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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: SkinnyBenny on May 07, 2012, 02:31:59 AM
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Anybody watch this? :eek: :eek: :eek:
Full video is here (http://www.vh1.com/video/vh1-rock-docs/full-episodes/uprising-hip-hop-and-the-la-riots/1684192/playlist.jhtml). A great way to kill an hour if you feel like watching some crazy crap.
I was too young to remember anything from it really but my heart goes out to goEMAW user SchemeDoctor who is straight outta Compton.
Hey. Question. Would you riot if you could get away with it? I probably would.
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Set the DVR, thanks skins
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No prob.
Yeah if you guys would rather watch it on a TV than a tiny little computer screen, here are the replay times.
Upcoming Airings
Rating:
Monday, May 07
4:00 PM ET/PT on VH1
Saturday, May 12
10:00 PM ET/PT on VH1
Sunday, May 13
10:00 AM ET/PT on VH1
Tuesday, May 15
2:30 PM ET/PT on VH1
If you don't watch it for the awesome footage of early '90s gangsta rap, watch it for the incredible 15-second interview they do with the looter who drove up from San Diego. I mean I just don't even.
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I was only 5-6 when all that happened. Thanks for the heads up Ski Be
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Oh and to answer the question. I would riot if I could get away with it. I couldn't do it casually though, it was for something I care a lot about, hell yes I'd be there. If people were rioting over something I didn't care about I don't THINK I'd go join for fun though. :dunno:
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#burnitdown
#teamHorns
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i remember once when i was cruising around aol and looked at some dude from LA's profile, and in the "computer" part he put 'da one i stole in da riots'.
i still say that line 15+ years later.
i was around 10 when the whole thing went down though, and remember wondering wtf was wrong with the jury that found the cops not guilty, and then the riots looked super scary.
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Learned a shitload about the riots from watching this documentary and then even more additional stuff from wikipedia-ing it.
Couple things:
1. Had no idea that on that fateful night Rodney King had been leading police on a high-speed chase while being pretty pak'd. Always just thought it was a speeding ticket or something miniscule. Also had no idea that he'd had so much trouble with the law before and afterward. Arrested something like 11 times! Still didn't deserve the incredibly brutal treatment from :opcat: cops. I honestly cannot rough ridin' believe those cops got off.
2. Not all those cops got off in subsequent civil trials and Justice Department probes! Some got at least a little punishment, though clearly not as much as they deserved.
3. Didn't know there was such a race war between Blacks and Koreans during the riot. I mean......that footage of them having Old West-style gunfights in the parking lot of a jewelry store?!?!? INSANE! Didn't realize the basis of that hostility was this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latasha_Harlins) horrifying incident right around the time that the Rodney King stuff was ALSO going down. Man. I would've rioted too.
4. Didn't know Ice-T's "Bodycount" group that released the song Cop Killa was essentially a punk band! Wasn't old enough to listen to that music at the time and had no idea he had crossed over genres. Weird. :sdeek:
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body count played at the outhouse in lawrentucky, I may or may not have been in attendance
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body count played at the outhouse in lawrentucky, I may or may not have been in attendance
:surprised:
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Finally finished this today. LOL with and congrats to Snoop Dogg on making this a Death Row vanity project.