Los Angeles riots: Gangsta rap foretold them and grew after them

That problem, which "Twilight" memorably illuminated, was the smoldering ethnic and social tensions that blew up in a fireball of rage in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. For performing artists in the two decades since the riots there has been a parallelThe match that started the 1992 LA Riots was struck when a videotape showcasing the brutal beating of African American motorist Rodney King by five police officers was released to the public. It lit the fuse on the bomb when a near

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