Very interesting thread.
I disagree. NWA was not "created" to go against the messages put forth by "Self Destruction". It was young black men giving you the raw truth about what was going on in their part of America. And the white owned record labels saw they had a following and knew they could make money off of it. But it was not some grand scheme to divert the masses attention away from the Self Destruction message. Different people have different life experiences. That's why we have everything from DMX to the Fresh Prince. Oh and don't forget:
Negativity of their art? That sounds stupid. Life ain't white picket fences for a lot of people dude. With all the street violence out here now and that existed way before there was an NWA, your position is illogical and narrow minded.
Kill that noise, that's bullshyt rhetoric from people defending the negativity of their art
Negativity of their art? That sounds stupid. Life ain't white picket fences for a lot of people dude. With all the street violence out here now and that existed way before there was an NWA, your position is illogical and narrow minded.
....They had crack,racial profiling,corrupt police on they side....and yall reallu think they needed hiphop
...yeah lets let them off the hook for the real evil shyt they was doing and blame black men who were telling the truth for the downfall of the black community....some of yall sound ridiculous
....Public Enemy rapped about white supremacy,drugs being put into the community,crooked police and what the community was turning into because of those things.
?...nwa is everything PE prophecized....if yall upset the prophecy came to the light and made some good come from it thats a personal problem....because the prophecy was living in the dark accross america before nwa.You're idea still revolves around the notion that these music execs are white supremacists intending to destroy the black community. Jerry Heller doesn't give a dam about how many black men are in or out of jail. Jerry Heller cares about how many dead presidents are in his bank account.
NWA SCARED THE SH1T OUT OF WHITE AMERICA

The labels who signed them consciously knew what they were doing. They had a white supremacist agenda. Whether the members of NWA were aware of it or not is only known to them.
No . . I've held your position before, I fully understood it and transcended past it. NWA served a piece of the agenda to poison our minds and incarcerate us at unprecedented rates. It had nothing to do with the art being a reflection of their backgrounds, it was all about monetizing content that would serve the agenda at large