At the time, all N.W.A had released was the “Panic Zone” 12-inch. N.W.A almost didn’t make it to Straight Outta Compton.Īt the conclusion of the group’s autumn 1987 tour opening for Salt-N-Pepa, Ice Cube informed the crew that he would be going to college. Back then we was calling it ‘reality rap’ ‘gangsta rap’ is the name that the media coined.”Ģ.
“Talking about what really led into the style that we ended up doing, which is now called hardcore gangster rap. “We were trying to make records that can go on the radio, and when we started doing mixtapes - which we knew wasn’t going on the radio - that’s when we really started to talk about the neighborhood,” Ice Cube told Rolling Stonein 2015. The group didn’t call their music “gangsta rap” when it came out. As the LP turns 30, here are 12 things you might not already know about it.ġ. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren and Yella on the map, there’s still much about this record that didn’t make it into the movie. The album subsequently surged back up to Number 38 on the Billboard chart and was certified triple-platinum that year.ĭespite being one of the biggest gangsta rap albums ever and putting Dr.
It was later included in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and had a second act decades later, after its onscreen counterpart about N.W.A, also called Straight Outta Compton, came out in 2015 to blockbuster success. Straight Outta Compton was made in a matter of weeks for a reported $12,000, and when it came out on August 8th, 1988, it slowly became a hit without much traditional music-industry support, going gold by the following April and platinum by July as momentum built. Thanks to the notoriety around “Fuck tha Police,” which the FBI condemned, and their single “Straight Outta Compton,” whose video was banned from MTV, N.W.A quickly became not just the world’s most dangerous group but also one of its most intriguing. Verse Two: Dotomy's in tha place tah give me the pace He said my man JD is on free-base Tha boy JD was a friend of mine 'Til I caught him in my car trying tah steal a alpine I chase him up tha street tah call a truce Tha silly cluckhead pulls out a deuce deuce Little did he know I had a loaded 12 gauge One sucka dead L.A.Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest. (Straight up, straight up, straight up gangsta wrong nigga tah fuck wit Straight up, straight up, straight up gangsta wrong nigga tah fuck wit)
Verse One: Cruisin' down tha street in my '64 Jackin' tha freaks clocking tha dough Went to tha park tah get the scoop Knuckleheads out there come shootin' some hoop A car pulls up who can it be A fresh El Camino rollin' Kilo G He rolled down his window and he started to say It's all about makin' that GTAĬhorus: 'Cuz tha boyz in tha hood are always hard Ya come talkin' that trash we'll pull ya cord Knowin' nuthin' in life but tah be legit Don't quote me boy 'cuz I ain't said shit
Intro: Yeah, gangsta Dresta steps in this muthafucka and this one goes out tah all the O.G.'s out there and I can't forget about the baby gangstaz, what's up niggaz, my nigga they came back with some of that old school original west coast shit nigga that got all of y'all in this dig in the first place yeah so run that shit E, yeah.