The Darker Side of Black - ACE274.3

GUN CULTURE Musician, Ice Cube says that rappers have guns on their album covers (his album Kill at Will) because it’s American culture and that drive-by shooting in America is small scale when compared to what’s going on in Iraq; car-jacking doesn’t compare to "country jacking" when America invades Panama and installs its own government. Bosnia is white on white violence on a bigger scale than black on black. Part of the video of Ice Cube’s Dead Homiez (1990). Writer and Cultural Critic, Professor Cornell West, talking about the issue of nihilism and black culture, reflecting the experiences of poor people and particularly their experience of death. Video of Eazy E and Real Compton City G’s (1993). West on portrayals of nihilism which puts a premium on certain kinds of posing and posturing which, though knowingly ironic, can take on a life of their own with particular consequences. Video of Onyx with Throw Ya Gunz (1993). Musician/Geto Boys, Bushwick Bill. Says that the world is built on gangsterism: all Christopher Columbus’s crew were criminals taken from prisons. More of Throw Ya Gunz.