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Album closer “Something 2 Dance 2” is a sonic time capsule of the kinder, gentler, early L.A. hip-hop sound that suddenly felt out of place amidst N.W.A’s new, hard style. Overall “Straight Outta Compton” occupies the sweet spot between the group’s light-hearted, unauthorized 1987 debut “N.W.A and the Posse” and their brutally ...
Aug 17, 2015 · It was the cover art for “Straight Outta Compton,” the pioneering debut album by N.W.A that revolutionized gangsta rap and redefined hip hop. The photographer was a 28-year-old white guy ...
May 26, 2021 · Incidentally, upon its release, ‘Straight Outta Compton’ was the first rap album ever to receive a 5-star review from Rolling Stone. Smashing through the gates with the title track, it’s a take-no-prisoners affair, before being smashed in the face with one of the great modern-day protest songs ever, ‘Fuck tha Police.’.
Other articles where Straight Outta Compton is discussed: Dr. Dre: The group’s second album, Straight Outta Compton (1988), was a breakthrough for the nascent gangsta rap movement, featuring explicit descriptions (and often glorifications) of street violence and drug dealing. While Dre appeared prominently as a rapper in N.W.A, his most-lauded role was as a producer, crafting ambitiously ...
Aug 8, 1988 · 100 Best Albums: No. 70 Coming hard on the heels of 1987’s excoriating “Dopeman” 12-inch, and Eazy-E’s career defining hustler narrative “Boyz-n-the Hood”, Straight Outta Compton was the album that would turn N.W.A. from a local phenomenon into a nationally feared public menace.
Straight Outta Compton turned N.W.A. from a local phenomenon in LA into a nationally feared public menace. Dr. Dre’s simple but impeccably equalized production, Ice Cube’s powerhouse flow and incipient Black radicalism, Eazy-E’s sneering nihilism, and MC Ren’s stolid ice grill started to shift the focus of the hip-hop universe 3,000 miles west.
Aug 8, 2013 · On this 25th anniversary of 'Straight Outta Compton,' we take a trip back through the volatile gangsta rap classic that launched the careers of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, the D.O.C. and more.
