This particular part of the film shows how the people that hold power and influence can turn something like freedom of expression, something legal and innocent, into something immoral and even illegal.
After the coming of West Coast Rap, artists started to take more violent lyrics and sexual exploitations. Rapper and producer of hip hop music Dr. Dre was notorious for his violent lyrics from his song Deep Cover. (Simon and Schuster) A sample of the song Deep Cover, "The best side, 20 n****** just died. Walking down the streets of L.A., stay strapped cause n***** but caps every day, yo". (Riots Erupt) The lyrics of violence were noticed by the government and by nation's youth. Politicians took one way of conservatism with then president Bill Clinton speaking against the violent music, while the majority of African American youth accepted the violent lyrics. This pushed and promoted the trend of violence in music today with parents and authority moving away from hip-hop music and the nation's youth for the first time music history towards hip hop. .
Hip-hop music did not start from a violent background. It started in a low-income area of the Compton, CA but the artists originally spoke of stopping youth violence and political and economic hope. In Ronin Ro's Gangsta it states, "Before NWA's Straight outta Compton album, hip hop acts tried to steer youth in a more positive directions: Groups like Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy told them to "stop eating beef" there were songs like Stop the Violence, which urged kids to coexist in peace" (Straight Outta Compton). Violent music did not come into the hip-hop until the emergence of NWA's notorious song about cops, "F*** the Police." This brought many violent lyrics into hip-hop music as we see today. Music acts as a surrogate public authority and has consequences towards its listeners. This is similar to a parent's violent ideology of raising a child.
