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CONSEQUENCE RECALLS THE TIME WU-TANG & BONE THUGS FOUGHT AT A DEF JAM PARTY

Complex put together a great series on hip hop in 1996 and one of the best stories comes from Consequence, who recalls the time that the Wu-Tang Clan and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony got into a brawl at a Def Jam holiday party. This line summarizes the whole thing…

“I turn to the left and Ghostface is taking off the Halle Hansen outfit and putting on a ninja suit, with three other guys doing the same thing…He really is about that Wu-Tang life.” – Consequence

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NOISEY BOMPTON: VIOLENCE TOUCHES US ALL (PART 4) [VIDEO]

“I know a lot of people are saying that it’s getting better, but I’m the one that’s doing the funerals.”

Religion plays an important role alongside stories of Compton gang life in the music of Kendrick Lamar. In the fourth of six segments of Noisey Bompton, we pay a visit to the Greater Zion Family Church and talk to Pastor Michael Fisher about what he thinks the role of gangster rap is in the community and whether crime in Compton is actually receding. Then, we head to Campanella Park, the heart of Piru gang territory, to talk to Kendrick’s friend G. Weed about his experiences growing up Piru and becoming involved in the ongoing back-and-forth with the neighboring Crips. “Can’t nobody make this place safe,” he tells us.