Born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, Eminem is a Grammy-winning Detroit rapper. (Photo : Reuters)
"Straight Outta Compton" actor O'Shea Jackson Jr.'s father Ice Cube recently claimed that Detroit rapper Eminem and the Comedy Central animated adult series are part of the legacy of N.W.A.
Ice Cube said during the NME Twitter Q&A on Aug. 20, "We just wanted to be ourselves. That opened up a door for artists like Eminem, for people to produce things like 'South Park,' where it's raw and edgy."
According to Ice Cube, N.W.A. made it okay for artists to be themselves and they let the world know that "you can be just as famous doing it hard and rough and taboo and dirty, and all the stuff they call our music and our art."
Created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, "South Park" is known for satirizing various topics through its dark, surreal humor and crude language. It is the third longest-running animated series in the United States next to "The Simpsons" and "Arthur."
Kenny McCormick, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and Eric Cartman are set to return to "South Park" season 19 episode 1, which will air on Sept. 19.
Meanwhile, Eminem was declared the hip hop artist with the largest vocabulary in the music industry, according to Varun Jewalikar and Nishant Verma's report, which was put together for the lyrics site Musixmatch.
Following Eminem in the list of the hip hop artists with the largest vocabulary in the music industry are Jay-Z, the late Tupak Shakur, Kanye West and The Black Eyed Peas.
Shakur was briefly featured in the N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton." He was played by a lookalike named Marcc Rose, who recently told Yahoo! Movies that he and "2 Fast 2 Furious" director John Singleton are "trying to brainstorm and form together a proper biopic" for the late rapper.
