Dre and Arabian Prince, two friends, record producers, and recording artists hitting locally but denied royalties. Dealing drugs, Wright had become acquainted with Dr. In 1986, Eric Wright, a Kelly Park Compton Crip, was forming in Compton an independent label, Ruthless Records. What Does It Mean?" In 1986, thus influenced, Ice-T offered the track " 6 in the Mornin' ", which, seizing some of LA's attention from electro rap, reached gold sales as the inaugural anthem of a new rap subgenre later called " gangsta rap". But since 1982, among LA's rising lyricists was Ice-T, who heard Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D's 1985 single " P.S.K. Dre and DJ Yella, led by Grandmaster Lonzo-made the West Coast's first rap album, albeit electro rap, released under a major record label. Yet around Los Angeles, DJs increasingly imparted or invited lyrics atop the party music, how the World Class Wreckin' Cru core-including Dr. Until 1988, this scene, retaining more of hip hop's dance and party origin, prioritized the DJ, from a DJ crew, playing, at a dance party, electro rap and "funk hop" -akin to Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force offering, from New York, the 1982 hit " Planet Rock" -whereas the East Coast, as in Run-DMC's breakout album of 1984, had moved to prioritizing the lyricist, the "MC". įor most of the 1980s, New York City, hip hop's 1973 birthplace, remained the rap genre's dominant scene. The next year, the Library of Congress enshrined Straight Outta Compton in the National Recording Registry. 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 of limited edition, 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. Dre-the ripple effects had reshaped rap, R&B, and popular music, influencing popular culture. As the 1990s closed, if largely through N.W.A's own splintering-yielding successful solo music careers and franchises for Ice Cube and for Dr. Receiving media spotlight, N.W.A's example triggered the rap genre's movement toward hardcore, gangsta rap. That year, the album peaked at #9 on Billboard 's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and at #37 on the popular albums chart, 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, 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 rap 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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