“Talking about what really led into the style that we ended up doing, which is now called hardcore gangster rap. “We were trying to make records that can go on the radio, and when we started doing mixtapes - which we knew wasn’t going on the radio - that’s when we really started to talk about the neighborhood,” Ice Cube told Rolling Stonein 2015. The group didn’t call their music “gangsta rap” when it came out. As the LP turns 30, here are 12 things you might not already know about it.ġ. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren and Yella on the map, there’s still much about this record that didn’t make it into the movie.
The album subsequently surged back up to Number 38 on the Billboard chart and was certified triple-platinum that year.ĭespite being one of the biggest gangsta rap albums ever and putting Dr. It was later included in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and had a second act decades later, after its onscreen counterpart about N.W.A, also called Straight Outta Compton, came out in 2015 to blockbuster success. Straight Outta Compton was made in a matter of weeks for a reported $12,000, and when it came out on August 8th, 1988, it slowly became a hit without much traditional music-industry support, going gold by the following April and platinum by July as momentum built. Thanks to the notoriety around “Fuck tha Police,” which the FBI condemned, and their single “Straight Outta Compton,” whose video was banned from MTV, N.W.A quickly became not just the world’s most dangerous group but also one of its most intriguing. Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest.
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