Recorded after the split, Ice Cube’s “No Vaseline”, whilst enjoying an exuberant, bouncing backing track, is as homophobic and anti-Semitic as you’re likely to hear. tracks are several of the offshoots solo tracks from Eazy E and Ice Cube are equally as enthralling as anything the band recorded although they are at times ensnared in petty “disses” and nasty, back-stabbing lyrics. They fit beautifully into the running order of the album.īetween the N.W.A. This was the world they and their kin actually lived and sometimes died in and as a record of that world, it’s without parallel.įunkadelic’s “Knee Deep” and Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” driving, looping bass and loose bottom end clearly show where Yella and Dre took inspiration for many of the tracks herein. songs was clearly to always be as outrageously shocking as possible at the time it was genuinely stupefying to many but listening to it now it’s comedic and sign-of-the-times values are what shines through for me. The over-riding theme of most of the N.W.A. No matter, as a movie tie-in, it’s not half bad. They’ve been well compiled over the years and there’s little here that’s not widely available. One would have to question how many N.W.A. Maybe it’s just me, but the last verse where (again, it’s beyond borderline racist) Eazy sings in a mock-Mexican accent about “putting a ’38 slug in the dopeman’s culo” as he’s killed his sister is, unbelievably, given the subject matter, comedy gold. The verses of the last mentioned are laugh-out-loud at times despite the gritty, violent street-drama being played out. tracks as you’d expect the aforementioned “FDP” grapples for space with “Straight Outta Compton” (which has more “fucks” per beat per minute than any record ever made, I bet) and “Gangsta Gangsta” (both from the debut album) as well as “Express Yourself” and the mighty “Dopeman”. The album itself is top-heavy with N.W.A. The “courtroom” skit in the narrative is clever, witty and oddly self-effacing, not something that you’d normally associate with the braggadocio of the hip-hop world. Of course, listening to it now, it’s actually a pretty funny tirade with the principals slugging it out lyrically over DJ Yella’s sparse, bass-burdened backing. experienced it real-time and with “Fuck Tha Police” they had an instant call to arms that resonated right up to The White House. Debut album Straight Outta Compton from 1988 is a seething, lyric-spitting diatribe about life on the streets as N.W.A. This is a band who’s first demo recordings were funded by Eric “Eazy E” Wright’s drug dealing and who were unafraid to take on their enemies head-on. Gun-toting, cop-hating, drug-guzzling gang-bangers who’s misogynistic and violence-glorifying lyrics grabbed the imagination of generations of disaffected kids, they literally defined “gangsta” as a genre. GNR might have been legendary booze-and-chemical merchants but N.W.A. must have looked at Guns ‘n’ Roses claiming to be just that around the same era and chortled. Throughout the late 80’s and early 90’s, a mortally ill music scene had a shot in the arm from a rap group that were genuinely “the worlds most dangerous band”. passed you by, you must have been asleep or dead. No matter, I’m fairly au fait with the story and it’s a review of the soundtrack album, not the film so here we go….Īs the strap line says, if N.W.A. Despite the very helpful PR trying to source me a DVD copy as well as my teenage kids trying to talk me through downloading it from catch up TV I have as yet failed miserably. Louder Than War’s Joe Whyte reviews the Straight Outta Compton Original Sountrack.įirstly, I’ll add the proviso that I haven’t actually seen the film yet. Dre – “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” (ft.If this band passed you by, check your pulse. Ice Cube – “The Nigga Ya Love to Hate”ġ7. Steve Arrington’s Hall of Fame – “Weak at the Knees”ġ4. Roy Ayers Ubiquity – “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”ġ1. The full track lists for Straight Outta Compton: The Soundtrack and Straight Outta Compton: Original Motion Picture Score are below.ħ. Heller told Rolling Stoneearlier this month that none of the allegations leveled against him are true and is seeking $110 million in combined compensatory and punitive damages for defamation, copyright infringement, breach of contract and other charges.
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