We haven't done LA gangsta rap yet.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfFSMTfBujE&list=PLdmkZI8kbGbjD_FSFgjxNQKjScn86pP5l

Side A

A1 - Intro
A2 - They Still Gafflin'
A3 - Growin' Up In The Hood
A4 - Wanted
A5 - Straight Checkn 'Em
A6 - I Don't Dance
A7 - Raised In Compton

Side B

B1 - Driveby Miss Daisy
B2 - Def Wish
B3 - Compton's Lynchin'
B4 - Mike T's Funky Scratch
B5 - Can I Kill It?
B6 - Gangsta Shot Out

Running time: 46 minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Checkn_%27Em
https://www.discogs.com/Comptons-Most-Wanted-Straight-Checkn-Em/release/295488

Do they use profanity, disrespect women and glamourise violence?

Misogyny: Sort of, but not so much*.
Glamorisation of violence: Sort of... yes**.
Profanity***: ✓

*Can I Kill It is deffo a s*x tune, with lots of derogatory terms for women thrown about, but it's vanilla compared to other stuff (already played here).

**Quite a lot of 'tales from the hood', but nothing especially gratuitous - people get shot on the odd track, but it's to a slinky, jazz soundtrack.

***Yes, profanity. However, specifically none on one track (the title track).

Oh, I though the original quote was 'whenever possible'.


It's been years since I saw Fear of a Black Hat.

We should in truth do The Chronic, but it's an hour long.

Or Straight Outta Compton, but it's over an hour long.

Or Efil4Zaggin, but...

It's a shame really.

I'm listening to Efil4Zaggin right now and it's as awesome as it was the first time I heard it.

Jaw-to-the-floor.

It got banned for a bit before it was finally officially released in the UK.

The production is Dre's best, the lyrics and flow and cadence from the 'crew' is on point.

Dre gets the laurels for the overall sound, but Ren really holds court lyrically.

It is (deliberately) outrageously vile, offensive, misogynistic, crass and monstrous from a lyrical perspective in every respect however.

43 minutes to go.

n.b.

The track "Driveby Miss Daisy" features a lot of 'girl screaming/'r*pey' sounds, but it is in fact a sample of the actor Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as Gina Montana, screaming at the end of Brian De Palma's 1983 gangster epic Scarface.

It's started!

Track 1 - Intro.

Track 2 - They Still Gafflin.

I'm in!

Scratching.

Language.

I've skipped the first track as I'm a bit late.

OOh, that sounded familiar...

He sounds annoyed about something.

Sample from Poltergeist II.

Potty mouth.

"I said, 'Please.'" He remembered his manners.