N.W.A further strove to secure radio play by supplying radio edits of their music to local stations such as KDAY. Įxpanding upon Ice-T's model, N.W.A imparted to gangsta rap a signature style that featured 'exaggerated descriptions of street life, militant resistance to authority, and outright sexist violence'. Released under the name N.W.A, 'Boyz-n-the-Hood' became a local hit, despite criticism that it sounded similar to Schoolly D's 'P.S.K.' single, and that its tempo was too slow to dance to. This song was originally intended to be performed by a New York-based group who were signed to Ruthless Records however, after that group rejected the song, Wright adopted the stage name Eazy-E and performed the rapping himself. The resulting track was ' Boyz-n-the-Hood'. Wright recruited the South Central Los Angeles-based rapper Ice Cube, then a member of rap group C.I.A., as a ghostwriter, and instructed him to collaborate with Dr.

Dre and Arabian Prince, a pair of locally successful record producers and recording artists who were struggling to receive royalties. Through drug dealing, Wright had become acquainted with Dr. In 1986, Eric Wright, a Kelly Park Compton Crip, formed Ruthless Records, an independent record label based in Compton. This song began to pull the Los Angeles scene's attention away from electro rap it reached gold sales and inaugurated a new rap subgenre, later called ' gangsta rap'. What Does It Mean?' Ice-T released the track ' 6 in the Mornin'' in 1986. Inspired by Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D's 1985 single ' P.S.K. Also among LA's rising lyricists was Ice-T. Dre and DJ Yella, published the West Coast's first rap album to be released under a major record label. The World Class Wreckin' Cru, which included Dr. Īs the 1980s continued, it became increasingly popular to record lyrics on top of electro rap music. By contrast, East Coast hip hop had moved to prioritizing the lyricist (or 'MC') after the success of Run-DMC's self-titled 1984 album. Until 1988, the Los Angeles hip hop scene, retaining more of hip hop's dance and party origin, prioritized DJs and DJ crews as the central players in hip hop the prevailing style at the time was electro rap and 'funk hop', similar to the New York-based 1982 hit ' Planet Rock'. Background įor most of the 1980s, New York City, the birthplace of hip hop, remained the rap genre's dominant scene. The next year, the Library of Congress enshrined Straight Outta Compton in the National Recording Registry, who have deemed it to be 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.

In 2016, it became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. And in 2015, after an album reissue on red cassettes, theater release of the biographical film Straight Outta Compton reinvigorated sales of the album, which by year's end was certified 3x Multi-Platinum.

Nearing the album's 20th anniversary, another extended version of it arrived in December 2007. Remastered, the album's September 2002 reissue gained four bonus tracks. Receiving media spotlight, N.W.A's example triggered the rap genre's movement toward hardcore, gangsta rap. That year, the album peaked at number 9 on Billboard 's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and at number 37 on the Billboard 200. 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. The track ' Fuck tha Police' drew an FBI agent's warning letter, which aided N.W.A's notoriety, with N.W.A calling itself 'the world's most dangerous group.' Not merely depicting Compton's street violence, the lyrics repeatedly threaten to lead it by attacking peers and even police. Dre, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince, with lyrics written by N.W.A members Ice Cube and MC Ren along with Ruthless rapper The D.O.C. Released by his label, Ruthless Records, on August 8, 1988, the album was produced by N.W.A members Dr. Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American hip hop group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton in early 1987.

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