Excellent article on N.W.A and the posse

[GLOBAL]

http://www.laweekly.com/2010-05-06/musi ... a-s-posse/

The cover of the 1987 album N.W.A and the Posse does not look like something released by one of the most important rap groups of all time. Actually, just looking at the photo, who would believe that some of the guys in this alleyway would change the course of popular music forever less than a year after the flashbulb popped? Who would guess these men were capable of creating their own genre of music, putting their fingerprints on nearly every hip-hop song written in the past 20 years? In fact, this picture is a perfect snapshot of one of the most important scenes in the history of popular music. Stare for a moment and you can see a myth about to be born. That myth, gangsta rap, enabled four guys in this picture — Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Eazy-E — to titillate and terrify America as Compton-based rap group Niggaz With Attitude. The mythical power of N.W.A certainly doesn't come from the clock necklaces, the running pants or the Jheri curls. Look to the left, at the bottles of malt liquor, the plain jeans and the black ball caps. Those props (and that's the right word) hint at what's going on here, which is the gestation of gangsta rap.

[GLOBAL]

its kinda weird to read these types of articles written about music that we grew up listening to. The author talks about the genre as if it belongs in the Smithsonian next to the Pharoahs and the worlds first telephone.

I can seriously remember the day I bought this cassette from Bill's records. No parental advisory stickers, none of that.

Back then, we had no arbitrary labels East Coast/West Coast/Dirty South/Midwest... it was all just HipHop

I didn't realize that Candyman is on that album cover, wow

[xman]

I remember the first time i heard NWA...it was from a dj friend of mine back home...he was a radio dj, not really into rap but got all the promo stuff...anyway.
he was like dude you gotta hear this...he put on "Fuck the Police" and i was like, "what the fuck is this?...these dudes are fucking crazy"! I remember him playing that track (the only rap track he would play) at the club on the weekends.
cut to riding around with my boy Billy bumping Straight Outta Compton hard.

[kinetic]

I remember NWA playing at the exposition center and hanging out in highland mall..I was posted up with em trying to get some of they shine.