Straight Outta Compton

“Straight Outta Compton”, N.W.A.’s debut album, is the blueprint for West Coast rap and one of the greatest hiphop albums of all time. Released by Eazy-E’s label Ruthless Records in 1988, the album was produced by Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince, with lyrics written by Ice Cube and MC Ren along with Ruthless rapper The DOC. 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, 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. In 2015, after an album reissue on limited edition red cassettes, theater release of the biographical film “Straight Outta Compton” reinvigorated sales of the album, which by year’s end was certified three times multi-platinum. In 2016 it became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame. The next year, the Library Of Congress enshrined “Straight Outta Compton” in the National Recording Registry.

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