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Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American gangsta rap group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton in early 1987.
Aug 8, 2023 · Released on August 8, 1988, N.W.A.'s explosive debut album Straight Outta Compton remains one of the most powerful protest records ever.
- Paul Brannigan
"Straight Outta Compton" is a song by American hip hop group N.W.A. It was released on July 10, 1988 as the lead single from their debut album of the same name. It also appears on N.W.A's Greatest Hits with an extended mix and The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge.
Jul 26, 2018 · Delving into the very core of hip-hop identity, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to N.W.A, the revolutionary Los Angeles collective that transformed the landscape of popular music with its 1988 debut Straight Outta Compton.
- The group didn’t call their music “gangsta rap” when it came out. “We were trying to make records that can go on the radio, and when we started doing mixtapes — which we knew wasn’t going on the radio — that’s when we really started to talk about the neighborhood,” Ice Cube told Rolling Stone in 2015.
- N.W.A almost didn’t make it to Straight Outta Compton. At the conclusion of the group’s autumn 1987 tour opening for Salt-N-Pepa, Ice Cube informed the crew that he would be going to college.
- Ice Cube wasn’t from Compton, but that didn’t stop him from writing about it. The rapper was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. He’d met Eazy-E as a teenager and gave him the lyrics to “Boyz-N-the Hood.”
- The inspiration for “Fuck tha Police” is up for debate. Dr. Dre has recalled a story where he and Eazy-E went around shooting paintball pellets at people waiting for the bus.
3 days ago · Though N.W.A was only active for a short period, their influence on Hip Hop and popular culture is difficult to overstate. Straight Outta Compton remains a cornerstone of West Coast rap, setting the stage for artists like Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, and the broader G-funk movement that defined 1990s Hip Hop.
Aug 8, 2024 · N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton was recently named one of the best 100 albums ever by Apple Music. Listen to the album now. It was more complicated than that, though: if you hadn’t noticed...
