...Dreww Pule’ English 1 Gharib-Thedell Intro-Body Paragraph2 Imagine not being comfortable enough to go about your daily life, in your own body. How uncomfortable and helpless would you feel? The type of hardship I will be discussing and writing about will be about depression, an emotional stress. The articles, texts, and quotes I will be using are going to be from, “ Violinist has The World on Two Strings” by author Steve Lopez. The other article I will be using will be “Straight Outta Compton” by authors Jeff Benedict and Armen Kentyian. Refuge is important to depression victims and anybody who has an emotional stress. Refuge is the number one reason why many people make it through tough times. Not finding refuge and trying to face the over powering emotions by yourself, could lead you to convince yourself to end your life. Depression can make you feel like your worthless, you have no meaning, and that you are nothing. Depression is a type of emotional stress and it can lead you to think that you don’t need anything else but to be left alone. Refuge can prevent all of those feelings from happening. Refuge can come in many types of forms. Nathaniel Ayers will show you his. In the article, “ Violinist has The World On Two Strings” by author Steve Lopez, Lopez writes about a man who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia for many years. Somehow, this homeless musician has found his refuge. When Nathaniel Ayers felt lost, he knew that he could always turn to music as his...
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...Most groups of citizens say specific icons started the horrible rapping, groups like N.W.A. N.W.A.’s 1988 album Straight Outta Compton is a parodic enactment of the racialized discourses of law and order during the late 1980s, or what I am calling the mark of criminality. Its release constituted a watershed moment in black popular culture that coincided with the devastating consequences of surveillance, containment, and spectacular scapegoating associated with Reagan-era crime control policies and rhetoric. Critics argue that the album and its reception by the law enforcement community of the late 1980s functioned as a confrontation over the meanings of race, place, and crime in the twentieth century. In addition to revealing the contingent meanings of criminality in popular and political culture, the legacy of Straight Outta Compton provides insights into the role of criminality in...
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...group in Los Angeles California. The group started in 1986 the original members of this group were Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, The D.O.C., and Arabian Prince. DJ Yella and MC joined later with Arabian Prince and dropped out a little before the official release of Straight Outta Compton. Jerry Heller was an American music manager and businessman. He was best known for being the manager of N.W.A. The record labels that N.W.A. was with were Ruthless Records, Priority Records, Interscope Records, Capitol Records, and EMI records. The record Straight Outta Compton talked about the violence and brutality of gang-ridden South Central L.A. and a lot of people did not like that, and the labels for it were Ruthless Records and Priority Records. On August 1, 1989 the FBI sent a letter to N.W.A saying: “Dear Mr. Manganiello: A song recorded by the rap group N.W.A. on their album entitled "Straight Outta Compton" encourages violence and disrespect for the law enforcement officer and has...
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...Alex Rangel MUS360 TR 4PM Research Paper The genre of music called “Hip Hop,” originated back in the 1960’s with the help of a Jamaican native and Dj, named Kool Hurc aka, Clive Cambell. Since the evolution of hip hop, the style of music has become one of the main branches of an artistic culture that consists of b-boying (break dancing), graffiti, and MC-ing. All of which have tremendously influenced many aspiring artists, their physical images, the ever-changing sound of hip hop, and other elements that relate to the hip hop culture. A lot of people claim that hip hop and rap can only be about violence, aggression, sex, and money in order to sell or be popular. Another view on hip hop and rap is that it’s too violent, and inappropriate to audiences. That it’s not even music but just a bunch of crap, when in reality, it’s like poetry. The lyrics that artists write come from personal experiences, and perceptions of what they see in the world they live in. Hip hop and rap is more than just music. One of the primary sources I found is a review/article published in “The New York Times” called “The Uncluttered Hip-hop of De La Soul”, written by Peter Watrous, in which Watrous critiques the performance and the group De La Soul at a show. This review of Del La Soul is relevant to the history of hip hop course because it makes a point in which gives an argument for positive recognition of not only De La Soul, but other hip hop groups with similar style of music. These groups...
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...things . I'm focused on my money while yall focused on a boo thing . I'm on another level like a stage in a game. And if a nigga got a problem we can race to the bank. My flow is so incredible and niggas know I'm credible . Ima make it to the top before I takeover the pedestal . I don't have the best calligraphy but on that check its legible . I be smoking on that potent while yall niggas smoke oregano. This is the beginning to a book I never started . Yea I got a Chevy but I'm tryna get a Rari. 85 flushing , late night in a Marrada, ion gang bang but a nigga still a rider. I paved a trail to greatness I just gotta stay focused, I always been the type to sit and wait well that's hopeless. Got to make a move before a nigga make a move outta me. Obviously that's not the plan as you can see. I have to get intricate for me to get into it , I'm smarter then they thought they can tell by my penmanship. ATL killing it , ME I'm unveiling it. Snitching on ya niggas where I'm from get you killed and shit. Not a gangsta rapper , I just say what comes to mind and when it comes to mine il do some extra time. Now I'm on some other shit, I'm on some no rushing shit. I'm a walking Outkast but all these bitches loving...
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...Response to Review (Straight Out of Compton} I first want to start off saying that Straight Out of Compton was a good movie. I was actually shocked by how good the acting was, and how believable the characters were. The movie does a great job of revealing the reason for NWA's breakup and acts as a precautionary tale about staying true to your ideals. I actually disagree with the grade ew.com is giving Straight out of Compton that is a B plus. I would have thought giving the movie Straight Out of Compton at least an A minus. I liked how the review first started off showing the history of N.W.A when it first started in 1988 and where the music first originated from. I enjoyed the part where it said N.W.A was a gang but it wasn’t a traditional gang, just a tight knitted group of guys that lived in poverty and were often harassed by police officials. The part in the review which I thought was my favorite and that I one hundred percent agreed on was when ew.com mentioned that the best part of the film was “N.W.A’s origin story: their aspirations, assembly, and earliest recordings that lead them to put their faith in a seemingly paternal manager.” The reason why I agreed with this part being the best of the film was because it was the rising action to the climax where they find out that the manger they put their faith on actually backs stabs them by cheating everybody except Eazy- E of their share of the money and also their credit to the music. Eventually the manger does cheat...
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...already a war in the streets of Los Angeles. His music was stereotyped as the cause of many killings when committed due to a drive by shootings. It was automatic assumingly made by local gangsters. Because of this new gangster rap music. N.W.A Ruthless Records Co-Founded By A LA Gangster Made A Change In The Music Industry. Eric Lynn Wright, AKA easy E was and still is "the godfather of gangster rap". Easy was a solo performer in the music industry. Music artists like easy e, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop doggy Dogg, had changed the update of music in the American culture. Rappers of the streets of L.A, gang banging with lyrics of street life style as thugs, surrounding in violence, police brutality and prostitution. Easy E “straight out of Compton" was a gangster, and a drug dealer, a man with many women. However Eric, had a dream and envision to empower his own record company. The controversy with easy E and the other N.W.A members, was with the language used with real tragic, lyrics that contain violence, drug dealing, and degrading black American women, and police brutality. Changes...
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...writing titled “Arts of the contact zone”. This song has been helpful and caused huge issues within the communities. The song shows the struggle that people of color go through in society and how different races portray each other based on stereotypes. NWA, which stands for Niggas With Attitude, wrote this song as a parody. I believe that they presented themselves with such vulgar because they felt like everyone saw them in a negative way. They became what the public thought they were. In doing so they caused a lot of commotion with the FBI and police. The song is from the view point of the 3 attorneys; MC Ren, Ice Cube, Eazy-E and the judge Dr. Dre. Each attorney shares their story about the struggle of being a person of color living in Compton. The first verse is by Ice Cube who mentions “and not the other color so police think/ they have the authority to kill a minority”(NWA 5). What Ice Cube is saying is that cops think because they are white, they are superior to people of color. The cops assume they have the right to kill them and abusing the authority they have. Instead of protecting the civilians,they are harming them. Later on Cube says “searching my car,looking for the product/thinking every nigga is selling narcotics/ you'd rather see, me in the pen/ than me and Lorenzo rolling in a Benz-o”(NWA 6) The police will stop these young black makes assuming they are thugs and demanding to search their cars hoping to find some type of drug. They think that in order for them...
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...Jacques Baynes ENG 101 October 2, 2015 Brad Baumgartner Straight Out Of Compton “Any publicity is good publicity. “Aspiring rapper Eric “Eazy-E” Wright states to the rest of his fellow N.W.A brothers as they sit to discuss the police and F.B.I threats that they have been receiving in the mall. The movie Straight Out of Compton is based on the true story about six troubled some young black men residing in Compton, California who rise unexpectedly to fame, using their viciously honest rhymes, die hard beats, and frustrations about their lifestyle in the streets of the hood. Active from 1986 to 1991 these six men Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Arabian Prince, MC Ren, and DJ Yella have endured enormous controversy owning to their explicit lyrics that many people have view as being disrespectful to women, drugs and crime, police, and gang violence. It’s hard to actively hate Straight Out of Compton, a movie so realistic that is based seemly on the true story of six black rappers whose lyrics and rhymes had left a lasting legacy and impression on the hip-hop culture. O’Shea Jackson Jr and Jason Mitchell are spectacular as Ice Cube and Easy-E who are best friends that come to gloves with one another when Eazy-E receives more money and love from their fans then Ice Cube. Their outstanding performance acting over the edge and showing actions of ruthlessness towards each other as both men spit disrespectful lyrics at each other to become the best rap artist in the industry at that...
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...Keller was the producer who picked Eazy as his favorite. Dr. Dre wasn’t okay with Eazy being paid more than everyone and being treated better. Suge Knight and “his guys” beat up Eazy to get Dre released from the Ruthless Records they originally started together (Rolling Stone). Without NWA, Dr. Dre wouldn’t be where he is today. NWA is how Dre made it out into the “rapping world.” After Dre left Ruthless Records, he went out on his own- into Death Row Records. After Dre left Death Row, he signed Eminem. Some think with out Dr. Dre, there would be no Eminem. Dre is known to be the “richest rap star,” after producing Beats Electronics in 2006 with Jimmy Iovine and selling that line to Apple. Dre also, recently released a new album called “Compton,” which...
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...group. N.W.A. was considered the first real rap group to make it big. Selling750,000 copies of their double platinum hit , "Straight Outta Compton" N.W.A. was like nothing1any one had ever seen before. Comprised of founding members, O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson,Andre "Dr. Dre" Young, and dope dealer, Eric "Eazy-E" Wright. This group of Californiagangsters brought into the music industry profanity unheard of before them, as well as giving anylistener of their music an inside view of what street life was like in the hood...
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...“Undesirable” communities like Compton are often curtained by the media, preferring to show California’s sunshiny days and beautiful palm trees, rather than ear-shattering gunshots and tense drug deals (“When N.W.A. Terrified White America,” Cooper). This kind of discrimination has fueled N.W.A’s efforts to unveil gangsta rap and accurately and profanely paint a misogynistic, bullet-ridden picture for their...
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...became the first hip hop group to perform on national T.V. and they performed their classic hit “That’s The Joint” on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. 2 years later Ice T helps starts West Coast Gangster rap with his singles “Body Rock” and “Killers”. Then in 1988 the Beastie Boys “License to Ill” and Run D.M.C.’s “Raising Hell” became the top selling hip hop albums of all time. That same year Public Enemy came out with It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, that album musically and lyrically broke new grounds with its angry politically conscious content and its aggressive sounds. Niggaz With Attitude or N.W.A revolutionize hip hop with their debut album, Straight Outta Compton. The album Straight Outta Compton had marked a critical turning point in hip hops history. Its first three tracks, “Straight Outta Compton,” “Fuck Tha Police” and” Gangsta Gangsta” had more explicit language than every hip hop song put together. It was too explicit for MTV or the radio and yet it became a triple platinum album. Then between 1989- 1992 N.W.A broke up. The members Dr Dre and Ice Cube both went on to have a successful career in hip hop. While Easy E died of aids in 1995 and by that time Gangsta rap was the dominant style of rap. Then in 1991 the legend 2pac made his debut album 2pacalypse Now. The track “Brenda’s Got a Baby” from the album 2pacalypse made #3 on the Billboard Hop hip rap singles chart. Then second album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z went platinum and it sold more than a...
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...Hip-hop on the silver screen has in the modern era been awarded a significant portion of blockbuster film soundtracks, showcased in films such as The Fast and The Furious series and, perhaps more relevant to this coursework: Straight Outta Compton. In order for one to make a proper distinction between the concepts of a “hip-hop film” and “hip-hop in film”, one must first understand the basic semantics of the argument proposed. The core difference lies in that the “hip-hop film” implies an overarching theme of hip-hop culture prevalent within the film, foretelling the potential viewer that the film may include forms of expression like breaking, DJing, graffiti work, and MCing. A film like Straight Outta Compton is a perfect example of a “hip-hop...
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...which I think is the ultimate anthem for empowering the youth, but they also have songs like ‘By the Time I Get To Arizona,’ which is, ironically, on the table now in some ways with the immigration issue, but back then it was the MLK holiday which was being in dispute”(Love 2). With Public Enemy’s impact on rap culture, it made rap artists feel comfortable to talk about the issues going on in their communities. Rap artists and groups started to touch on subjects like gang violence, police brutality, racism, and poverty. It became a revolution. One of the most famous groups that stemmed from this “new wave” was N.W.A. N.W.A was a rap group that started in Compton, California. Their debut album “Straight Outta Compton” made headlines by being one of the first records to receive a Parental Advisory Label (PAL). On Straight Outta Compton’s title track, Gangsta Gangsta (from which the term ‘gangsta rap’ was coined) and the controversial single, F*ck tha Police, NWA offered an uncompromising view of life as young black men on the streets of LA, delivered with unswerving aggression, braggadocio and dark humour. It was the crossover into mainstream white American culture that provoked concern among the US establishment, parent groups and the religious right – and caught the attention of law-enforcement agencies. “Gangsta rap forced America to confront the issues in its ghettos, and its realities were shocking when presented so explicitly on a recording that white suburban teenagers...
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