HBO's "Rebels," in Norman Mailer's words, is that niggas and white niggas (black-haired Italian-Americans) live out the American dream. Among them, the narrative line of Dr. Dre, the soul of NWA, runs through the whole West Coast gang rap. The style difference between the East and West coasts is like Andy Warhol commenting on "California Dream" - you greet him, he nods and smiles at you ; you give him a frown and he shoots you - and the white nigger Jimmy (a Martin Scorsese-esque mean-street name) talented sound engineer/producer has ruled the hottest record from the 80s onwards Pop/rock albums, from John Lennon to U2 to Lady Gaga, his philosophy of success is not living a 9-to-5 life, but devoting at least 16 hours a day to obsessing over the "job" he loves. Two narrative lines crossed, and by the end of the nineties a parallel montage of street violence with Nine Inch Nails and "Bad Lies" and Marilyn Manson's "Pretty" rapped for gangsters, Dr. Dre's Big Dream has Awake, focusing on music, he discovered Eminem, and Jimmy teamed up with two geniuses to create a $3 billion super contract with Apple. At the end of the documentary, Dr.Dre returned to the Los Angeles slum in Compton to set up a school and run a school. A whole rush out of Compton story. Vonnegut would design him a meaningful ending: "Nigger, look at that white guy who made $2 million drawing two light tubes, don't put on this 'I love art' badge, it'll make you Become knowledgeable!"
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