I saw myself as a bit of a bad ass motherfucker - well as much as an eleven year old could be. It's really a triumph and deserves all the praise it got.Īhh I remember going on a geography field trip to Stafford back when this dropped. Their sampling is so good and their rhymes seem so effortless. Folks who roll hard get fuck the police, misogynists get I ain't the one, radio gets express yourself, and clubs get something to dance to. This album has so much variety too - a song for everyone. "I ain't the one" is the only one that doesn't hold up - I know what he was going for, but. Most of the songs hold up extremely well to time. He gives props to Dre all over though, which sucks for all their splintering later. I am a huge fan of his character - too cool. Part of their genius was building their character through their songs. Police, goldiggers, dope sellers, other rappers. They really addressed all the social issues on the streets instead of in society and it resonated with so many people. they captured the anger and reality of being a young black man. You had public enemy doing militant stuff and tribe called quest and others doing rap on social issues. This may be the most important rap album ever made. 2-3, C+, gets extra credit for be prescient re: Fuck the Police. I liked a couple of the more 80’s style non-gangster songs like “Somethit Like That” and “Express Yourself.” Not a terrible album but not yet fully cooked. MC Ren, Dre and Ice Cube all stand out as better. Easy E was annoying and not a great rapper-apparently he was a drug dealer and funded the album, most of his shit was written by others and it shows. Dre’s sampling really shines in some of the interludes. Weird to think the Beastie Boys came out before this, you hear it sampled a few times, it puts the album into perspective, because the beastie boys album was better, more complete song craft. It may have been created but it sure wasn’t mastered, later albums Dre would produce like The Chonic abd Doggystyle epitomize the gangster rap style and do it much better. It’s interesting, never listened to the full album and I’m realizing now Gangster rap was created during this album: there’s a stark difference between the songs, some still stuck in the 80s paradigm. The first few songs it was like they were trying to squeeze everyone in. I feel like they needed to edit this down to half. The next year, the Library of Congress enshrined Straight Outta Compton in the National Recording Registry. In 2016, it became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. And in 2015, after an album reissue on red cassettes of limited edition, theater release of the biographical film Straight Outta Compton reinvigorated sales of the album, which by year's end was certified 3x Multi-Platinum. Nearing the album's 20th anniversary, another extended version of it arrived in December 2007. Dre-the ripple effects had reshaped rap, R&B, and popular music, influencing popular culture.Remastered, the album's September 2002 reissue gained four bonus tracks. As the 1990s closed, if largely through N.W.A's own splintering-yielding successful solo music careers and franchises for Ice Cube and for Dr. Receiving media spotlight, N.W.A's example triggered the rap genre's movement toward hardcore, gangsta rap. That year, the album peaked at #9 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and at #37 on the popular albums chart, the Billboard 200. The track "Fuck tha Police" drew an FBI agent's warning letter, which aided N.W.A's notoriety, with N.W.A calling itself "the world's most dangerous group."In July 1989, despite its scarce radio play beyond the Los Angeles area, Straight Outta Compton received gangsta rap's first platinum certification, one million copies sold by then. Not merely depicting Compton's street violence, the lyrics repeatedly threaten to lead it by attacking peers and even police. Dre, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince, with lyrics written by N.W.A members Ice Cube and MC Ren along with Ruthless rapper The D.O.C. Released by his label, Ruthless Records, on August 8, 1988, the album was produced by N.W.A members Dr. Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by rap group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton in early 1987.
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