Ice Cube has called bullshit on the claims that his seminal group, N.W.A., brought destruction to the Hip Hop genre.

Taking to Twitter on Thursday (September 28), the “No Vaseline” rapper responded to a fan’s claim that his music brought nothing but trouble to Black and Latino communities.

“Bullshit,” he wrote. “Crack was in the neighborhoods a decade before gangsta rap. In the 70s they called it freebase. So was heroine, weed, Mollys, gangbanging, drive bys, pimping and hoing, dropping out of school, young girls getting pregnant, cussing and the using the word N-gga. It was all here before NWA.”

Bullshit. Crack was in the neighborhoods a decade before gangsta rap. In the 70s they called it freebase. So was heroine, weed, Mollys, gangbanging, drive bys, pimping and hoing, dropping out of school, young girls getting pregnant, cussing and the using the word Nigga. It was… https://t.co/XK5QAdWRnU

— Ice Cube (@icecube) September 28, 2023

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