In the 1990's the definition of Hip-Hop began to change from being about life and struggles in the ghetto to violence and being flash, many Hip-Hop artists made it big at this time people such as NWA, Tupac and Snoop Dog. The video's promoted a gangster lifestyle and were full of drug use in the video and the lyrics, thwe videos would be full of flash cars, flash house and women the songs would boast about their lives and how they got to were they are today often through the use of violence. This was around the time that music video's got the budget of motion pictures and history repeated it self with less focus being on the lyrical content more so on the video.
In the Example NWA "Always into somethin'"we see many examples of how it goes along with the trends at the time at the start we see a shotgun and then them robbing a liquor store, we also see gang culture as lots of black guys are together in warehouse surrounded by guns and flash cars. Throughout the video there is constant use of guns and violence.
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