When analyzing the themes of police brutality, poverty, and gang activities in the videos, we can see the NWA and Kendrick Lamar demonstrate the frustration specifically towards politics and police brutality amongst people of color. Both Kendrick and the artists of NWA lived in Compton and experienced this systematic racism. While NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” is an uncompromising view of life as a black man in the streets of LA, delivered through lyrical aggression and dark humor toward the themes of police brutality and poverty. Kendrick song portrays the same attitudes towards the themes of racism, but the message is different in that Kendrick says it is gang violence trying to silence outrage against oppression, while not acknowledging the fact that gang violence is a product of the same racist oppression. One can see the conflict in these two points of view, but I will argue that NWA’s retaliation approach showed the collectivized anger towards racism in many cities around the country, this mindset allowed for future generations, Kendrick Lamer, to realize the negative impacts of combating racism in the community, that there could be a better, less violent way to end the systematic racial oppression in America as shown in the video. This is similar to the opposing mindsets of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, years before NWA became a group.