Music Feature Final

N.W.A (Niggas Wit Attitude) is famous for their major affect in the rap scene. They are basically the inventors of “Gangsta Rap.” N.W.A was a Compton, California based rap group that rapped on things that went on in their neighborhoods, this included murders, robbery, drugs, rape, and police brutality. The original members of N.W.A consisted of Eazy E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre. A year later adding DJ Yella, MC Ren, and Arabian Prince to the rap group. In the start, around 1986 music shows such as VH1 and even radio stations weren’t ready for so much harsh and violent lyrics, and neither was the public.
The group’s first single was “Straight Outta Compton” which talked about life in Compton, California, spoke the blunt truth of the city. The next hit for the group was a widely controversial song called “Fuck The Police.” This song talked about police brutality, racial profiling, and killing police officers. It caused a lot of madness within police departments, saying it “encouraged people to harm police officers,” one officer said. N.W.A would eventually receive a letter from the F.B.I for the song. The letter stated that the group should watch their step.
In 1989, the group’s political threat, Ice Cube left the group after a lot of financial disputes between him, the group, and Jerry Heller, the president and founder of the group.
Ice Cube would put out a diss-track entitled “No Vaseline” which was featured on his solo album, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, which was a hit!
A few years later, at the group’s peak of the popularity, Dr. Dre was still trying to leave the group to go solo due to an “unfair” record deal. This led to a public dispute between the two, each putting out diss records including Dr. Dre and Death Row artist Snoop Dogg’s song “Dre Day” which threw plenty of lyrical blows and Eazy-E. Eazy would return fire in song “It’s On” as well as “Real Compton City G’s” both songs dissing Death Row Records, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre. After all the feuding was over, in 1995 Eazy-E tragically died from the AIDS virus.
Before the rappers death, Dr. Dre as well as Ice Cube had worked things out with Eazy-E. They had set aside all differences and came back to why they were rapping side by side in the first place.
“I’m definitely disappointed that we let stupid childish things get in-between our friendship---- I would love to see how things would be today if all that didn’t happen” says Dr. Dre in N.W.A documentary featured on VH1.
Through all of N.W.A’s ups and downs they still are known as the pioneers of gangsta rap and regarded as one of the best music groups in music history being put at number 50 by MTV. Without N.W.A the rap scene would be totally different today, some may say that’s a good thing, but a rap fan would say without N.W.A rap just wouldn’t be the same.