Highlights include, I Ain't the One, in which Cube hilariously confronts materialistic women, and, of course, Express Yourself. Soon after, the dead-eyed Compton rapper MC Ren also joined. Nevertheless, the album reached double platinum sales status, being the first to do without commercial support. Artwork: Helane Freeman Engineer: Donovan Sound Executive Producer: Eric Wright (Eazy-E) Mastered by: Big Bass Brian Photography: Eric Poppleton Producers. In putting N.W.A together, Eazy recruited Cube, as well as producers Dre, Yella, and Arabian Prince. It would be the group's notorious mantra F**k The Police that would create the most mayhem, with radio bans and FBI investigations. With Dre and DJ Yella on productions, the tracks were written predominantly by Ice Cube, while Easy E and MC Ren contributed with delivering the rhymes.
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However, unlike Public Enemy’s rational Fight the Power ethos, these teenagers were angrily brazen about sticking up a middle finger while possibly waving a AK47 in the other hand, in their pursuit of free speech. Although Ice Cube wrote some of his bandmates raps, including nearly all of Eazy Es. Originally released in 1988, Straight Outta Compton compelled the mainstream audience to see the hostile, underprivileged side to American living. In August 2018, NWA’s debut studio album Straight Outta Compton celebrated its 30th anniversary. The force and detail of Ice Cubes writing makes the exaggerations resonate. Recorded and mixed at Audio Achievements, Torrance, CA. Originally mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering, remastered at Future Disc, Hollywood CA. They do not appear on the original release.
Tracks 14 to 17 are listed as bonus tracks. Are any of them really classics? Will we still want to crank that Soulja Boy and 'super man dat hoe', in say 5 years? Okay, not the greatest example, but the point being, who now in this dire state of hip-hop will have made an impact musically, for us to care about in years to come? With the re-release of N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton, for its 20th Anniversary, the acknowledgment not only proves it's longstanding genius but allows new fans, who may only be aware of 50 Cent's dubious 'hell-raising' antics, to engulf themselves with the revolutionary sound that put gangsta rap on the map. 2002 remastered reissue of the original album released in 1988. It is a wonder, if in 20 years time we will still be enthused by the hip-hop and rap music being produced today.
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