N.W.A
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Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 18 August 1988
L.A. Rappers Pop Hip Hop to the Top ...
NWA: Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless import LP)
Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 15 April 1989
COMPTON DOES not sound like the kind of area you want to move to. Judging by this LP, most of its inhabitants seem to bear ...
N.W.A.: Straight Outta Compton (Priority/Ruthless)
Review by Push, Melody Maker, 8 July 1989
THE SLEEVE of Straight Outta Compton, the debut LP from N.W.A., depicts one of the members of this Los Angeles rap group pointing a pistol ...
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 5 August 1989
Just when you thought Public Enemy had pushed as far as it could go, just when you thought rap outrage had peaked, along come N.W.A. ...
Review by David Toop, The Times, 26 August 1989
Conventional Black ...
N.W.A.: Straight Outta Compton (Fourth & Broadway) *****
Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 9 September 1989
Guns and girls and rap 'n' roll ...
Niggers With Attitude: Straight Outta Compton (4th And Broadway LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 9 September 1989
PAINT IT BLACK ...
NWA: Straight Outta Compton (4th & Broadway BRLP 534)
Review by Mark Sinker, The Observer, 10 September 1989
NWA'S DEBUT, with a high count of F-words, savaging of bad policing, and ambivalent depictions of LA street drug-dealers, teen-gang wars and urban ruin, has ...
Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Sunday Correspondent Magazine, 1 October 1989
"Takin' a life or two/That's what the hell I do." The rap band NWA – Niggers with Attitude – compares Los Angeles street life to ...
Report by Dave Marsh, The Village Voice, 10 October 1989
HOW'S THIS for government intimidation? In early August, a letter arrived on the desk of Priority Records president Brian Turner. Written on Department of Justice ...
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 4 November 1989
IN THEIR SHORT CAREER THE RAPPERS HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI, CONDEMNED BY THE CONGRESS FOR RACIAL EOUALITY, BANNED BY TV AND RADIO AND ...
Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, January 1990
RAIN IS STREAMING down in sheets on the Long Island suburb of Hempstead but, inside Public Enemy's headquarters, the group's leader Chuck D is just ...
Straight Outta Here? Legal war erupts in N.W.A.
Report by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 8 February 1990
IT'S LIKE the Sex Pistols all over again. NWA, rappers from Compton, generate a huge word-of-mouth reputation, they put out a careening album quickly banned ...
Interview by Frank Owen, Spin, April 1990
Hounded by the FBI and acclaimed as the new, new Sex Pistols, NWA's rise has been rapid and sensational. But now that chief spokesman and ...
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 31 May 1990
Record-industry acceptance of stickering is already having a chilling effect ...
Interview by Damon Wise, Sounds, 2 June 1990
With their debut album's tales of "everyday life", L.A.'s Niggers With Attitude succeeded in taking gangster rap to new levels of outrage. N.W.A.'s Eazy E ...
N.W.A.: Some Muthas Do 'Ave 'Em
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 2 June 1990
Rubbing white America's nose in its own racism or blagging big bucks by glorifying gangsterism, NWA are not the FBI-pigs' favourite people. STEVEN 'Wild West' ...
NWA, Above The Law, Michel'le: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 9 June 1990
GUNS OF BRIXTON ...
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 9 June 1990
BAAAAAD ATTITUDE ...
Poison The Hood: Niggaz with Attitude
Retrospective by John Mendelssohn, unpublished, for Playboy, 1991
ON A SPRING EVENING in 1991, the late Eazy-E accepted the invitation of Dr. Dre, his fellow member of the notorious "gangsta" rap group NWA, ...
In Rap's Hometown, an Icy Reception
Report by Rob Tannenbaum, The New York Times, 28 April 1991
THE MARQUEE'S experiment with rap concerts didn't last long. The small club, in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, usually presents alternative-rock bands. But after the ...
Report and Interview by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 8 August 1991
NWA's second album, Efil4zaggin debuted on the album chart at Number Two, but the Compton rappers may be bringing the fury on record to life ...
NWA: Efil4Zaggin (4th & Broadway/All formats)
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 30 November 1991
BLAXPLOITATION OF MILLIONS ...
Comment by David Toop, The Wire, April 1993
By downplaying or ridiculing the potential impact of extreme artforms such as death metal and hardcore HipHop, do the defences in censorship trials call into ...
Essential Guide To "Explicit" Albums
Guide by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1994
Back in 1985, one seemingly harmless song led a woman to take unprecedented action against the American recording industry. Thanks to her moral crusade, albums ...
Report by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, December 1995
Following the release of Mike Tyson and the acquittal of DJ Simpson the media circus is now focussing its attention on the spate of R&B ...
E Bygone!: Eazy-E: Eternal E (Virgin)
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 6 January 1996
THE BIBLE says that, in the last days, men will actively seek death and death will flee from them. So, as sad and ultimately preventable ...
Biggie, Tupac et al: Hollywood or Bust-up
Report and Interview by William Shaw, The Observer, 7 July 1996
New York can lay claim to having invented rap, but LA has violently rewritten the rules. William Shaw charts an increasingly bitter rivalry ...
Overview by David Bennun, Hot Air, 1999
A LITTLE over two minutes into The Fugees' 1996 hit 'Ready Or Not', the voice of Lauryn Hill is thrown into relief by a brief ...
Dr. Dre: 10 Reasons Not To Forget About Dre
Comment by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 15 November 2000
THOUGHT DR DRE HAD SLIPPED OUR MINDS, DID YA? NOPE — US MUTHAF***AS WERE JUST ACTING LIKE WE HADN'T REMEMBERED THE HIP-HOP POWERHOUSE. HERE'S WHY ...
Why hip-hop must take its share of blame for spread of violence among teenagers
Comment by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 6 January 2003
DOES HIP-HOP glamorise gun culture? It depends who you ask. Guns have been part of the baggage of hip-hop since 1988, when Los Angeles's NWA ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, January 2007
JERRY HELLER may just have the most undeservedly bad rep in the history of hip hop. ...
Clash's top ten hip-hop albums, EVER...
Guide by Mike Diver, Clash, 6 April 2009
WITH RADIO 1 presently celebrating 30 years of all things hip-hop – check out Trevor Nelson's page for more – we at Clash figured: why ...
With Wu-Tang Clan and Jurassic 5 touring, why are we hooked on nineties hip hop?
Report and Interview by John Lewis, Metro, 7 June 2013
Hip hop heads often get misty-eyed about the 'golden age' of hip hop. But when was it? The formative years of Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill ...
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 6 December 2013
ON THE HEELS OF RECENT ICE CUBE AND PUBLIC ENEMY ALBUM RE-RELEASES, MICHAEL A. GONZALES RECALLS WHEN ICE CUBE WAS HARD ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 7 September 2016
Music manager who launched NWA and set up Ruthless Records with Eazy-E ...
see also Ice Cube
see also Dr. Dre
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