Dr Dre Awarded at the 36th Annual GRAMMY Awards

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"Like my niggas from South Central Los Angeles they found that they couldn't handle us; Bloods, CRIPS, on the same squad, with the Essays [Latino gangbangers] up, and nigga, it's time to rob and mob and break the white man off something lovely; I don't love them anyway so them can't love me. . . . convictions of three blacks [Williams, Watson, and Miller] shows no justice. . . . if they riot again me turn the other cheek. . . . me got the nine [millimeter pistol] by my side so me bust";
"The Day the Niggaz Took Over"; Dr Dre, The Chronic, 1993, Interscope Records, Time Warner.

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      Dr Dre was awarded on March 1, 1994, for "Best Rap Solo Performance" for the single "Let Me Ride." Dr Dre was a rapper with the rap group whose name is widely recognized, NWA, and the acronym stands for Niggas with Attitudes. NWA's 1988 song "Fuck tha Police" directed violence at peace officers, and it targeted, at the song's end, police officers who are white.

      Dr Dre is the lead rapper on a 1992 CD that has a song about the LA Riots called "The Day the Niggaz Took Over," and therein, society is warned about and threatened with racial riots: "me not out for peace, and me not Rodney King; me gun goes click; me gun goes bang. . . . them never love me 'cause I was born to redem'. . . . the latest spray with my AK and put 'em to rest. . . . you still a slave; no matter how much money you got you still ain't shit. . . . like my niggas from South Central Los Angeles they found that they couldn't handle us; Bloods, CRIPS, on the same squad, with the Essays [Latino gangbangers] up, and nigga, it's time to rob and mob and break the white man off something lovely; I don't love them anyway so them can't love me. . . . [rapper RBX continues:] one-time [the police]. . . . can't get prints . . . on my Uzi when it spray; pop; pop; pop; another motherfucker drop. . . . I crashed his head like a window; I ain't Nintendo. . . . bust onto his head while he munches on a donut; and cracker, so now he best to back up; I guess I got's to pack up, filling the clip up. . . . the motherfucking cops are all around. . . . [rapper Dat Nigga Daz takes over with:] convictions of three blacks [Damion Monroe Williams, Henry Keith Watson, and Antoine Eugene Miller] shows no justice. . . . if they riot again me turn the other cheek. . . . me got the nine by my side so me bust. . . . listen to shots from my nigga [Snoop] Doggy Dog; Dr Dre, him bust gunshots; Dat Nigga Daz and RBX, them bust gunshots."

      Since his 1993 GRAMMY Award, Dr Dre has produced violently racist music. On the 1996 project "Dr. Dre: The Aftermath" a rapper is featured who also rapped on The Chronic, namely RBX. On the 1995 CD called The RBX Files, RBX recruits for Nation of Islam, spouts out the group's doctrine, and calls on blacks to murder whites. Another rapper joining Dr. Dre on The Chronic is Snoop Doggy Dog. Both rappers contributed a track called "187um" for a 1995 CD that was released before the 1995 Million Man March, and the CD begins with Ice Cube encouraging blacks to go to Washington DC on October 16 for the gathering that was motivated by Farrakhan and that featured him as principal speaker. Called One Million Strong, the CD's various artists call on blacks to kill whites and law enforcement officers. In "187um," the track they contributed, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog call for the murder of law enforcement officers, and the lyrics are given in the link.

References
The Chronic, Dr Dre, 1993, Interscope Records, with Time Warner in 1992.
Dr Dre Presents . . . The Aftermath, 1996, Aftermath Records, Interscope Records, UNI Distribution, MCA, The Seagram Company. The album's cover shows a huge fiery and mushrooming explosion.

Posted at http://home.att.net/~phosphor on June 30, 1999.

The above is not a complete summary of Dr Dre's connections to violently racist music, and some readers may want to research and expose more of it.

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