Monday, June 4, 2018

How you yourself can relate to the music of DOA.

This news article on music will be about DOA and how you as a listener can relate to their music. If you are politically conscience or have a good mind, then you can relate to DOA.

DOA (Dead On Arrival) was a rap group from Flint, Michigan that could rap on issues that effected American society on a political level. DOA had messages in their music unlike most music today. DOA (Dead On Arrival) was a rap group from the 1990s.


On the songs My City's Going Down Part 1 and My City's Going Down Part 2, DOA was trying to tell the powers that be (politicians) in Flint that they needed to fix the city before in went into de-industrialized urbanization. The city needed to fix the poverty, homelessness, recidivism, and education systems. But the politicians were too corrupt to actually give a fuck about the rest of the citizens of Flint. Flint does have the same homelessness problems and housing issues as well. That's the reason shit is the way it is right now currently. Flint's economy was going down in 1994 and has been since 1987. It all started with the downsizing and outsourcing of GM in 1987.

Peep some of the lyrics that 6 Feet Deep rapped on DOA - My City's Gong Down Part 1 from the Problem Child album.:
nothing to fall on
my city is all gone
the danger’s on
but still the place that I call home

Peep some of the lyrics that 6 Feet Deep rapped on My City's Gong Down Part 2 from the Marked For Death album.:
Rich or poor
Fuck American
we all niggaz
in a city where we can't find justice
in a world where the laws like fuck us


On Survival, Loc Da Smoka went straight up Reggae with mad flowz. Survival was all about survival and taking out all rivals, ya dig? DOA had felt that the whole world was against them and DOA had felt it was them against the world.In other words man vs. nature.

For those who don't know and like to instigate shit, listen up! DOA weren't actual killers. Not everything DOA rapped about was real. DOA was the deadliest rap group in Flint at the time back in 1994.

Loc Da Smoka verses were all about survival and taking out all rivals. On his other verse, he also lyrically dissed The Dayton Family because at the time DOA had felt it was them against the world when came to being the better rap group in Flint at that time.

The reason you hear references to Nutty Niggaz and Fantasy is because The Dayton Family had a song called Nutty Niggaz from the What’s On My Mind? album and a song called Fantasy in 1994 on their Dope Dayton Ave. cassette which was very popular in the Flint underground scene.


Sick ass intro on the Marked For Death tape! 6 Feet though of the idea to add Cristo Redentor by Donald Byrd for a sample. At the time, 6 Feet also gave the thought of being an upcoming producer in the Deep Thought Productions crew. The samples from Alien used were the shit! The intro just should have been longer.

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