Xzibit Responds To Special Ed After Comments He Made On Drink Champs About N.W.A Brought “Destruction” To Hip Hop
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That nikka stitches didn’t heal
Snoop .. I’m not xzibit u can’t pull my ho card
N he got on Ricardo’s cranium
There was NOTHING underground about Elif4zaggin. Straight Outta Compton turned rap on its ear and went platinum with no radio play, which meant PURE PROFIT. The industry and the country was waiting on their return, as gangsta rap became the big story. Then Cube leaving and that drama was the biggest story in rap. The only reason it didn't get radio play is because the content was so ridiculous there was no point making a radio edit of any of it. There were ads for it everywhere.
Again, wrong. Priority Records were full steam behid NWA and Ice Cube after the runaway success of SOC. No label exec worth a shyt wouldn't salivate over a group that went platinum with no radio play or real marketing dollars. That's a wet dream. The performance of the NWA albums is probably the sole reason Death Row is put on at all. Giving Dre AWAY from NWA and a street nikka nobody ever heard of a label deal IS capitalizing. Dre was already a proven success off SOC, Eazy Duz It, No One Can Do It Better and Elif4zaggin. Iovine didn't just give two kids off the street a label situation just 'cause. Stop it
He was signed at 15. Understandably, they had reservations about him talking too much crazy Brooklyn shyt. His third album, when he was 22, was much more adult and street. He was from Flatbush, Brooklyn during the crack era. Clearly he saw some shyt.
You clearly was either not BORN in 1991 or you was way too young to even know and understand the climate going on in 1991.
1. NWA was not getting any radio play whatsoever. It was actually a shock by the mainstream music industry when nikkaZ4LIFE debuted at number 1. All from word of mouth. They didn't have a video at that time. The only two videos came out well after the album release. This wasn't something the mainstream music industry was promoting AT ALL.
2. Priority records at that time was one of the FEW distributors that backed so-called gangsta rap. Also, Priority Records was also an INDEPENDENT label at the time too that started back in 1987, the same year NWA started. Their initial success was from the California Raisins Motown parody song. Then Eazy-E brought NWA to them that same year and Priority gained huge success from Straight Outta Compton. That's when Priority signed on signing other gangsta rap acts. But let's not get that twisted, because Priority had to go through hoops and pushback from the major record labels too. One thing Special Ed said that Profile Records was under Arista and at the time, Arista wasn't with that street rap which was why Special Ed was pushed a clean cut image. What Special Ed DID NOT SAY in that Drink Champs video that in 1990, a year later, Profile Records signed DJ QUIK and Quik is the Name came out that following year in '91. I SAY all of this to ask why Special Ed HARPED on NWA and not his own labelmate who was making the SAME CONTENT? That was rapping that gangbang type music and sexualized songs like "Sweet Black p*ssy"?
3. Also, since you mentioned Death Row. The ONLY REASON Death Row was able to exist about due to extortion of Vanilla Ice giving up the rights to Ice Ice Baby to Suge Knight. Interscope at the time was a BRAND NEW record label. Just like Priority Records it was INDEPENDENT. When Dre brought The Chronic to him, Iovine knew that the album was going to be a game changer, and it was. I said this before, it was THE CHRONIC was the FIRST MAINSTREAM CROSSOVER GANGSTA RAP ALBUM. That was the album where it got radio play everywhere. Changed the sound. Got ALL OF THE MAINSTREAM RECORD LABELS buying in which was why there was a significant JUMP of so-called gangsta or street rap artists. Especially on the East Coast. That wasn't due to nikkaZ4LIFE. That album came and went largely due to NWA breaking up and Ice Cube putting out No Vaseline. That was due to The Chronic album that was playing everywhere. And it wasnt from a major label. It was from a independent label distributed by another brand new independent label at that time.
4. Lastly, how NWA is at fault when you had a gang of so-called gangsta rap that was existing at that time? Why you cannot say the same of Kool G Rap's WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE that came out in 1990? Where was THAT accusation of of bringing DESTRUCTION to HIP HOP? Because it didn't go gold or platinum? Nevermind how much that album got BOOTLEGGED everywhere in New York. Nevermind, that Cold Chillin's parent company was Warner Brothers. But Special Ed want to blame NWA. Why not take into consideration of the crack epidemic, the gang migration, the beating of Rodney King, the mass incarceration and Reagonomics playing a major factor to what was going on and why black youth at THAT TIME was expressing themselves in that way. Because of the world that were existing in. The peers they grew up with. The need for money and the access of selling dope being available. The lack of proper parenting. The pushing of malt liquor that was poisoning the young minds of black men and women. The hood mentality that still exist right and it did not originate from rap.
Westbama Heartthrob
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No disrespect but g rap wasn't selling records like that
Influential as he may be to rappers, nwa is way more well known to consumers. So they had a bigger impact on the commercialization of gangsta rap from that perspective
1. I turn 46 this year. I LIVED ALL OF THIS.
2. You simply choose to ignore or pretend not to understand what i've said. Not arguing in circles with you. I was following all of this in real time, as much as possibke from a consumer POV, and everything the players have said backs it up.
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BK The Great
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i think he did his best to help them shine when he was on
he pretty much dumped them when he got with dre
He put them on restless
So Special Ed talks about the negative impact of NWA making gangsta rap extremely popular and Xzibit responds by threatening him?
Bozo shyt ain't it?
BK The Great
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I remember listening to Krayzie's podcast about what he was speaking on, him and Bone Thugs changed their content in their music for a long time now. Hope he's protected speaking on these things.
Toe Jay Simpson
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Ed knew exactly what he was saying when he said that slick stuff. Stand on it, even to your peers breh