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Why Dr. Dre and Ice Cube Succeeded and NWA Did Not
Even Diddy (or Puffy or Puff Daddy, whatever his name is now) remains in power, even though he hasn't made good music since Biggie was alive. A king makes money by working. A King-Maker gets money when other people are working.
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Why Dr. Dre and Ice Cube Succeeded and NWA Did Not
Even Diddy (or Puffy or Puff Daddy, whatever his name is now) remains in power, even though he hasn't made good music since Biggie was alive. A king makes money by working. A King-Maker gets money when other people are working.
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The Words and Music of Ice Cube (The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection)

Ice Cube is one of the most influential figures in the history of rap and hip-hop. Best known for the vitriol of his angry black man recordings of the late 1980s and mid 1990s, Ice Cube epitomizes the genre often referred to as gangsta rap. Much of his music from these years is focused on the disturbing realities of life in black urban ghettos, and as a result it chronicles such complex and controversial issues as racial stereotypes, street gangs, racial profiling, black on black crime, teen pregnancy, absentee fathers, and male-female relationships. His recordings with NWA are noteworthy for their sardonic humor in discussing dire issues. The group’s landmark CD Straight Outta Compton (1988) is a palette of urban woes recounted in aggressive and hostile street vernacular, while Ice Cube’s recordings of the 1990s now represent paradigms of the gangsta style.

The first three chapters of The Words and Music of Ice Cube explore Ice Cube’s recordings between 1988 and 1996 and situate Ice Cube in the context of other rappers of this period-most notably Public Enemy, Ice-T, Tupac, Biggie, and Snoop Dogg-whose music also chronicled explosive issues in urban ghettos. The fourth chapter considers Ice Cube’s career in film, beginning with a discussion of his performance in Boyz n the Hood and ending with a look at his most recent films, Barber Shop, Barber Shop II, Are We There Yet? And Are We Done Yet? The fifth and final chapter looks back over all of Ice Cube’s work to date and considers his impact and his legacy in music and popular culture at large. .

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Mental Health Raps : Bipolar Raps to Recovery inspired by Ice Cube, Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and all other great rappers

Description

Amongst Jason’s rap and hip hop influences are Ice T, NWA, De La Soul, PM Dawn, Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Ice Cube, Naughty By Nature, Sugar Hill Gang, 2 Pac, Notorious Big. Jason sees rap and hip hop as a potential force for social good.

About the Author

Jason Pegler is known internationally for his work as a social entrepreneur. He was born in 1975. He was diagnosed with manic depression in 1992. This is his sixth book. He is the author of ‘A Can of Madness’, ‘Curing Madness’, ‘The Ultimate Guide To Well Being’ and ‘Mental Health Publishing and Empowerment’. His first three books can be bought together in the trilogy Bipolar, Recovery and NLP. Jason is the CEO of Chipmunkapublishing and Co-Founder of The Chipmunka Foundation. He dedicates his life to empowering people with mental health issues so that they can fulfill their potential and help others.

Book Extract

Why a rap book?

I have always been inspired by music and rap has always been one of my favourite genre’s. When I first heard NWA in 1988 I started to love rap. I liked the testerone pumped music and the wordplay and also the powerful messages you can convey in raps just as you can in stories.

The creativity and word play made me write one or two raps straight away and always made me interested in the music. I wrote a lot of poems/raps in 1992 when I was seventeen. A couple of thousand actually but through them all away when I was manic.

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Ice Cube: The Videos, Vol. 1

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