Historical Text Superfly

Super Fly is a 1972 blaxploitation, crime drama film about a Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.Super Fly resonated with many of the post-civil rights movement generation of African Americans, who saw Young blood as a new example of how to rise in the American class system. Several California organised crime veterans, including drug trafficker "Freeway" Rick Ross, have cited the film as an influence in their decision to take up drug dealing and gang violence.

Blaxploitation is an ethnic sub genre of the exploitation film. It emerged in the United States in the early 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines.

These movies used a mostly black cast and featured stories set in urban America. Most often, blaxploitation films had a low budget focused on marketing campaigns. The term blaxploitation is a combination of the words “black” and “exploitation.” In Hollywood, exploitation films are low budget movies that rely on catchy elements, such as gore, violence or sexual content, to attract an audience.In their depiction of the African-American world, the films focused heavily on the dark undercurrents of society and promoted many incorrect stereotypes about black people.

The movie was very intense as the main character leads a dangerous life so he attempts to pull off one giant drug deal that will bring him the money he needs to live the rest of his life in the superfly manner to which he has become accustomed, but he continuously runs up against a variety of cops and other criminals who wish to stop him.The film shows the drug dealing and violence that happens in the black neighborhoods.Money is there way of life as its their american dream so any of the character would do anything for money and it just represents black males not fearing the law once again.As they aim to avoid prison while they kill their enemies.

Bibliography

Academic Research
Boyd, T. (2008). African Americans and popular culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 

Grossberg, L. (1992). Cultural studies. New York: Routledge

Jones, W. (2011). Ethics at the cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Livesey, C. (2014). Cambridge international as and a level sociology coursebook. Place of publication not identified: Cambridge Univ Press.

Rose, T. (2008). The hip hop wars what we talk about when we talk about hip hop--and why it matters. New York: BasicCivitas.

Straus, E. (n.d.). Death of a suburban dream: Race and schools in Compton, California. 

Way, N. (2011). Deep secrets boys, friendships, and the crisis of connection. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Williams, Z. (2009). Africana cultures and policy studies: Scholarship and the transformation of public policy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Woldu, G. (2008). The words and music of Ice Cube. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Jet 3 Apr 1995 American leading black magazine 

Roberts, Kevin D. African American Issues. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006. Print.



Johnson, Robert Lee. Compton. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2012. Print.

Media Magazine   
    Phil Dyas, December 2012, https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16889
Odd Future, Stranger Past - Issues of Representation in Contemporary Hip-Hop

Lucy Johnson, https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16057
Representation in rap


Pete Turner, February 2011: the 'Culture' issue
https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16789
Ghetto Culture 


Jennifer G.  December 2008. Black Ink - Black Press in Britain
https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16203

https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16094
The Wire - American dream as nightmare

Website links

Rottentomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/straight_outta_compton/

Rory Carroll, August 2015, 
The guardian Straight Outta Compton film puts California City back under scrutiny
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/08/straight-outta-compton-california-film-review

 Lisa Respers France, CNN, August 14, 2015 
Why you should see 'Straight Outta Compton'
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/13/opinions/straight-outta-compton-lisa-france/

 Kevin O'Keeffe August 14, 2015
The One Scene in 'Straight Outta Compton' That Resonates Most in 2015
http://mic.com/articles/123837/the-one-scene-in-straight-outta-compton-that-resonates-most-in-2015

The list of stereotypes OCT 28 2007
by Beachflute
http://beachflute.teachforus.org/2007/10/28/the-list-of-stereotypes/

14 Things We Learned About 'Straight Outta Compton'
BY BRIAN HIATT August 13, 2015 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/14-things-we-learned-about-straight-outta-compton-20150813

N.W.A.: The World's Most Dangerous Group
VH1 Documentary - Narrated By Chris Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXOAgO2U_A

The world’s most dangerous group?
By Rebecca Laurence 13 August 2015

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150813-nwa-the-worlds-most-dangerous-group

Academic research and bibliography

African Americans and Popular Culture 

Todd Boyd 2008

• Films by black directors and black film companies were no more accurate. Between 1910 and 1930, such black film  directors /producers as bill foster and the foster photo play company ,Oscar Micheux and the Micheaux film and book company and the Lincoln motion picture company included the same kinds of stereotypes seen in films by white directors.
• This quote tells me that's white directors and black directors both reinforce the stereotypes of black people in films.
• Although these companies were pioneer in the creation of black controlled ,black orientated film genres ,the demand for negative stereotyped images of African american persisted
• Then this quote tells me that people in the early 1900's people wanted to watch the African American being negatively being stereotyped maybe they found it amusing or refreshing.
• African american culture and utilize what David Marc calls "black prime time dozens humor" or black verbal art forms.Other aspects of these shows include an emphasis on black music,art ,and literature ;a greater tendency to focus on black issues ,such as racism and discrimination.
• This shows what the black actors overall role used to be in and it isnt so negative as it is in SOOC.
• For many years,African Americans were simply objects within popular culture whose representation tended to be quite stereotypical and especially problematic.
• This once again tells me how they are represented in films back in those days as problematic person is not a good person as they always have issues.
• A example film was a social commentary on the welfare system and how it actually aided in the poverty of poor black families headed by a single female.The absence of the male in the black families ,as chronicled by the moynihan report,was actually supported by the government itself.
• This tells me that the stereotype of black males not being there was put in a film however it got backed up by the government stats to show it.Therefore it still is stereotyping even if its true.
• Although Diahann Carroll's character was a responsible black single mother who was taking care of her kids -the opposite of the crack mother and bad mother that Halle Berry played in her respective films-the image of the black single mothers as the image of women on welfare continues to pervasive.
• Then they showed 2 different types of black stereotypes as one was very hard working and good mother.However Halle berry played a mother who was on drugs and who was not a good mother.The film showed 2 types of the same race stereotyping them both.
• These images therefore reinforce stereotypes of black women that exist within the US boarders.
• So these stereotypes are what truly happened in the US and the film is showing the truth.

Cultural Studies By Lawrence Grossberg, 1992

• Stereotypes ,however inaccurate, are on form of representation.like fictions they are created to serve as substitutions,standing in for whats is real. 
• This tells me the correct and detailed explanation of stereotyping

Cambridge International AS and A Level Sociology Coursebook 
By Chris Livesey

• One feature of ethnic representation in the western media is the gradual disappearance of crude stereotypes and demeaning representations of "black people".
• This tells me where the representation of black people are mostly done  and what they show. That's the western media (Europe and America) negative stereotypes.
• White overt racism is no longer tolerated,hall (1995) argues that it has been replaced by inferential racism- black ethnicity are represented in ways that stress their cultural ,rather than biological ,difference.
• This tells me what a theorist has to say and tells me what he thinks as he says no racism but it has transformed to stereotyping negatively
• Part of this representation involves their "problematic nature";minority ethnicity are represented as the source,rather than victim, of social problem.
• This tells me again how they are represented as they are hardly the victims but they are the source.
• This in turn ,reflects two forms of representation;
• Over represention,according to klimkiewicz (1999) in areas such as new sand fiction as perpetrators and victims;UK news reporting Africa,for example, represents black ethnicity  as; victims of natural disasters such as floods and famines  and perpetrators of man made disasters involving wars and corruption.
• In context ,ethnic minorities are mainly views through a white, middle class and male gaze.
• This tells me where the stereotyping comes from most of the time in the media not only in films but in the news

Deep Secrets By Niobe Way
2011

• While these representations of boys are considered true for all boys,ethnic minority and poor and working class boys ,particularly those who are Black and Latino.
• I have learned the victims of stereotyping are the poor and working class and ethnic minorities in the US.
• Images of rappers like 50 cent and lil wayne are emblematic of this stereotype.
• This helps me as stereotypes come from famous rappers like NWA its 50 cent and lil Wayne. As they have tough up bringing they result in selling drugs and gang violence however they become rappers and start rapping about those things.
• The most negative characterisation-that African american men are "thugs" and in gangs-is true for only a very small percentage black and Latino youth and is thus an unfounded negative stereotype.
• This tells me that the stereotype of blacks people being thugs can be backed up that its not true.They are thugs but only a small amount not all.
• The confusion even for black youth regarding what is a stereotype and what is a fact underscores the power of these stereotypes.
• This tells me that black youths get stereotyped a lot and so they are not educated enough to know the difference between a fact or a stereotype 
• The belief that black and Latino males are gangsters and thugs will likely foster social and emotional disconnection in young mens search for admission into the world of black and Latino manhood.
• This shows that stereotyping can lead to social and emotional effects to the young men into manhood.

Africana Cultures and Policy Studies By Zachery Williams
2009 New York

• To illustrate the connection between attitudes and actions,consider the long standing negative attitudes of police towards black males,who are often victims of police brutality.
• Some bad Police have a bad attitude to black males as it maybe stereotyping on stereotyping as some police officers are bad and some black people are thugs.
• The negative attitudes are perpetuated through the stereotype of the black male predator,oftentime reinforced in the media, in which black men are stereotyped as being criminals,pimps,drug dealers and "gangsta-thugs".
• The police are aware as the way black people are stereotyped in the media they have to be real tough and hard towards which is very bad.
• The Assumption is that the police are the good guys and black men are the bad guys.However, research reports that in the unfortunate situations in which police are killed by citizens,those citizens are rarely black men.
• The police are the hero's for killing black males as they seem them as a threat to society however the amount of people who kill police officers are rarely black 
• In policing literature, the symbolic assailant is a young,low income, African american male.
• Again we see who is being stereotyped 
• The stereotype is very dangerous and can easily result in the abuse or the killing of an innocent black men, and in blaming black men for society crime problems
• This tells me that stereotyping can take away live as police can think a innocent black male is a drug dealer with a possession of a gun but they are not
• Black males males make up less than 7 percent of US population,yet they constitute almost half of the prison  population.
• This where the stereotype comes from people see this type of stat and generalise it to all black males
• Blacks and Hispanics are about 70% percent more likely to have had contact with the police than white are 
• This is another stat shows that its fact that a coloured person is more criminal active than a white person

Ethics at the Cinema edited by Ward E. Jones, Samantha Vice
2011

• The films most extended and complex challenging of racial stereotypes, in both the cultural and the one-dimensional form,concerns a particularly potent and damaging stereotype -that young black males are dangerous,violent and to be feared.
• This tells me that's stereotypes in the media damages society 
• Stereotypes being more negative or more culturally embedded than other (blacks as unintelligent (a centuries-old stereotype, originating a racial slavery) vs Whites as band ); or  because ,in context some stereotype contribute to ill treatment of the group in question more than do others.
• Among at least the first and third of these, the "violent young black male" stereotype is a particularly damaging one.It deleterious affects young black male ability to find employment,receive respectful and appropriate treatment in schools and be treated with appropriate civic regard in public spaces.
• Once again stereotyping can harm someones self esteem and role in life.Therefore leading to commit suicide 

The Words and Music of Ice Cube

2008

 By Gail Hilson Woldu

• NWA coined the phrase "reality rap", a term that refined black male expressions of anger and angst in the late 1980s. If no one else was speaking for urban black men, NWA was, and in voices that were defiantly unapologetic.
• NWA rapping was the truth as their music is a reality of what they live
• Reality within hip hop is rooted in raps lyrics content and street based narratives;as such ,reality in rap becomes more than "just music",as it it "situated within the lived context of black expressivity and contemporary cultural identify formation.
• The music is telling a story and thats why people in compton and other "hoods" enjoyed listening to them as they speak on what every from there goes through 
• NWA was created in 1986 by Eric "eazy E" Wright, a street hustler from Compton.The group original members included, in addition to Ice cube and eazy e,MC ren (Lorenzo Patterson),Dr Dre (Andre Young) ,DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby)
• The member and their names
• Eazy E had big ideas about how to break into the record business using money bankrolled from criminal activities that  included drug dealing,car theft and burglary.
• Eazy E was not negatively stereotyped in the movie it is true he was a drug dealer
• Eazy E gave voice to gang and street culture in Los Angeles by painting a musical graphic of his neighborhoods harsh environment
• They told the truth to people who don't live in the hood, mostly white kids,that want to know what is happening in there as they are fascinated 
• He was eulogized variously as one of the most important players in the development of hip hop music
• They were the first gangsta rap music artist and he built the foundation  for the rap scene in the west coast 
• The groups root in the struggling working class neighborhoods of Compton and south central are manifest in NWA image and messages.Rampant unemployment ,drug dealing and drug abuse ,absentee fathers ,teen pregnancy ,police brutality and a litany og the inner city woes are chronicled in the groups music and captured vividly in the harsh language and intentional of NWA shock value.
• "Played bitches,killed enemies and assassinated police"
• The film didn't reinforce negative stereotypes as this is what they grew up in.This sort of environment in Compton they grew up to see that violence and drug abuse it would be a miracle if they didn't go in that direction 

Jet 3 Apr 1995

• In hospital, Eazy E received an average 2500 phone calls per day from his fans across the country
• Showed what a popular character he was as people say many people didn't like him because he was a criminal 
• "I had other women.I have seven children by six different mothers.Maybe success was too good to me.I love all my kids.And i always took care of them"
• Shows what a good father he was as he also ran the record label just shows he puts the stereotypes to bed of black males being unemployed and lazy
• "Now im in the biggest fight of my life and it aint easy.But i want to say much love to those who have been down with me and thanks for all the support"
• "Yes I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on,but it did pay off.Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI.But we got our message across big time and everyone in America started paying attention to the boyz in the hood."
• This shows he didn't regret his early criminal mind as he would not have the money to start the record label and studio time for the group.So it is very much a rags to riches to story.

Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California By Emily E. Straus

• While unrest occurred in pockets throughout Los Angeles county,including Pasadena,Venice the violence most deeply affected south central region of Los Angeles,home to thirds of Los Angeles county black population
• The stereotypes weren't just made it,it started as the violence kicked off due to the drug trade in south central LA
• Poverty, police brutality and lack of employment opportunities laid the groundwork for the unrest.
• The violence lead to this and made the stereotype come into peoples heads as they see some black people drug dealing and being violent active in gangs.they believe all of the black people are like that.Therefor they don't employ them and police disrespectful them.

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
2008
 By Tricia Rose

• -Has increasingly become a playground for caricatures of black gangstas, pimps  and hoes. Hyper sexism has increased dramatically,and homophobia along with distorted ,antisocial ,self destructive ,and violent portraits of black masculinity have become rap calling cards.
• Gangstas,hustlers ,street crimes and vernacular sexual insults (e.g., calling black women "hoes")
• NWA talked about all these things in a very bad way in their songs and some people loved them because of them having no filter
• Prior to the ascendance of corporate mainstream hip hop ,these figures were more complex and ambivalent.A few were interesting social critics.Some early west cost gangsta rappers NWA and WC and the Maad Circle,for example -featured store that emphasized being trapped b the gang life and spoke about why street crime had become a "line of work" in the context of chronic black joblessness.
• Growing up in the hood the was no way out and no jobs available so they sort of had to do crimes to survive,thats what they say in their music but do we believe it
• Following he meteoric rise of west coast hip hop music producer Dr Dre and of NWA., widely considered a seminal gangsta rap group,west coast gangsta rap solidified  and expanded the already well represented street criminal icon-thug,hustler,gangster and pimp-in a musically  compelling way.
• They embraced the fact that they were known as gangsta rappers from the hood by white people.

Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993. 

• Hollywood strategic response to this combination of black social and intellectual pressure was of black social and intellectual pressure was to produce a wave of cheap made black action adventures set in the "ghetto" that were,with a few notable expectations,crawled by white directors and gained tremendous profits for the mainstream commercial system but also subordinated place talent and creativity to the needs of that system of all systems. 
• 64 percent of black respondents felt that drugs and urban violence were part of a a white conspiracy to eliminate blacks.
• Voices similar suspicious in Boyz N the Hood when he gives a street-corner speech about how "they" fennel liquor ,drugs, and guns into the black community in hopes that "we will kill each other off".
• Recovering capital invested and turning a profit form the black audience alone#
• New jack city (1991) ,which cost $8.5 million and earned over $47million,or the top grossing black film BOYZ N THE HOOD (1991),which was made for a modest 6 million and so far,has earned over 60 million.
• For they not only did well with black audiences,but they have successfully crossed over into boarder consumer markets

Rocchio, Vincent F. Reel Racism Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2000. Print.

• In this sense,racism is also a dialectical operation,because racism as social dimension effects individual beliefs,attitudes ,and a actions , but these individual beliefs, attitude , and actions-separately and collectively-become the support and foundation for social dimensions.

Media Magazine

    Media Magazine   

     https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16889

Odd Future, Stranger Past - Issues of Representation in Contemporary Hip-Hop

·         Association of young black males; traditionally masculine, unemotional, aggressive, violent and often misogynistic.

·         This stereotype grew from the rise of gangster rap in the late 1980s, most notably through artists such as N.W.A

·         flaunted their criminal backgrounds and took a confrontational approach to authority

·         that group focused on racial inequality and promoting black culture as a way of life

·         This representation remained the dominant stereotype throughout the 1990s and 2000s

·         Common conventions of hip-hop videos and publicity images for the period include:

·         a fixation on money and wealth, shown through diamond jewellery, expensive cars and flaunted cash

·         male sexual dominance, with women framed as objects and denied any agency or their own gaze

·         images of crime and violence, referenced in lyrics, video narratives and shown through mise-en-scène

·         self-aggrandisement, shown through body language and reinforced with low-angle shots and close-ups

·         during the period portray young black men as aspiring to wealth, rather than professional or intellectual success;

·         arguably the genre exploits extremely negative stereotypes of young black men

·         reinforcing archaic ideas about inner-city youth and discouraging the audience - also largely young black men

·         However, this trend appears to be shifting, or at least becoming more complex, in the modern era

·         This could be due to the success of Kanye West;

·         Often vulnerable, emotional and conflicted in his lyrics.

·         experiences at university, his Christianity, his interest in fashion

     https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16057

     Representation in rap

·         Lucy Johnson explores the construction and representation of rapper 50 Cent.

·         50 is sexist, misogynistic, materialistic, arrogant and a proponent of violence as a solution to the many problems he comes across in the 'Ghetto'.

·         50's success is predicated on certain ideas about 'blackness' and the black male in particular

·         The difficulty is learning to see beyond the supposed veracity of 50 Cent's persona

·         a survivor of the Ghetto, shot at nine times, a former crack dealer who recounts his adventures in his songs

·         You need to show that you are able to separate the representation of Gangsta Rap,

·         You need to be aware of the fact that although certain record bosses and music stars involved with Gangsta Rap have indeed been involved in criminality

https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16789

Ghetto Culture (Historical Text)

·         The narrative, cinematography and use of music are all clearly influenced by American independent films such as Boyz N the Hood and film-makers such as Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee.

·         The American 'hood' film sub-genre often has a character that is trying to reject a life of crime and escape the trappings of the 'hood'

·         These representations of young black males are life-affirming and positive.

·         However, other characters confirm the more negative stereotypes of youths from ethnic minorities e.g city of god

·         For example, Lil Ze in City of God and Hubert in La Haine are both drug dealers. Lil Ze is a typical crime film villain;

·         Followed by his subsequent decline and death. He is violent and psychotic, with no remorse for his actions or sympathy for his victims.

·         He is a cocaine dealer, rapist and gang leader; out of control, hungry for power and desperate to control the favela

·         City of God's focus is mainly on black youths. The favelas were initially created to house freed slaves, and therefore black people are massively over-represented in this setting.

·         The representation of the police in both films is almost entirely negative

·         They sell guns to gangsters, shoot suspects on sight (including an innocent youth on his way to school), steal money and drugs from dealers and are never seen helping anyone. The police representation …
Black Ink - Black Press in Britain
https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16203

•       Black culture'? Using this terminology to define people with a little colour plays into the idea that they are from one homogenous jelly-mould with no variation in language, 
•      North America has many more Black publications. Indeed some find their way onto our shores, most notably Essence and Ebony lifestyle magazines, with music magazines such as Vibe following

  https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/articles/16094
    The Wire - American dream as nightmare

•     The Wire is set in Baltimore, a port city on the Eastern seaboard of the US. It is a city with huge problems of unemployment, gang-related violence and drug addiction.
•      The central conflict is typically generic in that it focuses on the police and the drug gangs.
•      That said it attempts to present a view of all the central protagonists which avoids lazy generalisations and stereotypes.
•      The police are portrayed in a variety of ways. For the most part they are certainly not seen as heroes. 
•      They attack and beat up suspects in custody and they are driven, not by a moral duty to protect the public, but by an obsessive need to beat the gangs.
•       The street is also represented by characters that turn previous representations of gang members on their head.
•      Unlike many other American shows The Wire has a predominately black cast, reflecting Baltimore's demographic. This in itself marks a key difference from a number of other generic texts.
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Textaual analysis: Staright outta Compton

The members of nwa in the film were in their hotel after a show on one of their tour.They have one room connect to another one and Dr Dre is in  one of the rooms.He is accompanied by a girl which rappers called "groupies".Then there's a knock at the door by two African american built men who are in possesion of a gun and he sees the gun as they ask for his girlfriend.Dr Dre slams the door on them and makes his way into the other room where all the NWA members are in their with their own girls.Dj Yella is on the couch with 2 girls and MC Ren is on the bed with 2 aswell.Dr Dre says "yo some guys are outside looking for Felicia" as thats Eazy E sexual partner as he was receiving oral sex from her in the bathroom.The nwa member all come out and Eazy E asks "who's looking for her" as he only peaks his head out and one of the men start walking towards Eazy E and says im looking for her" and Eazy E replies with "she is pre occupied with some real nigga dick". The men start speed walking towards Eazy E reaching for their pockets and he says "what did you say lil nigga".Eazy e replies swiftly again saying " I said she got some dick in her mouth nigga" with him bringing out a sniper rifle as he walks towards them and that when the NWA members,all of them,come showing no remorse and pointing their guns at them as the men runaway down the five star hotel corridors.The members walk back to the hotel room laughing about what just happend.The girl whos boyfriends was looking for was outside witnessing this as she's half naked.Ice cube character says "bye felicia" and shoves her head out the room and they lock her out.

The scene was mostly in the hotel room or corridor and so its late at night after their show.In the hotel room they were with women so the lights were a bit low but it felt very mysterious theres was a sense of back light to make it sexual atmosphere as they were kissing or doing something with their women.Then when they appeared on in the corridor the light were more key lights as when the men ran away it was a more happier and funnier atmosphere as they just witness 2 men runaway.Then when Felicia is kicked out the hotel room that's was funny too as the lighting was very bright and clear.So this made it a more easier too laugh.Also the costumes had effect on the audience that the nwa members were dark as they had many black clothing on so it seems they were on the dark side sometimes knows as evil.However we were still as a audience we were on their side and we wanted them to escape alive.This connotes that the members are normal with what happened as they just pointed specialised guns in a five start hotel for a innocent man looking for his girlfriend.The way they laugh in their facial expression and connect their knuckles towards shows this is normal for them but this is not normal for an average person.

This scene represents a lot of things and people but mostly African american men as there's many stereotypes on them.Some are thugs,drug dealers,disrespecting women etc and you can see all of this in this scene.As the NWA use the word "nigga" so calmly as for some watching it may be disrespectful and a bit too much.They also call women bitch and use graphic words as some say they  don't have any filter as Eazy E said "shes dealing with some real nigga dick" and "she got dick in her mouth nigga".The thing is this representation is very good and some would say accurate as NWA were gangsta rappers and Eazy was a drug dealer and a gang banger so it was only right he had those lines so it was perfect for him but some like ice cube couldn't have said as it wouldn't be realistic as he wasn't any of those thing Eazy e was.But we need to understand it was a real urban drama movie and so most of the target audience were mostly at young black males who understand what they going through.This also links to the gender and ethnicity theory as the theory says female are seen as others in the movie and not the main thing.This is a great example as the women in the scene are just their to satisfy the rap stars and if they misbehave they can just get kicked out and the audience and the characters find that funny.

Another scene i will be analysing is a scene that stunned the audience in the cinema and on social networking.The scene started with Ice Cube on the school bus getting taken home with his class mates.Ice Cube is minding his business trying to write some raps as its the beginning of the film and Ice Cube still hasn't joined NWA group and it still hasn't been created.So the school bus is on the highway when some students,not including Ice Cube, Start throwing up gangs signs at the car next to them as the passenger and driver were wearing he colour red as for bloods.It went on for about a minute as the school kids started laughing and found it funny the men in the car stopped their car in front of the bus.The bus stop and they all get out,they "stop the bus and open the god dam door" the bus driver sees they have a gun so he opens the door.The main guy who as in the car says to the kids what you thinking you funny lil nigga" the young man says "i was only playing man please" the gang member starts swinging his gun around and says "you think this a game" he starts giving them a speech about how they should stay in school and he whispers in the boys ear "I eat cripes for breakfast,Crenshaw mafia nigger".

This scene is really dramatic to some viewers are not used to this as gang members invade a school bus and start threatening students with their guns and none saw it,police were never called.This is reinforces the black negative stereotype and representions as they are heartless and thugs who don't care about who they kill.This scene connotes to the audiences that gang banging was serious in those days in Compton as nearly every street was owned by a rival gang.As this represents the men in a bad light as they all look around 20's and late teens and so its daytime on school day.It looks that they don't go to school or work they are just gang banging or selling drugs.Also the fact that it was a scene taking place in daylight really makes it more thrilling as it this is the sort of scene that happens  at night but none those Compton where anything can happened as a bunch of thugs invade a school bus and threaten them with guns.If this happened in any other neighbourhood in America this would have been reported or police would have been called to the scene.

Same again with their speech as they use the word "Nigga" some say the word used to be offensive but know that black people use it as to say my brother or friends so they turn a negative to a positive.The scene has a enigma code as there can be money solutions to the scene as either the children get shot or the men get arrested or they all leave so the audience wants to know what happens next.The is also a great example of todrovs theory as the scene has a state of equilibrium (all is as it should be) A disruption of that order by an event,that's the men coming on threatening he kids.Then A recognition that the disorder has occurred.Then an attempt to repair the damage of the disruption. Then a return or restoration of a new equilibrium.