I watched the movie "Straight Outta Compton" last night, and it was a good
movie. It was a drama biography, a piece of rap music history and about what
created and caused it, and how the life was in the areas the so-called "gansta
rap" sprang out of - there was the N.W.A. hip hop group that incited riots
because of police violence - there was the reality of ghettoes and how it had
problems like HIV/AIDS, drugs and violence. I think the movie was as good as
Football Factory, that was more of a fantasy movie about drug addict alcoholic
football hooligans (or 'ooligans as some Brits might put it), and N.W.A. was
about the reality of street violence and gangsta rap that told about it,
especially with the songs "Straight Outta Compton" and "FTP" (I will not spell
out the full words here). I think it is the reality that some populations
suffer more from totalitarianism - police violence and violence from
authorities - and some less from it. It may well be that all chaos spreads to
the streets if the ghetto people have had enough with police brutality. It is
a way of life, and gangsta rap used to tell about it. Finnish hip hop is
different, and AFAIK tells more about drugs, alienation and mental health
issues than ghettoes, guns and police brutality. I think the police may be
brutal in Finland, but I do not usually hang out in areas where the police
might spot me and question me - whether I am drunk or medicated - or just
smoking some tobacco or drinking non-alcoholic beverages like soda pop, cola
or Jaffa (an orange soda pop drink here in Finland).