rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. my mother standing in the welfare line the way you survive is crime my life is over so i might as well speak my mind ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning police at my door. ice t did it way before nwa did it. straight outta compton ice cube from a gang called with attitude i got a sawed off squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off the los angeles rap group nwa
single- single-handedly changed the phrasing of hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. i learned different rhythms, listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style. you know, not just a regular dum, dum, dum. what i am trying to do. i m trying to set examples for the little kids. you know what i m saying? got to teach the babies. you know what i m saying? try to lead them in the right path. the summer of 1987, rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms. it was the sound of anger. it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said we want to be music s worst nightmare. public enemy s extreme politics has met almost no raid your air play even on black stations. it s rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution.
public enemy literally said we ooh, my little pretty one, pretty one want to be music s worst nightmare. public enemy s extreme when you gonna give me some politics has meant almost no time sharona radio air play, even on black stations. mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. it s rap for a reason. you had a personal concert all day. they call it a mind revolution. crack that whip when you have the rotation a rebel in his own mind of, say, maybe 100 different rebel without a pause was videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts. heavily influenced by rakim and here in my car where the image breaks down will you visit me please if i heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. open my door in cars britain was ahead of the you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. curve. they had a ton of videos in their inventory, and that w
all of these issues, they should be addressing this with their the world has reacted with energy. planet earth it was my place of birth immense shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and the 70s got murdered. rakim is the god emcee. in his life he s given more he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and love than most men and women on the face of this earth. hip-hop. he came to the world like a we re here to prove that love is poet. not dead, even though john is. hard on the boulevard i never get scarred you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don t really know where i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. you re going to go from that point, you know, culturally or musically. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between,
rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about who are the people i ve got out here? haven t you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. my mother standing in the welfare line the way the youth survive is crime my life is over so i might as well speak my mind ice-t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning police at my door. ice-t did it way before nwa did it. straight outta compton crazy [ bleep ] named ice cube