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 Who are they? NWA are a controversial hip hop group from Compton that formed in 1987. Easy E(Eric Wright) who co-founded Ruthless Records recruited Dr. Dre(Andre Romelle Young) and Ice Cube(O'Shea Jackson) to write for his label. They wrote a song for a different group under Ruthless Records but they chose to not record. So the three of them formed N.W.A and recorded Boyz In The Hood. Dre recruited DJ Yella(Antoine Carraby) who was a drummer in the band 'World class wreckin' with Dre amd they also joined with MC Ren(Lorenzo Patterson). The 5 core members worked so hard writing and producing music that showed their reality. They changed this genre and created gangsta rap. Ice Cube recalls "We actually never referred to ourselves as 'gangsta rap' That was a term invented by the media for what we were doing. We actually called it 'reality rap' because it reflected what we were actually going through. We felt backed into a corner and that nobody cared abou...

  They were uncompromising in every aspect right down to their name, deciding they would be called N.W.A – Niggaz With Attitude. "We were taking a word that had been derogatory to black people for years and deciding to use it instead of allowing ourselves to be abused by it," says Ice Cube. "When we started out doing music, it was an underground thing. We never thought it would be on the radio or on the TV. We thought that we were just making music for our homies. We thought we'd be 'hood stars; that a guy on our block would play it and tell his friend and he'd dig it and word would get around that way. That was as far as we ever saw our careers going." "We actually never referred to ourselves as 'gangsta rap'", recalls Ice Cube. "That was a term invented by the media for what we were doing. We actually called it 'reality rap' because it reflected what we were going through. We felt backed into a corner, and that nobody ca...