fun fact; in Australia when this came out the government run youth radio station (triple j) was the only radio station in the world playing this song (reportedly) which didn't sit well with the government so they banned the song from being played. In protest the radio station played Express Yourself by NWA for 24 hours strait.
I remember that day well. I was living in public housing, my house had no power that day so I hung outside with the other kids listening to it on their boomboxes all day.
He deserves to pissed look at how the black Americans are treated still to this day. One day my people are gonna rise up and give the whites their well deserved karma. Inshallah GOD WILLING
I had to buy the album a bunch of times cause it was either getting wore out or jacked since it was such a huge success and all my friends were into it and at the parties I threw it got played a lot
First heard N.W.A. back in the day when electro,hip hop and breakdancing exploded in the UK. N.W.A. for me were instrumental in paving the way for other groups to step forward and express there feelings through music about real life issues. Even though I play guitar I still listen to N.W.A, Ghetto boys and so very talented guys.
Actually, there wasn't any "trouble". There was a letter written which exposed the fib as the authoritarian pieces of feces that they are. Congress told the fib to stay in it's lane and protect the constitution or gtfo.
This Album was also the Very First to carry the PAL (Parental Advisory Label) . Interesting Side note.... Dee Snider (from Twisted Sister) testified in the Congressional hearings and absolutely made fools of them! It's too bad that Ice Cube didn't get to testify too... It's actually worth watching on RUclips too!.... (edit)
I got busted by the cops for being in the park after curfew and they actually took me to the station to call my parents. They then noticed that this album was in my boom box so they asked me "play the fuck the police song", they weren't terribly pleased. After that a few of them used to stop and jerk me around whenever they saw me walking down the street.
Those other members of NWA did extra things that Ren didn't do. Ice Cube did a ton of movies. Dr. Dre stumbled on Snoop Dogg,Eminem and produced them. That kept Dre in the spotlight. Ren mainly seemed to have stuck with music. It would have been interesting to have seen Ren do some songs with some east coast rappers like a Nas and some others during the 90s.
@@richardturner4848 I just know I'm gonna have that line stuck in my head repeating on loop for the nxt few days. Hope my partner doesn't ask much of me cos that's what he'll be hearing 😂
Everybody talkin bout how he said “mik ren” instead of “emcee” but i think these are the types of mistakes that make reaction videos awesome. It just shows it’s his real reaction and none of that pretending shit
Whenever you see “MC” in our (as in old school) rapper’s names, it stands for “emcee” (not mick). Emceeing is REAL! Hip Hop includes a lot of MCs but all rappers aren’t “emcees”. That’s why rap is so fukked up and watered down nowadays!
The police were pissed about this song. They were demanding they do not play this song in return for security at the concerts. It was the original protest
All of them were so great on this one. I also love the "and we'll go at it punk and imma f*ck you up" line, cracks me up every time. I loled when you said "Ice Cube was fed up". Yes. Yes he was lol I used to sneak my friend's older brother's N.W.A and ICE- T cassettes in my early teens. This was unlike anything anyone had ever heard and it opened a lot of our eyes to things.💯
I remember when this song came out! We were like, "They said, what?" And we were so proud 'cause ir was raw and it was THE TRUTH!!! This song is as relevant today as it was then. They told the world what was going down but few listened. Now with all these cell phone videos they've been vindicated!
I was 10, my brothers were teenagers and I'd heard them play this song, they found it funny when i sang the chorus! I had no concept of its meaning just knew it was catchy!
MC can also stand for Mic Controller. See Cookie Crew-Rock Da House "the crew in the house we're the mic-controllers, it's like that & nobody told us" or Run DMC-Hollis Crew. "It's me DMC in the place to be,& I still got that same old harmony, I'm the devastating mic-controller, the word wizard & the chief rock roller..."
Oh it wasn’t just Compton and LA...the whole world felt that song! lol I remember cops would beat people up that they stopped for playing it. They smashed my homeboy’s pullout car radio over his head the day we got pulled over for playing it loud in his car.
I don't really feel like I can truly comment on this, just remember getting a lot of grief at a Private English school for listening to these guys. I had a pretty open mind and listened to everything from US rap, Acid House, Dance music, Indie (The Cure/The Smiths) and Irish Rebel. Just appreciated good music. I still have my original NWA album 'straight outta Compton' tape. Got rid of a bunch of albums but this was one of dozen or so I kept.
'Public Enemy - Fight The Power' is a great anthem, you should also check out 'Eric B and Rakim' from the time, 'Follow The Leader', 'Let The Rhythm Hit Em', 'Know The Ledge' etc.
I got profiled a couple years . I was pissed. My son was in car with his daughter and he is in the national guard.. He was pissed too . I was profiled for my vechicle ( suv riding on 22 inch rims. ) The cop had an itchy trigger finger on his pistol the whole time. It was night. He asked do you know why I pulled you over. I was pissed off and straight up told him I was not speeding or breaking any laws so no. He said he pulled me over for the light bulb over my license plate being out, and kept trying to sniff in my car. Smh
Police officer here, I met Ice Cube at a concert here in St. Louis when I was part of his security detail. He told myself and the two other guys I was working with that he has the utmost respect for the police profession, but he knew the song was going to be a hit for a long time. He was right. He was the nicest artist I ever met and I have met a ton
It was as it is and that's the problem. Same as it ever was, if you understand that the first police forces were formed to 'handle' newly freeded slaves. KRS One has a good one on this topic:Sound Of The Police.
@Marlboro Man you shouldn't diminish people's expression of their personal experience. You can still call out the effect with out telling people their stupid. For instance, your nonsense characterization most likely turned many from reading to the end of your comment; the part that contain your point.
Maybe this is the disconnect. I am a whiteboy from Canada that first bought this album somewhere around 1992. I loved it and it helped me realize that my friends might be treated differently than I am. It’s like the states is going backwards. We understood that we are all the same and that it’s just a small few that destroy that thought on both sides. We need to get back to focusing on what matters. The government.
They are the greatest. When they made this song, The Los Angeles police were notorious as a paramilitary, brutal force. This song is brutal, but it actually makes a very important point: that the LA police targeted black people and absolutely brutalized them.
This always bring me back to living in Long Beach days, running from shore patrol in Navy Housing. We used to always give them trouble lol. Thanks to NWA!
Yeah our cops aren't so trigger happy cos they don't expect us to have guns. But the Justice system isnt fair to our indigenous people & the police seem to target them more often & more violently.
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 agree fully. I mean no one's grandma should be left in a paddy wagon up north in 45° heat while the cops go for food & generally don't hurry to get them out so they die there. No one's pre teen kid should be chased down & knocked off their bike by cops either. There's just so many examples it's sickening. I'm glad most people don't carry firearms though people seem to like to use their cars as weapons. But our cops are still getting militarised like look at the average copper with their vest & chest camera & what - 4 items to incapacitate someone.
This song is saying how black people were treated in Compton back in the 80's and still be in treated even now honestly Black people should not be treated any differently that people just like all of us and they should be given a god damm respect
Ice Cube's Predate album was pretty cool. First time I heard Gangstas Fairytale Part 2 I was open mouthed, it was funny, inventive and the music was cool.
I remember Ice Cube in that movie called Boyz in the hood and barbershop. He did a lot more then rap but rap is his start. I remember hearing NWA thinking wow wth is this? Then his stuff just grows on you. Great reaction Jayvee
Yes it is . That is how it was on that side of town . I couldn't believe police officers would do that but , I found out that is how it was in the early years on the streets of Compton, California . 😮
Makes me think of - KRS1 "Sound of da Police". Down here (UK) the sound systems play it every carnival weekend and crowds of thousands sing along. It drives the police crazy cause they can't retaliate.
Cube was a student at ASU (I think, don't feel like looking up exactly what university but he wasn't living the street life, only E was), he isn't writing from personal experience but what he saw.
Yes he did go to ASU his grandma lives in south phoenix because her and few others grandma's who have famous grandkids play domino's with my grandma on the weekends back in the day....
You need to see the movie “Fear of a Black Hat,” a mockumentary about a fictional group “N.W.H.” (“H” stands for “Hats,” in place of N.W.A.’s “A” for “Attitude” lol). It’s like the “Spinal Tap” (rock/metal mockumentary) of rap/hip-hop. The whole movie is on YT. Suggest Ice Cube’s tracks “When Will They Shoot” and “The Predator” from his solo album “The Predator,” his response to the 1992 LA Riots and general state of affairs. Also, the 1992 version of “Check Yo Self” from that album, which slaaaaps.
This was the first rap song that made me interested in rap. I'm a white guy that was a teenager in the 80's. I thought rap was a medium for people that couldn't sing. When I heard this one, I started paying attention.
This song still being played everywhere til this day with the police brutality that's still been going on lately....They definitely were ahead of their time and it puts you more on risk if u play this in front of the police but hey they were stating facts these cops are full of sh*t 😭😭😭 But yeah another song of them that response to the police brutality is Approach To Danger
Who doesn’t love some gansta rap?! We need NWA back! What’s so funny is I heard Ice Cube went to college lol but he grew up in Compton, and Compton back in the late 80s, early 90s was something else. I love Compton though. Regardless of your education level or whatever you’d still be harassed. That’s why I love Ice Cube in that movie, Higher Learning. “Show me your ID.” LOL So true. NWA was not afraid to say what they feel.
I enjoyed that reaction my man..Classic. Yes it was terrible in Compton and across the country. The three strikes law was in full effect in Cali too.. Check out Ice Cube "3 Strikes you in"...hidden gem Classic.
Great album. I always thought "Express Yourself" off of STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON was sort of out of place. They were angry as hell, and rightfully so. So sorry you had to go through the profiling, its not right, never will be. Cheers man for keeping it real
DJ Yella don't rap but he is the DJ of the rap group. He helps produce and engineer the songs. By the way you can look up his solo album called "One Mo Nigga to Go" and the record was a tribute album to Eazy after he died.
Right after Ice Cube left NWA, NWA released an EP called "100 miles and running"..that titel track is by the way also a hell of a track..But my point is, an other track on this EP is called "Sa Prize" which is part 2 of "Fuck the police". And by the way "Yella" was the DJ he didn´t rap he was cutting and scratching. And many here are suggesting Public Enemy "Fight the power" which is also a great song but I would go with "Black steel in the hour of chaos" which is about a prison riot + escape ..it´s from the same album "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back" and to be fair every single track of that album is a banger and was therefore officially selected as "Best Hip Hop record of the year" in 1989 and is for Hip Hop history a landmark/milestone..
Reaaaaly love this song btw.. am a scot.. glasgow born..and this banger was an anthem for us growing up..fuck the police... as powerful now as it was then.. n not just stateside!
This song was so controversial it sparked concern with mostly white conservative people. That's how you know this is punk as fuck. There was a congressional hearing bc of this song. VP Al Gore's wife (vp to bill clinton) hated the fuck the police thing. This is what caused the advisory labels on some hip hop albums.
fun fact; in Australia when this came out the government run youth radio station (triple j) was the only radio station in the world playing this song (reportedly) which didn't sit well with the government so they banned the song from being played. In protest the radio station played Express Yourself by NWA for 24 hours strait.
I remember that day well. I was living in public housing, my house had no power that day so I hung outside with the other kids listening to it on their boomboxes all day.
Very cool fun fact
Nice fact bro thanks
Thats cool
sick
Ice Cube always sounds pissed when he raps. RIP Eazy E.
Had lots of love for his music ❤❤❤
May he keep rapping in heaven
Thats just Ice cube's attitude..
He deserves to pissed look at how the black Americans are treated still to this day. One day my people are gonna rise up and give the whites their well deserved karma. Inshallah GOD WILLING
@@gabrielledormuth4634not how it works my boy
And 2Pac 😅
Not just Compton....This was happing all over America in poor black communities...Compton NWA...was the first to put it out in the rawest form.
Still appropriate right now.
@@redsmoker37 Ain't that some bullsh1t. Man.
I had to buy the album a bunch of times cause it was either getting wore out or jacked since it was such a huge success and all my friends were into it and at the parties I threw it got played a lot
First heard N.W.A. back in the day when electro,hip hop and breakdancing exploded in the UK.
N.W.A. for me were instrumental in paving the way for other groups to step forward and express there feelings through music about real life issues. Even though I play guitar I still listen to N.W.A, Ghetto boys and so very talented guys.
@@lifelongred7056 ya when u have dr dre and dj yella u get some real thang
It's not 'Mik Ren'...it's M.C. Ren (pronounced "Em-cee Ren"). Btw, 'Yella' is the DJ. DJ Yella.
McRen is almost as dope and McRib.
Thank you for explaining this to him
😂🤣 I didn't catch that🤣😂
@@sean-ew2qv But not quite as dope McFlurry: that dude is cold!
They sell the McRen at Mickey Dees👌🏽
I lived in LA in the 80s and felt every word in this song
Oakland.... same
@@janes.1559 not the same La was were it was made u in oakland it affects us La dudes more
@gasturret7600 you don't think there was police brutality in Oakland? Must be a joke.
@@gasturret7600 Imagine arguing about who lives in a worse city…🤦🏻♂️😂
This got the group in trouble with not only the police but also the FBI
Actually, there wasn't any "trouble". There was a letter written which exposed the fib as the authoritarian pieces of feces that they are. Congress told the fib to stay in it's lane and protect the constitution or gtfo.
This Album was also the Very First to carry the PAL (Parental Advisory Label) . Interesting Side note.... Dee Snider (from Twisted Sister) testified in the Congressional hearings and absolutely made fools of them! It's too bad that Ice Cube didn't get to testify too... It's actually worth watching on RUclips too!....
(edit)
They tried to arrest NWA at concert for playing this song.
I got busted by the cops for being in the park after curfew and they actually took me to the station to call my parents. They then noticed that this album was in my boom box so they asked me "play the fuck the police song", they weren't terribly pleased. After that a few of them used to stop and jerk me around whenever they saw me walking down the street.
@@skepticalfan no they didn't 😂 that's only in the movie
MC Ren's verses on this album are raw as hell. I'm surprised he didn't find more success after NWA like Dre, Cube and Eazy did.
There's more to being a good rapper than just bars.
yea kinda sad ngl
Those other members of NWA did extra things that Ren didn't do.
Ice Cube did a ton of movies.
Dr. Dre stumbled on Snoop Dogg,Eminem and produced them. That kept Dre in the spotlight.
Ren mainly seemed to have stuck with music. It would have been interesting to have seen Ren do some songs with some east coast rappers like a Nas and some others during the 90s.
to be fair ice cube wrote 90% of the lyrics for NWA
@@CrowdPleeza yea
I'm a white guy and I will tell you this album is one of my favorites. Everybody should tell their story. 💥✌
Yep
Same here, I’m a Mexican guy here in LA. This album is classic 🔥
I'm brazilian, but i'm black and i recently discovered NWA and it has a very similar vibe to Racionais
White English guy here and this is an all time classic. Was 13 when this came out and it changed my music taste forever.
It ain’t just stories bruh this shit is reality for most black property to this day ….. shot sucks man
Public enemy fight the power if you've not heard it before is worth checking out too
I can't do nothing for ya man.
@@richardturner4848 I just know I'm gonna have that line stuck in my head repeating on loop for the nxt few days. Hope my partner doesn't ask much of me cos that's what he'll be hearing 😂
@@jadecawdellsmith4009
Ha ha ha, great song. You want 6 dollars for what? 😁😁
Also 'Shut Em Down'
They were banned from singing this one at a lot of venues but, they did it anyway !!!
"Colors" Ice-T
I've requested this before but going to again just in case.😉😁
Love this one! 80,s rap
Great request Colors is a great song and the video from the film of the same name is great.
@@jsssmith66 1st time I heard the song was from the movie. Loved it!
Heck yea... colors!!!
Great song
Everybody talkin bout how he said “mik ren” instead of “emcee” but i think these are the types of mistakes that make reaction videos awesome. It just shows it’s his real reaction and none of that pretending shit
I'VE BEEN A FAN OF N.W.A FOR TWO YEARS ALTHOUGH I'M FROM FINLAND AND I'M WHITE, BUT I RESPECT THOSE GUYS, WITH THEIR HELP I ALSO STARTED TO RAP
Kiitos kun sä kiinnostettu N.W.A sama kun multa.
(Asun Suomessa, kyl mä voin puhu suomea) 😁
Whenever you see “MC” in our (as in old school) rapper’s names, it stands for “emcee” (not mick). Emceeing is REAL!
Hip Hop includes a lot of MCs but all rappers aren’t “emcees”. That’s why rap is so fukked up and watered down nowadays!
MC is master of ceremonies
Yes I know. I was trying to help Jay with the pronunciation.
@@bob5074 generally yes but didn't it evolve to also mean mic controller?
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 nope...
@@bob5074 I'm sure I've heard it in old school songs. Beastie Boys or Run DMC.
I remember listening to this when it came out in 88 when I was 12 on my Sony Walkman cassette. This was shocking back then. Still love it today.
You me and every 12year old in America was sharing this tape in 88
How on earth has this guy not heard this before? Even being young you would have to live under a rock for 25 years
NWA legends! I was 16 when I discovered NWA English white girl blasting my moms house down in 1989 😆
This is real rap. Timeless...
Yo-Yo's You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo (which has Ice Cube in it too) is a great song to check out! :)
I rock ruff and stuff with my afro puffs
Heeeyyy go on with your bad self
@@gness4782 The Lady Of Rage! Great old school hip hop too, had forgotten about it
NWA was speaking for all black people in the black poor communities. NATION WIDE. Police Harassment was harsh during the 80's and 90's.
"McRen" lmao. It's M.C. (emcee) which stands for Master of Ceremonies and is another term for a rapper.
The police were pissed about this song. They were demanding they do not play this song in return for security at the concerts. It was the original protest
All of them were so great on this one. I also love the "and we'll go at it punk and imma f*ck you up" line, cracks me up every time.
I loled when you said "Ice Cube was fed up". Yes. Yes he was lol
I used to sneak my friend's older brother's N.W.A and ICE- T cassettes in my early teens. This was unlike anything anyone had ever heard and it opened a lot of our eyes to things.💯
Same same, got it from my uncle in the 90s 🤘
Always been my favorite part 2nd only to Ice Cubes entire verse
I remember when this song came out! We were like, "They said, what?" And we were so proud 'cause ir was raw and it was THE TRUTH!!! This song is as relevant today as it was then. They told the world what was going down but few listened. Now with all these cell phone videos they've been vindicated!
This album is Almost 30 years old and it still sounds great and relevant👍
Same as Dr Dre - the chronic and Ice Cube - the predator✌.
I was 10, my brothers were teenagers and I'd heard them play this song, they found it funny when i sang the chorus! I had no concept of its meaning just knew it was catchy!
Man, you need to listen to "No Vaseline" by Ice Cube. This gonna be very entertaining :D
Seriously... he needs to learn about their history first and then listen to No Vaseline... lol
Best diss record of all time
@@ghidrah76 That was exactly what my next comment was going to be mate 👍
@@shawnminnich7273 Superb tune but I'd say only second best diss song after Tupacs Hit Em Up
My bro, M.C. Ren Not ‘Mick Ren’
Because
MC Means and comes from: “Master of Ceremonies”
👍
MC can also stand for Mic Controller. See Cookie Crew-Rock Da House "the crew in the house we're the mic-controllers, it's like that & nobody told us" or Run DMC-Hollis Crew. "It's me DMC in the place to be,& I still got that same old harmony, I'm the devastating mic-controller, the word wizard & the chief rock roller..."
It remembers Body Counts - Ice-T... heavier sound but same idea!
"There goes the Neighborhood" is a great track to get a reaction!
No lives matter is another one he should check out.
Can't believe no one has suggested DJ Quik: Tonight
you should check out Public Enemy "Fight The Power" for a similar message
I believe Jay already reacted to that
You got to check out one of the greatest Rappers Eric B and Rakim anything you do of there's is great
Oh it wasn’t just Compton and LA...the whole world felt that song! lol
I remember cops would beat people up that they stopped for playing it.
They smashed my homeboy’s pullout car radio over his head the day we got pulled over for playing it loud in his car.
Cops in America are just something else
When NWA came to Pontiac they shut the concert down when they started to perform it.
Of course they got sued afterwards, but still.
@@gness4782 I’m sure somebody probably got arrested too. lol
Cops took that song seriously. lol
And you guys didn’t sue him?
@@burnttoaster6313 lawyers cost money, and since no body cams, their word against cops. Does that sound like a case to you?
Legends 🙌 🙌 🙌
N. W. A. (Niggas With Attitude) is my mom's favorite group. She had a cassette tape for years. I Grew up on NWA, Eminem, & Jay-Z
Time to react to the greatest rap group of all time Public Enemy, check out Cant trust it, Shut em down or Black Steel in the hour of chaos
I don't really feel like I can truly comment on this, just remember getting a lot of grief at a Private English school for listening to these guys. I had a pretty open mind and listened to everything from US rap, Acid House, Dance music, Indie (The Cure/The Smiths) and Irish Rebel. Just appreciated good music. I still have my original NWA album 'straight outta Compton' tape. Got rid of a bunch of albums but this was one of dozen or so I kept.
One of the greatest songs of all time it’s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
'Public Enemy - Fight The Power' is a great anthem, you should also check out 'Eric B and Rakim' from the time, 'Follow The Leader', 'Let The Rhythm Hit Em', 'Know The Ledge' etc.
This is my era, I fu**ing love it 👌💪. EZ is my favourite, his voice was unique
I got profiled a couple years . I was pissed. My son was in car with his daughter and he is in the national guard.. He was pissed too . I was profiled for my vechicle ( suv riding on 22 inch rims. ) The cop had an itchy trigger finger on his pistol the whole time. It was night. He asked do you know why I pulled you over. I was pissed off and straight up told him I was not speeding or breaking any laws so no. He said he pulled me over for the light bulb over my license plate being out, and kept trying to sniff in my car. Smh
Police officer here, I met Ice Cube at a concert here in St. Louis when I was part of his security detail. He told myself and the two other guys I was working with that he has the utmost respect for the police profession, but he knew the song was going to be a hit for a long time. He was right. He was the nicest artist I ever met and I have met a ton
It was as it is and that's the problem. Same as it ever was, if you understand that the first police forces were formed to 'handle' newly freeded slaves.
KRS One has a good one on this topic:Sound Of The Police.
@Marlboro Man you shouldn't diminish people's expression of their personal experience.
You can still call out the effect with out telling people their stupid.
For instance, your nonsense characterization most likely turned many from reading to the end of your comment; the part that contain your point.
God you live in the American bubble 😂🤣🤙
Maybe this is the disconnect. I am a whiteboy from Canada that first bought this album somewhere around 1992. I loved it and it helped me realize that my friends might be treated differently than I am. It’s like the states is going backwards. We understood that we are all the same and that it’s just a small few that destroy that thought on both sides. We need to get back to focusing on what matters. The government.
They are the greatest. When they made this song, The Los Angeles police were notorious as a paramilitary, brutal force. This song is brutal, but it actually makes a very important point: that the LA police targeted black people and absolutely brutalized them.
This always bring me back to living in Long Beach days, running from shore patrol in Navy Housing. We used to always give them trouble lol. Thanks to NWA!
RIP Rodney King.
Loved this reaction! Keep doing your thing baby! Much love 🤟🏽
Check out the movie...
Boyz n the hood
With ice cube and shows how it was back in the day
It's become a "Classic" now...RIP to John Singleton who wrote & directed that movie as a young man.
Being from Australia our cop situation is a lot different to yours in America but none are immune from the systemic racism.
Yeah our cops aren't so trigger happy cos they don't expect us to have guns. But the Justice system isnt fair to our indigenous people & the police seem to target them more often & more violently.
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 agree fully. I mean no one's grandma should be left in a paddy wagon up north in 45° heat while the cops go for food & generally don't hurry to get them out so they die there. No one's pre teen kid should be chased down & knocked off their bike by cops either. There's just so many examples it's sickening.
I'm glad most people don't carry firearms though people seem to like to use their cars as weapons. But our cops are still getting militarised like look at the average copper with their vest & chest camera & what - 4 items to incapacitate someone.
Ice Cube was singing his life story.... I love this version...
This song is saying how black people were treated in Compton back in the 80's and still be in treated even now honestly Black people should not be treated any differently that people just like all of us and they should be given a god damm respect
Old skool beats 1988 !! 👌
Got to admit no Vaseline was savage,couldn't stop laughing when i heard it. When nwa started being played in the uk everyone was in to it.
Ice Cube's Predate album was pretty cool. First time I heard Gangstas Fairytale Part 2 I was open mouthed, it was funny, inventive and the music was cool.
You should react to "Black Cop" and "Sound of Da Police" by KRS-One and "911 Is a Joke" by Public Enemy.
I swear your next upload will be "FIRST TIME HEARING! American national anthem"
First Time Hearing! The Radio
Lmao
(listens to happy birthday) "Ooh, they snappin"
You should check out another rapper associated with NWA, The D.O.C., Portrait of a Masterpiece.
The D.O.C stands right next to Rakim to me.
Ahhhh back in the good ol days......when rap hit harder
This is still so damn good after all these years. This was the kind of rap we grew up listening to in the 90's. Glad you dig it.
I relate to this song so fucking much. I actually have a NWA shirt, one of my favorites that I own. 💗💗💖
This was revolutionary and controversial at the time. White people didn’t know what to do with this music. I did though, badass!
Who do you think was buying it?
Stunning album, you also have an E.L.O. poster on the wall. Extra respect.
It's 2021 and I'm 37, and still bangin this my car. It still packs a punch today like it did back then.
Pioneers! They sold tons of cds , with no airplay , just word of mouth
I remember Ice Cube in that movie called Boyz in the hood and barbershop. He did a lot more then rap but rap is his start. I remember hearing NWA thinking wow wth is this? Then his stuff just grows on you. Great reaction Jayvee
Hundren miles and runnin great nwa
Yes it is . That is how it was on that side of town . I couldn't believe police officers would do that but , I found out that is how it was in the early years on the streets of Compton, California . 😮
Mc ren is one of the best i still have his cassettes tapes till this day
Makes me think of - KRS1 "Sound of da Police". Down here (UK) the sound systems play it every carnival weekend and crowds of thousands sing along. It drives the police crazy cause they can't retaliate.
"Easy does it " is a must!!
White old woman from Cali here. Love this.
Check out Ice Cube's - What Can I Do and also check out The D.O.C. - The Formula.
D.O.C. is the greatest rapper of all time. I will fight anyone that disagrees, right now. "Whirlwind Pyramid" muthafuckas.
Cube was a student at ASU (I think, don't feel like looking up exactly what university but he wasn't living the street life, only E was), he isn't writing from personal experience but what he saw.
Yes he did go to ASU his grandma lives in south phoenix because her and few others grandma's who have famous grandkids play domino's with my grandma on the weekends back in the day....
You need to see the movie “Fear of a Black Hat,” a mockumentary about a fictional group “N.W.H.” (“H” stands for “Hats,” in place of N.W.A.’s “A” for “Attitude” lol). It’s like the “Spinal Tap” (rock/metal mockumentary) of rap/hip-hop. The whole movie is on YT.
Suggest Ice Cube’s tracks “When Will They Shoot” and “The Predator” from his solo album “The Predator,” his response to the 1992 LA Riots and general state of affairs. Also, the 1992 version of “Check Yo Self” from that album, which slaaaaps.
Great film, so hard to find now though, at least in my part of the world.
@@Sandy-dd4le For sure :) If you can access where you are, the whole film is on RUclips here ruclips.net/video/FDRUv7iqrcM/видео.html
I would watch a Jayveetv reaction to "My Peanuts", or even "Booty Juice".
@@IMNfilms what we sayin' is, we got hats!
@@lumikarhu7340 i was out of town when you posted that :)
This was the first rap song that made me interested in rap. I'm a white guy that was a teenager in the 80's. I thought rap was a medium for people that couldn't sing. When I heard this one, I started paying attention.
MC Ren? As in Mc Donalds?! Lol 😂 I screamed 😂🤣 It’s M.C. Ren. Awwww I love your videos! 😂😂😆😆
This song still being played everywhere til this day with the police brutality that's still been going on lately....They definitely were ahead of their time and it puts you more on risk if u play this in front of the police but hey they were stating facts these cops are full of sh*t 😭😭😭 But yeah another song of them that response to the police brutality is Approach To Danger
Who doesn’t love some gansta rap?! We need NWA back! What’s so funny is I heard Ice Cube went to college lol but he grew up in Compton, and Compton back in the late 80s, early 90s was something else. I love Compton though. Regardless of your education level or whatever you’d still be harassed. That’s why I love Ice Cube in that movie, Higher Learning. “Show me your ID.” LOL So true.
NWA was not afraid to say what they feel.
Surprised you've never heard this song, it's one of the most iconic "gangster rap" songs ever.
It’s totally awesome the young kids can groove to the classics. Props young man😎
I enjoyed that reaction my man..Classic. Yes it was terrible in Compton and across the country. The three strikes law was in full effect in Cali too.. Check out Ice Cube "3 Strikes you in"...hidden gem Classic.
Absolutely incredible song man... incredible.
N.W.A: We are gangsta AF, deal with it!
Also N.W.A: The police accuse us of being gangsters, that's so unfair!
Express yourself is a classic
Boogie Down Productions- My Philosophy...
Bone thugs n Harmony and Eazy E,For tha love of money iz a good jam too
I just found you and i really enjoyed watching you listen to this!
Great album. I always thought "Express Yourself" off of STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON was sort of out of place. They were angry as hell, and rightfully so. So sorry you had to go through the profiling, its not right, never will be. Cheers man for keeping it real
DJ Yella don't rap but he is the DJ of the rap group. He helps produce and engineer the songs. By the way you can look up his solo album called "One Mo Nigga to Go" and the record was a tribute album to Eazy after he died.
Right after Ice Cube left NWA, NWA released an EP called "100 miles and running"..that titel track is by the way also a hell of a track..But my point is, an other track on this EP is called "Sa Prize" which is part 2 of "Fuck the police".
And by the way "Yella" was the DJ he didn´t rap he was cutting and scratching.
And many here are suggesting Public Enemy "Fight the power" which is also a great song but I would go with "Black steel in the hour of chaos" which is about a prison riot + escape ..it´s from the same album "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back" and to be fair every single track of that album is a banger and was therefore officially selected as "Best Hip Hop record of the year" in 1989 and is for Hip Hop history a landmark/milestone..
You should watch ‘the defiant ones’ on Netflix. Gives a good background about NWA
Played this whenever I was pulling up to the gate on base as loud as possible.
Reaaaaly love this song btw.. am a scot.. glasgow born..and this banger was an anthem for us growing up..fuck the police... as powerful now as it was then.. n not just stateside!
Thinking about the time the cops rushed the stage when they played this life and all they wanted was an autograph
This song was so controversial it sparked concern with mostly white conservative people. That's how you know this is punk as fuck. There was a congressional hearing bc of this song. VP Al Gore's wife (vp to bill clinton) hated the fuck the police thing. This is what caused the advisory labels on some hip hop albums.
i was living in pleasantville NY back in the day. i can report there was no gun violence or racist cops in pleasantville at the time.
Yella didn't rap. He was the DJ that played the records on stage.
Rumor has it McRen is originally from Ireland.
Ren is EMCEE Ren not “Mic” Ren. And Yella is DJ Yella. Love the shirt, Jay!