the direction of Dre, Eazy's significance as a musical figure dropped to a critical point.
Dre left the NWA to form his Death Row Records label with Suge Knight in early 1992.
N.W.A. discography:
1987 N.W.A and the Posse (Label - Ruthless)
1988 Straight Outta Compton (Label - Priority)
1991 Niggaz4life (Label - Ruthless)
Group NWA(or Niggaz with Attitude) was one of the most famous gangsta rap groups in the late 80s and early 90s. Despite not being played on the radio, they sold over 9 million of their records between 1986 and 1991.
And although the first album set the tone, but released in 1988, the album "Straight Outta Compton" ("Straight from Compton") described the cruel world of crime of gangster groups in Los Angeles, which opened up the rest of the world for them.
A lot of controversy was caused by the song “F*ck tha Police” (To hell with the police), which led to impartial remarks by the director of the FBI towards the publisher of the album - record company Ruthless Records, and the local police refused to monitor security at the band's performances NWA.
Like many other rap groups at the time, members of the Eazy-E team (Izi-E), Dr. Dre(Dr. Dre), Ice Cube (Ice Cube), MC Ren (MC Ren) and DJ Yella (DJ Yella) decided to go their separate ways, and were not shy about blaming each other.
Read this article to find out how the spat and its consequences have affected the career of each of them. former members groups.
In brackets, years spent in the NWA group.
Eazy-E (1986-1991)
aka Eric Lynn Wright
Easy-E was born in Compton, California. With the help of quite a large amount of money, he was rumored to have signed a deal with Ruthless Records.
Initially, he was not supposed to perform, however, after he went on stage and sang along with Ice Cube and sang "Boyz-n-the-Hood", a new rap group, NWA, was born. Soon, he began to take the money earned by the group "on loan", and at the same time did not say anything to the other members.
As the group broke up, the animosity between him and the rest of the group increased even further. Recrimination Easy, Ice Cuba and Dre ended in a mutual shootout.
What he did after NWA: Despite the fact that his first solo album "Eazy-Duz-It" (1988) went platinum twice, Easy's solo career was not long. He died of AIDS in March 1995, but his legacy continues: two of his posthumous albums, released in 1995, were successful.
Many songs were written in memory of him by his artist friends, and his son made a documentary about him. Compton, California celebrates Eazy-E Day on April 7th each year.
I bet you don't know what: Lance Ryder Wilson is a playable character from the game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"- was copied from Easy-I.
Dr. Dre (1986-1991)
aka André Romell Young
Dr. Dre was born in 1965 in Los Angeles, California. In the 80s he started his career as a DJ on "The World Class Wreckin' Cru". Since he was a producer, his vocal abilities were less noticeable compared to Ice Cube and Easy-I.
However, after the departure of Ice Cube in 1991, he began recording his songs with other members. Its sad famous fame he confirmed the brawler when he attacked TV presenter Dee Barnes.
What he did after the NWA: Dre's reaction to Barnes' report of the NWA-Ice Cube spat led to a rift between him, Easy-E, and the NWA. The controversy led to him being fired from the band, and despite having to pay record company compensation for the breakup, with the help of his friend Suge Knight, he didn't have to.
They later created their label "Death Row Records".
A little later, again after disagreements over money, he left Death Row and formed his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. It is not known whether Dre and Easy-E had time to reconcile before Easy-E's death, but the ease with which Dre and Ice Cube teamed up in the mid-90s allows us to draw just such conclusions.
What he's doing now: Probably counting his money. Despite disagreements with the NWA, labels, and as a result, with other artists, Dre continues to be a successful producer. According to Rolling Stone magazine's "50 Richest Rock Stars" list, he is one of the most successful producers of hip-hop groups. This is what a man who is a pioneer of gangsta rap and G-funk gets, who had his own successful career, and who brought to light such stars as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent.
Dre continues to improve and introduce new hip-hop and pop artists to the world, earning up to $ 2 million per song from one of the talents he discovered. According to rumors, Dre is currently working on his solo album "Detox".
Bet you don't know what: Dre donated a million dollars to the Julia S. Hester Foundation to families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Ice Cube (1986-1989)
a.k.a. Shea Jackson
Ice Cube's NWA career began with the song "Boyz-n-the-Hood", which first brought Easy-E to the microphone. He wrote most of the songs on the albums "Eazy-Duz-It" (1988) and "Straight Outta Compton" (1989).
In 1987, he left the group to study architecture at the Phoenix Institute of Technology. Like Dre, he left the group in 1989 after financial fraud.
What he did after NWA: After leaving the group, Ice Cube first tried to get other members of the group to form his own label. His first solo album was "AmeriKKKa"s Most Wanted" (1990), however, some of the songs were remade and released in 1991 - the album "Death Certificate". The lyrics contain many religious, anti-Semitic and misogynistic statements and hatred of homosexuals.
Even harsh criticism did not hurt much the success of the album. He has a very successful solo career, often performs alongside other well-known hip hop artists, and has appeared in several films including Three Kings (1999), xXx: State of the Union (2005), and a couple of lesser known "Barbershop" (2002) and "Are We There Yet?" (2005).
What he's doing now: After six successful solo albums, his latest creation "Laugh Now, Cry Later" ("Laugh Now, Cry Later"), released in 2006 by his label "Da Lench Mob", was also a success. He recently appeared on FX's reality show "White. Black".
Cube also stars in three new films: "Are We Done Yet?" (2007) and "The Extractors and First Sunday" (2008). In addition, he continues to work in the film "Prince of Compton" "Prince of Compton", which is directed by the son of Easy-I.
We bet you don't know: He is rumored to star in and produce a film version of the TV show "Welcome Back, Kotter" ("Welcome Back, Kotter"), where he will play the role of Mr. Kotter - one of the most difficult and controversial roles in his acting career.
MC Ren (1986-1991)
aka Lorenzo Jerald Patterson
MC Ren was born in Compton, California. His other nicknames were "The Ruthless Villain" and "The Villain in Black". Right out of school, Ren joined the NWA and performed songs on the Straight Outta Compton album. When Ice Cube left, Ren began to play a significant role in the group, and remained so until the group broke up in 1991.
What he did after NWA: After the breakup, Ren stayed with Easy-E and recorded his own solo album, Kizz My Black Azz, in 1992. The album went platinum - a real confirmation of Ren's talent. While working on his second album "Shock of the Hour" (1993), he produced the film "Lost in the Game"(2004). After that, two more albums were recorded, but none of them became more successful than the debut. Ran is still a respected person in the rapper community, he often appears at performances with Ice Cube, The D.O.C, Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill and many others.
What he's doing now: Ren says he's already on vacation, but in 2006 he sang a few songs on Public Enemy's "Rebirth of a Nation" album, and was rumored to be currently he participates in the recording of the group's debut album "Concrete Criminals".
We bet you don't know what: Ren got a crescent moon tattoo on his right arm, symbolizing the changes that have taken place in his life.
DJ Yella (1986-1991)
aka Antoine Carraby
Yella was also the DJ on The World Class Wreckin' Cru. He joined Dr. Dre on the NWA tour. He co-produced NWA albums and Easy-E's debut album "Eazy Duz It" and made porn films under the name "Tha Kidd".
What he did after NWA: After the breakup of NWA, he continued to record albums and single tracks for Ruthless Records artists, including Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. DJ Yella released only one solo album "One Mo Nigga Ta Go" (1996), which featured tracks from other artists. However, he did not achieve great success and returned back to filming porn.
What he's doing now: DJ Yella is making porn films, filming aspiring actors and actresses. And although he was not invited to the NWA unification tour in 2000, he agreed to another similar experiment in 2007.
Bet you don't know what: DJ Yella took his name from the song "Mr. Yellow” by the Tom Tom Club.
The D.O.C. (1986-1991)
aka Tracy Lynn Curry
The D.O.C was born in Houston, Texas and was a founding member of the NWA band. Before joining the NWA in 1986, he honed his craft with the Fila Fresh Crew rap group in Dallas. He left the band after recording the first album, came back after Ice Cube's departure, and stayed even after his return.
He made his biggest contribution with the 1991 album "Efil4zaggin". Like other members of the group, The D.O.C released his solo album "No One Can Do It Better" (1989), which was produced by Dre. The album was recorded in a reggae style with a touch of rock and lyrical East Coast melodies.
Unfortunately, D.O.C's solo career ended after he injured his throat during a road accident.
What he did after NWA: He continued to write songs and helped record debut album Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" (1992), and the Snoop Dogg album "Doggystyle" (1993). However, he soon left the label "Death Row" because of ... money. He soon moved south to Atlanta.
He still wrote lyrics for joint project Dre and Ice Cube, and simultaneously recorded another solo album "Helter Skelter" (1996), but the lyrics alone could not hide all the musical flaws of the voice. In 2003, Dr. Dre and The D.O.C teamed up to record their third album, "Deuce", with other artists contributing to most of the tracks.
What he's doing now: In 2007, The D.O.C is set to release another solo album called "Voice Through Hot Vessels", but only after Dre releases his "Detox" album, on which he also takes part.
Bet you don't know what: Follow the evolution of an artist's name. At first he was called Tracy to Tray, and immediately before joining N.W.A. group his name was Dr. T to T or Doc T. Presumably, he changed his name because the NWA didn't need two doctors - that's The D.O.C.
Arabian Prince (1986–1988)
aka Mik Lezan
Arabian Prince was born in Inglewood, California. He is known for his performances in the NWA, but he also recorded his solo album "Situation Hot" (1985) even before joining the group. In 1988, he left the group when Ice Cube returned.
What he did after NWA: The rapper/producer/DJ continued his career right after he left the band and released Brother Arab in 1989. The album did not turn out very well, but in 1993 he released another album "Where" s My Bytches ", which had the same sad results.
What he's doing now: In 2000, Arabian Prince appeared as a video game producer and tester for FOX Interactive and Vivendi Universal, where he still writes music to this day. In addition, he records electro hip hop music under the Dutch label Clone Records under the pseudonym Professor X, performs as a DJ in Los Angeles nightclubs, and sells various DJ equipment on OneFader.com.
I bet you don't know what: He's the main supporter of the musical software Reason, whose products help convert analog music to digital format.
Krazy Dee (1986-1988)
Krazy Dee is also from Compton, California. He joined NWA in 1986, but for unknown reasons, like Arabian Prince, left the group in 1988.
What he did after NWA: He planned to finish his solo album in 1996, but the project was put on hold due to the illness of a family member of the record company's owner. Finding nothing else, he abandoned the project indefinitely.
What he's doing now: In the summer of 2007, he's planning to release an EP (Extended Play) and is working on the film Ghetto Godz, in which he says he plans to reveal the shocking truth about NWA and why he then left.
We bet you don't know what: Krazy Dee is also known by the pseudonym Culo Popper.
Still alive...
Despite disagreements over money, after Easy-E's death, the animosity between the band members almost vanished. The remaining members of the group (almost in full force) teamed up and continued to perform alongside their protégés Eminem and Snoop Dogg.
Since the release of the first album NWA Almost two decades have passed, however, no other hip-hop or rap group has ever come close to the success that NWA had..
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For 30 years, hip-hop has changed to the last cell. If the golden hits of the 90s seem like naphthalene junk to current listeners, but still fall on the ear, then the work of N.W.A cannot be let into the head and digested, just as a schoolboy of 2050 cannot learn from a paper textbook.
It was music pumped up, fast, noisy and clanging. The samples, by today's standards, were crudely stuck in many layers. Their edges stuck out like uncombed hair. Fragments of sounds and phrases crammed into the chorus, alternating melodies of verses and obligatory scratches, stupid curls of soloists and broad-shouldered leather jackets, which then changed to dimensionless jeans - young hip-hop has nothing like it and does not know it. In fact, all the musical material of N.W.A is a piece of work, with the exception of one track "Always Into Something", which is the progenitor of all the work of Dr. Dre during the Death Row period, and therefore of all the gangsta beats of the 90s in general.
It is quite possible that as the listener gets to know him, he will realize the advantages that hip-hop has somewhat lost in the course of its development: masculinity, rigidity, intolerance and adrenaline in the presentation of tracks. Most of the verses are read by the participants on the verge of screaming. Most beats are twice as fast as today's hits. The music rumbles and does not let you catch your breath. And what can I say, even today, a chill runs down your spine when, at the end of the "Always Into Something" video, Eazy-E points the barrel of a gun at you.
The shock effect of the first tracks "Straight Outta Compton" and "Fuck The Police" was unsurpassed. Other political rappers in the late 80s only raised their heads, most artists ran around the stage in wide pants with stupid smiles and read about girls and golden chains. Cube, Ren and Eazy punched the wall with their foreheads and burst into the audience like robbers. No one read with such fury then and no one reads now. No one gave a damn about what was then adopted in popular music morality is so zealous, and few people know how now.
It's no joke, the anti-police manifesto "Fuck The Police" was not shredded for the censored version of the album - it was simply forced to be removed entirely.
It's no joke, the very word nigga, which is now used as "hello", caused a flurry of public outrage, because it was a word from the dirty back streets of the ghetto!
It's no joke, the group received a letter from the FBI demanding to tail!
The first album went double platinum despite the unthinkably hard content at the time. The merciless reality that was "meat out" turned into the eyes of the public plus the diverse, terribly professional beats of Dr. Dre - that's what brought the group to the top and that's what makes the stars who came to this peak in subsequent years respect this disappeared team. Each track of each album contains separate lines or verses and musical moves that gave rise to whole directions and layers of modern music.
N.W.A flaunt gangsterism in "Gangsta Gangsta" - and for 15 years after that, rappers do not do without firing and threats in the lyrics, and the style itself, which the group called at first reality rap, grows like a cancer under the name of gangsta rap.
N.W.A credits itself with dozens of murders - and after that, hundreds of artists compose bloody fables about themselves for the pleasure of listeners.
N.W.A relishes the details of aggressive sex - after that, rappers build entire careers on frank audio porn. The participants give each other deadly disses after parting - from now on, the vicious confrontation between rappers becomes an important part of this culture.
N.W.A raises difficult issues of racial inequality at the same time as Public Enemy: without them, the phrase from Kendrick Lamar's song "We gon" be alright!" when chanted on the streets would simply mean "we are fine," and between the lines there would not be a cheeky "Fuck the police".
Your favorite producer is churning out powerful bass lines because Dr. Dre taught him how to do it. Your favorite rapper breaks moral patterns and talks about the most vicious and disgusting things because MC Ren has already written all this before him. Your favorite MC scalps with his reading because Ice Cube taught him that level of confidence, and takes pride in killing enemies because Eazy-E did it. Your favorite music causes shivers and fear in the public because N.W.A made it possible.
In response to the question "What is hip-hop for you?" Ice Cube, in an interview many years after the breakup of the group, said only one word: "Freedom". The sly, round-faced veteran did not specify that it was he and his fellow bandmates who gave this freedom to hip-hop.
As I leave, believe I "m stomping, But when I come back boy, I" m coming straight outta Compton.
WHAT ARE THEY?
ice cube
On the first album - the brightest and most active MC of the group, who also wrote all the lyrics. He achieved a shock effect in his verses as quickly as possible, the pitch had a general and win-win. After finishing work on the first album, he was indignant at the modest reward for his work and left the group, starting solo career, full of victories and defeats, but incredibly long and, in general, successful. In 1990-1992, he exchanged diss with former partners, including references to violence and murder. In the early 90s he became the god of black revolutionaries, in the late 90s he changed into a mafioso, along the way trying his hand at the role of a film actor. Then he tried on a party-goer outfit, then he mixed it all up and remained forever young.
Dr. Dre
The center and engine of the whole team, the author of the arrangements. On the first album, I read less, leaving the most aggressive verses to other members and pumping the musical component. After the departure of Ice Cube matured and began to share the functions of the frontman with MC Ren, reading in almost every track and not being shy of nihilism and aggression, including in relation to Cube. I didn't write the lyrics myself. After his second album, he left Ruthless Records, becoming a founding member of Death Row and promoting talent such as Snoop Dogg and Dogg Pound in later years. Together with them, the former partner Eazy-E brutally dissed. After Eazy's death and departure from Death Row, he gradually took his career to cosmic heights. On this moment one of the top rap musicians in general.
Eazy-E
Creator of the band - and later CEO of his own label Ruthless. The first solo tracks were a serious success, and on the group's first album, E was one of the frontmen, although learning to read was given with great difficulty. He was notable for his small stature and high voice, which, in contrast to the nihilistic texts, gave the necessary effect on the public. On the second album, he was in the shadows. After the collapse of the group in 1991, he was forced to write his own lyrics, rude and evil solo work was built around diss towards Death Row and did not differ in innovation. He died of AIDS in 1995, having previously discovered the talent of the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony group.
M.C. Ren
After Ice Cube became the group's main lyricist (with the help of The D.O.C.). Owner low voice and a stubborn immoral, the abundance of cruelty and violence in the texts of the second album is directly his merit. In 1988-1992, he wrote texts that were complex in structure, very politicized and negative. In the second half of the 90s, he switched to a simpler, dumber gangsta rap. In the early 2000s, he worked on the albums of Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube, but he could not use this and got lost. However, a solo EP is being prepared for the release of the biopic.
DJ Yella
The second beatmaker of the group. Perhaps the main supplier of musical raw materials for arrangements is Dr. Dre. After the breakup of the group, he took up solo work and disappeared.
WHAT TO LISTEN?
The first album, thanks to the deafening popularity of singles on the principle of "forbidden fruit", broke into the industry by storm. Recorded by brainstorm shortly before release. Musically, despite the abundance of noisy samples and scratches, he was ahead of his time - a cleaner bass, diversity of rhythms and melodies and an abundance of their sources, complexity and aggressiveness. He shook the moral habits of the then public and plunged society into shock, simultaneously becoming double platinum. Dozens of quotes from the album still circulate on contemporary releases to this day. Even the cover has gained cult status.
Small EP with gold sales status. Contains the adrenaline-fueled title track and is preparing for the second group album.
The first half of the second album is a celebration of masculinity, shots, impudent bravado and mountains of corpses. The second half is misogynistic horror, written as if specifically to provoke the public. The music of this album completely crossed out the trends of the 80s, the sound became fuller, cleaner and smoother, with full-bodied melodies and leisurely luxury of drums - one of the diamonds in Dr. Dre's rich track record. The album was certified double platinum in its year of release, the first ever uncensored release to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and one of the few to get the "parental advisory" label into circulation.
In '87 Gets Famous Gets Boyz N' The Hood - debut song 18-year-old Ice Cube (real name O "shea Jackson) from South Central, Los Angeles. In the 90s, he will become famous as an extremist rapper, defender of black rights, as an MC who shook America well with his socio-political texts ...
A remix of the song appeared on Eazy-E's (who performed it) album "Eazy-Duz-It" in 1988, and the original appeared the same year on the NWA album. This group was a real breakthrough in the history of this style, put together in 87 by Ice Cube and two dudes from Compton (a suburb of Los Angeles) - musician Andre Young, better known as DR. Dre, and crime boss Eric Wright, who took the nickname Eazy-E. Eazy was one of the real heroes of gang-rap, who played big role rather than as an MC (mostly he read other people's compositions), but as the creator of the legendary label Ruthless Records and a brilliant producer who knew where to invest money. In the past, Eazy E was a drug dealer and rumored to have earned money from the business and founded a label. Whether this is true or not is not known, but when Eazy stepped on the stage, he gave up on it - it's a fact.
A little later, MC Ren (Lorenzo Patterson) and DJ Yella (Anthony Carrabee), as well as Arabian Prince (Mik Lezan) and The D.O.C (Tray Curry) joined the NWA. First, in 1988, their debut album appeared called "NWA & the Posse", where, in addition to them, a lot of people read, with whom the guys closely communicated. The album did not become revolutionary, but paved the way for the group - they began to listen to young guys. And in 1989, Eazy E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, MC Ren and Arabian Prince released the already revolutionary, scandalous "Straight Outta Compton", which contained such defiant songs as "F *** The Police", thanks to which the actual Speaking of which, the group was blacklisted by the FBI, which was called upon to uphold the moral image of the nation. They certainly weren't the first ones to voice their dissatisfaction with the "enforcers of the law", Ice T had phrases like "fuckin police", even older rappers voiced dissatisfaction. But to dedicate a whole song to this issue, and very directly and unambiguously - NWA is undoubtedly the first. Also of interest to this disc was the song Gangsta, Gangsta, from which the term gangsta-rap appeared. Other "immortal" achievements of NWA include the creation of a real gang-hop slogan "Life is ain" t nothing, but bitches and money", which, when loosely translated into Russian, means something like "Life is nothing but heifers and money." In general, almost all songs are, if not cult songs, then they are demonstrative for sure - they do not call for killing anyone, they do not say to kill everyone right and left. They simply claim that if someone tries to fuck them, then he will have a hard time. They just talk about their style. life. They show life in the black ghetto in all its glory - violence, police brutality, drugs, murder. There is no assessment of good or bad. There is real picture happening, no more, no less.
Unfortunately, soon, namely a year later, Ice Cube, with his departure, began the collapse of this most authoritative rap project. He had a really great fight with Eazy E and Ruthless Records manager Jerry Heller "om. According to Cube, he received much less than he should have. He later left for New York, and there, along with his old friend Sir Jinx, party BOMB SQUAD and group PUBLIC ENEMY started recording a solo album and soon created his own label Street Knowledge.In their new album "Efil4Zaggin", N.W.A commemorated Ice Cube, who more than paid tribute to them on the Death Certificate album in the song "No Vasiline". NWA did not last long without him - Dre soon followed Cube's example, he also firmly grappled with Eazy E and left the NWA. Together with Suge Knight, Dre started creating the Death Row Records label, which became the main opponent of Ruthless, and as a result, the group as such ceased to exist in the 91st.
After breaking up, the guys did not abandon their careers, except for the aforementioned Dr. Dre and Ice Cube "and everyone who was associated with the NWA went solo. The D.O.C, seen from the first NWA album, recorded his solo album at 89, he was still on Ruthless, but when Dre and Suge Knight founded Death Row, went over to them. Arabian Prince also didn't go away and also recorded his solo album at the end of 89. Eazy E, who recorded solo albums before the NWA, began to read solo again, as well as peddling young talents. MC Ren first limited himself to EPs in 1992, DJ Yella first worked only on music in other people's albums, he released his solo album only in 1996.
