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Straight Outta Compton

January 07, 2023

This article is about the N.W.A album. For the song, see Straight Outta Compton (song). For the film, see Straight Outta Compton (film). For other uses, see Straight Outta Compton (disambiguation).

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.[3][4] Released by his label, Ruthless Records, on August 8, 1988,[1] the album was produced by N.W.A members Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince, with lyrics written by N.W.A members Ice Cube and MC Ren[5] along with Ruthless rapper The D.O.C.[3] Not merely depicting Compton's street violence, the lyrics repeatedly threaten to lead it by attacking peers and even police. 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."[3][6][7]

Straight Outta Compton
Studio album by
N.W.A
ReleasedAugust 8, 1988 (1988-08-08)[1]
Recorded1987–1988
StudioAudio Achievements
(Torrance, California)
Genre
Length60:16
Label
Producer
N.W.A chronology
N.W.A. and the Posse
(1987) 		Straight Outta Compton
(1988) 		100 Miles and Runnin'
(1990)
Singles from Straight Outta Compton
  1. "Straight Outta Compton"
    Released: July 10, 1988
  2. "Gangsta Gangsta"
    Released: September 5, 1988
  3. "Express Yourself"
    Released: March 27, 1989
Music video
"N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton [Explicit] [Uncensored] [Remastered In 8K] (Official Music Video)" on YouTube

In July 1989, despite its scarce radio play beyond the Los Angeles area,[4] Straight Outta Compton received gangsta rap's first platinum certification, one million copies sold by then.[3] 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.[8] Receiving media spotlight, N.W.A's example triggered the rap genre's movement toward hardcore, gangsta rap.[9] As the 1980s closed, if largely through N.W.A's own splintering—yielding successful solo music careers and franchises for Ice Cube and for Dr. Dre—the ripple effects had reshaped rap, R&B, and popular music, influencing popular culture.[10]

Remastered, the album's September 2002 reissue gained four bonus tracks. Nearing the album's 20th anniversary, another extended version of it arrived in December 2007.[11] And in 2015, after an album reissue on red cassettes of limited edition,[12] theater release of the biographical film Straight Outta Compton reinvigorated sales of the album, which by year's end was certified 3x Multi-Platinum.[3] In 2016, it became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[13] The next year, the Library of Congress enshrined Straight Outta Compton in the National Recording Registry, who have deemed it to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[14]

Background

For most of the 1980s, New York City, hip hop's 1973 birthplace,[15] remained the rap genre's dominant scene.[16][17] Until 1988, this scene, retaining more of hip hop's dance and party origin, prioritized the DJ, from a DJ crew,[18] playing, at a dance party, electro rap and "funk hop"[19]—akin to Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force offering, from New York, the 1982 hit "Planet Rock"[16]—whereas the East Coast, as in Run-DMC's breakout album of 1984, had moved to prioritizing the lyricist, the "MC".[17]

Yet around Los Angeles, DJs increasingly imparted or invited lyrics atop the party music, how the World Class Wreckin' Cru core—including Dr. Dre and DJ Yella, led by Grandmaster Lonzo—made the West Coast's first rap album, albeit electro rap, released under a major record label.[17] But since 1982, among LA's rising lyricists was Ice-T, who heard Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D's 1985 single "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?"[17][16] In 1986, thus influenced,[20] Ice-T offered the track "6 in the Mornin'", which, seizing some of LA's attention from electro rap, reached gold sales as the inaugural anthem of a new rap subgenre later called "gangsta rap".[17][16]

In 1986, Eric Wright, a Kelly Park Compton Crip, was forming in Compton an independent label, Ruthless Records.[17] Dealing drugs, Wright had become acquainted with Dr. Dre and Arabian Prince, two friends, record producers, and recording artists hitting locally but denied royalties.[21] Upon recruiting from rap group C.I.A. a ghostwriter in Ice Cube, who was from South Central Los Angeles,[3] Wright had Dre and Cube craft a song, "Boyz-n-the-Hood".[22] But once a Ruthless group signed from New York City rejected it, Wright, dubbed Eazy-E, himself rapped it, a local hit.[19][22] It sounded similar to Schooly D's "P.S.K." single, and its tempo was too slow to dance to.[16]

Exceeding Ice-T's model, N.W.A imparted to gangsta rap the N.W.A signature, "exaggerated descriptions of street life, militant resistance to authority, and outright sexist violence."[23] Locally, by supplying radio edits, N.W.A enjoyed nearly direct radio access, anyway, via Greg Mack of KDAY radio.[4] But otherwise, even N.W.A's national debut, Straight Outta Compton, saw virtually no radio play, a fact that amplified the album's feat: the first gangsta rap certified platinum, one million copies sold.[17][24] As rap fans, even from afar, sought more from Compton and South Central,[10] local rappers, like MC Eiht of Compton's Most Wanted, met the call.[25] LA's rap scene rapidly moved from party rap to hardcore rap.[17]

Yet on the global stage, N.W.A towered as gangsta rap's icons. For their ostentatious lyrics, profane and strident, unrelentingly depicting violent defiance, even threatening law enforcement, an FBI agent sent the record label a warning letter, MTV banned the "Straight Outta Compton" video, some venues banned N.W.A performance, and some police officers refused to work security at N.W.A shows elsewhere.[3][24][26] As this all sparked publicity that reinforced their aura,[3] the rappers would allude to such facts in later raps.[27] In any case, Slant Magazine recalls "Straight Outta Compton as the sound of the West Coast firing on New York's Fort Sumpter in what would become '90s culture's biggest Uncivil War."[28]

Record production

The album was recorded and produced in Audio Achievements Studio in Torrance, California for $12,000. Dr. Dre, in a 1993 interview, recalls, "I threw that thing together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.[3]

In an incident recalled in Jerry Heller's book and later portrayed in the film Straight Outta Compton, police approached the group while they were standing outside the studio in the fall of 1987 and demanded them to get on their knees and show ID without explanation. Outraged by the experience, Cube began writing the lyrics that would become "Fuck tha Police."[29] Initially, still spending weekends in jail over traffic violations, Dre was reluctant to do "Fuck tha Police", a reluctance that dissolved once that sentence concluded.[3]

Synthesis

The album's producers were Dr. Dre with DJ Yella and Arabian Prince. Considering the album's force, its production may seem surprisingly spare, mostly sampled horn blasts, some funk guitar riffs, sampled vocals, and turntable scratches atop a drum machine.[10] Their drum machine, used for kick drums, was the Roland TR-808, which was rendered obsolete upon its 1980 release by the Linn LM-1, but cost about $1,000 versus $5,000.[30] Used as early as 1980 by Japanese electropop group Yellow Magic Orchestra, it became hip hop's venerated "808".[30] Its deep bass thumps, audibly artificial, lend the now classic sound of rap's 1980s and 1990s landmarks, including Straight Outta Compton's precursors, like Run-DMC's launch of aggressive vocalization from 1983 to 1984, Eric B. & Rakim's inauguration of liberal sampling in 1986,[31] Boogie Down Productions in KRS-One's assertion of criminal mindset in 1987, and Public Enemy's assault on mainstream authority and opinion in 1988.[30]

Vocals

N.W.A's Ice Cube and MC Ren along with Ruthless Records rapper The D.O.C. wrote the lyrics, including those rapped by Eazy-E and by Dr. Dre.[3] On the other hand, DJ Yella never raps, and Arabian Prince does only minor vocals on "Something 2 Dance 2". Otherwise, each group member stands out through a solo rap, too.

MC Ren has two solo tracks, "If It Ain't Ruff" and "Quiet on tha Set". Dr. Dre dominates "Express Yourself". Ice Cube's is "I Ain't tha 1". Eazy-E's is a remix of "8 Ball", a track which originally appeared on N.W.A's 1987 debut compilation album N.W.A. and the Posse. The one guest is The D.O.C., who raps the opening verse of "Parental Discretion Iz Advised".

Whereas Ren wrote his own lyrics, and The D.O.C. wrote some lyrics, perhaps mainly Dre's lyrics, Cube wrote some of Dre's lyrics and nearly all of Eazy's lyrics.[10] Still, even Eazy and Dre, alike Cube and Ren, each brings a distinct delivery and character, making N.W.A altogether stand out from imitators.[10]

Content

 
"Fuck tha Police"
One of N.W.A's most well-known and controversial songs
"Straight Outta Compton"
The lead single and title track. Features aggressive lyricism
"Gangsta Gangsta"
The second single from Straight Outta Compton
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Reflecting in 2002, Rolling Stone writer Jon Caramanica calls the album a "bombastic, cacophonous car ride through Los Angeles' burnt-out and ignored hoods".[32] In a contemporary review, rather, Mark Holmberg, in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, calls it "a preacher-provoking, mother-maddening, reality-stinks" album that "wallows in gangs, doping, drive-by shootings, brutal sexism, cop slamming and racism".[33] Newsweek wrote, "Hinting at gang roots, and selling themselves on those hints, they project a gangster mystique that pays no attention to where criminality begins and marketing lets off."[34] Even when depicting severe and unprovoked violence, the rappers cite their own stage names as its very perpetrators. By their sheer force, the album's opening three tracks—"Straight Outta Compton", "Fuck tha Police", and "Gangsta Gangsta"—signature songs setting N.W.A's platform, says AllMusic album reviewer Steve Huey, "threaten to dwarf everything that follows".[10]

First, the title track, smearing and menacing civilians and police, men and women, while women receive gruff sexual advances, too, even threatens to "smother your mother". Then, after a skit of the police put on criminal trial, "Fuck tha Police", alleging chronic harassment and brutality by officers, singularly threatens lethal retaliation. "Gangsta Gangsta" depicts group outings to carouse with women while slurring unwilling women and assaulting men, whether confrontational troublemakers, innocent bystanders, or a driver who, fleeing the failed carjacking, gets shot at. "8 Ball" is dedicated to the 40 oz bottles of malt liquor, Olde English 800.[35] "Express Yourself", written by Cube and rapped by Dre, incidentally scorns weed smoking—already proclaimed by Cube in "Gangsta Gangsta" as his own, chronic practice—which allegedly causes brain damage, a threat to the song's optimistic agenda, liberal individuality. "I Ain't tha 1" scorns spending money on women. "Dopeman" depicts the crack epidemic's aftermath. Closing the album, "Something 2 Dance 2" is upbeat.[3]

The term "gangsta rap", soon to arise in journalism, had not been coined yet.[3] According to Ice Cube, the rappers themselves called it "reality rap".[3] Indicting N.W.A as its leading example, journalist David Mills, in 1990, acknowledges, "The hard-core street rappers defend their violent lyrics as a reflection of 'reality'. But for all the gunshots they mix into their music, rappers rarely try to dramatize that reality" empathetically. "It's easier for them to imagine themselves pulling the trigger."[36] Still, the year before, Bud Norman, reviewing in the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, assesses that on Straight Outta Compton, "they don't make it sound like much fun".[37] In Norman's view, "They describe it with the same nonjudgmental resignation that a Kansan"—a resident of Kansas—"might use about a tornado."[37] Steve Huey, writing for AllMusic, considered that "Straight Outta Compton's insistent claims of reality ring a little hollow today, since it hardly ever depicts consequences. But despite all the romanticized invincibility, the force and detail of Ice Cube's writing makes the exaggerations resonate."[10]

N.W.A's Greatest Hits, released in July 1996, featured six tracks from Straight Outta Compton: "Gangsta Gangsta", "If It Ain't Ruff", "I Ain't tha 1", "Express Yourself", an extended mix of "Straight Outta Compton", and "Fuck tha Police", which is absent from Straight Outta Compton's censored version.[38]

Release

In the United Kingdom, the album was released by 4th & B'way Records after a period that Roy Wilkinson of Sounds described as "months" of selling well as an import release.[39]

Critical reception

Critiques

Contemporary professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Chicago Tribune    [40]
Los Angeles Times     [41]
NME5/10[42]
Q     [43]
Sounds     [39]
The Village VoiceB[44]

Music journalist Greg Kot, reviewing Straight Outta Compton for the Chicago Tribune, finds N.W.A's sound "fuller and funkier" than that of East Coast hip hop, and their lyrics just as "unforgiving" as those of East Coast group Public Enemy.[40] Los Angeles Times critic Dennis Hunt anticipates that listeners may be offended by the album's lack of "moralizing", "even more so than the searing street language", and advises, "To appreciate this remarkable, disturbing album you have to approach it for what it is—a no-holds-barred, audio-documentary of ghetto life."[41] On the other hand, Cary Darling, in California's Orange County Register, while thinking that the lyrics make Ice-T "look like a Cub Scout", ultimately deems Straight Outta Compton "curiously uninvolving", as it "lacks the insight and passion that put the best work by the likes of Boogie Down Productions, Ice-T and Public Enemy so far ahead of the field".[45] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice perceives N.W.A's persona as calculated: "Right, it's not about salary—it's about royalties, about brandishing scarewords like 'street' and 'crazy' and 'fuck' and 'reality' until suckers black and white cough up the cash."[44]

In the UK, Sounds reviewer Roy Wilkinson declared Straight Outta Compton "rap's answer to Slayer's Reign in Blood—a record the majors were scared to touch", continuing, "This is rock made genuinely wild again. Beware, the pop jive of the current 'Express Yourself' single will in no way prepare you for the Magnum beat that fires here."[39] Other British publications were less enthusiastic. Paolo Hewitt of NME takes issue with the lyrics' "macho repetition and tunnel vision",[42] while in the Hi-Fi News & Record Review, Peter Clark, going further, calls the lyrics "unrelenting in their unpleasantness".[46] Offering the lowest possible rating, Clark adds, "The cumulative effect is like listening to an endless fight next door. The music on this record is without a hint of dynamics or melody."[46] Charlie Dick, writing for Q, contends, "In the wake of Public Enemy and KRS-One, it is amazing that something this lightweight could cause such a stir. The all-mouth-and-trousers content is backed up by likable drum machine twittering, minimal instrumentation and duffish production."[43] Still, he predicts, "This regressive nonsense will be passed off as social commentary by thrill-seekers all across the free world."[43]

Retrospective professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [10]
Blender     [47]
Mojo     [48]
Pitchfork9.7/10[49]
Q     [50]
Rolling Stone     [32]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [51]
The Source5/5[52]
Spin Alternative Record Guide10/10[53]
Uncut     [54]

By 1991, while criticizing group members for allegedly carrying misogynist lyrics into real life, Newsweek incidentally comments that Straight Outta Compton, nonetheless, "introduced some of the most grotesquely exciting music ever made".[34] Writing in retrospect, Steve Huey, in AllMusic, deems the album mainly just "raising hell" while posturing, but finds that "it still sounds refreshingly uncalculated because of its irreverent, gonzo sense of humor, still unfortunately rare in hardcore rap".[10] In the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide, Roni Sarig states that although Straight Outta Compton was viewed as a "perversion" of the "more politically sophisticated" style of hip hop exemplified by Public Enemy, the album displays "a more righteous fury than the hundreds of copycats it spawned".[51]

Rankings

In 1994, British magazine Hip Hop Connection, placing the album third among rap's best albums, adds, "Straight Outta Compton sounded so exciting, insignificant details such as realism and integrity could be overlooked."[55] Hip hop magazine The Source included Straight Outta Compton in its 1998 "100 Best Albums" list.[56] Television network VH1, in 2003, placed it 62nd.[57] Spin magazine, sorting the "100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005", identified it 10th.[58]

The first rap album ever to gain five stars from Rolling Stone at initial review, it placed 70th among the magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in its 2020 revised list.[59] Time, in 2006, named it one of the 100 greatest albums of all time.[60] Vibe appraised it as one of the 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.[61] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed it 18th among the "Best Albums of the 1980s".[28] In any case, in November 2016, Straight Outta Compton became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[13]

Charting and sales

N.W.A's album best selling, Straight Outta Compton, released in August 1988, attained gold certification, half a million copies sold, on April 13, 1989.[62] Meanwhile, the album peaked at number #9 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and on April 15, 1989, at #37 on the Billboard 200, which ranks the week's most popular albums.[8][63] On July 18, 1989, the album was certified platinum, one million copies sold.[62]

By contrast, N.W.A. and the Posse, out since November 1987, reached gold certification in September 1994.[64] The group's 100 Miles and Runnin' EP, which took two years to produce and was released in August 1990, went platinum in September 1992.[65] That year, on March 27, Straight Outta Compton was certified double-platinum, two million copies sold.[62]

By Priority Records' estimation, about 80% of Straight Outta Compton's sales occurred in suburban areas predominantly white.[66][67] N.W.A's next and final full-length album, Efil4zaggin or Niggaz4Life, released in late May 1991, went platinum just over two months later, in August 1991, yet in 2020 remains platinum,[68] whereas on November 11, 2015, Straight Outta Compton was certified triple-platinum, three million copies sold.[62]

Approaching the August 2015 release of the film Straight Outta Compton, the album reentered the Billboard 200 at number #173.[69] The next week, it rose to #97, another week later reached #30[69]—beyond its 1989 peak position of #37—and on September 5 peaked at #6.[70] Meanwhile, the album's title track, entering the popular songs chart, the Billboard Hot 100, becoming N.W.A's first song in the Top 40,[71] spent two weeks at #38.[72]

Media presence

In 2004, the DigitaArts list 25 Best Albums Covers included Straight Outta Compton.[73] By the album's release, Arabian Prince, on the cover, had left N.W.A. Lacking him, an iconic group photo taken by Ithaka Darin Pappas on November 11, 1988, at Pappa's studio apartment in Los Angeles' Miracle Mile district, has been repeatedly republished in media,[74] including The Source's May 1989 cover, captioning, "California Rap Hits Nationwide!" Pappas calls it the "Miracle Mile Shot",[75] the DVD cover of the 2015 documentary Kings Of Compton,[76][77] in France's Musée d'art contemporain de Marseille from 2017 to 2018,[78][79] and a backdrop at N.W.A's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2016 in Brooklyn, New York.[80]

Sinéad O'Connor, then herself controversial, appraised in 1990 that "It's definitely the best rap record I've ever heard".[81] But, feeling that he had rushed its production, N.W.A's own Dr. Dre, in a 1993 interview, remarked, "To this day, I can't stand that album."[3] On the other hand, in 2005, comedian Chris Rock still ranked it the top rap album of all time.[82] The next year, parodic music artist "Weird Al" Yankovic released a new album, Straight Outta Lynwood. Punk rock band NOFX released the 2009 song "Straight Outta Massachusetts". In the 2014 film 22 Jump Street, the character Mrs. Dickson, whose husband is played by Ice Cube, says she's "straight outta Compton".[83] In 2015, the biopic Straight Outta Compton was a hit film.[84]

Track listing

All songs produced by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella.

No. Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Samples[85][86] Length
1 "Straight Outta Compton"
  • Ice Cube
  • MC Ren
  • Eazy-E
 4:18
2 "Fuck tha Police"[87]
  • Ice Cube
  • MC Ren
  • The D.O.C.
  • Ice Cube
  • MC Ren
  • Eazy-E
 5:45
3 "Gangsta Gangsta"
  • Ice Cube
  • Ice Cube
  • Eazy-E
 5:36
4 "If It Ain't Ruff"
  • MC Ren
  • MC Ren
 3:34
5 "Parental Discretion Iz Advised"
  • The D.O.C. (also for Dr. Dre)
  • MC Ren
  • Ice Cube
  • The D.O.C.
  • Dr. Dre
  • MC Ren
  • Ice Cube
  • Eazy-E
 5:15
6 "8 Ball" (remix)
  • Ice Cube
  • Eazy-E
 4:52
7 "Something Like That"
  • MC Ren (also for Dr. Dre)
  • MC Ren
  • Dr. Dre
 3:35
8 "Express Yourself"
  • Ice Cube
  • Dr. Dre
 4:25
9 "Compton's N the House (remix)"
  • MC Ren (also for Dr. Dre)
  • MC Ren
  • Dr. Dre
  • "Something Like That" by N.W.A
 5:20
10 "I Ain't tha 1"
  • Ice Cube
  • Ice Cube
 4:54
11 "Dopeman" (remix)
  • Ice Cube
  • Ice Cube
  • Eazy-E
 5:20
12 "Quiet On tha Set"
  • MC Ren
  • MC Ren
 3:59
13 "Something 2 Dance 2"
  • Arabian Prince
  • DJ Yella
  • Dr. Dre
  • Eazy-E
 3:23
2002 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Performer(s)Length
14."Express Yourself" (extended mix)
  • Ice Cube
  • MC Ren
  • Dr. Dre
  • MC Ren
  • Ice Cube
4:42
15."Bonus Beats"  3:03
16."Straight Outta Compton" (extended mix)
  • Ice Cube
  • The D.O.C.
  • MC Ren
  • MC Ren
  • Eazy-E
  • Ice Cube
4:53
17."A Bitch Iz a Bitch"Ice CubeIce Cube3:10
2007 reissue (20th Anniversary Edition) bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Performer(s)Length
14."---- tha Police" (tribute remix)
  • MC Ren
  • Eazy-E
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony5:02
15."Gangsta Gangsta" (tribute remix)
  • Eazy-E
  • MC Ren
4:39
16."Dopeman" (tribute remix)
  • Ice Cube
  • Eazy-E
Mack 104:01
17."If It Ain't Ruff" (tribute remix)MC RenWC3:44
18."Compton's n the House" (live)
  • Dr. Dre
  • Eazy-E
  • Dr. Dre
  • MC Ren
2:02

Personnel

  • Eazy-E – rapping (seven songs)
  • Ice Cube – rapping (six songs)
  • MC Ren – rapping (eight songs)
  • Arabian Prince – keyboards & drum programming (five songs) & rapping (one song)
  • Dr. Dre – keyboards & drum programming (five songs), rapping (five songs)
  • DJ Yella – sampling & drum programming (seven songs), rapping (one song)
  • The D.O.C. (guest) – rapping (one song)

Charts

Chart (1989)[88][89] Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs 37
US Billboard Top Soul LPs 9
Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[90] 51
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[91] 43
Chart (2003)[88][89] Peak
position
Irish Albums Chart 20
UK Albums Chart 35
Chart (2015–16)[92] Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[93] 8
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[94] 55
French Albums (SNEP)[95] 17
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[96] 36
Irish Albums (IRMA)[97] 7
Italian Vinyl Records (FIMI)[98] 15
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[99] 38
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[100] 54
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[101] 6
US Billboard 200 6

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[102] Platinum 300,000 
United States (RIAA)[103] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
  Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Kory Grow (August 8, 2018). "N.W.A's 'Straight Outta Compton': 12 Things You Didn't Know". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone, LLC. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  2. ^ "Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A – Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Kory Grow, "N.W.A's 'Straight Outta Compton': 12 things you didn't know", Rolling Stone website, Penske Business Media, LLC, 8 Aug 2018.
  4. ^ a b c David Diallo, ch. 10 "From electro-rap to G-funk: A social history of rap music in Los Angeles and Compton, California", in Mickey Hess, ed., Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide, Volume 1: East Coast and West Coast (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2010), pp 234–238.
  5. ^ Incidentally, this 1988 album is N.W.A's last album with contributions by Arabian Prince, already gone by its August release, and by Ice Cube, gone by 1990. Both, however, are on N.W.A's 1987 compilation album, N.W.A. and the Posse—sometimes recognized as N.W.A's first album—whereas at the Posse album's release, MC Ren may not have yet joined N.W.A's roster. That is despite MC Ren's appearance, among several others, in the Posse album's cover photo [Martin Cizmar, "Whatever happened to N.W.A's posse?", LA Weekly, 6 May 2010]. In any case, by N.W.A's next significant release, a 1990 EP, 100 Miles and Runnin', the group is four—Eazy, Dre, Yella, and Ren—also on the next and final album, 1991's Efil4zaggin or Niggaz4Life.
  6. ^ Musician (Amordian Press), 1991, volume 147, p 59.
  7. ^ McDermott, Terry (April 14, 2002). "NWA:Straight Outta Compton pt 1". Los Angeles Times. Reprinted at Hip Hop News. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Tenth Ruthless anniversary: For the record", Billboard, 1997 Aug 9;109(32):R-16.
  9. ^ Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), pp. 327–328.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i Huey, Steve. "Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A". AllMusic. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  11. ^ Omar Burgess (October 10, 2007). "HHDX News Bits: NWA and Eazy-E". HipHopDX. Retrieved October 10, 2007.
  12. ^ Universal Music Group announced that it would reissue the album as a limited-edition red cassette on April 15 as part of Universal's Respect the Classics series [Pietro Fililpponi, , Gotham News website, Gotham News LLC, 2 Apr 2015].
  13. ^ a b . grammy.com. The Recording Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  14. ^ "National Recording Registry Picks Are 'Over the Rainbow'". Library of Congress. March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  15. ^ Wayne Marshall, "Kool Herc," in Mickey Hess, ed., Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture, Volume 1 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), pp 6–7.
  16. ^ a b c d e Loren Kajikawa, "Compton via New York", Sounding Race in Rap Songs (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015), pp 91–96.Los Angeles county was secondary.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h David Diallo, ch. 10 "From electro-rap to G-funk: A social history of rap music in Los Angeles and Compton, California", in Mickey Hess, ed., Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide, Volume 1: East Coast and West Coast (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2010), with pp 228–231 on Ice-T, p 233 and following on World Class Wreckin' Cru', pp 234–238 on N.W.A, and otherwise backstory on their precursor, contemporary, and evolving rap scene in the Los Angeles area.
  18. ^ There were, for example, Egyptian Lover, down with Uncle Jamm's Army, and The Unknown DJ, down with the World Class Wreckin' Cru.
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straight, outta, compton, this, article, about, album, song, song, film, film, other, uses, disambiguation, debut, studio, album, group, which, eazy, formed, angeles, county, city, compton, early, 1987, released, label, ruthless, records, august, 1988, album, . This article is about the N W A album For the song see Straight Outta Compton song For the film see Straight Outta Compton film For other uses see Straight Outta Compton disambiguation 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 3 4 Released by his label Ruthless Records on August 8 1988 1 the album was produced by N W A members Dr Dre DJ Yella and Arabian Prince with lyrics written by N W A members Ice Cube and MC Ren 5 along with Ruthless rapper The D O C 3 Not merely depicting Compton s street violence the lyrics repeatedly threaten to lead it by attacking peers and even police 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 3 6 7 Straight Outta ComptonStudio album by N W AReleasedAugust 8 1988 1988 08 08 1 Recorded1987 1988StudioAudio Achievements Torrance California GenreWest Coast hip hop 2 gangsta raphardcore hip hopLength60 16LabelRuthlessPriorityProducerAndre YoungAntoine CarrabyEric Wright exec Arabian PrinceN W A chronologyN W A and the Posse 1987 Straight Outta Compton 1988 100 Miles and Runnin 1990 Singles from Straight Outta Compton Straight Outta Compton Released July 10 1988 Gangsta Gangsta Released September 5 1988 Express Yourself Released March 27 1989Music video N W A Straight Outta Compton Explicit Uncensored Remastered In 8K Official Music Video on YouTubeIn July 1989 despite its scarce radio play beyond the Los Angeles area 4 Straight Outta Compton received gangsta rap s first platinum certification one million copies sold by then 3 That year the album peaked at 9 on Billboard s Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums chart and at 37 on the popular albums chart the Billboard 200 8 Receiving media spotlight N W A s example triggered the rap genre s movement toward hardcore gangsta rap 9 As the 1980s closed if largely through N W A s own splintering yielding successful solo music careers and franchises for Ice Cube and for Dr Dre the ripple effects had reshaped rap R amp B and popular music influencing popular culture 10 Remastered the album s September 2002 reissue gained four bonus tracks Nearing the album s 20th anniversary another extended version of it arrived in December 2007 11 And in 2015 after an album reissue on red cassettes of limited edition 12 theater release of the biographical film Straight Outta Compton reinvigorated sales of the album which by year s end was certified 3x Multi Platinum 3 In 2016 it became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 13 The next year the Library of Congress enshrined Straight Outta Compton in the National Recording Registry who have deemed it to be culturally historically or aesthetically significant 14 Contents 1 Background 2 Record production 2 1 Synthesis 2 2 Vocals 2 3 Content 3 Release 4 Critical reception 4 1 Critiques 4 2 Rankings 5 Charting and sales 6 Media presence 7 Track listing 8 Personnel 9 Charts 10 Certifications 11 See also 12 Notes 13 External linksBackground EditFor most of the 1980s New York City hip hop s 1973 birthplace 15 remained the rap genre s dominant scene 16 17 Until 1988 this scene retaining more of hip hop s dance and party origin prioritized the DJ from a DJ crew 18 playing at a dance party electro rap and funk hop 19 akin to Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force offering from New York the 1982 hit Planet Rock 16 whereas the East Coast as in Run DMC s breakout album of 1984 had moved to prioritizing the lyricist the MC 17 Yet around Los Angeles DJs increasingly imparted or invited lyrics atop the party music how the World Class Wreckin Cru core including Dr Dre and DJ Yella led by Grandmaster Lonzo made the West Coast s first rap album albeit electro rap released under a major record label 17 But since 1982 among LA s rising lyricists was Ice T who heard Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D s 1985 single P S K What Does It Mean 17 16 In 1986 thus influenced 20 Ice T offered the track 6 in the Mornin which seizing some of LA s attention from electro rap reached gold sales as the inaugural anthem of a new rap subgenre later called gangsta rap 17 16 In 1986 Eric Wright a Kelly Park Compton Crip was forming in Compton an independent label Ruthless Records 17 Dealing drugs Wright had become acquainted with Dr Dre and Arabian Prince two friends record producers and recording artists hitting locally but denied royalties 21 Upon recruiting from rap group C I A a ghostwriter in Ice Cube who was from South Central Los Angeles 3 Wright had Dre and Cube craft a song Boyz n the Hood 22 But once a Ruthless group signed from New York City rejected it Wright dubbed Eazy E himself rapped it a local hit 19 22 It sounded similar to Schooly D s P S K single and its tempo was too slow to dance to 16 Exceeding Ice T s model N W A imparted to gangsta rap the N W A signature exaggerated descriptions of street life militant resistance to authority and outright sexist violence 23 Locally by supplying radio edits N W A enjoyed nearly direct radio access anyway via Greg Mack of KDAY radio 4 But otherwise even N W A s national debut Straight Outta Compton saw virtually no radio play a fact that amplified the album s feat the first gangsta rap certified platinum one million copies sold 17 24 As rap fans even from afar sought more from Compton and South Central 10 local rappers like MC Eiht of Compton s Most Wanted met the call 25 LA s rap scene rapidly moved from party rap to hardcore rap 17 Yet on the global stage N W A towered as gangsta rap s icons For their ostentatious lyrics profane and strident unrelentingly depicting violent defiance even threatening law enforcement an FBI agent sent the record label a warning letter MTV banned the Straight Outta Compton video some venues banned N W A performance and some police officers refused to work security at N W A shows elsewhere 3 24 26 As this all sparked publicity that reinforced their aura 3 the rappers would allude to such facts in later raps 27 In any case Slant Magazine recalls Straight Outta Compton as the sound of the West Coast firing on New York s Fort Sumpter in what would become 90s culture s biggest Uncivil War 28 Record production EditThe album was recorded and produced in Audio Achievements Studio in Torrance California for 12 000 Dr Dre in a 1993 interview recalls I threw that thing together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk 3 In an incident recalled in Jerry Heller s book and later portrayed in the film Straight Outta Compton police approached the group while they were standing outside the studio in the fall of 1987 and demanded them to get on their knees and show ID without explanation Outraged by the experience Cube began writing the lyrics that would become Fuck tha Police 29 Initially still spending weekends in jail over traffic violations Dre was reluctant to do Fuck tha Police a reluctance that dissolved once that sentence concluded 3 Synthesis Edit The album s producers were Dr Dre with DJ Yella and Arabian Prince Considering the album s force its production may seem surprisingly spare mostly sampled horn blasts some funk guitar riffs sampled vocals and turntable scratches atop a drum machine 10 Their drum machine used for kick drums was the Roland TR 808 which was rendered obsolete upon its 1980 release by the Linn LM 1 but cost about 1 000 versus 5 000 30 Used as early as 1980 by Japanese electropop group Yellow Magic Orchestra it became hip hop s venerated 808 30 Its deep bass thumps audibly artificial lend the now classic sound of rap s 1980s and 1990s landmarks including Straight Outta Compton s precursors like Run DMC s launch of aggressive vocalization from 1983 to 1984 Eric B amp Rakim s inauguration of liberal sampling in 1986 31 Boogie Down Productions in KRS One s assertion of criminal mindset in 1987 and Public Enemy s assault on mainstream authority and opinion in 1988 30 Vocals Edit N W A s Ice Cube and MC Ren along with Ruthless Records rapper The D O C wrote the lyrics including those rapped by Eazy E and by Dr Dre 3 On the other hand DJ Yella never raps and Arabian Prince does only minor vocals on Something 2 Dance 2 Otherwise each group member stands out through a solo rap too MC Ren has two solo tracks If It Ain t Ruff and Quiet on tha Set Dr Dre dominates Express Yourself Ice Cube s is I Ain t tha 1 Eazy E s is a remix of 8 Ball a track which originally appeared on N W A s 1987 debut compilation album N W A and the Posse The one guest is The D O C who raps the opening verse of Parental Discretion Iz Advised Whereas Ren wrote his own lyrics and The D O C wrote some lyrics perhaps mainly Dre s lyrics Cube wrote some of Dre s lyrics and nearly all of Eazy s lyrics 10 Still even Eazy and Dre alike Cube and Ren each brings a distinct delivery and character making N W A altogether stand out from imitators 10 Content Edit Fuck tha Police source source track One of N W A s most well known and controversial songs Straight Outta Compton source source track The lead single and title track Features aggressive lyricism Gangsta Gangsta source source The second single from Straight Outta Compton Problems playing these files See media help Reflecting in 2002 Rolling Stone writer Jon Caramanica calls the album a bombastic cacophonous car ride through Los Angeles burnt out and ignored hoods 32 In a contemporary review rather Mark Holmberg in the Richmond Times Dispatch calls it a preacher provoking mother maddening reality stinks album that wallows in gangs doping drive by shootings brutal sexism cop slamming and racism 33 Newsweek wrote Hinting at gang roots and selling themselves on those hints they project a gangster mystique that pays no attention to where criminality begins and marketing lets off 34 Even when depicting severe and unprovoked violence the rappers cite their own stage names as its very perpetrators By their sheer force the album s opening three tracks Straight Outta Compton Fuck tha Police and Gangsta Gangsta signature songs setting N W A s platform says AllMusic album reviewer Steve Huey threaten to dwarf everything that follows 10 First the title track smearing and menacing civilians and police men and women while women receive gruff sexual advances too even threatens to smother your mother Then after a skit of the police put on criminal trial Fuck tha Police alleging chronic harassment and brutality by officers singularly threatens lethal retaliation Gangsta Gangsta depicts group outings to carouse with women while slurring unwilling women and assaulting men whether confrontational troublemakers innocent bystanders or a driver who fleeing the failed carjacking gets shot at 8 Ball is dedicated to the 40 oz bottles of malt liquor Olde English 800 35 Express Yourself written by Cube and rapped by Dre incidentally scorns weed smoking already proclaimed by Cube in Gangsta Gangsta as his own chronic practice which allegedly causes brain damage a threat to the song s optimistic agenda liberal individuality I Ain t tha 1 scorns spending money on women Dopeman depicts the crack epidemic s aftermath Closing the album Something 2 Dance 2 is upbeat 3 The term gangsta rap soon to arise in journalism had not been coined yet 3 According to Ice Cube the rappers themselves called it reality rap 3 Indicting N W A as its leading example journalist David Mills in 1990 acknowledges The hard core street rappers defend their violent lyrics as a reflection of reality But for all the gunshots they mix into their music rappers rarely try to dramatize that reality empathetically It s easier for them to imagine themselves pulling the trigger 36 Still the year before Bud Norman reviewing in the Wichita Eagle Beacon assesses that on Straight Outta Compton they don t make it sound like much fun 37 In Norman s view They describe it with the same nonjudgmental resignation that a Kansan a resident of Kansas might use about a tornado 37 Steve Huey writing for AllMusic considered that Straight Outta Compton s insistent claims of reality ring a little hollow today since it hardly ever depicts consequences But despite all the romanticized invincibility the force and detail of Ice Cube s writing makes the exaggerations resonate 10 N W A s Greatest Hits released in July 1996 featured six tracks from Straight Outta Compton Gangsta Gangsta If It Ain t Ruff I Ain t tha 1 Express Yourself an extended mix of Straight Outta Compton and Fuck tha Police which is absent from Straight Outta Compton s censored version 38 Release EditIn the United Kingdom the album was released by 4th amp B way Records after a period that Roy Wilkinson of Sounds described as months of selling well as an import release 39 Critical reception EditCritiques Edit Contemporary professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingChicago Tribune 40 Los Angeles Times 41 NME5 10 42 Q 43 Sounds 39 The Village VoiceB 44 Music journalist Greg Kot reviewing Straight Outta Compton for the Chicago Tribune finds N W A s sound fuller and funkier than that of East Coast hip hop and their lyrics just as unforgiving as those of East Coast group Public Enemy 40 Los Angeles Times critic Dennis Hunt anticipates that listeners may be offended by the album s lack of moralizing even more so than the searing street language and advises To appreciate this remarkable disturbing album you have to approach it for what it is a no holds barred audio documentary of ghetto life 41 On the other hand Cary Darling in California s Orange County Register while thinking that the lyrics make Ice T look like a Cub Scout ultimately deems Straight Outta Compton curiously uninvolving as it lacks the insight and passion that put the best work by the likes of Boogie Down Productions Ice T and Public Enemy so far ahead of the field 45 Robert Christgau of The Village Voice perceives N W A s persona as calculated Right it s not about salary it s about royalties about brandishing scarewords like street and crazy and fuck and reality until suckers black and white cough up the cash 44 In the UK Sounds reviewer Roy Wilkinson declared Straight Outta Compton rap s answer to Slayer s Reign in Blood a record the majors were scared to touch continuing This is rock made genuinely wild again Beware the pop jive of the current Express Yourself single will in no way prepare you for the Magnum beat that fires here 39 Other British publications were less enthusiastic Paolo Hewitt of NME takes issue with the lyrics macho repetition and tunnel vision 42 while in the Hi Fi News amp Record Review Peter Clark going further calls the lyrics unrelenting in their unpleasantness 46 Offering the lowest possible rating Clark adds The cumulative effect is like listening to an endless fight next door The music on this record is without a hint of dynamics or melody 46 Charlie Dick writing for Q contends In the wake of Public Enemy and KRS One it is amazing that something this lightweight could cause such a stir The all mouth and trousers content is backed up by likable drum machine twittering minimal instrumentation and duffish production 43 Still he predicts This regressive nonsense will be passed off as social commentary by thrill seekers all across the free world 43 Retrospective professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 10 Blender 47 Mojo 48 Pitchfork9 7 10 49 Q 50 Rolling Stone 32 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 51 The Source5 5 52 Spin Alternative Record Guide10 10 53 Uncut 54 By 1991 while criticizing group members for allegedly carrying misogynist lyrics into real life Newsweek incidentally comments that Straight Outta Compton nonetheless introduced some of the most grotesquely exciting music ever made 34 Writing in retrospect Steve Huey in AllMusic deems the album mainly just raising hell while posturing but finds that it still sounds refreshingly uncalculated because of its irreverent gonzo sense of humor still unfortunately rare in hardcore rap 10 In the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide Roni Sarig states that although Straight Outta Compton was viewed as a perversion of the more politically sophisticated style of hip hop exemplified by Public Enemy the album displays a more righteous fury than the hundreds of copycats it spawned 51 Rankings Edit In 1994 British magazine Hip Hop Connection placing the album third among rap s best albums adds Straight Outta Compton sounded so exciting insignificant details such as realism and integrity could be overlooked 55 Hip hop magazine The Source included Straight Outta Compton in its 1998 100 Best Albums list 56 Television network VH1 in 2003 placed it 62nd 57 Spin magazine sorting the 100 Greatest Albums 1985 2005 identified it 10th 58 The first rap album ever to gain five stars from Rolling Stone at initial review it placed 70th among the magazine s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in its 2020 revised list 59 Time in 2006 named it one of the 100 greatest albums of all time 60 Vibe appraised it as one of the 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century 61 In 2012 Slant Magazine listed it 18th among the Best Albums of the 1980s 28 In any case in November 2016 Straight Outta Compton became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 13 Charting and sales EditN W A s album best selling Straight Outta Compton released in August 1988 attained gold certification half a million copies sold on April 13 1989 62 Meanwhile the album peaked at number 9 on Billboard s Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums chart and on April 15 1989 at 37 on the Billboard 200 which ranks the week s most popular albums 8 63 On July 18 1989 the album was certified platinum one million copies sold 62 By contrast N W A and the Posse out since November 1987 reached gold certification in September 1994 64 The group s 100 Miles and Runnin EP which took two years to produce and was released in August 1990 went platinum in September 1992 65 That year on March 27 Straight Outta Compton was certified double platinum two million copies sold 62 By Priority Records estimation about 80 of Straight Outta Compton s sales occurred in suburban areas predominantly white 66 67 N W A s next and final full length album Efil4zaggin or Niggaz4Life released in late May 1991 went platinum just over two months later in August 1991 yet in 2020 remains platinum 68 whereas on November 11 2015 Straight Outta Compton was certified triple platinum three million copies sold 62 Approaching the August 2015 release of the film Straight Outta Compton the album reentered the Billboard 200 at number 173 69 The next week it rose to 97 another week later reached 30 69 beyond its 1989 peak position of 37 and on September 5 peaked at 6 70 Meanwhile the album s title track entering the popular songs chart the Billboard Hot 100 becoming N W A s first song in the Top 40 71 spent two weeks at 38 72 Media presence EditIn 2004 the DigitaArts list 25 Best Albums Covers included Straight Outta Compton 73 By the album s release Arabian Prince on the cover had left N W A Lacking him an iconic group photo taken by Ithaka Darin Pappas on November 11 1988 at Pappa s studio apartment in Los Angeles Miracle Mile district has been repeatedly republished in media 74 including The Source s May 1989 cover captioning California Rap Hits Nationwide Pappas calls it the Miracle Mile Shot 75 the DVD cover of the 2015 documentary Kings Of Compton 76 77 in France s Musee d art contemporain de Marseille from 2017 to 2018 78 79 and a backdrop at N W A s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2016 in Brooklyn New York 80 Sinead O Connor then herself controversial appraised in 1990 that It s definitely the best rap record I ve ever heard 81 But feeling that he had rushed its production N W A s own Dr Dre in a 1993 interview remarked To this day I can t stand that album 3 On the other hand in 2005 comedian Chris Rock still ranked it the top rap album of all time 82 The next year parodic music artist Weird Al Yankovic released a new album Straight Outta Lynwood Punk rock band NOFX released the 2009 song Straight Outta Massachusetts In the 2014 film 22 Jump Street the character Mrs Dickson whose husband is played by Ice Cube says she s straight outta Compton 83 In 2015 the biopic Straight Outta Compton was a hit film 84 Track listing EditAll songs produced by Dr Dre and DJ Yella No Title Writer s Performer s Samples 85 86 Length1 Straight Outta Compton Ice Cube MC Ren The D O C Ice Cube MC Ren Eazy E Funky Drummer by James Brown You ll Like It Too by Funkadelic West Coast Poplock by Ronnie Hudson and the Street People Get Me Back on Time Engine No 9 by Wilson Pickett Amen Brother by The Winstons One for the Treble by Davy DMX 4 182 Fuck tha Police 87 Ice Cube MC Ren The D O C Ice Cube MC Ren Eazy E Funky President People It s Bad by James Brown It s My Thing by Marva Whitney Boogie Back by Roy Ayers Feel Good by Fancy Funky Drummer by James Brown Ruthless Villain by Eazy E Be Thankful for What You Got by William DeVaughn 5 453 Gangsta Gangsta Ice Cube Ice Cube Eazy E Weak at the Knees by Steve Arrington Troglodyte by Jimmy Castor Bunch Be Thankful for What You Got by William DeVaughn Impeach the President by The Honey Drippers N T by Kool amp the Gang Funky Worm by Ohio Players Prison by Richard Pryor My Philosophy by Boogie Down Productions KRS One La Di Da Di by Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick Girls by Beastie Boys Ruthless Villain by Eazy E Take the Money and Run by Steve Miller Band 5 364 If It Ain t Ruff MC Ren MC Ren A Star in the Ghetto by Average White Band Quiet on tha Set and Straight Outta Compton by N W A Ruthless Villain by Eazy E Don t Believe the Hype by Public Enemy 3 345 Parental Discretion Iz Advised The D O C also for Dr Dre MC Ren Ice Cube The D O C Dr Dre MC Ren Ice Cube Eazy E I Turned You On by The Isley Brothers and Dave Baby Cortez 5 156 8 Ball remix Ice Cube Eazy E It s My Beat by Sweet Tea Be Thankful for What You Got by William DeVaughn Yes We Can Can by The Pointer Sisters You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party The New Style Girls Paul Revere and Hold It Now Hit It by Beastie Boys Terminator X Speaks With His Hands and Too Much Posse by Public Enemy Hollywood Swinging by Kool amp the Gang Let s Get It On by Marvin Gaye Go See the Doctor by Kool Moe Dee Boyz n the Hood by Eazy E My Melody by Eric B amp Rakim 4 527 Something Like That MC Ren also for Dr Dre MC Ren Dr Dre Down on the Avenue by Fat Larry s Band Take the Money and Run by Steve Miller Band I Think I ll Do It by Z Z Hill 3 358 Express Yourself Ice Cube Dr Dre Express Yourself by Charles Wright amp the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band Dopeman by N W A 4 259 Compton s N the House remix MC Ren also for Dr Dre MC Ren Dr Dre Something Like That by N W A 5 2010 I Ain t tha 1 Ice Cube Ice Cube The Message Inspiration by Brass Construction 4 5411 Dopeman remix Ice Cube Ice Cube Eazy E Dance to the Drummer s Beat by Herman Kelly and Life Funky Worm by Ohio Players My Posse by C I A 5 2012 Quiet On tha Set MC Ren MC Ren Down to the Grissle by Cool C Funky Drummer by James Brown I Get Lifted by George McCrae Rock Creek Park by The Blackbyrds Take the Money and Run by Steve Miller Band Straight Outta Compton by N W A On the Bugged Tip by Big Daddy Kane Rebel Without a Pause by Public Enemy 3 5913 Something 2 Dance 2 Arabian Prince Arabian Prince DJ Yella Dr Dre Eazy E You re the One for Me by D Train Dance to the Music by Sly and the Family Stone 3 232002 reissue bonus tracksNo TitleWriter s Performer s Length14 Express Yourself extended mix Ice Cube MC RenDr Dre MC Ren Ice Cube4 4215 Bonus Beats 3 0316 Straight Outta Compton extended mix Ice Cube The D O C MC RenMC Ren Eazy E Ice Cube4 5317 A Bitch Iz a Bitch Ice CubeIce Cube3 10 2007 reissue 20th Anniversary Edition bonus tracksNo TitleWriter s Performer s Length14 tha Police tribute remix MC Ren Eazy EBone Thugs n Harmony5 0215 Gangsta Gangsta tribute remix Eazy E MC RenSnoop Dogg C Murder4 3916 Dopeman tribute remix Ice Cube Eazy EMack 104 0117 If It Ain t Ruff tribute remix MC RenWC3 4418 Compton s n the House live Dr Dre Eazy EDr Dre MC Ren2 02Personnel EditEazy E rapping seven songs Ice Cube rapping six songs MC Ren rapping eight songs Arabian Prince keyboards amp drum programming five songs amp rapping one song Dr Dre keyboards amp drum programming five songs rapping five songs DJ Yella sampling amp drum programming seven songs rapping one song The D O C guest rapping one song Charts EditChart 1989 88 89 PeakpositionUS Billboard Top LPs 37US Billboard Top Soul LPs 9Chart 1991 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 90 51New Zealand Albums RMNZ 91 43Chart 2003 88 89 PeakpositionIrish Albums Chart 20UK Albums Chart 35Chart 2015 16 92 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 93 8Austrian Albums O3 Austria 94 55French Albums SNEP 95 17German Albums Offizielle Top 100 96 36Irish Albums IRMA 97 7Italian Vinyl Records FIMI 98 15Norwegian Albums VG lista 99 38Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 100 54UK R amp B Albums OCC 101 6US Billboard 200 6Certifications EditRegion Certification Certified units salesUnited Kingdom BPI 102 Platinum 300 000 United States RIAA 103 3 Platinum 3 000 000 Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone See also EditAlbum era Straight Outta Compton N W A 10th Anniversary TributeNotes Edit a b Kory Grow August 8 2018 N W A s Straight Outta Compton 12 Things You Didn t Know rollingstone com Rolling Stone LLC Retrieved June 9 2019 Straight Outta Compton N W A Songs Reviews Credits AllMusic a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Kory Grow N W A s Straight Outta Compton 12 things you didn t know Rolling Stone website Penske Business Media LLC 8 Aug 2018 a b c David Diallo ch 10 From electro rap to G funk A social history of rap music in Los Angeles and Compton California in Mickey Hess ed Hip Hop in America A Regional Guide Volume 1 East Coast and West Coast Santa Barbara CA Greenwood Press 2010 pp 234 238 Incidentally this 1988 album is N W A s last album with contributions by Arabian Prince already gone by its August release and by Ice Cube gone by 1990 Both however are on N W A s 1987 compilation album N W A and the Posse sometimes recognized as N W A s first album whereas at the Posse album s release MC Ren may not have yet joined N W A s roster That is despite MC Ren s appearance among several others in the Posse album s cover photo Martin Cizmar Whatever happened to N W A s posse LA Weekly 6 May 2010 In any case by N W A s next significant release a 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin the group is four Eazy Dre Yella and Ren also on the next and final album 1991 s Efil4zaggin or Niggaz4Life Musician Amordian Press 1991 volume 147 p 59 McDermott Terry April 14 2002 NWA Straight Outta Compton pt 1 Los Angeles Times Reprinted at Hip Hop News Retrieved August 15 2015 a b Tenth Ruthless anniversary For the record Billboard 1997 Aug 9 109 32 R 16 Jeff Chang Can t Stop Won t Stop A History of the Hip Hop Generation New York St Martin s Press 2005 pp 327 328 a b c d e f g h i Huey Steve Straight Outta Compton N W A AllMusic Retrieved May 7 2020 Omar Burgess October 10 2007 HHDX News Bits NWA and Eazy E HipHopDX Retrieved October 10 2007 Universal Music Group announced that it would reissue the album as a limited edition red cassette on April 15 as part of Universal s Respect the Classics series Pietro Fililpponi Universal announces more N W A re releases Straight Outta Compton cassette tape Friday 20th anniversary vinyl Gotham News website Gotham News LLC 2 Apr 2015 a b Grammy Hall of Fame Adds 25 Recordings grammy com The Recording Academy 2016 Archived from the original on December 4 2016 Retrieved March 11 2020 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link National Recording Registry Picks Are Over the Rainbow Library of Congress March 29 2016 Retrieved March 29 2016 Wayne Marshall Kool Herc in Mickey Hess ed Icons of Hip Hop An Encyclopedia of the Movement Music and Culture Volume 1 Westport CT Greenwood Press 2007 pp 6 7 a b c d e Loren Kajikawa Compton via New York Sounding Race in Rap Songs Oakland University of California Press 2015 pp 91 96 Los Angeles county was secondary a b c d e f g h David Diallo ch 10 From electro rap to G funk A social history of rap music in Los Angeles and Compton California in Mickey Hess ed Hip Hop in America A Regional Guide Volume 1 East Coast and West Coast Santa Barbara California Greenwood Press 2010 with pp 228 231 on Ice T p 233 and following on World Class Wreckin Cru pp 234 238 on N W A and otherwise backstory on their precursor contemporary and evolving rap scene in the Los Angeles area There were for example Egyptian Lover down with Uncle Jamm s Army and The Unknown DJ down with the World Class Wreckin Cru a b David Diallo Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg in Mickey Hess ed Icons of Hip Hop An Encyclopedia of the Movement Music and Culture Santa Barbara CA Greenwood Press 2007 pp 319 321 In the song Schoolly D raps Park Side Killers is making that green One by one I m knocking em out Tom Moon The first great gangsta rap record Straight Outta Compton N W A 1 000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die A Listener s Life List New York Workman Publishing 2008 p 557 Vlad Lyubovny interviewer Arabian Prince on being founding member of NWA w Dre amp Eazy E VladTV DJVlad YouTube 11 Sep 2015 a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine N W A Biography AllMusic com Netaktion LLC visited 26 Apr 2020 Robin D G Kelley Kickin reality kickin ballistics Gangsta rap and postindustrial Los Angeles in William Eric Perkins ed Droppin Science Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture Philadelphia Temple University Press 1996 p 128 a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine N W A Biography AllMusic com Netaktion LLC visited 25 Apr 2020 Jason Birchmeier Compton s Most Wanted in Chris Woodstra John Bush amp Stephen Thomas Erlewine eds All Music Guide Required Listening Volum 2 Old School Rap and Hip Hop New York NY Backbeat Books 2008 p 15 Eazy E Timeline Eazy E com Accessed October 4 2007 In N W A s 1990 single 100 Miles and Runnin the title track of the group s only nationally distributed EP whose music video shows the rappers running from police Dre raps that now the FBI is all over my dick MetroLyrics N W A 100 Miles And Running lyrics CBS Interactive Inc 2020 And in the title track of his 1990 or debut solo album AmeriKKKa s Most Wanted Ice Cube raps With a pay off cop gotta lay off FBI on my dick stay off MetroLyrics Ice Cube Amerikkka s Most Wanted lyrics CBS Interactive Inc 2020 a b The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s Slant March 5 2012 Retrieved August 14 2015 Westhoff Ben 2016 Original Gangstas The Untold Story of Dr Dre Eazy E Ice Cube Tupac Shakur and the Birth of West Coast Rap Hachette Books p 79 ISBN 978 0 3163 8389 9 a b c George Ciccariello Maher The 808 in Mickey Hess ed Icons of Hip Hop An Encyclopedia of the Movement Music and Culture Volume 1 Westport CT Greenwood Press 2007 p 75 Paul Harkins Digital Sampling The Design and Use of Music Technologies London Routledge 2019 a b Caramanica Jon October 17 2002 Straight Outta Compton Reissue Rolling Stone No 907 New York Archived from the original on June 19 2022 Retrieved July 22 2009 Richmond Times Dispatch 30 June 1989 quoted in Anne Janette Johnson Contemporary Musicians N W A Encyclopedia com Cengage updated 1 April 2020 a b Newsweek staff Number one with a bullet Newsweek 30 Jun 1991 quoted in Anne Janette Johnson Contemporary Musicians N W A Encyclopedia com Cengage updated 1 Apr 2020 Tim Scott 40oz beats A brief history of malt liquor in hip hop Vice 17 November 2015 David Mills Rap s hostile fringe From N W A and others reality based violence Washington Post 2 September 1990 G1 quoted by Soren Baker The History of Rap and Hip Hop Farmingham Mills Michigan Lucent Books 2012 p 58 and also cited by Loren Kajikawa Sounding Race in Rap Songs Berkeley California University of California Press 2015 p 169 a b Wichita Eagle Beacon 3 August 1989 quoted in Anne Janette Johnson Contemporary Musicians N W A Encyclopedia com Cengage updated 1 April 2020 Straight Outta Compton Clean Version Artist Direct Retrieved August 15 2015 a b c Wilkinson Roy September 9 1989 Guns and girls and rap n roll Sounds London Retrieved October 29 2021 via Rock s Backpages a b Kot Greg July 13 1989 N W A Straight Outta Compton Ruthless Priority Chicago Tribune Retrieved May 6 2016 a b Hunt Dennis March 19 1989 N W A Straight Outta Compton Priority Ruthless Los Angeles Times Retrieved May 6 2016 a b Hewitt Paolo April 15 1989 NWA Straight Outta Compton NME London p 34 a b c Dick Charlie November 1989 N W A Straight Outta Compton Q No 38 London a b Christgau Robert April 25 1989 Christgau s Consumer Guide The Village Voice New York Retrieved May 6 2016 Darling Cary March 3 1989 Fine Young Cannibals dish out an underdone album The Orange County Register a b Hi Fi News amp Record Review Dec 1989 Mao Chairman October 2002 Mad as F Blender Vol 1 no 10 New York p 142 Archived from the original on April 19 2010 Retrieved August 19 2015 Harrison Ian March 2008 N W A Straight Outta Compton Mojo No 172 London p 118 Suzuki Ray October 2 2003 N W A Straight Outta Compton Efil4zaggin Pitchfork Retrieved July 22 2009 N W A Straight Outta Compton Q No 260 London March 2008 p 118 a b Sarig Roni 2004 N W A In Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian eds The New Rolling Stone Album Guide 4th ed Simon amp Schuster pp 594 595 ISBN 0 7432 0169 8 N W A Straight Outta Compton The Source No 150 New York March 2002 Sandow Greg 1995 N W A In Weisbard Eric Marks Craig eds Spin Alternative Record Guide Vintage Books pp 277 278 ISBN 0 679 75574 8 N W A Straight Outta Compton Uncut No 66 London November 2002 p 141 Hip Hop Connection July 1994 100 Best Albums The Source No 100 New York January 1998 VH1 List of 100 Best Rock Albums dailycelebrations com Retrieved February 16 2016 Spin 20th Anniversary Special July 2005 rocklistmusic co uk July 1 2005 Retrieved February 16 2016 The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone September 22 2020 Retrieved September 28 2020 The All TIME 100 Albums TIME Accessed January 4 2008 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Vibe December 1999 p 164 a b c d The Recording Industry Association of America reports this upon a January 1989 album release Gold amp Platinum search Straight Outta Compton RIAA website visited 7 May 2020 Chart history N W A Billboard com visited 7 May 2020 Gold amp Platinum search N W A and the Posse Recording Industry Association of America website visited 7 May 2020 Gold amp Platinum search 100 Miles and Runnin Recording Industry Association of America website visited 7 May 2020 Scott Warfield N W A in Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith amp Anthony J Fonseca eds Hip Hop Around the World An Encyclopedia Santa Barbara CA Greenwood 2018 p 535 Terry McDermott NWA Straight Outta Compton Los Angeles Times 14 Apr 2002 archived by Davey D FNV Newsletter website Gold amp Platinum search Efil4zaggin Recording Industry Association of America website visited 7 May 2020 a b Victoria Hernandez Hip Hop album sales Dr Dre Kendrick Lamar amp N W A HipHopDX 17 Aug 2015 Chart history Straight Outta Compton N W A Billboard com visited 7 May 2020 Keith Caulfield N W A takes over charts gets first Top 40 Hit on Hot 100 Billboard com 25 Aug 2015 Chart history Straight Outta Compton N W A Billboard com visited 7 May 2020 Staff June 14 2004 The 25 Best Album Covers DigitalArts Retrieved on September 27 2010 There are a number of examples Tanay Hudson Former N W A manager disappointed with biopic Vibe 30 June 2014 Valentina I Valentini Two 90s era hip hop films revive L A s rap glory days Los Angeles 8 June 2015 Dianne de Guzman N W A to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but won t perform SFGate 7 April 2016 Ithaka Darin Pappas director The Miracle Mile Shot Ithaka Darin Pappas 2019 Documentary NWA amp Eazy E Kings of Compton on DVD in January Cine Outsider Retrieved April 6 2017 NWA amp Eazy E The Kings of Compton coming to DVD Music News com Retrieved April 6 2017 Exposition HIP HOP UN AGE D OR 1970 1995 Marseille petitfute com Retrieved April 6 2017 Hip Hop un age d or 1970 1995 Living Marseille in French Archived from the original on December 13 2017 Retrieved April 6 2017 Ice Cube and Dr Dre join NWA members in Brooklyn as they re admitted to Rock amp Roll Hall of Fame digitalspy com April 9 2016 Retrieved April 6 2017 Rolling Stone 15 November 1990 Rock Chris Chris Rock s top 25 hip hop albums RateYourMusic com Retrieved October 6 2007 22 Jump Street 10 pop culture references you might have missed Entertainment Weekly s EW com Retrieved August 14 2015 von Tunzelmann Alex September 2 2015 Straight Outta Compton Hit biopic raps up NWA story cleanly The Guardian Retrieved March 11 2020 Tracks on Straight Outta Compton N W A 1988 SecondHandSongs secondhandsongs 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Track IRMA Retrieved September 11 2015 Straight Outta Compton on the FIMI charts in Italian Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana Retrieved April 6 2018 Norwegiancharts com N W A Straight Outta Compton Hung Medien Retrieved September 15 2015 Swisscharts com N W A Straight Outta Compton Hung Medien Retrieved September 9 2015 Official R amp B Albums Chart Top 40 Official Charts Company Retrieved August 14 2015 British album certifications Nwa Straight Outta Compton British Phonographic Industry Selectalbumsin the Format field SelectPlatinumin the Certification field TypeStraight Outta Compton in the Search BPI Awards field and then press Enter American album certifications N W A Straight Outta Compton Recording Industry Association of America External links EditStraight Outta Compton Adobe Flash at Radio3Net streamed copy where licensed Straight Outta Compton at Discogs Outlaw Rock More Skirmishes on the Censorship Front The New York Times 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w 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