![]() ![]() Cube and Ren sound convincing, and Eazy turns in a verse too. I have to admit: it’s funny hearing a “gangsta” Ice-Cube again, after his conversion to the movie director who makes family movies. Straight Outta Compton – The fellas don’t waste anytime with an intro but instead bust you right in the mouth with this hardcore in your face title song. The FBI even sent Ruthless Records a nastygram due to the lyrical content on “Fuck The Police”.īut behind all the acclaim and controversy, there was the music. Straight Outta Compton was not only met with commercial (it sold over 3 million copies) and critical (it received 5 mics from The Source) acclaim, but it also stirred up a lot of controversy for it violent content. ![]() Eazy and business partner/manager Jerry Heller would join forces a year later to form Ruthless Records, where N.W.A would release their infamous album Straight Outta Compton. group members as well as a few songs from some of their homies from around the way crew). & The Posse in 1987 on Macola Records (which was actually a collection of old material from N.W.A. Ren” Patterson, and DJ Yella (government name, Antoine Carraby) together to form “Niggaz With Attitude”, better known as N.W.A. Dre” Young, inspiring rappers O’Shea “Ice-Cube” Jackson, Lorenzo “M.C. 1988 is considered by many to be the finest year in hip-hop, largely due to two important albums by two totally different groups, who ultimately covered the same ground (political and societal ills) from two different perspectives: The first, Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, and a few months later, the second, N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton.īack in the mid eighties, drug dealer entrepeneur, Eric “Eazy” Wright brought fledgling producer Andre “Dr. ![]()
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