you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can t take the ghetto up out of me, dog. 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 there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my
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 there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my cherry pie cool drink of water such a sweet surprise tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on. there s a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. so that s selling. when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain facade. mtv s ratings are surprisingly small. but those who do watch, mostl
My, how times have changed. I see hustling, i see killing. Thats what i rap about. You can take me out the ghetto but you cant the ghetto up out of me, though. Its a tough time to grow up in. Nirvana and kurt cobain particularly reflect the angst. I learned how to write for myself, and its 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 is over. Now we are down to real commerce. Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are. 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. Its as if there were just one National Radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, youre getting a lot of hair bands. Youve got poison, ratt,
like, oh, 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 scene. nwa ain t sick to me dre step up to the door and get 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 suddenly 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 of this, do you think? long as it s violence, it s 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
enemy of the 80s, and much more into reality rap and street rap. the police coming straight from the underground a young n- 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 boom, 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, oh, 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 scene. nwa ain t sick to me dre step up to the door and get 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 suddenly decide this is the thing. like the east coast is the home of hip-hop, an