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Straight Outta Compton is a genre-defining Gangsta rap album by N.W.A first released in 1989, and later rereleased on September 24, 2002 in a remastered version with four bonus tracks. The album was a hip hop masterpiece that went on to have an enormous impact on the evolution of gangsta rap.

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Impact

The album was a true underground blockbuster, as it reached double platinum sales status, becoming the first album to reach platinum status with no airplay support.[[Citing sources citation needed]]

As the hip hop community world wide received the album with a high note, the members of N.W.A. became the top stars for the emerging new era of Gangsta rap while popularizing the very fresh gangsta rap of Ice-T.

Because Straight Outta Compton was a very crude album featuring recurrent violent & sexual lyrics and profanity, often specifically directed at governmental organizations such as the LAPD, N.W.A always enjoyed a particular repudiation from senate members and FBI who, in an attempt to make the group stop releasing albums, often persecuted them in several indirect and direct forms. This situation persisted over the years with the group's visible head, Eazy-E.

\"Fuck Tha Police\"

"Fuck Tha Police," the album's most controversial track, was responsible in great part for the fame of N.W.A as World's Most Dangerous Group.

An excerpt from the lyrics of "Fuck Tha Police":

As a result of "Fuck Tha Police", on August 1, 1989, an assistant director of the FBI, Milt Ahlerich, sent a letter to Ruthless Records and its parent company, Priority Records.

The letter:

Track listing

  1. "Straight Outta Compton" (Eazy E/Ice Cube/MC Ren) (4:26)
  2. "Fuck tha Police" (Ice Cube/MC Ren./Eazy E) (5:43)
  3. "Gangsta Gangsta" (Eazy E/Ice Cube) (5:29)
  4. "If It Ain't Ruff" (MC Ren) (3:36)
  5. "Parental Discretion Iz Advised" (Eazy E/Ice Cube/Ren/D.O.C.) (5:16)
  6. "8 Ball [Remix]" (Eazy-E) (4:25)
  7. "Something Like That" performed by N.W.A
  8. "Express Yourself" (Dr. Dre/Ice Cube) (4:21)
  9. "Compton's N the House" [Remix] (2:09) performed by N.W.A
  10. "I Ain't Tha 1" (Ice Cube) (5:06)
  11. "Dopeman [Remix]" (Ice Cube) (6:16)
  12. "Quiet on Tha Set" performed by N.W.A
  13. "Something 2 Dance 2" performed by N.W.A
  14. "Express Yourself" [Extended Mix] (On 2002 re-release) (4:21)
  15. "Bonus Beats" (On 2002 re-release)
  16. "Straight Outta Compton [Extended Mix] (On 2002 re-release) (4:26)
  17. "A Bitch Iz a Bitch" (On 2002 re-release) (3:16)
In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Straight Outta Compton the 62nd greatest album of all time. It's the group's only album on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (ranked #144), and when comedian Chris Rock wrote an article for the magazine about the 25 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of all time in 2005, "Straight Outta Compton" was #1 on his list.

Seven songs from this album- "Gangata Gangsta", "Fuck Tha Police", "Straight Outta Compton" [Extended Mix], "If It Ain't Ruff", "I Ain't Tha 1", the remix of "Express Yourself", and "A Bitch Iz A Bitch"- were later released on "N.W.A.'s Greatest Hits"

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