Downloadable Discographies: NWA

NWA and the posse [1987] Part I
NWA and the posse [1987] Part II
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Straight outta Compton [1988]
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100 miles and runnin’ [1990]
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Niggaz4life [1991]
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Top Hip Hop Groups Pt. 2 – N.W.A

NWA also know as Niggaz With Attitude, are a West Coast Rap group from California.
They were known for popularizing Gangsta Rap with their album St8 Outta Compton. Also some of the members have had very successful solo careers although Eazy-E’s was cut Short when he died of AIDS in 1995.

They were known for there explicit lyrics and rapping about crimes and The Ghetto. Eazy was an ex-drug dealer before he made NWA. They were controversial and were banned from the Radio.

Dre and Yella were the producers for the group, Ice Cube wrote for Eazy-E. MC Ren did his own thing.

Members:
-Dr. Dre
-DJ Yella
-Ice Cube
-Eazy-E
-MC Ren

ST8 OUTTA COMPTON

1. Straight Outta Compton
2. Fuck Tha Police
3. Gangsta Gangsta
4. If It Ain’t Ruff
5. Parental Discretion Iz Advised
6. 8 Ball (Remix)
7. Something Like That
8. Express Yourself
9. Compton’s In The House (Remix)
10. I Ain’t Tha 1
11. Dopeman (Remix)
12. Quiet On Tha Set
13. Something 2 Dance 2

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Album of the Week: Eazy-Duz-It

This is the debut album of Eazy-E, it was written by Ice Cube and produced by DJ Yella & Dr. Dre. It helped popularize NWA & gangsta rap and helped get St8 Outta Compton sell more copies. It was released in the arguable greatest year of Hip Hop 1988.

The album has sold 2 million copies so far…the album is an arguable Classic but in my opinion it isn’t…it’s a good album but nothing superior, it has an old school album so those into old school will enjoy it.

1. Still Talkin’
2. Nobody Move
3. Ruthless Villain
4. 2 Hard Mutha’s
5. Boyz-N-The-Hood (Remix)
6. Eazy-Duz-It
7. We Want Eazy
8. Eazy-Er Said Than Dunn
9. Radio
10. No More ?’s
11. I’mma Break It Down
12. Eazy-Chapter 8 Verse 10 (B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.)

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Hip Hop Beef, Vol. 1

In this series I’m going to look at and analyze hip hop rivalries that have happened in the past.

The first one I am going to look at is the Ice Cube vs. N.W.A beef.

Ice Cube vs. N.W.A

How did it start?

After the success of N.W.A’s second album, “Straight Outta Compton”, Ice Cube approached their manager (Jerry Heller) about the royalties that he was owed for writing a large portion of the album. A dispute ensued as Ice Cube was adamant that he was owed a lot more money than he was being offered and subsequently left the group on bad terms.

The Beef

The first time the beef became notable was on Ice Cube’s debut album “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted” in 1990, as Ice Cube said “Think about it… fuckin sell out” on a skit titled “A Message to The Oreo Cookie”, which was possibly directed at N.W.A member Eazy-E. On N.W.A’s “100 Miles and Runnin'” EP later that year, N.W.A referred to Ice Cube saying “We started out with too much cargo, so I’m glad we got rid of Benedict Arnold”, referring to Cube as Benedict Arnold who was a traitor of the American Revolution. On the song “Real Niggaz”, they dissed Ice Cube by saying “How the fuck you think a rapper lasts, with your ass sayin shit, that was said in the past, be original, your shit is sloppy, get off the dick, you motherfucking carbon-copy”. There was also a small reference to N.W.A on one of the songs on Ice Cube’s “Kill At Will” EP on the song “Jackin For Beats” which implied that N.W.A were nothing without him.

On the groups 1991 album, “Niggaz 4 Life”, they had a skit titled “A Message To B.A.” which featured fictional phone callers dissing Ice Cube. This ended up fueling Cube to come back with a diss song on his next album. The diss song released was the legendary song “No Vaseline” from the album “Death Certificate” where Cube viciously attacked the members of N.W.A and their manager, Jerry Heller. The song contained a skit similar to “A Message To B.A” with phone callers dissing N.W.A and then broke into the main song. Cube alluded to one of N.W.A’s previous disses saying “I started off with too much cargo, dropped four niggas now I’m makin’ all the dough”. The artist that Cube focused slightly more attention on was Eazy-E claiming that he and Heller were screwing the other members out of money and had a homosexual relationship. This song was virtually the climax of the beef.

Aftermath

Not long after “No Vaseline” was released, N.W.A split up after another money dispute with Dr. Dre being the first to leave. He and Eazy-E went on to record diss songs aimed at each other. But Dre, Cube and Eazy squashed the beef as soon as it was revealed that Eazy-E was suffering with the AIDS virus and was close to death. Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and MC Ren went on to record songs together again and a possible N.W.A reunion abum was planned but never surfaced.

Diss Songs Released:

N.W.A – “Real Niggaz” (YouTube link)

Ice Cube – “No Vaseline” (zshare link)

Who won the beef?

It is generally considered that Ice Cube won the beef with his former group mates. The song “No Vaseline” is believed to be one of the greatest diss songs of all time and it was this song that made Dr. Dre confront Heller and Eazy about the money he was owed which led to the group being disbanded.