say something interesting about "Straight Outta Compton"

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i bet that you can't. NWA has inspired about as much bad & cliched writing as the beatles, the sex pistols, and nirvana.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Something 2 Dance 2" is an underrated song.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I was in charge of a multiracial but mostly black boys' youth group from the East Cambridge projects when this came out. We played it in the van when we drove around the Boston area and talked about police relations, race, gang stuff, etc. We also listened to Digital Underground and JVC Force and Bigger and Deffer; we argued about Janet Jackson vs. Sade (janet in a walk) and had epic insult contests. i got paid for this.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

I had no idea what Compton was before this album. I hope the Compton tourism dept. paid them generously for this feat.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/Eazy.jpg

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

ice cube is one crazy motherfucker.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 29 January 2007 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

This record scared me so much I bought and returned it twice before finally managing to keep it on the third try.

I was a De La Soul listening punkass hippie wannabe white kid, what can I tell you?

To my credit, I guess, I was listening to a lot of BDP around the same time, and it always used to piss me off when people would here the line "it's not about a salary it's all about reality" in "My Philosophy" and say 'hey, he's sampling NWA!' Dumb motherfuckers. I still see that quote credited to them sometimes.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Monday, 29 January 2007 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Not half the record Niggaz4life is.

― Spine Swine (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 29 January 2007 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

This record was perfect to listen to while I shoveled three feet of snow off my porch roof a couple of years ago.

― joygoat (joygoat), Monday, 29 January 2007 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Kid 606 re-edit is on white vinyl?

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

to match their sneakers of course

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

You are now about to witness the strength of geek knowledge.

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

it wasnt dr dres finest hour.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to it on repeat all day after getting fired last summer and haven't touched it since.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I spent Christmas morning 1989 listening to "Straight Outta Compton" and playing darts in my bedroom. It made me laugh a lot, that first time, just from the audacity and sweariness of the opening 1-2-3. "We wanna fuck you Eazy! I wanna fuck you too." = comedy gold when you're 19.

I've come round a bit on the tracks that I didn't used to like, but the album's a patchwork and it shows. It's probably not the rekkid Efil4zaggin is, but on the other hand you get Ice Cube when he was still the best rapper in the world (except for Eazy). The reason the album's inspired a lot of bad, cliched writing is the same as for those other artists - because this shit is seminal.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy Duz It might be a better album, and it doesn't have the baggage of being "important."

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

i don't have anything interesting to say other than this record is great and i love it.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

is it interesting to say that MC Ren might be the most underrated rapper of all time? cuz he might be.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Most wasted potential, maybe. Shock of the Hour is still one of the most disappointing albums I've ever heard, in a relative sense. Even the Kizz My Black Azz EP was weak. Brother needs a group. But yeah, he was my favorite when I was a wee little gangsta.

― Zone Chrome (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that their's no period after the "A" on the cover still drives me nuts to this day. Whenever they are in Spin, I note that it must be the fact-checker style guide to do it like the album cover N.W.A

Wikipedia fun-fact:
Yella has since retired from the music business and is now directing pornographic movies.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25XOi1_L7Q8

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

i had to write a 75-wd capsule review of their greatest hits and it was fucking impossible to say anything new or original about them. i might as well have been writing about fucking beethoven or something.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Straight Outta Warsaw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zusi9kNsKMI

― suppanerd (pyotreck), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that their's no period after the "A" on the cover still drives me nuts to this day.

oh my. this is going to bother me.

― richard wood johnson (rwj), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

i remember sitting around w/ my high school friends circa winter 1989 (a year after we'd graduated) playing this record for them after i'd RAVED about it -- and they just weren't feeling it at ALL (n.b.: these particular friends were also BIG public enemy, de la soul and jungle brothers fans -- so i THOUGHT that i had a friendly audience). about halfway through (i think after "8-ball"), one of my friends just looked at me and said, "just what IS the appeal of this stuff for you, anyway? i don't get it."

of course, w/n a year or so the kids in my NJ suburb were all into this gangsta shit -- though not the friends for whom i played straight outta compton.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

is it interesting to say that MC Ren might be the most underrated rapper of all time?

i wouldn't go THAT far, though ren does have more than a few great lines throughout the record -- i still love "some shit i don't take it, not even in a toilet/and some shit from a sucka, i put in a pot & i boil it." ren was a perfectly competent MC, outshone by larger-than-life figures like ice cube & eazy-e (and later overshadowed by dre) -- sort of what inspectah deck would be w/n wu-tang a few years later.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this.

I was 12 years old, and I was on a weeklong school trip to Gettysburg and Washington D.C. That was a pretty big deal for a kid from suburban Toronto. We stopped in Corning N.Y. to visit the Corning museum of glass which I figured would have been really boring. After a surprisingly interesting couple of hours, as we were getting ready to board the bus for rest of the trip to Pennsylvania, I happened to ask my friend Alex what he was listening to. He said "N.W.A.", which meant absolutely nothing to me, and proceeded to hand me his big, yellow Sony sport Walkman. I put the earphones on, and was never the same again.

They would go on to release a better album, and much of Dre and Ice Cube's solo output is in a completely different league, but few albums ever hit me with the same immediacy. Certainly before, and not many times since.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

dr dre is an underrated rapper. sure he might not write his own material but his timing, 'persona' and delivery are impeccable. dre is possibly 'the best producer on the mic', forget rza and diamond d.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

lovely use of the amen break

― I love bagpiping, tromboning and teabagging (the_article_don), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/03/14/174334510/gangsta-rap-swap-meet-proprieter-wan-joon-kim-has-died

― 乒乓, Monday, 18 March 2013 12:39 (twelve years ago)

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