CPO Ballad Of A Menace

CPO Ballad Of A Menace. Capital Punishment Organization was a hip hop group known for its gangsta rap. So, let’s get into their most popular song.

A Gangsta Rap Ballad

CPO Ballad Of A Menace. In 1990, CPO released their only studio album To Hell and Black.

Of course, this Compton based group bares similarities to N.W.A.

Naturally, this hit single is produced by MC Ren of N.W.A who also helped pen the lyrics.

At the time, gangsta rap was at the top of the hip hop food chain.

Certainly, N.W.A deserves a great deal of credit for popularizing the genre.

Unsurprisingly, CPOs Ballad Of  A Menace lets off some pretty intense lyrics. Especially considering it’s the early nineties.

So, here’s what the lyrics say. The intro begins with MC Ren talking his talk.

“Kick that beat in Renz. Aww yeah.
We gone get busy one time for the motherfucking bitches out there in Compton. To this slow, slow, slow-ass beat. We got my man Chip in the house. My man Young D, my man Donovan. And I am the incredible MC Ren and my man Lil Nation’s gonna do it something like this.”

Verse One And Chorus

CPO member Lil Nation holds down the first verse. Here’s an excerpt of those lyrics:

“This is the ballad of a menace. Not to be confused with that of a grimace. I’m in this to be number one when I step upon and walk the streets. Stalk the meat like that of a predator, blow the brains out the head of my competitors. I’m a product of your sins, though you say I never heard of ya. A killer, a dope dealer, gangster murderer. Merciless maniac, monical manipulation, primary focus of your local police station. I roll coal in my ‘lac doing a jack move. As I groove, the gangsta melody.”

Also, MC Ren holds down the second verse. Second verse excerpt:

“This is a ballad of a menace, Ren will finish and diminish. All the suckers that thought they could flow like me that was in this. Society wishes for my death or my downfall, but they playing theyself as if they playing some roundball. ‘Cause I’m terrorizing the territory I’m stepping on, endangering citizens while I’m keepin’ my weapon on. My like a psycho, ’cause to me it was fittable I just got word, the Ruthless Villain was critical. Let’s get it straight, the ones that want some can come with that. Illiterate motherfuckers, I make you look dumb with that. Stumble and fumble ’cause I’ma crush ’til you crumble. So you can stutter and stutter, but keep it down to a mumble.”

Obviously, the message here is quite cut and dry.

Gangsta rappers of yesterday expressed their feelings about police brutality, their unfortunate upbringings and the menacing actions they took to survive.

Importantly, the hit single crossed over into the  next generation. Thus, Grand Theft Auto V video game featured the hit single in 2013.

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