anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that 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 honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and 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 there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haiair bands. you ve gotot poison, r ra
- it s a tough time to grow up in, anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that 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 honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and 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 there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haia
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- n nwa ain t s shit to me dre, beating on dee from pump it up step to the dog and get f ed up - the east coast felt kind of like, well, you know, we invented hip-hop. you re nonot gonna cocome n as the new kid and suddenly, you know, decide this is the thing. like, the east coast is the home of hip-hop, and we re always gonna have a say in w where hip-h-hop goes. - now you r re mad and you re thinking about stomping well, i m from the south bronx, f compton - you re gonna continue making a lot of money off of this, do you think? - as long as there s violence, there s gonna be rap music, gangster rap music, whatever. - nwa was always too hohot to hold.d. it hadad to splintnter, and ththe first peperson who walks away is ice cube. - the filthy devils tried to kill me - the same reason ice cube left the group is the same reason i left. [laughs] you know, i m tired of making other people money. it s my turn. tonight s the night i get in some shit