imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones would shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. i see hustling. i see killing. that s what i rap about. you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can t take the ghetto up out of me, though. it s a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. boom, there it is, platinum record. country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. the honeymoon s over. now we re getting down to real commerce. aren t these girls just crazy? yeah, they are. you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. it s as if the
A look at the diverse music of the 1990s, from Nirvana to Dixie Chicks to Tupac. Songwriter with an ability to scream almost in tune. It just gave an intensity that was really unique. I kill you, im not gonna crack nirvana gave the record industry a wakeup call and said, here is your new audience. So, start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. I would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. It was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l. A. Hollywood 80s. And it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. One of the biggest music biz stories these days is the socalled Rain City Renaissance with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. Bands like soundgarden, alice in chains, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. Outshined outshined outshined
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tupac shakur, rap star and movie star, was arrested in new york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. atlanta cops had arrested tupac less than a month earlier for shooting two off-duty police officers. tupac was languishing in jail waiting for his appeal when suge knight swooped in and basically offered to pay his bail if he signed a contract. death row. you will see your art brought to a bigger platform and you will be paid one of these days. even though he was an east coast guy by birth, he s now rapping on the west coast with the big label out there, death row. give me that ball beat from dre let me serenade the streets of l.a. from oakland to sac town the bay area and back down cali is where they put their mac down california suge was trying to expand death row all over the country. but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? bad boy. papi, fab five freddie s here.
bay area and back down cali is where they put their mac down california suge was trying to expand death row all over the country. but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? bad boy. papi, fab five freddie s here. oh, what up? what s going on? everything. it s all good in the hood. sean puffy combs founded bad boy and biggie smalls was his marquee artist. they modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways, kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. jump in the rover and come over tell your friends in the gs-3 i got the chronic by the i love it when you call me big papa throw your hands in the air if yous a true playa i make music about what i know. know what i m saying? if i worked in mcdonald s, i d have made rhymes about big macs and fries and stuff like that. you know what i m saying? brooklyn, i see hustling, i see killing, i see gambling, i see girls, i see cars. that s what i rap about, what s
california suge was trying to expand death row all over the country. but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? bad boy. papi, fab five freddie s here. oh, what up? what s going on? everything. it s all good in the hood. sean puffy combs founded bad boy and biggie smalls was his marquee artist. they modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways, kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. jump in the rover and come over tell your friends in the gsv i got the chronic by the i love it when you call me big papa throw your hands in the air if yous a true playa i make music about what i know. know what i m saying? if i worked in mcdonald s, i d have made rhymes about big macs and fries and stuff like that. you know what i m saying? brooklyn, i see hustling, i see killing, i see gambling, i see girls, i see cars. that s what i rap about, what s in my environment.