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Uncover the stunning rise, fall, and legacy of N.W.A., one of America's most revered and iconic enduring music communities, who put their stamp on pop culture and dark-colored culture and who evolved hip-hop music permanently, in this detailed and authoritative work of music journalism. Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Snow Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella triggered a seismic transfer in hip-hop when they made a decision to form N.W.A. in 1986. All of the sudden rap became gangsta and relevant on the Western world Coast. With their hard-core image, bombastic audio, and lyrics that were equal parts poetic, lascivious, conscious, and downright in-your-face, N.W.A. spoke the truth about life on the avenues of Compton, California - then a hotbed of poverty, drugs, gangs, and unemployment. Their 'hood stories offered a well-defined compare from the cozy, comfortable images of flourishing middle-class life emanating from tv set screens across America. For the group, making music had not been about being nice or projecting a fake reality. It had been about expressing themselves. Going beyond the storyline portrayed in the 2015 blockbuster movie Upright Outta Compton, through firsthand interviews, comprehensive research, and top-notch storytelling, Los Angeles Times music reporter Gerrick Kennedy transports you back in time and will be offering a front-row couch to N.W.A.'s start and the crisis and controversy that implemented the incendiary group as they increased to be multiplatinum artists. A riveting and illuminating work of music journalism, Parental Discretion Is Suggested captures a special point in time in rap music, when N.W.A. made it altogether interpersonal, freaky, enterprising, and gangsta. They obligated us all to take notice. For that by itself, their storyline must be told.