You don’t have to shoot him up just because he’s not listening to your orders. And if a guy takes off in a car, that don’t mean you have to shoot him up. Kendrick Lamar Pays Tribute to N.W.A and Eazy-E: They ‘Gave Voice to the Voiceless’ĭid you watch the video in Cincinnati with Samuel DuBose? What was your reaction when you saw it? The good cops need to point out these bad cops, get them out of here and get your dignity and respect back from the community. They talk shit about our neighborhoods for having a no-snitch policy, but they have a no-snitch policy in their department, and that’s the problem. And we need these good cops to start snitching on these bad cops. We need body cameras on all these cops and we need it to be a federal offense if they tamper with those cameras, manipulate those cameras in any kind of way or obstruct those cameras. What we got to do is hold these dudes more accountable. But I felt like I had to speak on the riots in songs like “We Have to Tear This Muthafucka Up.“ I was working on my records when the riots happened, so I kind of switched reels a little bit. I just wanted to show my versatility as an MC. I wanted to do all kinds of different records. I didn’t want to just be the grim reaper with all the bad news. As an artist, I first tried to be even-handed. You can hear on The Predator, you can hear on Death Certificate: I was trying to really warn people what was coming and what was the feeling of the community. How did seeing the riots affect your music and what you wanted to do? We wanted to show that our music had an impact on the community as a whole. It was more of an anthem for people to be able to fight back and to have a song they can all rally around that feels the same way they feel. We wanted to show that when we did a song like “Fuck Tha Police” that it wasn’t just about us, it wasn’t just about what happened to us. We wanted to show the neighborhood affecting us, but then we had an effect right back on the neighborhood. We wanted to show, why did we make this kind of music? That was the first thing: What made us N.W.A? That’s what we wanted to show. Why did the movie use the Rodney King verdict and the L.A. N.W.A and Kendrick Lamar: The Billboard Cover Shoot 14 release, he’s still as vociferous as ever, speaking his mind on police brutality then and now and N.W.A’s history and legacy. Speaking to Billboard a week before Straight Outta Compton’s Aug. In 2015, although he does drop a surprise verse on Dre’s new album Compton, Cube’s more known recently for his outsize Hollywood footprint - acting, screenwriting, directing and producing in hit movies including Friday. The group’s music became decidedly less political after he left, while his solo material - starting with the self-explanatory, mission-statement 1990 classic AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted - saw him become more outspoken than ever. Dre, but he was seemingly its conscience. Not only was he N.W.A.’s main songwriter, frequently penning verses for Eazy-E and Dr. The film makes it clear who the group’s most powerful mouthpiece was: Ice Cube (and son O’Shea Jackson, Jr. Billboard Cover: Kendrick Lamar Interviews N.W.A About Coming ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and Changing the World
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