#Straight outta compton album crack
The talk grows even darker on “Dopeman (Remix),” an advisory to avoid crack that manages to insert grim sex into its scenario: Just Say No it ain’t. The language may be rough, but the tale could be vaudeville – or date back to Salome.
Yella and Dre set up “I Ain’t Tha 1” with a witty yet still hardcore loop from Brass Construction, as Cube moans about women while they come in for his cash. “Compton’s N The House (Remix)” is a remix of a cassette-only track with a raw machine break supporting Ren, Dre, and Eazy-E’s assertion of hometown supremacy.
Dre’s showcase, the tune was as funky as can be, and Dre explains his lifestyle and thoughts – including a denial of dope in contrast to his classic The Chronic. It launched a rumor that Eazy-E (Eric Wright) was Wright Sr’s nephew, which the old-school funkateer flatly denied. Then comes another bomb: “Express Yourself,” erected on Charles Wright’s tune of the same title but taking it somewhere else altogether. “Parental Discretion Iz Advised” is planned provocation, with The DOC’s opening stanza mostly within the bounds of the acceptable before Dre, Ren and Cube up the ante for Eazy-E’s climactic demand of money for sex in an outrageous final verse. An underrated member purely because he was surrounded by such huge personalities, MC Ren’s skills hit the mark on “If It Ain’t Ruff,” downbeat relief from the noise of its predecessors and a diversion into standard hip-hop throwdowns. “Gangsta Gangsta” kicks off like a crime movie, with Eazy-E sounding exactly like the hustler he was before NWA hit. “Straight Outta Compton” introduces the group as a gang: sawn-off shotgun, mutha-smothering and all. In terms of verbal assassination of the law, it went where nobody dared go before: “They have the authority to kill a minority,” spat the teenage Ice Cube. The song’s set-up mimics a court case, Cube, Ren, and Eazy-E called as witnesses to police brutality. The album’s most notorious offering, “F_ck Tha Police,” may have shaken tender sensibilities and drawn condemnation from the FBI, but NWA reckoned it was the voice of their hood. They were saying it like they felt it, like it or loathe it. The group said they were simply reporting on life in a hitherto disregarded LA suburb. The liberal use of the N-word broke a taboo it wasn’t unheard of in rap, but never so freely scattered.
Above all, it was about uncompromising attitude: you were with it or you weren’t. Ice Cube’s glorious writing and heavyweight mic style Eazy-E’s outlaw charisma Dre’s production allied to Yella’s steely turntablism Ren’s rhyme style: individually all were strong collectively, it was five-way dynamite. Arabian Prince and The DOC were also on hand, though only the former made the Straight Outta Compton cover. MC Ren joined in 1987, just as NWA were ready to drop bombs that included tracks on the album NWA And The Posse. Eazy-E had earned acclaim for his single “The Boyz-N-The-Hood,” penned by Cube with a title to conjure with. Ice Cube had been in CIA, better known to UK B-boys than their US brethren thanks to an appearance on the popular Street Sounds Hip-Hop compilations. They had pedigree Dr Dre and Yella were part of World Class Wreckin’ Cru, who fused R&B and rap with some success. It was more complicated than that, though: if you hadn’t noticed NWA, that was your fault.
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