NEWS 2020/04/21
There are plenty of anthems designated to our city of Los Angeles. There are many stories that use this city as the setting. So many dreams sought after, attained and broken here. In a city so full of diversity, potential, pain and progress there really is only one soundtrack when it comes to my generation and Los Angeles… Dr. Dre’s The Chronic. This album served as the magnum opus for the underserved and an exciting insight into adversity that everyone on the outside wondered about. Not only this, but it actualised the struggle we had just seen only eight months prior, which manifested itself in the LA riots. Culturally it was everything we needed and – for the first time in my cognisant history – it was reaching beyond our culture of lil ghetto boys and girls all the way...