Back then we was calling it ‘reality rap’ ‘gangster rap’ is the name that the media coined. “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,” Cube explained to Rolling Stone. That was largely because of the popularity of the film, and also because in the 80s, when the song was new, their music was pretty much banned from radio. 2015, making it the highest debut on the chart that week, and becoming N.W.A.'s first top 40 hit, 27 years after it first dropped. The song is certified platinum, receiving a boost when N.W.A.'s 2015 hit biopic, Straight Outta Compton dropped. A lot of people can take the good and the bad, but they don’t want to hear about the ugly, and we didn’t mind putting the ugly right out there.” "Our music really displayed the good, the bad and the ugly. But it was also fun, too, so it’s a crazy mixture of good times and bad times," Cube said. and his solo-headlined studio albums The Chronic and 2001. In retrospect, the video is a great explanation of N.W.A.'s group dynamic - Ice Cube and Ren spitting enraged lyrics, unafraid of the consequences of sharing their truth, Dre serving as the calm director of the group, making sure everyone shines in their moments in the spotlight, and Eazy as the wild, carefree antagonizer. However, Andre Young’s legacy as a lead rapper on three separate era-defining albums 1988’s Straight Outta Compton with N.W.A. In the video, he rides alongside the police van in a convertible, taunting the cop who's driving. They had pedigree Dr Dre and Yella were part of World Class. Dre introduces Eazy, who's signature voice takes the angry track up yet another notch. It was more complicated than that, though: if you hadn’t noticed NWA, that was your fault. That imagery is interspersed with clips of local police rocking gigantic aviator shades, fingering the trigger on their guns, and just generally looking like they're itching to harass someone.īy the time Ren's searing verse ends, he's thrown into the back of police holding van with Cube. Dre kicks off the song with a fair warning, "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge."įrom there, a young Cube, filled with righteous rage, opens the song as he stomps through the streets of Compton with his boys: "Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube / From the gang called Niggas Wit Attitudes," Cube opens his classic verse. Dre, MC Ren, Eazy E and DJ Yella- in their element. The video, directed by Rupert Wainwright (of MC Hammer video fame), showcased the group- Ice Cube, Dr.
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