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In an extended trailer for the new N.W.A biopic, Ice Cube says, вЂњThe same thing that we was going through in the 80s with the police, people going through right now.вЂќ Just as N.W.AвЂ™s message proved the value of hip-hop as a tool of black protest in the late 80s, the success of Kendrick LamarвЂ™s latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly, demonstrates hip-hopвЂ™s continued importance as a complex narrative tool for black artists. But bored white teenagers listening to N.W.A didnвЂ™t necessarily want to understand the day-in, day-out oppression of police brutality-for many of them, the album was a fantasyland, its nihilistic violence and righteous energy providing a chance for them to feel вЂњstreetвЂќ without being exposed to gang violence or racialized policing. The label that released Straight Outta Compton, Priority Records, estimated that 80 percent of the albumвЂ™s sales were to white listeners in suburban America. The album, with lyrics reflecting the brutal conditions facing black Americans under the boot of Ronald ReaganвЂ™s war on drugs, eventually sold more than two million copies. When N.W.A dropped their incendiary debut album, Straight Outta Compton, in 1988, the FBI fueled its notoriety with a letter condemning songs such as вЂњFuck tha PoliceвЂќ for inciting violence.

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