Watching straight outta compton, when did rap start getting demonic?

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I'd say NWA wasn't that bad, but I never listened to em like that.

I feel like Memphis rap in the 90s with Koopsta Nicca, lord infamous, and 36 Mafia was when it start, but I could wrong. But was they catching bodies back then?

 

[KingDanz]

When did Brotha Lynch Hung come out?

 

[Unknown Poster]

1993.
That was the cultural shift year of the 90s
That's when damn near all the biggest rappers turned gangsta after the conscious/afrocentric wave died out.
Even MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice were rapping about gangsta shyt after '93.
Guns all in the videos.
Mean muggin.
Baggy pants. Big shirts. 40s. Dice games.
When C. Dolores Tucker and Rev. Calvin Butts was calling for Gangsta Rap to be banned and Gangsta Rap CDs were being bulldozed outside of record companies in the streets of NYC.

Back then it seemed like rap was still seen as DANGEROUS. Like your parents did NOT want you listening to it. Did not want you buying the tapes or CDs. Did not want you saggin your pants or trying to wear your hats backwards and sideways.

Thinking you was trying to be a gang member.


That's when the media made a big deal about gangs too around the time Rap sales starting increasing in the 90s you had these documentaries like "Bangin In Little Rock" and "Dead Homies".

Thats what the industry wanted though...but why? The shift was so immediate and noticeable.

 

[Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw]

1993.
That was the cultural shift year of the 90s
That's when damn near all the biggest rappers turned gangsta after the conscious/afrocentric wave died out.
Even MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice were rapping about gangsta shyt after '93.
Guns all in the videos.
Mean muggin.
Baggy pants. Big shirts. 40s. Dice games.
When C. Dolores Tucker and Rev. Calvin Butts was calling for Gangsta Rap to be banned and Gangsta Rap CDs were being bulldozed outside of record companies in the streets of NYC.

Back then it seemed like rap was still seen as DANGEROUS. Like your parents did NOT want you listening to it. Did not want you buying the tapes or CDs. Did not want you saggin your pants or trying to wear your hats backwards and sideways.

Thinking you was trying to be a gang member.


That's when the media made a big deal about gangs too around the time Rap sales starting increasing in the 90s you had these documentaries like "Bangin In Little Rock" and "Dead Homies".

Thats what the industry wanted though...but why? The shift was so immediate and noticeable.

Lol my mama was caught up in that media gang shyt...I was 6yrs old and I remember her screaming asking me if I was in a gang...in fukking Mississippi ..crazy ass woman...I thought I was though because my fav color was blue

 

[Sbp]

Breh you answered your own question in the title

 

[Uncouth Savage]

I'd say NWA wasn't that bad, but I never listened to em like that.

I feel like Memphis rap in the 90s with Koopsta Nicca, lord infamous, and 36 Mafia was when it start, but I could wrong. But was they catching bodies back then?

It took different heights when a certain musician high priest called york went to georgia
built pyramids and had EVERYBODY there
key word EVERYBODY
lots of ceremonies etc
much too deep for most to comprehend though

maybe I made that up

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Breh you answered your own question in the title

Like seriously. Rap being clean and fun pretty much died with NWA and Ice T. I love them and grew up with them but the juelzing when you bring up.thrir content. Fresh Prince tried to keep the ball rolling and they got clowned for it.

Of course all of these guys I've mentioned are pre 2k10 so what am I even saying!?

It got dirty with new school rappers! Ask half the folks in tlr! NWA actually stood for Not With Animosity!

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

New Orleans rap pretty much started off on demon time.



So, the early 90s. Dudes were rapping about duct taping/kidnapping, doing heroin, tricking on prostitutes, getting tricked on, etc. when I was in high school in the 90s.

The hook on this track is “Give me some heroin baby…”



They even had a remix… (nvm the mixtape cover, this track is way older than it suggests)

 

[feelosofer]

NWA basically started off as a West Coast answer to Public Enemy with an emphasis on the street level perspective. But once they became a runaway success and once Ice Cube left they leaned harder into the cartoon gangster aesthetic because that is what appealed to suburban white kids.