2Pac N.W.A. 1990's HipHop Gangster Rap Documentary Film

[Music] [Applause] [Music] the gangster wrapped in the fog in its lyrics the glorified violence to denigrate women is nothing more than pornographic must and now the attack is on rap it is no such thing as gangster rap this wrath period people found a knife put a stamp on you know the type of music that we play and try to try to put a hold on Isaiah's reality if thanks to realities I guess that's a gangster code gangster rap is opportunity for people in the ghetto lab nothing to do with themselves such as ex-gang members extra dealers all we do want to be a reported iconic song and reportin was going on if I was a real gang someone be telling you we're going out to do it I'm having a bad day so stay outta my way people get over with all the controversy surrounding so-called gangster rap and it's alleged negative effect on America's youth we aspect very different young music fans from around the country what they thought about the music and its message gangsta rap is lap as it takes a lifestyle of crime drugs and that I never heard anybody used to turn gay flip except enemies basically updating gangsta rap this is hardcore beats what you know just don't marry someone just distress in a point of what people go through but I think there are those rappers who don't draw the line between education and provoking violence there's no such thing as thanks forever something somebody gave a name to no there's no deafness it's someone words rapping gangster rap he kind of nice at the head some previous knowledge about it never let me slip the zipper clipped and I'm slipping but I forgot my Mina then you'd know I'm straight trippin he's gangsta rap determined by your dress the songs you make the album if you make the record company you're on the town that you come from these are all incredible variables that make it very hard for us to define what it is Frank Sinatra gangster singers nothing is to use a garlic gang faction yeah I think what we have to do is define and understand what these messages are that are coming out of the music if the messages are excessively violent and negative to society that we need to talk about them to talk about them honestly how did we get those messages really is to cry out because it's like genocide going on and you losing a whole generation of people that could help contribute not only to this country to this world and they crying out about it through that music there's such a difference now in terms of the attitude of revenues from the message to today the message still implied hope push me cause I'm close to dump it I'm tryin not to lose my head that's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder who go ahead up and that's just like 10 years ago you know it was like the music has a message behind it is telling you get it right we stand in for this no mo well you know ten years twelve years really later with the absence of anybody paying attention to melly-mel and he was saying don't push me we have kids they're saying I don't care you know I'll bust you down I'll do whatever I have to to survive because nobody cares about me so why should I care about anybody else okay Mike the person a black with no heart because the puppet said nice rectum poverty in America's inner cities has often led to crime partly due to the lack of opportunities for the kids growing up there but when in the early 80s the government dismantled many of the social programs that help support these minority communities the kids who made and listened to rap music were left with little else to do but hang out and seek support in gang then into this cultural and economic vacuum came the crack trade so we stuck in here now even more in the music's a different development almost like despair the crack cocaine trade brought with it a lot more money more greed and more violence especially within the gangs but in New York hip-hop became an outlet for the youthful frustration that fueled gangs such as Afrika Bambaataa Zulu Nation the greatness of Bambaataa was that he was able to transcend the energy that was involved in the gang scene and put it into this musical culture DJ scene that we now call hip hop so for the whole time since hip hop was dissolved you know in the mid 70s while the kids who would have been in gangs actually wound up becoming rappers DJ's dancers before we had people that was teaching in New York you have to ex claim you had on Public Enemy you had cameras and who was putting pictures that was waking up people that his whole thing came from the west coast which I'm sorry to say with negativity those Asuma brothers but they would see to negativity New York rappers do a freestyle they rap about lots of different topics and it's fun but all my records always have guns and drugs and criminal strength slang versus rap slang so that's what I call it the G style gangsta style rap hold on my neck my peasant clothing 6:00 in the morning police at my door that was that's a credit issue first gangster run you had everybody from New York rapping about my adidas and my chain Miss and Miss and South Bronx and everything I wanted to put my city on the map I'm from Compton I know about Compton this is what I've been through this is what I want to rap about so we formed NWA from the success of NWA in that region we also started to see rappers represent their own regions to live through represented the body miss of Miami with the bass sound ghetto boys represented the Blues influence rough life in the different Ward's of Houston the only problem is that there are intense problems going on in these neighborhoods at the same time so it becomes very heavy mix of music and also the neighborhood politics Jenna [Music] I walked outside by doing I'll see those flowers in those ten and they were ocean and but not it's not a pretty sight so I just do not quote you about what I could and my raps that I'm rapping to my community shouldn't be filled with rage you know I'm saying they shouldn't be filled with the same atrocities that they gave me in the media they don't talk about it rappers have a right to be angry and I can understand where he's coming from but if he doesn't tell his community our community why they're angry kids are just going to see anger and then they're going to clone themselves after that anger and I bet those kids don't even know why those rappers are filled with rage notice your pain share it with me because I didn't have a father makes me cold and bitter it's not like I'm saying okay now sympathize with me I'm saying remember that I'm telling you I did not have a father so when you go what kind of kid is that what kind of boils we got I don't know I didn't have a father but I had pimps and drug dealers and robbers and killers telling me what I should do you know I'm saying because there was no jesse jackson's around you know and it was those people running around all those people that pop up and saying we need to check what we said and rapping and TVO's people are not around I'm sure that Tupac had other people other than pimps and prostitutes and hustlers reaching out to him just what he accepted and even now if that's the reality that's the reality that there's something more than [ __ ] to make the movies manage time with Gen exaction we've got an opportunity to do a different thing and send of different kind of message across okay my name is Dan Boylan according to Iran they're going on to face Carter had been locked up in already inmate al tupac shakur got his first dose of jail time in a Los Angeles Court on Thursday I had a good cop well I got to talk about good what makes me the representative for gun leather tombola son for my Glock and blast off or something when did I ever say I was a gangster rapper you know I'm a thug obviously personalities can either search he's crazy I rap about the oppressed taken back but blow for this science requires a lot of me I just fine at rates of the quality what do you think it's about rebel first making a man I think you talk forever I do I think about to pasta it's kind of funny because I hear a song about how you should detect our women I think in my charge for sexual last man or suddenly this is kind of like contradicting himself I gotta get my Jonica to you feel in any way by having 40 having a gun and want if that glorifying of that to children it might I thought about that you know I thought about how much that you know forties and on and I was kind of guest to be full of my mom the time but there's mama crop I try to keep whatever I rose honest it might not have been positive you know I'm saying it might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody you know I'm saying that they aren't they related to me they relate to brutal honesty in the rap to sound good money on my mind go head on my knife to little kids that might be influenced by him drunk in the forty that's kind of negative you know cuz paid a little I don't know my son coming up you know looking a two-part drinking a for anything on he did ten he just go out and get him a fully know something wrong we just gotta be there for our young which you know to tell him about you know hey that's right hearing good this is where he doing that's his life you ain't got to be like him [Music] [Music] when I was not used to getting my gosh my cuppa tea th and blessed the peaceful but gangster rappers never had easy access to the airway MTV has very strict standards regarding images of fortuitous sex and violence as to other video outlets and in 1993 radio stations such as ka EE in Los Angeles and WBLS in New York announced they would no longer play songs they considered negative it is not a question of closure you have the right of free speech in this country but you don't have the right to yell fire in a crowded deal and that is what some of these records are doing they're yelling shoot in a community that is crowded with gun I believe in the Constitution I believe in the First Amendment and there is nothing that ruthless or any other company like us does that that we shouldn't be doing ruthless records was one of the first labels devoted to gangster rap and was the home of NWA success was made possible by the labels independent air you should've known by now easy go easy on the company right beyond Rufus record and if we went to a made the company on the beginning with the stuff that if I'd never been out you know but since we were doing the record ourselves put out pretty much anything you want to you know and it took off I mean you got people coming and never did gangsta rap these broad kabocha Theory records they came up there with commercial all right so they commercially come out the records don't sell that much next album they want to come out they want to be gangster I would be a gangster this record man I got to make myself hard could that stuff at seven everybody jumped on the bandwagon definitely I think onyx has redesigned their image over time we seen the progression of Dre from the world class wreckin cru times to what he's doing now just a fact he wore you know a little tight stuff you know he had a little tight stuff you know Highliner lipstick I mean it was way out but whatever he doing he got to be doing right and I'm just giving him his props certainly hammer has redefined his image there's a story in the Wall Street Journal about the boss having one image when she was in school I guess growing up in Michigan and she says quite plainly in the article she's a businesswoman she's out here to get paid and get over in hip hop so she's formulated this image now even though I think she wants a private schools when she was growing up and now she is the boss we must get into discussions of the marketplace and capitalism because that also informs what these rappers do and don't do I was considered myself no gangster nothing like that I'm in here to make money you know I don't agree as clear clearly it's just showing that as a business it's probably manipulated by the music industry and said this is what you gotta do right now to catch the eye so he just followed her along to make bucks and he tried to work his way out in society and he did what he had but what Dre did more recently was sell over three million copies of his album to chronic and launched the career of Snoop Doggy Dogg debut solo album sold almost a million copies in one week those two albums made Ray's death row labels very profitable and to the dismay of their critics popularized the gangster image more than ever people off that tick on raps rappers be successful but these guys were making any hit they wouldn't be picking out present Calvin but yeah I wore wigs and different people talking about stopping the type of youth that I do and they're only trying to open a tronic three of them take away job you know this is all that money is the problem to a large degree and if you use money to justify what you're doing you just like the white man who saw you in labor in the first place money cannot be the justification for the determining factor whether what you do is right or wrong I need a bank another controversial aspect of the gangster formula is blatantly sexist lyrics often referring to women as [ __ ] and hoes let's just come a dime a dozen so don't get mad when I get tested you got to remember that a lot of rappers are dealing with nothing but these kinds of women that are coming out of who you know your new stuff oh I wasn't nobody a minute ago huh you know now you see money right that's where all the [ __ ] and hoes come from you know most women today are used to other women or themselves being called a [ __ ] or a hoe but I still think personally speaking it offends me if someone calls me a [ __ ] or a hole just to say it I think it's a lack of respect I remove my office I'll be playing around like they lie yo or disagrees list and the other is just wait no we cross that line because this is acting we play but then you clear serious you crossed my pitch no play fight we feel like it's our duty as females a wrap to show that other side you know that positive side we try to tell them to meet demand respect and you will get to expect and they can't call you in the hole in the [ __ ] they you know you demand and having sex and showing yourself respecting you ain't the message has to come from everybody it's not a responsibility of female rappers to say here you don't call us [ __ ] it's not like they call it female rappers [ __ ] they're calling women [ __ ] you know so it's it's the guys responsibility to say look man that's not cool [Music] [Music] snow done dudu doggie doggie whatever his name is in early 94 committees in both the House and Senate held hearings in Washington DC on the effects of violent and demeaning imagery in popular music which sparked a heated debate over the influence of so-called gangsta rap music it coerces influences encourages and motivates our youth to commit violent behavior to use drugs and abused women through demeaning sex acts ain't gonna do nothing which might make us see white kids talk crazy that's good when I leave work I'm really hyper because I'm glad that I'm done with my shift and I don't have to deal with the pressures of being perfect on the job so I just put on some sweet dog or ice cube dr. Dre and just magnify that mood that I'm in because I'm not ready to go to bed when I get off work I just want to have some fun whatever matters but because I never have gotten supportive home don't you think that gangsta rap is promoting or contributing to the violent crimes committed by today's youth I don't know the answer is it depends on what the end of the song is I mean what is the purpose of it is it to make people understand and empathize with and try to do something about these terrible problems or is it to legitimize violence and criminal conduct and ultimately self-defeating behavior and for me to answer your question I'd have to know the answer to that and I just don't know enough to answer it I don't think that rap music is because of violence America is a violent place and I think there are a lot of influences of you know on on violence in this country and we have to look at some of the root causes of anger and despair took them all out but I caught one in the while there's still no conclusive proof connecting violent behavior with violent rap lurks a person's age race class and environment all play a very important role as how these songs are perceived this area right now I've never seen anything done this or anything like that in my backyard probably the worst thing that goes on is probably like some squirrels fighting whatever we talk about together I can except to go to my every other night like I was going on my way when I hear all these things like this it's kind of hard for me to relate to I think about it and it just comes down to I basically enjoy listening to them for the beats you know they're really talented completely but that doesn't mean I want to hear every day swear by it now they drop in that killing it's a sad bit like Nate Dogg energy active regulation I don't think it portrays a very good lifestyle to the young people who listen to especially people in the inner cities their faces problems everyday loved a world I studied teen top's in the head company it happen it's glorifying what they see every day I'm gonna find violence it's tell me like it is simple we can get like Snoop Dogg walking down the street smoking endo stepping on gin and juice this is where I started from and I can't forget where I came from that's how I feel about gangsta music and gangsta rap I feel to always be around it's a way out as far as releasing like stretch you know what I'm saying like releasing like where I don't got to go smoke me a marijuana joint every day you know I'm saying I can listen to me some Snoop Dogg's and to elevate my mind just like that joint you know talking about as the debate continues over the influence of rattler some rappers and their opponents are looking to open constructive dialogue Reverend Calvin but to last year destroyed explicit rap tapes and CDs now questions that approach this demon was in fact what any good parent who was opposed to the filth and some of these records would do they take these things from their children and throw them in the garbage can I will not do that again it was a one-time effort to draw attention the reason why I think is hitting the Reverend because he feels that the power that I have right now if I was doing something positive as far as hey don't do drugs don't do that I guess he feared it it stop the violence but I'm here to tell you that's that's not going to happen I mean you know they're not Noah that's not gonna happen weapon bus ain't got no love for us you know what I'm saying it shouldn't be like that especially if he's a preacher you're supposed to counsel us you know I'm saying maybe if you sit down and said look at a slope you got that position why don't you change your rap up like this and be more Wham maybe I won't respect him and when I write and change it up a little taste and give him that right hand you don't send and say okay I'm gonna do this for weapon but change it up I don't think that I'm suggesting that if he changes his rap that will stop the violence but I think I am suggesting that if we can provide some jobs and some other kinds of things that address what is at the root of these pathologies we can and I will talk I will try to reach if somebody will tell me how to get to it because there are real perceptions by young males white black red green that you know women are [ __ ] and hoes and we better start talking about why they believe that I say that all these records are always like an alarm it's an alarm [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: jay z, 2pac, dr dre, snoop dogg, notorious big, nwa, ice cube, documentary, 90s, nirvana, eazy e, wu tang clan, east coast, west coast

Id: 90w4p1KuFgo

Length: 30min 46sec (1846 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 01 2017