![]() ![]() The white people look shocked, the black people embarrassed. Fifteen sets of eyes stare at the carpet, the ceiling, the California Raisins gold records on the walls, anywhere but the cassette deck. Ice Cube’s angry voice cuts through the room over a funky Steve Arrington guitar riff: “… Out the door, but we don’t quit./Ren said, ‘Let’s start some shit.’/I got a shotgun, and here’s the plot:/Takin’ niggas out with a flurry of buckshot …”įifteen sets of jaws go slack, including their manager’s, their publicist’s, and the president’s. In the office of the record company president, Dre, the producer, slaps in a tape it’s the first time anybody has heard the song outside the studio. Eazy’s group N.W.A - Niggas With Attitude - has just finished mixing down “Gangsta Gangsta,” a breathtakingly violent, vulgar gangster-rap jam that is their first single in more than a year. He answers most of the reporter’s questions with a noncommittal mmmmm he could as well be talking to a parole officer as a writer from the slicks. This article was originally published on May 5, 1989.Īugust ’88: Eazy E props his Air Jordans up on a desk, stares at the ceiling, and leaves the room whenever the beeper on his belt goes off, which is often. ![]()
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