NWA
Time to add another music artist to DRAHoF (my "hall of fame" list of favourites).... and today it's NWA.
NWA stands for "Niggaz Wit Attitudes" and are known for shocking lyrics for their time... late '80's, early '90's. The LA riots in the early '90's were of great interest to me at the time, Rodney King and all that, and I think it was right about then that I became interested in NWA... The Film "Boyz in the Hood" was around this time... I had previously liked Run-DMC, then Public Enemy (who are both in DRAHof)... and NWA probably comes in 3rd as far as Rap is concerned. I like a handful of songs, especially Straight Outta Compton. Interested in the whole anti-police, black gangster world that their music is about...
Interesting thing happened a few weeks ago... in one of my classes that I teach. There's a mixed race guy in there and I had mentioned rap music, or somehow the subject came up.... and I said I used to be into Run-DMC when I was young... He said his favourite rap group was NWA and I said, yeah, I like them too. Then he asked if I knew what NWA meant? And I proudly said "Niggaz with attitudes".... SHOCK ensued in class as I said the word. Then I explained it's not a bad word, as it's "niggaz" and that's what they like to call each other... not what I would call them, of course. Then I tried to stop digging.
NWA stands for "Niggaz Wit Attitudes" and are known for shocking lyrics for their time... late '80's, early '90's. The LA riots in the early '90's were of great interest to me at the time, Rodney King and all that, and I think it was right about then that I became interested in NWA... The Film "Boyz in the Hood" was around this time... I had previously liked Run-DMC, then Public Enemy (who are both in DRAHof)... and NWA probably comes in 3rd as far as Rap is concerned. I like a handful of songs, especially Straight Outta Compton. Interested in the whole anti-police, black gangster world that their music is about...
Interesting thing happened a few weeks ago... in one of my classes that I teach. There's a mixed race guy in there and I had mentioned rap music, or somehow the subject came up.... and I said I used to be into Run-DMC when I was young... He said his favourite rap group was NWA and I said, yeah, I like them too. Then he asked if I knew what NWA meant? And I proudly said "Niggaz with attitudes".... SHOCK ensued in class as I said the word. Then I explained it's not a bad word, as it's "niggaz" and that's what they like to call each other... not what I would call them, of course. Then I tried to stop digging.