But like in 1988, relations between the police and Black communities are as strained as ever, and the racial. In August 2018, NWA’s debut studio album Straight Outta Compton celebrated its 30th anniversary. The album itself reached number 37 in the Billboard Top 200 in the spring of 1989, while it reached number 9 on Billboard's Top Soul LPs. NWA : Straight outta compton Label: Universal Release year: 1991/2015 NWA : Straight outta compton Label: Priority Records Release year: 2007 Label. And Compton is being hailed as the next Brooklyn. Arabian Prince was a master of Electro-hop which was huge in LA, until ironically, NWAs gangster rap blew it out of the water. It also helped to shift the power to the West Coast from the East Coast, which had enjoyed a period of prominence in hip hop for most of the 1980s.ĭespite not being a success at first and the lack of airplay, Straight Outta Compton sold over three million copies, thanks to the hits Straight Outta Compton, Gangsta Gangsta and Express Yourself.

Straight Outta Compton redefined the direction of hip hop, which resulted in lyricism concerning the gangsta lifestyle becoming the driving force in sales figures. It has been considered groundbreaking by music writers and has had an enormous impact on the evolution of West Coast hip hop. On Straight Outta Compton’s title track, Gangsta Gangsta (from which the term ‘gangsta rap’ was coined) and the controversial single, Fuck tha Police, rapper Ice Cube and NWA offered an. The debut album by N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton is now best remembered as the pioneering record of gangsta rap with its ever-present profanity and violent lyrics, it helped to give birth to this then-new sub-genre of hip hop.

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