Tuesday, 20 September 2016


Controversial Music Video                                              20/09/2016
video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDti_Xnnmo

lyrics - https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB710GB710&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=nwa%20100%20miles%20and%20runnin%20lyrics


The music video and song that I chose is 'N.W.A - 100 miles and runnin'. I chose this because N.W.A is world known for not liking the police and this video shows what would happen. This video shows NWA running away from the police and the members are rapping about why they're running.


The first image we see in the video is a close up of a police siren, and a long shot of the car N.W.A are in. This video and song clearly shows everyone that N.W.A were involved in a lot of police brutality and were always being harassed by the police.  This is still controversial to this day, because police brutality in the USA and the UK is still happening. MC Ren says 'Since I'm stereotyped to kill and destruct , Is one of the main reasons I don't give a fuck.', this causes controversy because it states that N.W.A is stereotyped to cause violence and reek havoc around them. This will cause further conflict because its almost as if all black people were stereotyped and still are to this day. 

Dr.Dre starts rapping and he says - 'Hitchhikin' if that's what it gotta do. But nobody's pickin' up a Nigga Witta Attitude, Confused..'  This is an effective line because it shows that black people have been stereotyped and nobody will do anything for them because they have an attitude. The video also show that NWA have an attitude because they are running away from the Police nobody will help them. 

This song is very controversial because Ice Cube was a former member of NWA at this time, and there were a few lyrics in the song to diss Ice Cube - 'Started with five and one couldn't take it, So now there's four 'cause the fifth couldn't make it'. This then makes Ice Cube return the diss with the song 'No Vaseline' 



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