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F*ck tha Police! NWA's lyrics launched a congressional investigation and inspired as much parental fear, subcultural rebellion and spilled beer as any tattooed metal band. It also broke gangsta rap to the world. Since its creation, gangsta rap has served as the raw voice of the inner-city streets, from East Coast to West Coast. Born out of the 1990’s crime wave, gangsta rap’s touchstone anthems chronicle and glorify a brutal life of guns, pimps, dirty money and drugs. Rap’s 1980’s pioneers - Run DMC, Kool and the Gang, Kurtis Blow etc.—laid down socially conscious dance anthems using rapid-fire narratives to document the prejudices facing young blacks in white America. They also invented original old-school beats and the hard-party hip-hop vibe that brought rap music to the attention of consumers used to guitar solos. But rough economic times and continued political disenfranchisement gave birth to a much angrier sub-genre of rap. Gangsta rap’s late-80’s/early 90’s father’s - Ice-T, Public Enemy, Wu Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, KRS-1 and Biggie Smalls—all claimed to be documenting (and escaping) their own lives in inner-city street gangs. Their records used jagged samples and hard beats to accentuate violent street-life narratives. And gangsta rappers didn’t hesitate to model themselves on another shady American success story—images from The Godfather and Scarface show up on everything from album covers to lyrics. But escaping gangsta life was harder than going multi-platinum. The Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur were both murdered within a matter of months, a tragedy that fans attribute to a battle between East Coast Bad Boy Records and West Coast Death Row Records. Following their deaths, the hip hop community offered a consolidated plea for peace that effectively ended the East Vs. West coast feud.
- 35 Ringtones E-40
- 46 Ringtones Too Short
- 34 Ringtones Keak Da Sneak
- 10 Ringtones DJ Quik
- 15 Ringtones Warren G
- 43 Ringtones Dr. Dre
- 22 Ringtones N.W.A.
- 58 Ringtones Messy Marv
