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08-13-2015, 04:00 PM
We have Ice Cube’s 1995 classic, Friday, to thank for the very useful phrase “Bye, Felicia”: In the movie, his character gets rid of a freeloading neighbor with this curt, simple phrase. Bye, Felicia. More recently, the phrase has found new life as the most satisfying way to dismiss Twitter trolls. “Bye, Felicia” is a diss. The ultimate shutdown. You say it to people who annoy you, who’ve insulted you, who’ve dared to disturb your airspace with their existence. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsKAc_3InM)
This week is the perfect time to consider the origins of #ByeFelicia, since the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton opens in theaters. The movie is essentially N.W.A.’s creation story, as well as a hero’s tale for both Ice Cube and Dr. Dre; it’s packed with retellings and reexaminations of crucial moments in the rap group’s history. We see Eazy-E drop that iconic first line of “Boyz-N-the Hood”; we see Dr. Dre and Snoop writing “Nuthin But a ‘G’ Thang”; we see the incident of brutality that inspired Ice Cube to pen “Fuck Tha Police.”
And, because no Ice Cube origin story could leave out “Bye, Felicia,” the movie provides a fictionalized version of the moment that phrase was first uttered.
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This week is the perfect time to consider the origins of #ByeFelicia, since the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton opens in theaters. The movie is essentially N.W.A.’s creation story, as well as a hero’s tale for both Ice Cube and Dr. Dre; it’s packed with retellings and reexaminations of crucial moments in the rap group’s history. We see Eazy-E drop that iconic first line of “Boyz-N-the Hood”; we see Dr. Dre and Snoop writing “Nuthin But a ‘G’ Thang”; we see the incident of brutality that inspired Ice Cube to pen “Fuck Tha Police.”
And, because no Ice Cube origin story could leave out “Bye, Felicia,” the movie provides a fictionalized version of the moment that phrase was first uttered.
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