Gangsta rap hits L.A.
LA WEEKLY — BY JONATHAN GOLD
Published · reached Usenet December 17, 2003
Gangsta rap hits L.A. by Jonathan Gold
"There is a moment, an August morning in 1988, a specific moment on a sunny, smoggy day in central Hollywood among the reek of stale office coffee and a scattering of battered chairs. A water cooler. Gold records on the walls. California Raisins action figures twisted into an unlikely raisin Kamasutra. Fifteen bored men slumped in those chairs: pluggers, jocks, marketers, flacks ‹ record men."