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^^ That is a great album. :icon14:

Law wrote:

Lol, welcome to the west-coast in '89. Yeah, it is a good album although Ren and Yella are often over-looked. Ice Cube jumped ship soon after the album and they never recovered...his voice balanced Eazy's whiny raps. But it kick started careers for Ice-Cube, who ended up going over to the east coast..Eazy E, who started doing solo hardcore, comic-book style gangsta rap...and Dre - 'nuff said... he fucking invented G-funk and became one of the most sought after producers.

Ren and Yella did also did some shit in the 90s, but never took off like the others.

iirc, it was a pretty nasty break up, Ice Cube and Dre ended up hating Eazy. I'm too lazy to look it up, as this is all of the top of my head, differences about money I'm sure.

Edit: Fun fact, when Dre left in 92 to go to Death Row Records, Suge Knight threatened to kill NWA's manager if he refused to let Dre out of his contract.

Loved that album ever since I was in my teens. Ice Cube left because he was pissed that Ezy was getting more money than everyone else. Dre and Ren caught on to it in later years. Yella was apparently the only one who ever visited Ezy from the group when he was on his death bed.

Dre was the only one who sounded better without the group though. The Chronic is my favorite rap album of all time.

I like Straight Outta Compton, but it reminds me of most of Public Enemy's stuff and lot of other stuff from the 80s...albums that were exceptional for their time, but just kinda good now.

I don't know, maybe it's only because I've listened to it too much.

How does it remind you of PE? They're very different in sound and lyrics imo.

N*****4life was better, I thought

efil4zaggin is definately an awesome album.

Favourite PE album:

Law wrote:How does it remind you of PE? They're very different in sound and lyrics imo.

I meant in terms of being awesome for their time, but just kinda "meh" now. A lot of it I think has to do with most of the 80's beats, the production on those albums that were great at the time, just for the most part aren't as good as the exceptional albums of today.

NWA and Public Enemy were just the first two popular groups in the 80s that came to mind. Not counting the solo artists like Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, etc.

Eric B and Rakim - Legends. Don't mind a bit of Boogie Down Productions too. They're definately an 'acquired taste' though.

Lol, this thread is bringing back memories.
Back in high school some friends and I would cut class and go to a small independent convenience store across the street. There were only two people working at one time and no cameras, so 4 of them would approach the counter and order something to eat - keeping the workers busy while the rest of us would load up our jackets/back packs with 40s of Old E.

Come back across the street to campus and go out to the parking lot, chill in my friends '80-something Mustang smoking blunts, drinking, and listening to NWA and Slick Rick.

Lol, I was one ganster middle class white boy. Kind of embarrassing to look back on it, but at the time it was cool :shurg:

Oh yeah, this wasn't the 80's or early 90s...I'm talking like 2 years ago.

and

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lol black rap has gone from fighting for rights to bragging about money and cars.
fucking weak show.

Doombrain wrote:lol black rap has gone from fighting for rights to bragging about money and cars.
fucking weak show.

Nah, there's still a lot of good shit out there. Dead Prez, The Coup, Immortal Technique, Wordsworth, just to name a few.
Just a lot of shit the media pushes is what you're talking about.

Although Dead Prez was on Sony for awhile, which I thought was a little odd since they're notoriously militant.

The Coup is currently on Epitaph, also a little odd since Epitaph is a well known punk label.

Edit: I had the pleasure of seeing Dead Prez, Wordsworth, Talib Kweli, and others in my Student Union for free. Still ended up buying some shit as it was a benefit show for the genocide in Sudan.

wiggers lol

>the rest

Pink Floyd always bored the hell out of me.

ctrlnuke wrote:Pink Floyd always bored the hell out of me.

QFT

What a surprise, you fucking homo freak.

Law wrote:

thank you MTV hiphop artists for giving the world chavs

cunts :icon14: