Ice Cube’s Response to Special Ed’s Claim: Did N.W.A Really Bring Violence & Drugs to Hip-Hop?
Ice Cube’s Response to Special Ed’s Claim: Did N.W.A Really Bring Violence & Drugs to Hip-Hop?
In a recent debate on the popular podcast Drink Champs, veteran Brooklyn rapper Special Ed made a bold statement, asserting that N.W.A. was responsible for bringing violence and drug-related themes into the world of Hip-Hop.
Ed didn’t mince words, stating, “N.W.A. brought the age of destruction to our children and our culture,” said Ed on Drink Champs. “I respect all of them as men, but as the art form … that’s where it started. That’s where the agenda started, and that’s where the destruction began.”
Ice Cube’s Response to Special Ed’s Claim: Did N.W.A Really Bring Violence & Drugs to Hip-Hop?
While none of the N.W.A. members initially responded to Special Ed’s claims publicly, it wasn’t long before the hip-hop community began debating the topic online. And that’s when Ice Cube, one of the founding members of N.W.A., decided to weigh in.
In true Ice Cube fashion, he didn’t hold back. “Bullsht. Crack was in the neighborhoods a decade before gangsta rap. In the 70s, they called it freebase,” he tweeted. “So was heroin, weed, Mollys, gangbanging, drive-bys, pimping and hoing, dropping out of school, young girls getting pregnant, cussing, and using the word Nigga. It was all here before N.W.A.”
Ice Cube’s Response to Special Ed’s Claim: Did N.W.A Really Bring Violence & Drugs to Hip-Hop?
Cube went on to shift the blame elsewhere, asking, “With no gangster rap around, who inspired the mafia that made Francis Ford Coppola create a movie like The Godfather (which is a period piece)? Who has the power to mainstream anything? Three generations? Who messed up the ten generations before gangsta rap? Society has always been ugly, sir. And when you’re ugly, you can’t blame the mirror.”
The question remains: Is Ice Cube right?
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