gangsta paradise which is, on the surface, a heavier song but the hook is so inviting and warm. been spending most of their lives living in a gangster s paradise say what hip-hop had hit a point it had become mainstream and starts appearing in other forms of music. there s this kind of rock-rap happening. sometimes, something kicked there s hip-hop that can be found in pop music. harrison ford getting frantic like sting i m tantric like snickers guaranteed to satisfy r&b and rap mixing for new jack swing. new jack swing around town doesn t give a teddy riley was the big new jack swing producer, and he produced everybody. all i want to do zoom, zoom and a boom, boom he had wreckx and effect. he had his own group guy, heavy d and the boys. it all had this kind of rhythm that made you have to dance. get down, good lord
for the september killing of rap star tupac shakur. when tupac and biggie were assassinated, it was a watershed moment i think in hip-hop culture. kind of the death of a revolution. these two men were two of the most successful rap artists in the industry. phenomenally wealthy. why are we seeing this happen? well, both biggie smalls and tupac had talked of trying to break out of that violence, but many say they were trapped in the world they created. they were forced to, in a word, as they say, to keep it real, and that s a sad commentary. i remember seeing news reports about how violent it was, i remember seeing editorials, how can we let our children listen to this when these artists are being killed at an incredible rate? and i thought rap was going to end. at least one radio station here in los angeles which has made a lot of money from gangsta rap music has stopped playing it. we lost two of the greatest artists in hip-hop history. that vacuum was there for a while. it
of the 80s and much more into reality rap and street rap. the police coming straight from the underground young got it bad because i m 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 new york 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.
the floor notorious, they got to know i ll be missing you was diddy s song about b.i.g. suddenly it s like, oh, damn, puffy s going to be a legitimate solo act and enters the next phase of hip-hop. every step i take there s sampling and then there s sampling. to take the every breath you take police sample and rap over it, puff daddy finds a way to appeal to young listeners and their parents. i m coming and everybody wants to party. ain t nothing wrong with partying. puff daddy built an empire out of it. it was not about to be conscious any more. the sound shifted and the use of samples exploded. mo money mo problems was a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear and say, well, that sounds familiar to me, so maybe this isn t all bad. i see myself in the pistol smoke you have songs like coolio s
gangsta paradise which is, on the surface, a heavier song but the hook is so inviting and warm. been spending most of their lives living in a gangster s paradise say what hip-hop had hit a point it had become mainstream and starts appearing in other forms of music. there s this kind of rock-rap happening. sometimes, something kicked there s hip-hop that can be found in pop music. harrison ford getting frantic like sting i m tantric like snickers guaranteed to satisfy r&b and rap mixing for new jack swing. new jack swing is the sound around town doesn t give a teddy riley was the big new jack swing producer, and he produced everybody. all i want to do zoom, zoom and a boom, boom he had wreckx and effect. he had his own group guy, he did heavy d and the boys. it all had this kind of rhythm that made you have to dance. get down, good lord