Geography, Generation, and Gangsta Rap Jeff Chang Can’t ... · Album Tracks: • “Straight...
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Geography, Generation, and Gangsta Rap
Jeff Chang Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
Chapter 14
Hank Williams Hunter College, CUNY
AFPRL 290: Hip Hop History and Culture
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NWA Context • Shaping a West Coast sound • Braggadiocio/ “Stagolee”/Badman
narratives • Is it “the Black CNN”? • Marketing vs. Reality? • Respectability Politics vs. voice of
underclass
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NWA Creation
“I wanted to make people go ‘Oh shit, I can’t believe he’s saying that shit.’ I wanted to go all the way left. Everybody trying to do this Black Power and shit, so I was like, let’s give ‘em an alternative. Nigger niggerniggerniggernigger fuck this fuck that bitch bitch bitch bitch …” Dr. Dre on N.W.A (Qtd. In Chang, 318)
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1989 Releases
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Album Tracks: • “Straight Outta Compton”. • “Fuck tha Police” • “Gangsta Gangsta” • “Express Yourself” • “I Ain’t tha One” • Parental Discretion Iz Advised” • “Dope Man”
• Release Date: August, 1988. Priority Records
• #37, Billboard Top LPs • #9, Billboard Top Soul LPs • Certified Platinum (3 Mil.)
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NWA Promotion
• Straight Outta Compton (1988) • Yo! MTV Raps (1988-1995)
• Alternate distribution space • Creates needed content and and rough-edged sound • Successful crossover to white, Suburban audience
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