Appetite for Destruction (song)

"Appetite for Destruction" is a song by American hip hop group N.W.A. The song is the second single from their final studio album Niggaz4Life. The song also appeared on The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge. The music video featured members of N.W.A robbing a bank in a 1920s setting. After they rob the bank, the video returns to color and a modern setting. In the last scene, when the other members of N.W.A attempt to get away in a car, Eazy-E blows the car up killing the other members thus ending the song with the line, "Number 10 is my appetite to kill".

"Appetite for Destruction"
Single by N.W.A
from the album Niggaz4Life
ReleasedMay 18, 1991
Genre
Length3:22
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N.W.A singles chronology
"Alwayz into Somethin'"
(1991)		 "Appetite for Destruction"
(1991)		 "The Dayz of Wayback"
(1991)

An extended version of the song for the music video also appeared on the home video Niggaz4Life: The Only Home Video released in 1992.

The song was named after the debut album of hard rock band Guns N’ Roses, whom N.W.A had befriended and nearly toured with.[2][3]

  • The song is featured in the movie, "Fast 9" starting at 42 minutes, 14 seconds during a flashback scene showing Dom being released from prison and going to a street race to confront Jacob.

References
  1. Mickey Hess (2007). Icons of hip hop : an encyclopedia of the movement, music, and ..., Volume 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313339042. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  2. GNR NWA
  3. nwa2
  4. Martin, Matt (November 18, 2014). "Here's all 162 new songs in the refreshed GTA 5 soundtrack". VG247. Retrieved September 6, 2016.


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