| Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It | |
| Cover: | Ice Cube Gangsta Rap Made me do it cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Ice Cube |
| Album: | Raw Footage |
| Released: | January 3, 2008 |
| Recorded: | 2007 |
| Genre: | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop, political hip hop, comedy hip hop |
| Length: | 4:45 |
| Producer: | Vaushaun "Maestro" Brooks |
"Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" is the first single from Ice Cube's studio album, Raw Footage. It was released with a music video directed by Jonathan Silver. In the song, Ice Cube comments on the exploitation of gangsta rap as a scapegoat for society's problems.
A remix to the song was made featuring Nas and Scarface. It is featured on the soundtrack to the video game .
The video was directed by Jonathan Silver and[1] begins in a classroom set in the year 2020 (12 years after the song's release). A teacher wearing a uniform, flanked by two American flags, condemns gangsta rap for the vices of society, rape, murder, etcetera. When a child asks if Compton was dangerous before the emergence of gangsta rap, the teacher yells, "Wrong! Compton was a nature preserve for bunny rabbits! When gangsta rap came along they tore down the country clubs and put up housing projects!" The room darkens and Ice Cube's face is projected on a screen smoking a cigar, rapping that gangsta rap is allegedly the root of all crimes. Several video clips of actual shootings in the U.S. and Iraq are shown, as well as the Virginia Tech Massacre including the infamous image of Seung-Hui Cho pointing a gun at the aforementioned massacre. It also features footage of the Michael Richards Laugh Factory incident (during the lyric "If I call you a nigga"), Don Imus ("If I call you a nappy-headed ho") and Chris Benoit (referring to the Benoit murder/suicide). The video features cameo appearances by WC and DJ Crazy Toones.