ICE CUBE SEEMINGLY RESPONDS TO SPECIAL ED COMMENTS

[Stick Up Kid]

I mean, everyone in NY knew it back in the early 90’s… Tim Dog’s “fukk Compton” was the best example..

NWA destroyed the artform of hip hop, they brought the gang/shock value element to hip hop

 

[BlackMajik]

Did someone say music played a part in crack being pumped into neighborhoods???

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Did someone say music played a part in crack being pumped into neighborhoods???

Cool conflating issue with strawman breh

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[FTBS]

"Is it our fault that most of hip hop bit our style?"

Yes nikka

You can't walk around with all this respect and money on the strength of being a trailblazer and defining the genre without accepting responsibility for those that followed you. I'm not gonna sit here and act like there are not things way beyond Cube or any other rapper that have contributed to the state of things. However, you can't deny the influence and the impact that artists have...especially on young people. A real leaders accepts that responsibility rather than pointing fingers.

 

[QU Hectic]

NWA should’ve made a bunch more music like Express Yourself or tapped in like what Public Enemy was doing, I don’t think They would’ve get this kind of negative attention.

Express Yourself will truly be one of the greatest of all time feel good songs in Hip-Hop, even though that song would be the equivalent to the saying " wolf in sheaps clothing".

 

[BK The Great]

Jerry Heller & Jimmy Iovine are basically the same person if you think about it, pumping nothing but poison music. They turned 2Pac from a poet to a gangsta rapper.

 

[BK The Great]

Express Yourself will truly be one of the greatest of all time feel go songs in Hip-Hop, even though that song would be the equivalent to the saying " wolf in sheaps clothing".

It’s one of their only uplifting songs, everything else was destructive hip hop music.

 

[Wild self]

Glad that older heads are putting history in perspective

 

[QU Hectic]

It’s one of their only uplifting songs, everything else was destructive hip hop music.

I'll tell you something and you being an O.G. in the Coli streets, I know you'll appreciate this. My first exposure to N.W.A was the video to "Express Yourself" playing on video music box back in 1989. I was in Astoria at the time, no cable so whatever music video's I saw were either on NBC's Friday Night Videos or Video Music Box. And NBC wasn't playing hip hop unless it was Run- DMC back then. I heard "Express Yourself" on V.M.B and I thought this was on the level of Kid N Play / Red Head Kingpin style of music. I was on Jamaica Avenue maybe right after seeing that video and seeing a cassette for Straight Outta Compton. I asked my Old Earth to buy but she noticed a warning label , not the regular Parental Advisory but some red sticker that said explicit language , beware. Me getting that was shot down but looking back I ask my self had did she not see the gun in Eazy's hand.

 

[BK The Great]

I'll tell you something and you being an O.G. in the Coli streets, I know you'll appreciate this. My first exposure to N.W.A was the video to "Express Yourself" playing on video music box back in 1989. I was in Astoria at the time, no cable so whatever music video's I saw were either on NBC's Friday Night Videos or Video Music Box. And NBC wasn't playing hip hop unless it was Run- DMC back then. I heard "Express Yourself" on V.M.B and I thought this was on the level of Kid N Play / Red Head Kingpin style of music. I was on Jamaica Avenue maybe right after seeing that video and seeing a cassette for Straight Outta Compton. I asked my Old Earth to buy but she noticed a warning label , not the regular Parental Advisory but some red sticker that said explicit language , beware. Me getting that was shot down but looking back I ask my self had did she not see the gun in Eazy's hand.

I heard Express Yourself later on when discovering their music. But Kid N Play had their movies being played on television while I was growing up. Used to watch it on channel 11. I’d probably say the mid 90’s.

 

[Wild self]

"Is it our fault that most of hip hop bit our style?"

Yes nikka

You can't walk around with all this respect and money on the strength of being a trailblazer and defining the genre without accepting responsibility for those that followed you. I'm not gonna sit here and act like there are not things way beyond Cube or any other rapper that have contributed to the state of things. However, you can't deny the influence and the impact that artists have...especially on young people. A real leaders accepts that responsibility rather than pointing fingers.

The legacy of Ice Cube is now in question. That is why your parents and elders told you to stay righteous, cause the last thing you want in your middle aged years is people questioning your influence and how you made the way of thinking of black youth culture worse.

 

[BK The Great]

Cube did have some positive music being made during his career though, it was not all hardcore gangsta music.

 

[Robbie3000]

Blaming NWA for society’s ills is some dumb ass shyt. LA gangs were pulling drive by’s with soul music as the soundtrack. In the 1930s and 1940s, crime was very high and people were listening to jazz.

Inner city crime actually fell as gangsta rap became more mainstream.

Special Ed has a Jherri curl.

 

[Boonapalist]

Jerry Heller & Jimmy Iovine are basically the same person if you think about it, pumping nothing but poison music. They turned 2Pac from a poet to a gangsta rapper.

They didn’t turn 2Pac into anything he did that himself. You kill me with the dumb shyt you say