Influence
Although the group was dissolved in 1991, it had significant legacy on hip hop music in later decades. Their influence (from their funky, bass-driven beats to their exaggerated lyrics) was evident throughout the '90s and even until these days, and is often credited as bridging the White/Black American musical lines with their massive appeal to White America in the late 1980s.
In Dr. Dre's 1999 single Forgot About Dre the line "Who you think brought you the oldies, Eazy-Es, Ice Cubes,and The D.O.C.s, the Snoop D-O-double-Gs, and the group that said 'Motherfuck the police'?" outlines N.W.A's importance in the rap world. In the same song, one of Eminem's verse says "So what do you say to somebody you hate or anyone tryna bring trouble your way, Wanna resolve things in a bloodier way, Then just study a tape of N.W.A" refers to the negative reception of N.W.A's works by the mainstream radio, considering their songs to be violent.
A scene in 2005 single Hate It or Love It by Game featuring 50 Cent shows Tequan Richmond (portraying The Game) and Zachary Williams (playing 50 Cent in their youth) being caught spraypainting "N.W.A" on a wall, resulting in their subsequent arrest by two policemen.
Also, the rapper Game has a tattoo that says N.W.A on the right side of his chest.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts: every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)
“It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)