T h e G a n g s t a S t y l e
No music industry forgets Los Angeles. Rap started in the heart of NY, on the pure east coast, successfully the spread started. In the West coast a new type of rap started, Gangsta Rap. In the 80'-90' this Gangsta rap exploded in LA and the surroundings. But its just didn't came from nothing, Two florescent riots where the initiation of this movements, that really they installed beth the skin of the African Americans.
August 11 1966 The first Riot, started when a black resident was driving with his brother, got the attention of a while police officer and told him that he was driving crazy on the road. The officer ask him to pulled over the vehicle. The police said that he failed the drunk-sober test and the officer arrested the man for drunk driving and his car would be taken. All the residents started to pay attention, what happened outside. The citizens and the police started a big confrontation, which at the end the riots started to spread all over the city. It might started on the city, but it spread all over different locations, Pasadena, San Diego etc. We are talking about millions of damages and not even saying injured and even more than 40 deaths.But things didn't get better, in the 90's the riots continued, with more than 50 deaths. And this time the anger went through more cities, not only on the west coast, and costing more than 1 billion dollars damage lost. With so many deaths, the anger raised, and the gangsta rap developed, things weren't equal, rights weren't equal, this anger towards white people generate this new style of rap, a way for the society to raise their voice as a protest.
The first one I knew as a social protest, was gangsta paradise. or the song
If you noticed, the lyrics are explaining how nobody understand how is living their lives, and how they need to fight for their rights. How they can move from there, because the government don't help them to get good education, and how they were supposed to fight for the rights, if they dont know what they are, they never been got good educations, and ways to get out of the ghetto.
<A color info, looking in internet about this subject I realized how many people complain about how Eminem doesn't deserve to be named as a good rapper, how because he is white, he doesn't know what a ghetto life is. >
ZTB
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