Rapping NWA’s Vision of the Inner City

Dennis Hunt, in his March 19 Record Rack item, suggests that N.W.A.’s rap songs reveal the grimness of inner-city life without “prissy moralizing” and that N.W.A.’s contempt for the black woman cannot be abhorred because inner-city life has to be judged by a different set of rules.

I am disgusted by this patronizing attitude.

Maybe Mr. Hunt ought to buy KRS-1’s “Self Destruction” and listen to the “prissy moralizing” of young rappers agonizing over the senseless violence afflicting inner-city communities across the nation and then pass this information on to Easy-E and the rest of N.W.A.

JERVEY TERVALON

Pasadena