Double Elvis.

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Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

Music is a production of Double Elvis. The story of NWA, the effect they had on hip-hop, popular culture, the mirror they

held up to the city they came from, and their interpersonal dynamic is so complex that two episodes were needed to properly tell this story.

If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back to Disgraceland episode 37, part one of the NWA story, where we discuss the origins of NWA and the gang reality and LAPD presence within their

home city of Compton. In this episode, we get around to the darker, unfortunate behavior of

some of the group's members, as well as the actions and attitudes that drove the band apart,

a move for some of them that led to the creation of even more great music. That music I played

for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron

called Mellow Street Tango, BK, 2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to

informer by snow. And why would I play you that specific

slice of north of the border cheese could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in

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