Special Ed says N.W.A brought "Age of Destruction" to children and Hip Hop Culture
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Special Ed joined Drink Champs and definitely brought knowledge. When asked to choose between Wu-Tang and N.W.A, he said N.W.A brought the age of destruction to Hip Hop culture. What do you think?
It’s very simple. The message that NWA was spreading was very important, to know about the problems in south central LA. But the side effect was the downfall of the culture because of gangster rap’s popularity. The keep it real era is the beginning of the end, and the downfall of hip-hop culture. NWA is responsible for that.
The “KEEP IT REAL” era had nothing to do with NWA !! Keeping it real in my eyes is being yourself: HEAVY D. LL, SALT N Pepa, LATIFAH & LYTE not jumping on the bandwagon for spins. They didn’t have to sound like the newer generation to get props and they stayed relevant enough to move on and do other things. The “Keep It Real” (40’s & Blunts, selling Crack and smoking weed, shooting Glocks) was what NY was pushing and who didn’t love it ? Did any of y’all look at these emcees and say “NO, I’m not pushing that !! I’m sticking with PUBLIC ENEMY, PARIS & X-CLAN” ?
I think America already knew about the problems in the ghettos of LA way before NWA spoke on it. America got a wake-up call after the Watts riots in the 60s.
Sounds like they should’ve kept it to themselves!
@@deaconx48 lol
see above comment
I love that Special Ed said it and said as a matter of fact. Whoever disagrees just got in their feelings too much.
Facts. A lot old folks is butt hurt.
Who ever disagrees are kids who ever agrees with wit Ed are Mature about his statement..
I agree with special head of thousand percent. Anybody that disagreed with special ed is the problem
Anybody that disagree with special ed or the same people that's back in sexy red and sukihana
That true I remember fucked influence on my generation first rappesr were positive remember said Dr o I look like a muthafuckin role model to a kid looking up to me life ain't nothin but bitches and money!
Special Ed was 100% correct. I respect NWA for the material they put out but sadly the Black community in North America has no leadership to tell some of these young guys to hold off on some of the content they are putting out then and now.
I'm in Toronto - Canada and pretty much most of the NY Rappers came to Toronto back then. we had access to pretty much everything that came out via Mixtapes or CKLN 88.1 FM College radio station that played Hip Hop Music every Saturday from 1pm-4pm. The first time I heard NWA it was on that station and the track was "Dopeman, and it wasn't the radio-friendly version. That was the first time I heard that kind of language in music as a kid. Fast-forward a few years and I started hearing about Public Enemy has issues and this world I never heard of before. "antisemitism" back then I didn't understand what that word meant until later on and it clicked. PE was talking about the plight of the Palestinians and that was their way of silencing Griff then and anyone who goes against Israel.
The US government and its mass media is the biggest propaganda machine on the planet, Many people in Jamaica speculated that The CIA had something with Bob Marly getting shot in the early 80s and later on getting cancer, he was trying to stop all the violence and unite the two political party in Jamaica. One party was pro-Cuba. Speaking of Cuba. A couple of years ago I came across an article about how the US government was funding Rappers in Cuba so they can create unrest that society. Article is called "Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’
If the US government is doing this in other countries what makes you think they are not behind some of the crap that's being pushed in media and then and today.
As a young man, I loved NWA. Ice Cube was my go to music to get me hyped up. Nevertheless, as a older, more seasoned man, this music was our detriment. Most of us started wearing our pants sagging. Started walking and talking with a different swagger. Unbeknownst to us, this was planned. The notorious meeting of the music industry and the prison industry is a footnote in black mass incarceration. How did we go from Public Enemy, X Clan, KRS-1, to NWA, Snoop, and Cube?
NWA changed Hip Hop completely. The gangster shit unfortunately aint goin away
Ice-T was the start, but NWA had the bigger reach. They’re tied for my favorite rap group ever and honestly, now that I’m older, they probably did do way more harm than good to the culture in the long run.
It most definitely was NWA. Ice T is the police remember New Jack City & Law & Order?? He the police that's why he always get police roles
@@SexiestManAlive4327 Ice T started his career off with rapping about gang and pimp culture. The movie and TV roles came years later. It most definitely was Ice T. I’m from NYS and he was the first person I heard rapping about that stuff
But Ice t always had a message in his older raps he didn't just glorified the shit!
@@jameshannah6052 Ne definitely glorified pimping
Ed is 100% correct.
He’s not lying. A lot of bad cane with the good. We have to acknowledge that.
No it's jealousy because the west coast dominate hip hop longer than the east coast
🤔@@brandonhaymon3000
@@brandonhaymon3000bruh whattt???? Big cap
West coast dominated three years of hip hop
In the 2000s with exception of game no one heard west coast
@@rafaslb501Sir from the late 80s to the early to mid 90s the west coast was out selling the east coast these are facts. Miss me with that new york babble.
@@brandonhaymon3000From the late 80’s?! 😅How do you say you don’t know hip hop WITHOUT saying u don’t know hip hop. NY babble is what BIRTHED hip hop. None of your west coast hate will ever erase the facts. East Coast creation. East Coast dominated for a loooooong time. Miss me with your West Coast tears bruh, just accept it.
NWA Too Short Luther Campbell 2Live Crew destroyed black music. Eazy E album was one of criminality and destruction. No one needed to be entertained by robbery grape and drug dealing.
The undeniable legacy of NWA as I witnessed it is , they introduced the ubiquitous use of the word nigga in rap whenever referring to each other in rap music . This popularized poisonous term that they made their calling card and literal name . They unwittingly ushered in this specific cultural degradation.
I remember being young when they first came out and wondering why they were so mean when talking about women in the songs . Cube's A bitch is a bitch, and I ain't the one, and later ' One less Bitch I gotta worry about ' introduced to rap the worldview that females are just annoying creatures there to be fucked and disposed of, and you'd be a sucka to think otherwise . Rap music before didn't speak of women like this . Rappers mocked girls in songs by Run DMC (dumb girl) , LL( Dear Ivette), Fresh Prince ( Girls of the world) etc, NWA wasn't juvenile jabs, there was a decidedly mean-spirited tone and demoralization of women that they brought to the game .
How much money 💰 throughout the years LA Raiders and Kings profited of NWA.!!!!!!!!
It wasn’t just the WHITE KIDS !!! Don’t front now. We as a community rocked those GANGSTER HIP HOP as well. All that street elements of MOBB DEEP, NAS, BIG, JAY. We consumed it as well.
Nwa was before Nas Wu tang and Jay Z so the precedent had already been set . You can't really point to a time before Nwa where the music was on that gangster shit and how it was marketed it's not entirely Nwa faults, but they played a huge role in jumpstarting the negative side to hip hop where it was no longer about how great of an mc you were like with Rakim LL Cool J Big kane cats like that.
@@ryanr20091 NWA wasn’t Gangster though. They didn’t push us to do anything. It was their reality. Cube said “If you snort Caine you’re a stupid Muthafucka”. He never pushed selling !! What was NAS doing - chillin’ in the Cocaine spots/ we was in the candy factory picking the locks”. Wasn’t Jay jackin’ niggas for their work ? MOBB “Robbin’ niggas for their chain” - “Punch you in his face stab your brain with your nose bone” wasn’t “GIMME THE LOOT” gangster ? Onyx - THROW YOUR GUNZ ?
Mixing rap with Gang culture, Special Ed is Correct. NWA was at the tip of that. All you have to do is ask Snoop, Dre or Cube to defend against the claim made. They cannot because the drug culture or chronic came in with some of them, and gangs now in rap came in with some of them, I recall watching one of them say something about if they pay him to say it then he gonna say it.
So what Tim Dog said back then still rings today with Special Ed reiterating the same talking points
Absolutely not. Ed loves Compton. Tim Dog is a trashy fake rapper with no talent that used disrespecting a city he never travelled to for fame.
Lol they both never sold platinum records cause both are garbage compared to NWA lol DJ Quik said Tim dog momma can suck a golf ball through a water hose 😂😂😂😂 them niggaz can’t fuck with NWA and they never could they both are funny to me
NWA pushed the envelope for sure, BUT KRS 1 was “Criminal Minded” and letting his ‘9mm go Bang’ BEFORE NWA hit the scene.
Special Ed’s label didn’t want to allow him to make certain songs but NWA started their own label and released what they wanted, that’s the difference.
EVERYONE had ‘negative’ songs. Even Public Enemy had ‘Sophisticated B*tch’ on their first album.
Thank you. I swear some people have selective memory
True true same with Brand Nubian past the Gat. Yeep it was a total different era
@@alexandrew7276 I don’t really count Brand Nubian because they came after NWA but KRS, Public Enemy, Schooly D, Ice T and a few others were gangsta before NWA came along. NWA just took it up a notch.
@@Docmananoff trueeeeeeeee
Ed is correct.
When the big wigs decided to focus more on this kind of music that’s when shit when down hill slowly to quickly
@@calwatch1496white people never ran the music industry. Rick Ruben wasn't white, lyor Cohen, Jerry Heller and most of the music industry bigwigs that were probably at that secret meeting weren't white. Some of em were but the bulk of em were smalhats. They have always cornered the market when it came to the music industry. We just didn't know the difference, they crucified Kanye for telling the truth, and almost took Kyrie Irvings livelihood if he didn't get on his knees and apologized.
Also Special Ed said Wutang was for the kids, you got to be a fool to allow your kids listen to the entire 36 Chambers. Wu was more like NWA than they were like PRT, and some of the Wu was 5%’s.
The brother is correct
It's a misunderstanding he just could have said gangsta rap unstead of saying NWA
Monster kody, Michael Asberry, Raymond Williams,Tookie Williams all came before NWA my older cousins thought the album was about them in Denver Colorado.. When Quick mentioned Denver it was worse than Compton! To us they were us!
Good 2 C U back 🎧 Mister #SIM & Tha FRONT STOOP crew 🎼
Nwa sold over a million records with no radio play ,so record companies wanted to capitalize off that and pushed that type of music...the record labels killed the conscious and fun music ...instead of keeping the music balanced....so im not just gon blame nwa but more so the record lables
Wu Tang was talking about burners and ravioli bags of weed too
He ain't lying
#HIPHOP50 this interiew was extremely informative BIG UP$ 💙 #SpecialED 💯
NWA, introduce that gang culture to the east coast, all that gun waving, and smoking another black man with a shotty.
What came next, all that big Willie talk about being drug king pins.
..
Sim made valid points. In the hood, one N.W.A. album gets purchased and played until it is worn out. In the white suburbs, they got more disposable income or deeper pockets. They can afford to buy 12 or 20 N.W.A. albums.
This man is a prophet, and he looks like Moses.
What was the point behind gangsta rap?? All it did was show us in a bad light and hardly anybody including our own stand blacks because of it!
They did Mc eight almost got killed for his lyrics
The wu was rapping about drugs and killing too
It's true...
While NWA did contribute to the negativity, but they only played a small part of the damage. Why he didn’t mention Kool G Rap, to me it was more west coast hate than he was being truthful. I think he was made that them west coast groups became more popular than his music.
Special Ed I hate to tell you this,but N.WA was telling the truth about what was going on in real life sir and it still is,they just made America aware of police brutality and street life,you need to go listen to Ice Cubes first 2 solo albums, apparently you didn't.
Freedom of expression has its benefits but there is a double edged sword to it. Freedom of expression carries a HUGE responsibility to it. Just because someone doesn't hold back how they feel about something doesn't make it ok. I could make a song about how my type is children, I could be giving advice through my expression on how others can sleep with children. I could be expressing how your child might be my next victim. Just because I'm being open and honest to express myself on how I really feel does that my my expression ok???
Quit trying to defend something that played a vital role in the destruction of our own people. You can argue Ice Cube is trying to do something positive now but what he's doing now hasn't or won't undue the damage he played a hand in.
And to answer your question about who's responsible, I'll leave you with this:
They (the government, so called white supremacy) couldn't ever achieve the amount of damage they done to us without our own people volunteering to sell us out.
You can't really answer that how old are you if you was not around to see how things was it's really hard for you to give a balanced opinion I can say NWA was being extra flashing a bunch of guns and going out there way for a look that alot of people started to follow
If someone is living a life that they hear through music something wrong with that individual and not strong minded as well…the life of crime and poverty was here before rap and still here…but am stuck on how was wu tang kicking positivity and teaching the kids their raps was no different from nwa am just saying people need to talk about that like they talking about nwa
Its ignorant to single out N.W.A. for the destruction of Hip Hop today! Ed said what he said and it sounded like he just putting the blame on West Coast group N.W.A. but that group ended and branch out to solo artists with careers! Dre and Cube put out a lot of artists and contributions to the music! They done a lot of positive things for Hip Hop and created lots of opportunities for others! So how are they responsible for today's destruction in hip-hop?
Most of the youth were influenced by Tupac and Biggie, so is Special Ed going to blame them too? If anything the destruction hip-hop started with tekashi69
Put that in yall pipe and smoke it NWA in the rock & roll hall of fame !!!!!
You're missing the point Ed is saying
Nwa didnt start ganster rap. It was krs 1 criminal minded. That whole album is street and ganster. That album came out 2 years before nwa.
Nwa was wayyy worser
@NorthPhilly-zr7xc yea. I think your right. I think m.o.p is worst than all of them. You hear that album, you feel like picking a gun up and shooting sombody.
Man stop it he talked about things yeah but being gangster shooting up nigahs and robbing people and fuk b****** and hoes that was not his image you know that, I think you do
I think some black people make their ownselves feel sad, oppressed, and depressed like in this video. Life is extremely hard sometime but I don't think everything bad that happen in our life is about white people, rap labels, and artist. I can go get a job, get some money, go out and enjoy a cheeseburger you have freedom as a black person in America you can go out and feel happy I dont have to walk around feeling sad all day because of a rap label its not that deep and serious NWA has nothing to do with living my life I deal with the life thats in front which is way more annoying to deal with than the rap labels and i cant blame the labels for the ignorant people i deal with in life because the labels didnt make them ignorant. I'm not gonna say live a happy life because I know we all may have problems. I also agree with the man in this vid on the right we don't have to do what rappers say do or we have free will Im not trying to make an excuse for NWA or the labels. I think parents should tell their children not to listen to rap music or to not imitate it if they do. The simple thing to do is just simply go around saying the truth about how bad rap is and see where it goes from there nothing else you can do. Some parents themselves may need to stop imitating bad rap and be told the truth.
We don't have to do what rappers say. We need to make better decisions.
There's definitely a better opportunity today to make your life better. We have to make better decisions. Things have to change.
Gangster music start with KRS 1 and BDP School D, NWA talked how they grew up. Ice Tee was robbed jewelry stores and was a pimp, EazyE was shooter and drug dealer from Compton CRIP... the Veil was lifted for the first time and everybody saw New York rappers for what they were.
Fake! It's also the Hypocritical Of the new york artist Rapper.
Because you can be a Muslim and sell drugs.
that was perfectly acceptable. If we're gonna talk about the music and what's acceptable, New york doesn't have The right to criticize
Because they're jealous and Hypocritical views of music outside of their state. Let's use outkast for an example, They were booed at the source awards The new york hip hop made fun of them. But they Have
A positive album. The five and seven percent muslims poor righteous teachers glorified Buy new yorkers. glorifying selling drugs As muslims. Again, this is jealousy and envy because California.
And the south make more money than new york. They created hip hop the term to set a standard on what was good music and what wasn't. Because the South west and midwest Are Christians You can't walk up on them.
I say yo god, It's offensive because there's only one Yahweh.
I respect Ed but that is some BS
NWA rubbed off on him he got a Jerry curl in 2023😂😮
He’s Black and East Indian (Jamaican descent) 👀
Thats his nature hair tho...
That JOKE flop. Nice try.🤨
Special Ed was on the same label (Profile Records) as Run-DMC & DJ Quik. I love Special Ed's shit, but NWA took it to the next level, but what they talked about on their records was happening long before what happened to Rodney King. NWA only broke up because of Cube's greed and Suge Knight getting in Dre's ear and feeding him lies. Just because we listen and enjoy the hard stuff doesn't mean I'm gonna go out and do what they portray on the records. I don't take it seriously. The only true hater of NWA was Tim Dog only because they were THE HOTTEST GROUP on the scene!
NWA broke up because of Ice Cubes greed???
@@kevinmcquitery4543 Let's be honest, Cube isn't the most benevolent of the group. Eazy E did more for the community than Cube. Cube was busy advertising for Genocide juice, St. Ides. Riding around with that scum Tucker Carlson didn't help him as well. Last, he still crapped on Jerry Heller after his death. He wasn't trying to kill him, but have some respect for the departed.
@@thahman187 NWA broke up because of Jerry Heller and Easy E not wanting to pay the other artist their just due. How old are you by the way????
@@kevinmcquitery4543 I followed the group when they first came out during the Yo! MTV Raps era. Eazy knew nothing about the inner workings of the music business, so he left it up to Jerry. All I'm saying is Ice Cube would suck up any $$$ he can. Remember Burn Hollywood Burn w/Public Enemy? He's a part of that establishment so he comes off as a hypocrite. As for Special Ed, the real problem happened was with the Biggie-2Pac feud that IMO was the destruction of what he was referring to, that East-West BS was a problem.
@@calwatch1496 Ice Cube said out his mouth he left the group because Jerry Heller and Easy E didn't pay him his just due. How old are you again?
He’s too young to be talking about this situation 💯
I see deleting comments? lol downvote
NWA had no benefit to Afro Americans.
So i guess nwa shouldn’t be allowed to talk bout where there from and what goes on in their city.. people in LA wasn’t worried bout my gold chain or my adidas or kicking 5% knowledge we had our own shit going on which so happens to be gangbanging and police brutality…. However nobody put a gun to nobody head and force them to buy the records… Each man is responsible for self…. I guess people got tired of that weak ass rap thats why that type of music no longer exists
It sounds like this dude's throwing shots @ Special Ed.
Tether babble
Special Ed just salty his ass got phased out
🙄
Dude a 1ne hit wonder😂
Why don't you pick up a Mic and battle Ed ? Be quiet.
@@chadk890 Ed was trash then and trash now you 🤡
And one more point to make back then the difference with New York was yeah we had gangsta rap but we also had a balance of other type of rap conscious rappers if I didn't want to hear Kool g rap gangsta songs I had krs-1 teaching I had rakim conscious rap I had Rob Base I want to dance and party LL Cool J for the ladies jungle Brothers de la soul slick Rick. West Coast only had gangsta rap even though their gangsta rap had a message and brought awareness it still was gangsta and the youth received it and took it that way and they ran with it to the streets and their neighborhoods causing destruction
That goofy haircut special is rockin bought the age of destruction to hip hop
The other side of that and the crazy thing about it too is that when Wu-Tang came out they was hardcore want to chop your head off and everything but it didn't take long for them to grow and try to bring awareness to the black community with the 5% teaching and 120 lessons man they shut that down so quick America start getting scared so they promoted that whole bad-boy death row East Coast West Coast buffoonery. Wu Tang should have been the voice of the black communities in the 90s we would have had a better future right now in 2023. They made sure to make it cool to the black communities that bad boy and death row is how we supposed to be when Wu-Tang was talking a whole different language that even our own black people didn't want to support but it's funny how the white people supported Wu-Tang let that sink in
NWA definitely opened up the floodgates. Cube even said, they were just trying to be original and thought their records would be sold in the dirty section. No one anticipated the mass following of clones that came in the aftermath.
The difference between then and now, yesteryear was a balance to the music. With every BWP there was a SALT N PEPA & YOYO. With every EAZY E or MC Ren, there was an LL & BIG DADDY KANE.
That balance came to a halt 30 years ago. Once the chronic exploded it was a rap, excuse the pun. After that album everyone that didn’t rap like that had a hard time maneuvering . Everything aggressive was getting air play. Remember in 93 Doug Fresh even came out with “Ight” to try to get everything back on track.
BALANCE. If you did not roll with NWA, you had other rappers to listen to.
Bruh.. dudes acting like they dont know, Yall using word salad. After NWA, record labels were clamoring for the up and coming artists to put out gangsta rap, i remember a kid and play song the lyrics went, " aint gonna hurt nobody but i will if i have to". Fresh prince put out a song called "boom shake the room". These songs weren't gangsta rap in essence, but you can tell the energy shifting from lyrical, conscious, and party rap to a more harder sounding vibe.
As a culture we've lost the ability to dictate the direction of the music. The industry has become oversaturated and so watered down that now no one can singularly galvanize the people in any definitively positive way.The financial suppression of "conscious" or generally positive rap has made it unprofitable to go against the grain.
What hes talking about is the glorification of violence and criminal behavior.
I think they are one of the greatest hip hop groups in history but their 2nd album was complete mayhem.
Murdering people, songs about raping women, all sorts of shit.
Ice Cube was their main writer, so when he left after the 1st album, they're writing lost that political slickness that balanced it out, and just went into full destruction mode.
Still a great album but Special Ed isnt wrong
1st album had it too
No lies, that second album was crazy!
2nd album went platinum lol without ice cube Eazy -E was a smart mother fucker and I miss him that album I listen to from top to bottom and it was fuckin incredible the beats and the lyrics hit home for me so I gotta disagree with the mayhem comment it definitely got my attention the kids have no idea how incredible this group was niggaz mad because NWA are a legendary group that will never die until the end of time they will be on this planet because they made a mark in hip hop and in the world
U a nigga til u die if u black to most people still in this country that album needed to be made and if u have a kid that likes hip hop they should definitely listen to that album especially if all these schools are trying to eliminate teaching black history white folk use to use the nigga word proudly back in those days they gave us the name why not make money off it lol and NWA did I wish they never broke up and I wish EAZY-E was here
Kool G Rap & Schooly D also.. 😎✌
Special Ed said the same thing I said before when someone asked me that years ago if NWA was a problem in the black communities.
It was the songs they made after all the Chaos. That song called igga igga igga. Not gonna add the other word but yeah N.W.A was ruthless for a reason also I ain’t the one talking about how woman are and they’re well being. Special is honest
I disgree with Them.. Kool G Rap was rappin about it.. Schooly D was rappin about it.. I cant blame NWA for a destruction of Hiphop or tha community... Yes NWA language was Raw on Records but stop it with a destruction of a community 😎✌
Thank you them the first 2 came to my mind on the East Coast, man NWA talked more about Police Brutality than anybody from the East, West , South Or Midwest
New York did talk about gangsta stuff but we also balanced it out with conscious rap we had the self-destruction song
Flatbush legend!! Solid. Uncle Luke as well
I love Raekwon. But most of his lyrics were about drug dealing.
But YES...the media and industry took what NWA had, 'n used it as a weapon of destruction!!! Cube jump'd ship early...his flavor as a solo artist was along-the-lines, but still different...he kept that NWA rah wit' the King Tee approach to it...to educate a bit more but still rauchy which is jus' Cube at that time!
NWA was out before that so called private meeting. NWA probably didn’t think their music would leave the hood. NWA for no radio play outside of Kday, no video show love. Then they broke up probably before the second album was released. The fans wanted NWA, they didn’t get no major push behind them, the government went at them, their music basically spread through word of mouth.
Please let him no some body please let him no get this to special Ed I'm worried about him they are going to try to get him just like biggie we can't let that happen
Wu tang was rappin about coke and robbin cats as well...come on lets be fair...gangsta rap as a whole ruined the minds of alot of men and women thru out the years
Hip hop or rap should have balance and originality but let me cut to the point the groups name is Ni66as With Attitude so you're goin to get and hear Ni66as With Attitude
Wasn't Kool G Rap and EPMD out by the same time N.W.A and 2 Live Crew was out?
Nothing was bigger than nwa
Yes they were !!!
Yeah but the difference is the big companies the machine was pushing NWA and EPMD wasn't gangsta rappers all of them rapper's was just rappers they wasn't about nothing but just rapping and having fun. The machine wanted to push NWA and the gangsta stuff in our communities and they succeeded with the message. Now you say but what about Kool g rap yeah he rapped about gangster stuff but we knew the difference he was story telling
He was saying that when he droped everyday iza gun shot. Right ed
What NWA did was change Hip Hop forever maybe for the worse but that's what it did, don't go beyond that
NWA was bad for hip hop
See here’s the thing: He’s right and wrong with NWA. Really it’s a mixed bag. NWA was speaking on a lot of community issues and they were put on a international level. They were speaking about real things. The dark side is that unfortunately, people ran with it and they didn’t quite have the balance NWA had. But that’s the effect of NWA. But him saying Wu Tang is for the kids, it’s true too but Wu Tang Clan in addition to knowledge was talking about Gangsta shit too. They mixed it but they were saying crazier shit than NWA at some points. And they were actually living the life they were speaking about too. But the irony is that you wouldn’t have a Wu Tang without NWA. So he has to understand that. They are other culprits as well. Let’s not act like Boogie Down Productions first album(classic btw) wasn’t talking about gangsta shit. They went off. Ice T is a another one, Schoolly D, Just Ice, Kool G Rap. Hell even the dress of the rappers from the East mimicked the gang members (Run-DMC) and drug dealers with the enormous chains and flash( slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B and Kool G Rap Rakim etc). It’s just those rappers i mentioned didn’t delve into gang stuff or street shit so much. And if so they did it in metaphors.
But Special Ed is right and wrong with this. He’s right based on actual fact. He’s wrong because they did good too and you can’t mention Wu Tang and say they were just all good also and say NWA was all bad
WE ALL WERE IMPACTED BY N.W.A. I Ain’t Gonna Lie… Their Second Album Ni%%az4Life As A GROWN MAN I STILL CANNOT LISTEN 👂🏾 TO That Album To This Day. I Agree ☝🏿 With My Man Special Ed. Xzibit Now, Needs to Stop 🛑 Drinking With The LIKS!
Yea the second album was alot of shock value lyricism
How is it not the fault of absentee fathers, and addiction, and failing education in the inner cities due to government funding
Get out NWA is not the problem they just more money then u
The commuinty and the artist need to speak with one voice and one purpose their is alot of me me not enough about us the gang life and drug dealing is glamarous
DJ Yella was just featured on “GANGSTER Chronicles” Podcast
I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S SAYIN AND AGREE TO SOME POINT BUT THIS DUDE NEVER GREW'up IN GANG CULTURE (SOUTH CENTRAL L.A) HOME OF THE 🩸s n ♿️s MY NIGGA. WHERE DRIVEBY's WAS THE NORM... The influence of new york hip hop spreaded to los angeles, where gang culture was already a way of life there...ED DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT DYNAMIC...
You think Brooklyn is rainbows and unicorns? Erasmus HS was no joke
@@chadk890 Compared so south central L.A 🙄 uh'YEP!
@@woodsd4 smfh bro u have no idea, both are rough but its too different ways of life and background
NWA may have started the age of vulgarity on wax,but they were telling stories about Compton to the world. Reality raps. They only wanted to be heard in their hood and be stars of their hood. They didn't start the age of youth destruction in rap music. Gang culture,started the age of destruction! That existed way before NWA assembled as a rap group! NWA actually had a few positive messages in their music in the beginning. Their music was more about being hard with beats and rhymes. And that was their only crime. And it was all good. NWA are rap legends! I didn't agree with Special Ed on those comments.
They were also degrading women in a way I never seen in rap
@@FightMang36you ever heard of 2 Live Crew
The thing is what Special Ed was saying had already been said by Professor Griff from Public Enemy a longggg time ago... Groups like Brand Nubian and Poor Righteous Teachers said the same thing about.. black people perpetuating the gangster lifestyle in hip hop and degradation of our women.. ... Poor Righteous has song called - SHAKIYLA... The black queen is mine uplifting a black women... NWA - A Bitch iz Bitch ....You do the math.. Peace black people!✌️
@wisdomwarrior2645 enlighten me maybe they said something worse than mc Ren saying he was running a train on a 15 year old in his nwa lyrics
NWA in the rock & roll hall of fame so put that in hall pipe and smoke it gotdammit which makes them Legends !!!!!! Because they talked about shit that was real !!!!!! Not fake shit and they put some hellafied beats on thier lyrics !!!!!!
Thrue that they express what they see around at that time in their environment to me that's Art if the environment brutal u going to paint what is around for me i respect them for not this fake that they are pushing in this new hip hop.
@@daniel2ndamane121bruh it's not about being in rock hall n fame alot the people in that hall of fame are Satanist anyway People always said NWA aren't something for kids to hold on to they preached Gansterism stop the CAP I got their albums its filled with pushing gangster not because it sold millions doesn't make it great smh okay,today I'm not giving any of my niece or nephew that music In their system.
I won”t say N.W.A. Destroyed Hip Hop! They changed it”s direction. Reality Rap was the focal point. Talking about the inner cities Crime, Poverty, and Violence Was Reflected in The Music. Look at Grand Master Melle Mel and The Furious 5”s The Message! That song talked about the ghetto life and the impact was monumental at the time. It was a blueprint for Hip Hop to get its grit from the streets. If it wasn’t For N.W.A. Freedom of Speech would have went against Future Hip Hop Artists. They are the Grandfathers of Gangster Rap. They gave us a real picture of Ghetto Life! If they didn’t do it, someone else would have done it!
So what are you saying just because they gave freedom of speech it's good to promote violence because that's what they did
The age of destruction was already there before NWA
how?
I understand where he is coming from and in a way he is right but we need to have that in hip hop because we have to see from all angles even if it's positive and negative. They're not in the Rock in Roll hall of fame for nothing
Crazy out of all ppl.its Special Ed making this stir lol. I havent heard his name in 20 years lol
Truth however those brothers had no idea that were part of an agenda. That's just my opinion.