Straight Outta Compton Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
| Straight Outta Compton | ||
|---|---|---|
| LP by N.W.A | ||
| Released | 1989 | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | Gangsta rap | |
| Length | 77 min 31 s
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| Record label | Priority | |
| Producer | Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Yella | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Allmusic.com | 5 stars out of 5 | link |
| N.W.A. Chronology | ||
| N.W.A and the Posse (1987) | Straight Outta Compton (1989) | 100 Miles and Runnin' (1990) |
Straight Outta Compton is the 1989 (see 1989 in music) breakthrough album by N.W.A, released on Priority Records. The album was a surprise hit, as most music executives at the time viewed hip hop as a passing fad, and did not expect a hardcore gangsta rap album from the West Coast rap scene (all previous chart success in hip hop had been from the East Coast scene) to sell over 2.5 million copies with virtually no radio airplay and an MTV ban. The album has since been described as "a work of revolutionary genius, a painful scream from the bleak streets of black America and, more commonly, as reprehensible trash with no redeeming value"[1].
Straight Outta Compton 's unprecedented mainstream success set the sound for hip hop in the early 1990s. Angry, vitriolic lyrics and an almost-cartoonish level of violence made this album controversial upon its first release. This is especially true of "Fuck Tha Police", which caused law enforcement groups to protest the album. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a letter to N.W.A., explaining that the FBI did not appreciate the song's message:
- Fuck tha police comin' straight from the underground
- a young nigga's got it bad 'cause I'm brown
- and not the other color so police think
- they have the authority to kill a minority
In 2003 the TV station VH1 named Straight Outta Compton the 62nd greatest album of all time.
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