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The Meters' classic "Cissy Strut" was sampled by everyone from N.W.A., A Tribe Called Quest and even Master P. Dig this cut and don't forget to wiggle.

In honor of the release of Straight Outta Compton let's review one of the lesser celebrated tracks on that album, 8 Ball. Neither Eazy or Dre wrote their own verses on this record (Ice Cube did the lion's share of the work) - truth is, Eazy wasn't a blessed MC - can't imagine how much time they spent just to get these verses "passable". Still, there was something so cool about the whole damn thing. 

If you've never seen the 1993 gangsta rap paroday CB4, do yourself a favor. Chris Rock and company send up 90's hardcore rap and even take a direct shot at N.W.A. with a song called "Straight Outta Locash". Here's a mashup of MC Gusto and his crew along with the original bad boys, N.W.A. Shouts out to 2Shave for the mashup.

After several days of police brutality in Ferguson, MO (following the killing of an unarmed black teen) I've only got one song stuck in my head. Whenever something like this happens, people say "This is a turning point in our country". But my fear is that it will eventually get swept up and put away and we'll all go back to our favorite tv shows and the cycle will repeat. It happened here in our community and the cop got a 30 day suspension. Fuck these assholes.

One of the creative minds behind N.W.A., The D.O.C. made a name for himself in the 80's gangsta rap stage. But in 1989 a car accident left The D.O.C. with damaged vocal cords. He would never fully recover and instead continued to ghostwrite for the likes of Dr. Dre and Snoop. Rumor has it though that he will be releasing his fourth studio album (which has already been 7 years in the making).