T he following conference call interview was conducted April 5, with KALX DJ Davey D in San Francisco, BAM editor Keith Moerer in Oakland, and NWA rappers Eazy E and Ice Cube in a Torrance studio. NWA's first album, Straight Outta Compton , has sold 700,000 copies and generated almost as much controversy as public support. OK, it's like this. If you see a movie like Psycho III , the person in the movie might be psycho, But kids know what's real and what's not. Just because they hear something on record, we don't expect kids to go out and kill people or whatever.
Kids know what's right and what's wrong, regardless what our record says.
With Psycho III, that's not a reality that a lot of people come across. It's something they can gravitate toward, or see themselves getting into. There wasn't no real message in Colors except that there's gangs out the and there's no way to stop them, We're saying the same thing, but we saying it on wax. We got a responsibility to the kids to tell the truth. That wasn't our tip in the beginning, and its not going to be our tip in the future.