Thought I’d try out the Wordpress flipbook plugin with some crazy pics I found of the Bloods and Cripps in the 80’s and 90’s. The photo’s are all from the local Police archives and are all scary in different ways. Some of the ‘little guy squatting in front of big guy’ pics are totally homo-erotic but my personal favourites are the ‘random looking into space’ pics. Very album cover worthy.
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Edited: August 3rd, 2009
The Compton Cricket club never cease to amuse people. Its just a perfect comedic combination of two alliterated words that exist on opposite ends of the social scale. The rarefied gentry image of Cricket and the gangster hardcore image of Compton have been successfully melded together since the clubs inception in 1995 and they haven’t looked back since. With a 40 minute hip hop opera in the can and the movie rights of their story already sold to Disney you’d think they’d be happy with their media output but these guys aren’t declaring yet.
They currently have a music video out catchily entitled ‘Bullets to balls gats to bats’ and its really popular in Australia. Honestly it is. I love the lyrics on this track, these guys completely bypass the edutainment field and just straight up preach their gospel with lines like:
took the youngsters from the hood
and showed them good
no matter what they are told
its better for them to have a book than a Beretta
Lines like that make me actually think they may be good at cricket cos well they can’t rap. Stick to the cricket pads homez and leave the lyric pads to the pros.
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Edited: July 30th, 2009
1990 saw Compton rise to international fame primarily due to the success of N.W.A and the controversy that constantly surrounded them. Off the back of N.W.A’s notoriety a number of Compton rappers and groups were catapulted into the limelight, many of them associated with the Eazy-E’s Ruthless records, or produced by Dr Dre.
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Edited: September 16th, 2008
