Ice Cube laments about the fact that his hardcore gangsta rap won’t played on the radio alongside dance-friendly pop and R&B hits. However, Cube is unapologetic about the fact that he refuses to water down his music for mass appeal.

Cube provided background information on the track:

We was just fed up, because we wasn’t gettin’ no love on the radio. It ain’t like how it is now, they wasn’t playing no kinds of records with no kind of gangsta nothin’. It wasn’t until The Chronic that the mainstream media decided to jump on the bandwagon. MTV helped hip-hop more than radio did back then. But there’s always been a tug-of-war with artists and radio. We [N.W.A] never figured we’d get on MTV because at the time they was playin’ [Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s] “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” We never thought much about MTV either way. But radio could play us, and they were still our biggest nemesis in 1990. Then one day they started playing The Chronic and that made it better for what’s called Gangsta Rap. Before then [pauses, exhales], nothin’.