Cubes last big single was conscious like a muthphuka.....All that Disney affiliation and he comes back spitting real shyt about the contradictions of society....he aint talking about no fukking italian mob bullshyt....like the fukking mob will accept you n1gger ass.....stop forcing yourself into places u not wanted Ghost......Thats why the Italian mob killed you on your own album and placed your ashes in a fukking vinyl record because they dont allow n1ggers in their circle.
"
Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" is the first
single from
Ice Cube's
studio album,
Raw Footage. It was released with a music video on his
MySpacepage on January 3, 2008. The song contains a "
chopped and screwed" line from Cube's previous single,
Child Support. ("...you nikkas know my pyroclastic flow...") Several members of
Westside Connection make cameo appearances in the video.
[1] In the song Ice Cube comments ironically on the exploitation of
gangsta rap as a
scapegoat for society's problems.
A remix to the song was made featuring
Nas and
Scarface. It is credited to being featured on the video game
Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
Music video[edit]
The video was directed by Jonathan Silver, and
[2] begins in a classroom of the year 2020. A teacher wearing a military-style uniform, flanked by two American flags, condemns gangsta rap for the vices of society. When a child asks if
Compton was dangerous before the emergence of gangsta rap, the teacher yells, "Wrong! Compton was a nature preserve for bunny rabbits!" The room darkens and Ice Cube's face is projected on a screen, rapping that gangsta rap is allegedly the root of all crimes. Several video clips of actual shootings in the U.S. and Iraq are shown, as well as the
Virginia Tech Massacre including the infamous image of Cho pointing a gun. It also features footage of the
Michael Richards Laugh Factory incident (during the lyric "If I call you a nikka"),
Don Imus ("If I call you a
nappy-headed ho") and
Chris Benoit (referring to the
Benoit murder/suicide). Features cameo appearances by
WC (rapper) and
DJ Crazy Toones
List of video clip images[edit]