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Niggaz With Attitudes
N.W.A Reunion Album is now Under Way, The long awaited N.W.A. reunion album is finally in its creative stages. Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Snoop Dogg (in for the late Eazy E) will be working on the project in a mobile recording studio while they’re on the road with the Up In Smoke Tour. DJ Yella will also contribute to the album once the tour is finished. The working title for the album will be, Not These N*ggas Again, and plans are to have it released in the fall 2001.
You can currently hear the year 2000 chemistry of N.W.A. on the Next Friday Soundtrack’s "Chin Check" and the Ice Cube single, "Hello".
MC Ren Disses Dynamite Hack - Snowballx @ 05/31/00
Austin rock band Dynamite Hack may have a novelty hit on their hands with "Boyz-N-Tha-Hood" -- where they somewhat cheekily put the thug lyrics of N.W.A.'s 1986 classic to folk rock instrumentation and breathy, sensitive vocals -- but they're not winning over MC Ren.
Though the band approached both Eazy-E's estate and Dr. Dre about using the song, they haven't gotten any substantive feedback from the N.W.A. camp other than the usage of the "n word" in the song's lyrics.
"We hear stories all the time," said Dynamite Hack bassist/singer Chad Robinson. "Like we heard [Farmclub.com label co-head] Jimmy Iovine played the song for Dr. Dre. We heard that Dr. Dre said, 'Turn this thing off,' and we got scared. But he was actually concerned that if we didn't take out where they say 'nigger' [especially in the lyric "Young niggaz at the pad throwin' up gang signs"] we would be shot."
But it's not just Dr. Dre who wants the song turned off. When RollingStone.com played the remake for MC Ren -- who, despite Dynamite Hack's radio presence in Southern California, was hearing it for the first time -- he couldn't wait for the song to end.
"I'm happy that shit's over," Ren said. "That was killing me, man. I felt like I was in The Twilight Zone, in some fucked up town somewhere. I can't take it. My wife told me about it the other day. She said, 'Man, that was whack, some country-shit.' They should be embarrassed."
Dynamite Hack had actually hoped to play the N.W.A. reunion on Farmclub last March, but after hearing their cover, Ren might veto any further connection to the band. "I ain't got nothing to do with that shit," he said. "There ain't nothing I can do about it. If they have success with it, that's cool. I can still respect them for trying. But I can't take no song like that. [The original] is like a jet plane, and this is like a little prop plane, know what I mean? You can't take a big, fat car and slow it down."
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