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he was the son of the original nwa member.t that brings you to town. very important event. >> i mean, you know, just telling it like it is, you know, music is here to stay. it ain't going nowhere. and to me, music has no color. it's just music. i don't care what it is. ballet, opera, it's just -- i just love music. [ laughter ] >> and freedom of expression. >> yeah. >> that's what we're talking about. >> oh yeah. >> take us back to the day when nwa first came out versus now. freedom of expression we're seeing all these protests. seeing voices, resist has become a big hash tag. what do you think about the state of the freedom of speech and expression today? >> to me it's getting -- it's getting well known. back then when they put the stickers on the albums, what is this? we couldn't say. now it's startling to be a little open i guess it's social media. >> now it's on every album. >> exactly. >> of rap album seems to have that explicit lyrics. >> we were the first. >> the pioneers, yeah. >> yeah. >> wow. it's just -- i don't kno

area. >> nwa gave us the gritty, grimy gang-banging streets of compton.chicken, never any by-products or fillers. purely natural tastes rely fcyea. ♪ i want my mtv >>> you can talk about videos, but in the '80s the actual sound of what popular music was and what was accepted as a sound, a drum sound or keyboard sound or bass line sound changed profoundly over the course of the decade. ♪ she drives me crazy ♪ like no one else ♪ she drives me crazy ♪ and i can't help myself >> coming to the end of the '80s was like watching a kaleidoscope. you open it up and you see a little bit of everything. ♪ the love shack is a little old place where we can get together ♪ >> it was the time when everybody was getting involved and everybody was expressing themselves loudly. we are having the best time ever. ♪ never gonna give you up ♪ never gonna let you down ♪ never gonna run around and desert you ♪ >> every audience needs to get fed. you know, we'd fed the pop audience. but where's the rock and roll? ♪ oh, we're halfway there ♪ oh, living on a prayer ♪ take my hand ♪ w

. >> reporter: with anthems from nwa, iced t's provocative protest record, cop killer.also sent a warning to the suburbs about what was happening in places like compton and s central. ground zero for the rye yolts. the jury in the rd knee king case delivered its verdict. >> not guilty the verdict for all of them. >> i would say at least 1,000 people here now. >> violence that has been done in south central, los angeles. >> fires like this one were so common not only did the fire department not show up but they were almost unnoticed by passers-by. >> the riots fanned the flames of hip-hop and shifted epicenter of rap music from east coast to the west side. gangster rap and g funk were born. gangster rap lyrics and rhymes were the sound track of inner city life. slow, hypnotic hip-hop was being created by artists, snoop dogg, tupac and dr. dre. ♪ me and my homey snoop dogg like this and that ♪ ♪ look that and this like that >> his al come, the chronic, changed rap forever. critical, commercial hilt. released months after the riots. features live recordings of the riots. t

. ♪ the police straight from the underground ♪ >> reporter: nwa, iced tea years before the l.a.the grim reality of life here. tracks about racial tension, the crack epidemic, gang warfare, shocked the establishment. ♪ they had the authority to kill a minority ♪ >> reporter: with anthems from nwa, iced t's provocative protest record, cop killer. they also sent a warning to the suburbs about what was happening in places like compton and south central. ground zero for the riots. then l.a. exploded. >> the jury in the rodney king case delivered its verdict. >> not guilty the verdict for all of them. >> i would say at least 1,000 people here now. >> violence that has been done in south central, los angeles. >> fires like this one were so common not only did the fire department not show up but they were almost unnoticed by passers-by. >> reporter: the riots fanned the flames of hip-hop and shifted the epicenter of rap music from east coast to west side. gangster rap and g funk were born. gangster rap lyrics and rhymes were the sound track of inner city life. slow, hypnotic hip-hop was

somehow, we would be listen -- nwa made it into our world somehow.oys. >> when did you get your first guitar, do you jeb. >> the summer i turned 14. >> taught yourself? >> yeah, i taught myself. i taught myself chords. i mean, i had a piano in my room. i'd learn a few chords on piano. at that point, i realized i'm going to be a horrible athlete. i recognized that and got a little band together and i would play guitar. >> reporter: after high school, luke was ready to take that guitar to nashville, but with his bags packed tragedy struck the bryan family. luke's older brother christmased away in a car accident. >> when christmased away i was 19 years old and chasing my dream. it just totally rocked our family's world, rocked my world. >> did you feel like you had to grow up pretty quickly when that happened? >> it makes you appreciate chasing dreams. you're like, hey, you get one go-around at this thing called life so it's very fragile and you better go after your dreams. >> bryan put his nashville dream on hold, heading off to college at georgia sout

staff just need something else to do, we will have a program on louder than words with bj yellow of nwa and louis e ce, asked later if you don't understand what i'm saying come to explore how rap in particular has affected free expression from compton to d.c. in the last year with held more than 50 public programs to explore critical first amendment issues. just this past week and members of the asian american band aslant were here to discuss the landmark supreme court case against the u.s. patent and trademark office over their bands name. a quick update, in case you are not follow it, the band is suing the office over its failure to allow the name to be trademarked because it may disparage people. we will wait to see how the case is decided, but the case has already given the band a great name for its third album, the band who must not be named. [laughing] harry potter reference for the millennials, under control. the new zine institutes religious freedom center has brought together scores of religious and civic leaders to help them navigate the intersection of religious and public li