How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the
curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap-so dystopian
that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z
as "over the top"-was born in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood,
surf, and sun? In the Reagan era, hip-hop was understood to be the
music of the inner city and, with rare exception, of New York. Rap
was considered the poetry of the street, and it was thought to
breed in close quarters, the product of dilapidated tenements,
crime-infested housing projects, and graffiti-covered subway cars.
To many in the industry, LA was certainly not hard-edged and urban
enough to generate authentic hip-hop; a new brand of black rebel
music could never come from La-La Land. But it did. In To Live and
Defy in LA, Felicia Viator tells the story of the young black men
who built gangsta rap and changed LA and the world. She takes
readers into South Central, Compton, Long Beach, and Watts two
decades after the long hot summer of 1965. This was the world of
crack cocaine, street gangs, and Daryl Gates, and it was the
environment in which rappers such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E
came of age. By the end of the 1980s, these self-styled "ghetto
reporters" had fought their way onto the nation's radio and TV
stations and thus into America's consciousness, mocking
law-and-order crusaders, exposing police brutality, outraging both
feminists and traditionalists with their often retrograde treatment
of sex and gender, and demanding that America confront an urban
crisis too often ignored.
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