Life imitates art. This was top-down. Not bottom-up.
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Ghetto Boys came from Houston, which was the source of some of the ugliest underground gangster rap.
You're right about NWA. They were promoted in the music magazines like Spin and Rolling Stone, and also at the record stores. These were controlled/influenced by the record industry. Parents had no way to detect it since it was not on the radio.
The first Beastie Boys song mentioning a gun is Paul Revere.
"Quick on the draw, I thought I'd be dead He put the gun to my head and this is what he said "Now my name is MCA, I got a license to kill I think you know what time it is, it's time to get ill"
Nah, "I got a jammy in my pocket so you better stay cautious, flying around the world kind of makes me nauseous"
Correct about Geto Boys I always equate them with East Coast.. I guess because they weren't west