Throughout popular music history, controversy has always been a powerful initializer. When something that renounces the norm comes along, both hyperbolic media coverage and the intrigue of the youth will follow. As sterile as it may seem today, even the pelvic gyrations of Elvis Presley and the sensual disco of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” were deemed to be a pollutant of impressionable minds. Through heavy metal to the obscenity charges leveled at 2 Live Crew in the wake of “Me So H***y”, the more repressive sectors of society still refuse to learn one universal truth – if you attempt to suppress an artistic statement, you only strengthen its appeal to the audience. And for a long time, the perennial force in stoking middle-class dread was gangsta rap.

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Narrated by: Pro (@JaysnProlifiq)
Written by: Robert Blair
Edited by: Roman Bill
Music by: Josh Petruccio

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