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the police was doin'

those dudes real bad.

[male TV reporter] The 362 page

report was unsealed this morning,

presenting what one

high-ranking official said

was an ugly picture

of his own department.

[police commander] What the

report clearly says to us

as the leaders of the

Los Angeles Police Department

is mediocrity is alive and well.

[Ice T] L.A.P.D. is

a totally different type

of police force

than any other.

And when they come out of those

cars, they're on a mission.

They're never coming

out that car

to talk to you,

to be nice.

I got a bunch of stories.

They always used to whoop on us.

You could be, um,

in your white shorts,

and that motherf***er be like,

"Lay on the ground."

Then they'd pat you down,

let you go,

your clean white pants

are now brown and black.

Guy rolls off

like it never happened.

I got arrested,

uh, for some warrants,

and on the way to the station,

I got a beatdown.

I mean, straight up beat.

Boom!

[British reporter] If they're

acquitted, there'll be an outcry,

a lasting fear and mistrust

of the law in L.A.

I don't think Rodney King's

beating was a big deal

to anybody who was

from anywhere in the streets.

That was just another nigga

got his ass whooped,

except on camera.

I have no complaints

about my police officers.

I watched them, I was there

on the streets for 36 hours.

And I watched them time

and time and time again.

Now, there's lots of ways

you could deal with this.

You could be mad at the police.

Call them out,

talk sh*t about it.

But at the end of the day

all we was saying is,

"We just want a fair shot."

[George H. W. Bush]

What we saw last night

and the night before

in Los Angeles,

is not about civil rights.

It's not about

the great cause of equality

that all Americans must uphold.

It's not a message of protest.

It's been the brutality

of a mob, pure and simple.

That affected my lyrics on Dr.

Dre's album, The Chronic.

Naturally the music is going to

depict what we're livin' like.

The lifestyle of the music

is the lifestyle of the person.

Eased rap,

stories that are relative.

Yeah, there's gonna be

some anger in some of it,

'cause the anger

never dissipates

until it has clarity

of education.

It's commentary. We were

speaking, not just to us,

we were speaking

to the world.

What do you think the reason

people were so into the album?

Why do you think?

'Cause, you know, it's just

some funky sh*t, you know.

There's nothing out right now

that can compare to that album.

You know, I spent a whole

year working on it.

This is the longest I ever

spent workin' on a project.

And, um...

it definitely deserves...

deserves everything

it's gettin' right now.

You know,

'cause its a good album.

You know, people want

to hear some good sh*t.

[Kurupt] Dr. Dre took

a chance on all of us,

and it paid off in many ways,

not just financially,

just being a part

of hip-hop history

by puttin' entities in the game

that helped change the game.

Never play

your life like...

This is a song I composed.

When I first made it,

I took it home,

and I played it for my mama.

[man] And I'd like to

play it, and here it go.

And, uh,

when I played it...

She looked at me and said, "Boy, I know

you're not gonna sing another song."

- Yeah.

- Chronic, baby!

Check it out!

My Chronic on

Your motherfuckin' ass

With my naked dance

Yo, just

sing just like that...

When I went to the earlier sessions

before the Suge influence,

they were havin',

like, a party, man.

They were...

they were like a family.

And we sittin' here

with Dr. Dre right here.

Gin and juice.

[funk music playing]

[The D.O.C.] Nobody was

thinkin' about money,

which is why

the music came out great.

Dre, he's not greedy at all.

He's probably the most

nonchalant with money

and with the business

part of it,

because he's not sittin' here

going, "What can I get?"

He's like, "What can I create?"

- [plays chord]

- Dee dah dah

[laughs]

[glissando]

Suge took over.

It was a different vibe there.

It was a little more intense.

[Kurupt] And Suge was the CEO.

He ran the whole ball game.

You know what I'm saying?

He ran Death Row.

Dr. Dre just gave us the lane

to do what we loved to do.

We loved to make music

and work and all that.

And Suge made sure

we had that lane

and made sure

that lane was clean.

[The D.O.C.]

Suge didn't do sh*t musically.

Suge wouldn't know

a hit record

if you took

a Parliament Funkadelic album

and slapped him

in the face with it.

But he helped

facilitate the deals

that put us in a place

to be able to do sh*t.

And then

once we started doing sh*t

then he started going and making

back door deals by himself.

He started to bring in people

that he termed as "security."

[Too Short] Suge had all these,

like, gang-banger kinda cats

all over the place,

and then you'd come in the door

and like, "You got a gun on you?"

and if you did,

they were like,

"Can you just check it

right here at the front desk?"

so they'd open up the drawer,

and there'd be like

20 guns in the f***in' drawer.

You're like, "Man,

where the f*** am I at?"

[Warren G] At that time, we was right in

the middle of doin' a lot of good music,

and we was creatin'

some dope records.

Things was movin'

in the right direction,

so there was a tour

for The Chronic.

I was charged up,

'cause I'm like,

"Sh*t, I'm gettin' ready

to go on tour."

And, uh... packed up clothes,

everything, and, uh...

got up to the airport,

and everybody

had a ticket but me.

My best friend, my brother,

everybody out havin' fun,

and I'm sittin' up here

just tore up.

Warren G was a part

of The Chronic album, too.

Don't get it f***ed up.

He brought a lot music

and, you know, ideas and,

you know, sh*t to the table,

skits and this and that.

It made me feel like, you know,

"Motherfuckers

don't even give a f***."

You know what I'm sayin'?

It's like,

"Damn, I thought I was...

really tight, you know,

with... in the... in the family."

And it was f***ed up, man,

it was real f***ed up,

'cause it was like

you could just see

the frustration in his face.

And it was like it was hard

for him to deal with it.

It was real hard

to deal with it.

[Warren G] It was a very,

very devastating situation.

Just me not being able to go

and be a part of the people

who I was down with,

you know, with 110%.

Warren G was never signed

to Death Row records.

And they did it

so scandalous to where

they didn't present

him a contract.

Nate didn't sign, either,

but he was so tight,

Dr. Dre couldn't do a record

without Nate.

In my hand,

it says "all access."

I got it goin' on here.

[Kurupt]

Suge was f***in' with Warren.

He was treatin' Warren funny.

It was real

f***ed up because...

I'm not sayin' that Dre knew,

but I felt like

he could've made it happen.

We're here live

in the house.

[Snoop Dogg] And then one day they

called me up to another floor,

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