Remember when “Fuck The Police” was the hardest shit you ever heard?
Remember when you used to have to hide that copy of Eazy Duz It so your folks wouldn’t find it? No lie, when my sister Juan first started driving, we used to hide that fuckin tape and then break it out every morn on the ride to school.
Remember when you used to think that Compton was like a new world Wild West motion picture…but never a place you wanted to visit?
Remember that the boyz in the hood were always hard?
Remember how many times you heard the n-word for the first time on wax, word to Richard Pryor?
Remember when you thought the majority of Black folks in Cali had Jheri curls? And if it was really that cold in Cali to be wearing pendletons and parkas?
Remember when they spelled that album title backwards and it took a sec to figure it out?
Remember when N.W.A. became the first targets of the hip-hop police?
Remember when only doctors and dopeboys had beepers?
Remember when you thought Nike Cortez’s were the shit?
Remember when you rocked Raiders gear, those cursive script hats and Starter jackets? “Real Men Wear Black,” no?
Then you remember N.W.A., right?
N.W.A.-Straight_Outta_Compton-_Retail_LP_-1988
N.W.A.-N.W.A._And_The_Posse-1989
N.W.A.-100_Miles_And_Runnin-_EP_-1990
N.W.A.-Niggaz4life-1991 N.W.A.-Greatest_Hits__Remastered-2003
Cannibal_Ox-Speakeroxxx_The_Ox_Below-2004
Gucci Mane – Ice Attack
VA-DJ_Kool_Kid-Hip_Hop_For_Dummies_(Incredible_Blendz_P art.1)
VA-Lake_And_Death_Row_East_Present_The_848_ Mixtape-2007
Sage Francis – A Healthy Distrust 2004
Brother_Ali_-Life_Sentence_EP_(Limited Ed.)-2007
Crime Boss – All In The Game
Lil Weavah – Underground Music (2006)
Rude Awakening – Rude Awakening (1994)
Consequence – Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Jay Dee – Fuck The Police 12″
Jay Dee – Beat CD1
Art Of Noise – Ambient Collection
Art Of Noise – Daft
Art Of Noise – The Drum and Bass Collection
DJ Magic Mike And The Royal Posse
Steady B – V 1991
Steady B – What’s My Name
The Durty Durty Mixtape Series – Blues Hits 11
The Durty Durty Mixtape Series – Blues Hits 12
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I think I might have to do a Death Certificate Week @ MM.
And I am also thinking of a Redman Lifetime Achievement award.
This n*gga been putting it down for, how many years?
How many cats from back there ARE STILL RELEVENT.
I can’t think of anyone else.
And it is a rappers rapper.
“straight outta Compton, a crazy muthafucka named Ice Cube”
Remember when “Fuck The Police” was the hardest shit you ever heard?- that joint is STILL the hardest shit I ever heard, dudes nowadays just be faking it, unless ur Beanie Sigel prolly the only rapper in the game now that you know that’s his life. That Death Certificate week would b dope btw
what the fuck,
you forget Yellas name?
LOL!!! That shit turned me out back then. I was just getting zits when I heard that shit. I had to hide my shit too. The Rodney King shit validated that music even more. “I don’t to much gold cause it’s tacky/I bust a Raiders hat, t-shirt and khakis”-Ice Cube
Yo Gotty how bout a NWA week with the group and the solo success of the members. Ren’s solo jive didn’t fly too high but he was still the shit.
oo718oo – that’s not our shirt. That’s one that’s been out there for a while. Not sure how available it still is.
C – I ain’t even sure what our next “week” will be but we’re cooking up some stuff. EVERYBODY had to hide NWA & Eazy’s first shits. Yeah, there was 2 Live crew before but nobody was as widespread and known as these dudes were for cussin and causing a ruckus amongst the youth.
could somebody re-up the gucci mane?
Great read… and I thought I was the only one who had to hide that cassette. Hell, I hid cassettes from my parents until my Mom caught me listening to “Doggystyle” years later! After that, I guess she must’ve thought I was old enough to know not to walk around screaming “Fuck the police!”, and was like “just put on the headphones”.
On a side note… My mom’s fav rapper still to this day is Snoop…. “just cause he made that song with the Dramatics.” LOL
man you fools are old. In here talkin about cassettes haha…
N*gga.
Don’t act like you ain’t had a NWA tape.
Sh*t.
I stole my brother and learned the words,
“Easily I approach/ the microphone because I ain’t no joke/ tell ya momma…..”
Looking back…I Was hella popular for knowing the words.
“Fuck Tha Police” is still that piff.
My father was and still is cool. He took my Eazy Duz It and bumped for the longest. I didnt get the tape back until 93.
“Yeah, there was 2 Live crew before but nobody was as widespread and known as these dudes were for cussin and causing a ruckus amongst the youth.”
i have to disagree with that ^^^
the 2 Live Crew are the sole reason that music has PARENTAL ADVISORY labels now.
i mean there was vendors catchin FELONY charges 4 sellin AS NASTY AS THEY WANNA BE to kids under 18.
i agree NWA was probably the largest factor that contributed to bringing that Gansgta shit to middle and upper class folks, but 2 Live Crew was responsible for how ‘nasty’ music became.
use to keep the kicks in the boxes and hid the cassettes underneath all the paper.
Guy – No disrespect to 2 Live because, true indeed, they were the first ones to be overly explicit with their shit…and I remember that first black cassette tape cover w/the dookie ropes being my first form of sex ed.
but if we’re speaking on straight raw street shit that SWEPT thru the fuckin nation and is pretty much responsible for what we hear in music today, you gotta give credit to NWA. Cats will say Schooly D, Ice-T etc etc…but nobody caught on EVERYWHERE like NWA & Eazy did.
No..can’t say I remember. I dont even remember of hearing about an “Ice Cube” until Friday came out. :-/
Guy-Let us old bastards take a trip down memory lane. I feel your comment but not today man, no debates please.
Gotta agree with Gotty on this one… Everyone remembers them being interviewed on the back of the pick-up truck by Fab 5 Freddy on Yo! MTV Raps. Those cats had guns on ‘em in the interview…. I’m not sure, but I’m almost positive that’s not gonna fly on MTV these days.
LOL!!! Some cats first glimpse of Cube is Craig? Im old
Thanks for reppin my home town Gotty. I can remember my mom was like, “Them gangster rappers aren’t going to last that long.” Then was throwin local concerts and she be right in the front row. Eazy even came to our house. That was before S.O.C. came out nationwide. Ahhh, tha days.
but nobody caught on EVERYWHERE like NWA & Eazy did.
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It was tha juxtaposition of jeri curls and gats, vs. tha cali blue sky and bungalows.
N*ggas in other parts of the country couldn’t believe the west was bucking like that….and still is to this day for tha matter.
@Douglas Howser
They show that scene often on those VH1 specials now, but I remember watching it when it first aired thinking, “Eazy is wearing a bulletproof vest?!?!?!”
Those were the times.
I remember my mom having to “ok” Eazy-Duz-It before I could have it… LOL!
Man… great post.
Really great post.
Oh and… I’m from Cali and was still bugged out by the sight of the vest.
I remember the first time i heard N W A i was living with my dad in toledo Ohio and they had just did a concert up there and we were in the back of my dads jimmy bumping fuck the police. Hell i wasnt but nine years old and ive been a fan ever since.
First tape i ever got was eazy e eazy duz it