NBA player Ron Artest punching a Pistons' fan in 2004.Scenes from the music video of It Was a Good Day (3:47).A video of the welcome sign to Jena, Louisiana, home of the Jena Six(3:34).Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (3:17).Columbine High School cafeteria surveillance tape and sign (3:05).Newspaper headline, " 'Crack' Epidemic Linked to Contras" (2:45).Dogs fighting (when Cube is talking about acting like an animal) (2:01).Michael Vick prior to the dogfighting clip (1:59).Don Imus after his offensive statement.Michael Richards incident at the Laugh Factory (when Cube is rapping the chorus) (1:53).Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh being led away by police (1:50)."False prophecy" clip with the image of Warren Jeffs (when Cube talks about him being Utah and having multiple bitches) (1:37)."Arson in the Southland" fire clip (when Cube is talking about how "hot" he is) (1:35).The 1997 North Hollywood Shootout (when Cube is talking about not needing to steal money) (1:12).The video features cameo appearances by WC and DJ Crazy Toones. It also features footage of the Michael Richards Laugh Factory incident (during the lyric "If I call you a nigga"), Don Imus ("If I call you a nappy-headed ho") and Chris Benoit (referring to the Benoit murder/suicide). and Iraq are shown, as well as the Virginia Tech Massacre including the infamous image of Seung-Hui Cho pointing a gun at the aforementioned massacre. Several video clips of actual shootings in the U.S. 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! When gangster rap came along they tore down the country clubs and put up housing projects!" The room darkens and Ice Cube's face is projected on a screen smoking a cigar, rapping that gangsta rap is allegedly the root of all crimes. A teacher wearing a uniform, flanked by two American flags, condemns gangsta rap for the vices of society, rape, murder, etcetera. The video was directed by Jonathan Silver and begins in a classroom of the year 2020 (12 years after the song's release). It is credited to being featured on the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles. Ī remix to the song was made featuring Nas and Scarface. In the song Ice Cube comments on the exploitation of gangsta rap as a scapegoat for society's problems. Several members of Westside Connection make cameo appearances in the video. The song contains a " chopped and screwed" line from Cube's previous single Child Support (".you niggas know my Pyroclastic flow."). It was released with a music video on his MySpace page on January 3, 2008. " Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" is the first single from Ice Cube's studio album, Raw Footage.
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