Los Angeles wasn’t on fire yet when The Low End Theory was being made or when it was released. But it would be on fire by the time the songs were playing in heavy rotation all across America. What had already begun, though, were all of the replays of Rodney King’s beating, his legs twitching on the ground with each strike of the baton. The constant replaying of the footage was laying a new groundwork for rage in communities miles away.
