Growth and Structure of Cities (Bryn Mawr)
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- ItemN.W.A. Gangster Rap: Representation and Spatial Identity within the Los Angeles Urban Context(2013) Alvarez, Lorenzo Luis; Arbona, JuanGangster rap music has a bad rap. This thesis aims to recontextualize N.W.A.’s 3 premier songs, “Express Yourself,” “Fuck the Police,” and “Straight Outta Compton” in an effort to reveal the ingrained thematic critiques of masculinity, materialism, and the political structure. The history of Compton is explained in detail to reveal structural road blocks constantly oppressing the advancement of the community collectively. Compton as a significant spatial location, a place, is given commercial cultural value through N.W.A.’s identity creation through self representation of their environment.