NationStates Jolt Archive

I just wanted to get an idea how familiar the people on NS are with hip-hop at all. I won't explain who NWA are, I just want to know if anyone here knows them, and if so, why. I happen to think they were the greatest (a clue there as to their age), but since I'm too much of a newb to figure out how to make a poll ( :P), I have to do it the old fashioned way.

So....do you love them? Detest them? Don't have a clue as to who they are?

For those brothers coming "Straigh Outta Compton", I salute you and your choice of group. :D

i don't listen to much hip hop or rap, but straight outta compton hit me at a particular time and place in my life. i can still almost recite from memory straight outta compton, f#ck the police and gangsta gangsta and a little bit of dopeman.

They're OK, but I like Public Enemy better.

i know who they are, i know alot about hip-hop. i detest it. i sometimes like the message they are "trying" to send. but they always seem to go about it the wrong way. either way, i loath nwa.

I only heard about them through an Eminem song. Can't say I 've listened to them though. Guess I started with hip-hop a bit late.

For those brothers coming "Straigh Outta Compton", I salute you and your choice of group. :D

Go here now. Simply fantastic version:

http://www.ninagordon.com/audio/straightouttacompton.mp3

NWA and dr dre and ice cube (particularly in the masterpiece of the genre, Natural Born Killers) are really the only 'good' rap music ever, in my opinion.

Good only taken in its natural, ironical sense.

I'm hot like lava. You got a problem? I got a problem solver. And his name is revolver.

Nice nice, some response.

Ciryar, you have to get ahold of the album "Straight Outta Compton" or "NWA: Greatest Hits". You don't know what your missing. That Eminem song was prolly a Dre song actually, "Forgot about Dre, which Em raps on. (Dre was a member of NWA!!)

Kanabia, Public Enemy's good, but they are so...poltical, lol. Sometime, being a gangsta is just much more appealing (and funnier, as well).

Ernst_Rohm, I heartily approve. Who can deny the power of "Fuck tha Police" and "Gangsta Gangsta!"? Ice Cube at his lyrical best on the latter. Before he made children's movies.... :headbang:

Does anyone have a favourite member? Gotta be Eazy-E for me, even though he's a) dead and b) was not the most talented lyrically or making beats. It was the personality tho, and the sick "Compton" cap over the jerry curls. RIP Eric Wright.

WTF is that, Bodies Without Organs?!!!

Funny, but a disgrace to the boys-n-the-hood. Eazy's rolling in his grave.

Their first album had some good stuff, but I thought Ice Cube was the best of them.
Ice T was good, and I think a better musician ('I'm your pusher' and 'New Jack Hustler' were cool).
Rap got a bit too carried away with the gansta stuff and I found it a tad repititive and so turned off it. There's just so many times you can listen to someone tell the world what a bad-ass mother-fucker he is and how he's gonna kill all the police and get all the 'hos.
Always thought Beastie Boys were good.
But as Kanabia mentioned, PE were way above them all.
I downloaded an awesome cover of a Snoop Dog song the other day - 'Gin and Juice' by Ween no less, done in a rockabilly sort of way. Check it out. It's superb.

Rap and Hip-Hop aren't my favorite genres, but they're ok.
NWA's ok, but I like Public Enemy and Ice-T better.
Run DMC and Beasty Boys are my faves.

Ice-T was amazing until he started acting. Law and Order SVU? He's horrible on it.

Stick to being an OG, that's all I can say.

NWA were good, to bad about E.

i probably like the ideas put out by public enemy and to a lesser extent ice tea better than NWA, but if you weren't there when straight outta compton first came out in the late 80s you can understand how new and powerful and even scarey it felt, it was like revolution without politics, it was stunning. all the imitaters have dulled the impact of this album. my friends and i were college punks listening to the dead kennedies and op ivy and minor threat and all the hardcore and punk rock of the 80s, but when that album first came out we played it over and over and over again.

I just get nothing out of rap/hip-hop/R&B

thats why I listen to indie music.

Oh, there are some indie rappers - Dizzee Rascal is one who I semi-enjoyed.

I know, Straight Outta Compton was truly revolutionary. For an album thrown together in six weeks to be sold out of the back of cars in Compton, it began gave credibility to a genre (gangsta rap) and changed the music industry forever, similar to what Nirvana did with grunge for rock in '91.

"And Dre is back from the C-P-T, dropping some shit that's D-O-P-E, so fuck tha P-O-L-I-C-E, and any mothafucka that disagrees!"

Crass, crude, vulgar, and rude. Bloody brilliant. :p

Though I may add that the line shown above came from "100 Miles and Runnin'", off the album also called "100 Miles and Runnin' ". Just so I don't come off as a newb.