GANGSTA RAP, THE CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO (1/5) — On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of “The Chronic”, by Dr Dre, a look back at the advent of gangsta rap and the tumultuous journey of the Los Angeles producer, troublemaker from the ghetto turned music mogul. First part in 1992, the day when the riots ravaged the City of Angels.
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As often, spring feels like summer. The Los Angeles sky is washed out on April 29, 1992, at 3:15 p.m., when news hits the airwaves like wildfire. The animators interrupt the songs to echo the sentence : “In the Rodney King trial, the verdict is: NOT GUILTY! » Exiled to Simi Valley, a predominantly white residential suburb, the court acquitted the police officers who, a year earlier, beat Rodney King with demented violence. An amateur videographer filmed them. Long before the age of social media, images circled the globe and set black America ablaze. The verdict is an electric shock. At the doors of the courtroom, the trial ends in tumult and cries. In the historic center of Los Angeles, administrative buildings are stormed by a raging mob. Anger explodes with such force in the black neighborhood of South Central that the police are quickly ordered to abandon their positions. Violence has no more dikes: looting, looting, lynching, murder, fires… The rage of a population turns against a city that mistreated it. A veil of smoke extends to the hills of Hollywood, the inhabitants flee, the traffic jams take an apocalyptic turn. In three days, before the intervention of the army, there will be more than fifty dead and thousands of wounded.
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