Why does ice cube hate nwa

Everything in the world came after this group. We changed pop culture on all levels. Not just music. We changed it on TV. In movies. On radio. The emergence of N. Public Enemy had already helped redefine the genre by ushering in aggressively pro-Black raps that were intelligent, socially aware and politically charged. But N. A opted for an angrier approach. The group celebrated the hedonism and violence of gangs and drugs that turned neighborhoods into war zones, capturing it in brazen language soaked in explicitness.

Like the Beatles, N. They were the living embodiment of the streets where they were raised, and there was zero pretense about it. And when it came to subject matter, with N. A, politics took a backseat. Instead, frustrations about growing up young and black on the streets of South Central Los Angeles became the driving force behind their music. Gangs, violence, poverty, and the ravishing eighties crack epidemic swept through black neighborhoods like F5 tornadoes.

People were angry and restless, and without a flinch N. A documented its dark and grim realities like urban newsmen. Black teens and young adults immersed in street life, yet looking for something to hold on to, flocked to the album. A introduced an antihero. A brought it to life by mixing reality with fantasy through its music — and the result was as terrifying as it was successful.

How would Jay-Z ever have known he could go from slinging crack cocaine to creating Roc-A- Fella had Eazy not done it less than a decade before? Top Gun was breaking box-office records. Bill Cosby was the most beloved TV star in the country. But in Compton, Calif. Cube and Eric Wright Eazy-E , were inventing gangsta rap in South Central clubs, creating a wholly new form of music made up of shockingly raw stories of police brutality and other urban blights.

If hip-hop had one Big Bang-like birth, an explosive moment when it first emerged as a serious, sustainable art form, this was it. Clockwise from top left: N. Of course, a lot has changed in three decades.

America has an African-American president; Cosby no longer is so beloved nor lecturing rap stars on how to behave. Yet a lot has stayed the same. A went from being public enemy No. Long before Universal was on board, one of the obstacles to a rational business model was the fact that the N. A movie would have to get her on board first, then the rest of the gang. Tipper Gore spoke at a Washington hearing aiming to put warning labels on content with explicit lyrics.

The first ones to try were a writer named Alan Wenkus and documentarian named S. Leigh Savidge. Cube joined the project in as a producer, but wanted the character based on his life to have a bigger role in the plot naturally. DJ Yella and MC Ren, the fourth and fifth members of the group, are in the film but only as peripheral characters.

It looked for sure as if a green light was imminent. Tell me who was there. Tell me why this happened and what were you thinking and what was your motivation and what do you think Eazy was thinking. But just as it was all coming together, New Line ceased to exist as an autonomous studio. In , its distribution operations were absorbed by parent company Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. But it turned out Langley at Universal would. She brought in another writer, Jonathan Herman , to do a major overhaul. Ironically, it was Herman, a year-old gay Jewish scribe from Greenwich, Conn. He spent weeks with Dre and Cube, coaxing out their memories and learning their speech patterns. Dre, for one, took the additional research in stride. As the cornerstone of N. From Snoop Dogg to Freddie Gibbs , it's hard to imagine hardcore rap without his influence.

And it's impossible to imagine where hip-hop would have gone without the impact of the immortal album Straight Outta Compton also the title of an upcoming biopic steered by the surviving members. For the 20th anniversary of his passing, Eazy's N. A partner in crime Ice Cube spoke with Billboard about his late comrade, describing everything from the first time they met to their eventual reconciliation after a very public beef -- and why N.

A would have recorded another album if Eazy hadn't died. That he was very clean and cool. He was fly. He had a brand new jeep with custom paint on it. He had this Fila sweatsuit on -- I knew he had money. He looked like a little hustler, and he was. And not long after you wrote "Boyz-in-the-Hood," his pre-N.

A solo track, for him? Well, I actually wrote "Boyz-n-the-Hood" for a group of his -- it wasn't for him. He had a group called H. He was just gonna be the manager. So I wrote some songs and he was like, "I like the stuff you write, I like what you're talking about. Write a song for my group. But [Dr. Eazy just worked hard. He worked hard, hard, and actually became a pretty good rapper.

So you watched his skills progress from managing a rap group to becoming a rapper himself. He got better every time he got in front of the mic. He got better and better and better until he was a bona fide rapper. Because it's one thing to do it in the studio, but when you can do it on stage, you're a rapper. He could grab the mic -- he wasn't rapping to a track but the instrumental.

He could flow on his songs, for sure. He became a good rapper by the time I left [N. Oh yeah, that's natural.

It's one thing to do it in the studio and another to do it in front of those people. We were all around him as his support. I think he felt comfortable. We would set the show off first, and then he would make a grand entrance -- the tone was already set. The show was going good, we got a show flowing, and 18 minutes into it, you haven't seen Eazy-E yet. And you're like, "What the fuck?

Where's Eazy?