{"id":2057,"date":"2015-08-20T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T16:31:19","slug":"compton-story-and-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2015\/08\/compton-story-and-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Compton, story and story"},"content":{"rendered":"

NWA story is not so great when you look at it without the Hollywood glitter:<\/p>\n

A bunch of black dudes create a band that barely existed for 5 years \u2013Ice Cube, the biggest star, left 3 years in-, promoted by a Jewish music executive who had $250,000 personal money to play with and start Ruthless Records.<\/p>\n

They wrote lyrics of stories from the hood they were listening to. Stories. They get better each time. Crazier. In the end, those lyrics are as much fantasy than reality. NWA members didn\u2019t fuck with real Gs, only Eazy was. NWA really wanted to not have to gangbang and it\u2019s a part that everyone forgets. When I hear them boasting about the hood on wax I feel more desperation than pride.<\/p>\n

They played with that. They were sitting on a huge pile of C4 with millions of $ in it. \u201cY\u2019all motherfuckers, media, FBI, young white dudes want more crazy stories? We\u2019ll tell them to you and we\u2019ll get bigger. We don\u2019t give a fuck. We hustlin dawg.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And they did, all moved really fast from NWA \u2013barely five years!- to their personal brands, relocated in nicer suburbs.<\/p>\n

The end.<\/p>\n

We knew about police brutality. We knew about poor black neighborhoods. In retrospect I don\u2019t think those extreme lyrics helped in any way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never understood how they could get away with how misogynists those lyrics are, really showing how society is sexist as a whole.  In the last Dr Dre Compton album that just came out, they fake-kill a woman and it made me so fucking uncomfortable like just stop this shit, stop this shit black people are dying in the streets too often stop this shit. Fuck.<\/p>\n

Once again it\u2019s about a narrative \u2013keeping it real??- but the world doesn\u2019t work this way, you\u2019re supposed to grow up. You can\u2019t be doing a fake murder of a black woman on a 2015 record when black women are getting killed by police or boyfriends. You\u2019re fucking 50 Dre and you have a terrible past<\/a> on that subject. You need to act on this. Be Real, Get Responsible.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Even this album cover is kind of a disgrace. For people outside the LA county, if you live in Compton you don\u2019t go to fucking Hollywood, ever. You don\u2019t see that sign, you don\u2019t see those downtown skyscrapers. You just drive around unlimited suburbs with palm trees around, under a close sun that doesn\u2019t give a damn about you and your broke ass.<\/p>\n

The beats are good though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NWA story is not so great when you look at it without the Hollywood glitter: A bunch of black dudes create a band that barely existed for 5 years \u2013Ice Cube, the biggest star, left 3 years in-, promoted by a Jewish music executive who had $250,000 personal money to play with and start Ruthless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}