Dynamite Hack-＂Boyz In The Hood＂_ SEMI-OFFICIAL VIDEO - Dynamite Hack-＂Boyz In The Hood＂_ SEMI-OFFICIAL VIDEO

What this video is

Released in spring 2000 as the lead single from Dynamite Hack's album Superfast (Woppitzer/Universal), 'Boyz In The Hood' is an acoustic cover of Eazy-E's 1987 gangsta rap classic, performed by a four-piece Austin, Texas post-grunge band. The single peaked at #12 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and became a defining cultural artifact of the turn-of-millennium alternative radio moment — a period…

Why it matters

A foundational artifact of the acoustic-rap-cover microgenre, 'Boyz In The Hood' by Dynamite Hack established the formula — soft instrumentation, explicit lyrics, parodic white identity framing — that would be replicated across two decades of similar covers. It represents the peak of alternative…

The director

American director of music videos and commercials. Studied advertising design at Syracuse University and Saint Martin's School of Art and Design in London. Launched career as 'cruise director' on the 1994 Lollapalooza tour, where he befriended the Beastie…