Ice Cube Weighs In On The Music of N.W.A.!!!

When it comes to Straight Outta Compton, many fans have either learned about N.W.A. and who they were, But Ice Cube Weighs In On The Music of N.W.A.

CelebNMusic247.com has another inside track from West Coast rapper Ice Cube who talks about the music of N.W.A. and what it some of it stood for.

While N.W.A became hip-hop pioneers, speaking to issues facing young, black men in their Los Angeles community, including strained relationships with the police. Their lyrics became more than they could had ever imagined constantly surrounded by controversy.

Cube, the lyricist of N.W.A. opens speaks about the music:

“In some songs, we’re just having fun. You know, rap– you know, the art of rap, a lot of it is bravado. You know, I mean, just, being the one with the slickest tongue.”

“It’s not really meant to amount to any kind of social, political nothing. It’s just a song. And then some records are, you’re really getting things off your chest and you really have things to say.”

The movie, touches on the FBI, when the sent a warning letter to the group’s record label, telling them that the were violating the law by defaming the LAPD.

The trouble with that was N.W.A. was speaking out about the LAPD attacking innocent young black men, just because they could. It’s very similar to what is happening today with Ferguson, but Cube explains the groups perspective on songs like “F-ck The Police” one of their most controversial songs and more.

Ice Cube adds:

“But, you know, to us back then, the FBI was somebody you’d seen on TV. You know, the LAPD, Daryl Gates, those was the real villains, you know, that we thought we had to deal with. You know, so we didn’t take it as serious as our manager, the record company. You know, they were freaked out. And we were like, you know– you know, ‘Pass the potato chips.'”

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When it comes to the song “F-ck The Police” According to Ice Cube, it was important that people know why that song was created.

“Well, you know, that was the whole reason to do this movie. You know, everybody know the where. Everybody knows the when. But not too many people know the why. Why do we do this type of music? And we wanted to show our environment forged N.W.A and then N.W.A was affecting the environment.”

Ice Cube concludes:

“But the situation at the time was Daryl Gates, who was the chief of police, chief of the LAPD, had declared a war on gangs. Now, to a law-abiding citizen, a war on gangs seems like a good idea. But if the cops think every single black, young male or brown, young male looked like a gang-banger, dressed like a gang-banger, well, now it’s a war on young, black males.”

This is why N.W.A.’s music is relevant still today 29 years after the group debuted with their first single in 1987, “Boyz In The Hood” – which leads us to one a final note, Cube asked the question on his Instagram, saying: