four snoop doggy dog and dr. dre is at the door ooh, boy. snoop doggy dog and dr. dre at the door. it s crazy. they knocked the door down, baby. g thing baby we re crazy 70% of rap music, including gangsta rap, was purchased by whites. growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. other music is more like a fairy tale story. where now we can hear somebody else s history basically and understand where they re coming from. bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yea death row s definitely in the house the chronic made hip-hop digestible to everybody. it was a hip-hop tsunami, and we didn t see it coming. death row records going to be the next motown, you know what i m saying? the chronic album was the foundation, and we re going to keep rolling on until the house is finished. it s the bow to the wow and creeping and crawling the handful of gangsta rap
brown the group nwa is the harshest most in your face of the gangsta-style rappers. one song blasts the police in the most obscene terms. renn and ice cube, they write the rap, right? me and my boy yella get together and hook up a good beat we feel will go good with the rap and there it is. platinum records. nwa at that point is the biggest hip-hop band there is. first time i heard nwa i was like that ice guy is all right but the rest of this is garbage. that was pretty much the attitude initially of most people who were part of the hip-hop world. dre step to the door and get [ bleep ] up the east coast kind of felt like, well, we invented hip-hop, you re not going to come in as the new kid and decide this is the thing like the east coast is the home of hip-hop and we re all going to have a say in where hip-hop goes. mad thinking about stomping i m from the south bronx [ bleep ] compton you going to continue making a lot of money off this? long as it s viole
the miseducation of lauryn hill. with her record-breaking fifth grammy win, lauryn hill echoed what many might have been thinking. this is crazy, because this is hip-hop music. you know what i mean? she s going to be, big well, she already is a big star. you get five grammys you are. a lot of people think she s going to really redefine the connections among hip-hop, pop, for everybody. hi, kids. do you like primus want to see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids when em came we sat back like this. what s this white boy doing? and then i really listened but i can t figure out which spice girl i want to impregnate i was like, whoa! slim shady you a basehead and dre s behind it? he s in. he s in! he s not trying to be black. he s not pretending he has these great urban stories. he s telling his story, portraying lower middle-class white life. which hip-hop had not done before. i think that s why he was so
going to be rap music, gangsta rap music, whatever. nwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person who walks away is ice cube. tried to kill me same reason ice cube left the group is the reason i left. you know, tired of making other people money. it s my turn. tonight s the night i get in some deep cover on the incognito tip suge knight, who wasn t a real gangster, got into cahoots with dr. dre and said, dre, we should start our own record label, which became death row records. knight, 6 3 , 330-pound former bodyguard has become one of the most feared men in the music business. you got dr. dre, who probably makes beats better than everybody. this guy delivers a hit. dre put out his first solo album the chronic. not only do you get dre but then you also get snoop dogg. one, two, three and to the
brown the group nwa is the harshest most in your face of the gangsta-style rappers. one song blasts the police in the most obscene terms. renn and ice cube, they write the rap, right? me and my boy yella get together and hook up a good beat we feel will go good with the rap and there it is. platinum records. nwa at that point is the biggest hip-hop band there is. first time i heard nwa i was like that ice guy is all right but the rest of this is garbage. that was pretty much the attitude initially of most people who were part of the hip-hop world. dre step to the door and get [ bleep ] up the east coast kind of felt like, well, we invented hip-hop, you re not going to come in as the new kid and decide this is the thing like the east coast is the home of hip-hop and we re all going to have a say in where hip-hop goes. mad thinking about stomping i m from the south bronx [ bleep ] compton you going to continue making a lot of money off this?