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Rapper Ice Cube talks about N.W.A's 'Straight Outta Compton'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Jheri Curl is long gone, and the scowl, well, Ice Cube still has that, but he uses it selectively now. It was 20 years ago this month that the group N.W.A -- with Cube as its most vital lyricist -- released the shocking "Straight Outta Compton."...Tags: Fred Durst, Movies, Rock and Roll, Torrance, FBI
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Craft as well as confrontation
Special to The TimesThe new N.W.A retrospective "The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge" raises an interesting question about when is the best time to measure an album's greatness. Is it the week the album is released or two decades later when you can see how...Tags: Gang Activity, Grandmaster Flash, Drug Trafficking, Music, Hobbies
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Rap review, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ice Cube, Warren G, at the Allstate Arena
Special to the TribuneWith the release of his multimillion-selling 1992 album "The Chronic," Dr. Dre demonstrated definitively what all but the most casual of observers already realized: Rap had become the dominant pop form of the late 20th Century. Almost 10 years later, hip-...Tags: Movies, Music, Eminem, Los Angeles, Crimes
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