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Aug 14, 2015 · N.W.A are scuffling with several police officers, the action captured vérité-style by a handheld camera. Any initial shock wears off very quickly, as the group breaks free from the (actors ...
Aug 13, 2015 · The group’s 1988 debut album, also called Straight Outta Compton, promoted hip hop, and specifically a sub-genre dubbed gangsta rap from the underground into the American mainstream.
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- The World’S Most Dangerous Group
- Building The World’S Most Dangerous Album
- Why “Niggaz4life” Is A Masterpiece
- The End of An Era
But why has Niggaz4Life, the first “hardcore” Hip Hop album to ever reach the summit of Billboard’s top 200 pop album chart (Straight Outta Comptonpeaked at number 37), merited so little discussion since its release almost twenty-five years ago? What follows is an earnest attempt to place Niggaz4Life in its historical context, to answer why it is u...
Surprisingly, the chaos enveloping the group in 1991 never infiltrated the recording studio. According to Colin Wolfe (who assisted Dre and played bass on most of the album), the Niggaz4Life sessions were very structured with no discernible tension among group members despite Suge Knight’s frequent presence (Knight would later lure Dre away from Ru...
A major part of why Niggaz4Life lives in the shadow of its predecessor becomes apparent before you even listen to the album. Looking at the tracklist on the cover’s reverse, Niggaz4Life reads like a West Coast gangsta rap hybrid of Brett Easton Ellis’ satirical novel American Psycho (published to great controversy earlier in 1991) and the Geto Boy’...
Niggaz4Life was released on May 28, 1991 at the very beginning of the Soundscan era. Prior to Soundscan (a sales tracking system that was first implemented on March 1, 1991 and is still in use today), the industry used a far less reliable system of reporting that was reliant upon estimates provided by music store employees and marginalized the sale...
Aug 25, 2015 · New NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton – co-produced by former members Dr Dre and Ice Cube – is an inevitably selective portrait of the pioneering gangsta rappers. Here, with the help of...
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