Straight Outta Compton

Occasionally too juvenile and mysogynistic for me, but can't say it doesn't slap.

Striking and distinctive, can deaden the ears with repetition, but I think that’s the intention: harsh. Wish there were a couple more songs like “Express Yourself”.

Lightning in a bottle here - the way Ice Cube, MC Ren and Eazy-E trade verses on the title track and "Fuck Tha Police" is absolutely classic. Shame they fell apart almost immediately afterwards. How great are the lines in "Express Yourself"? Never tire of them decades later: "I'm expressin' with my full capabilities And now I'm livin' in correctional facilities 'Cause some don't agree with how I do this I get straight, meditate like a Buddhist I'm droppin' flavor, my behavior is hereditary But my technique is very necessary Blame it on Ice Cube, because he says it gets funky When you got a subject and a predicate" What a record! A few decades later I was disappointed to encounter Compton as just another one of the endless suburbs of Los Angeles; Slauson, Rosecrans, Normandie merely boring streets populated by bungalows and generic strip malls, the same as everywhere else. Progress, perhaps?

Noget af det bedre inden for hip-hop. Kom næsten hele vejen igennem og blev ikke irriteret undervejs. Det må være en succes.

Old skool cool. But not really for me nowadays.

Como siempre, este no es un estilo de música que me guste. En particular este disco estuvo normal, bien. Eso sí, se la pasaron diciendo "fuck" cada 10 palabras, era tremendo. Del final me gustó el guiño a I Wanna Dance With Somebody de Whitney Houston.

The older I get the younger ice cube, Dre and E get in this album. Some quintessential tracks on this album. Still liked it though

Great, never a dull moment. Love a good record scratch. Not a whole pile to say surprisingly. Favourite song: Express yourself

Straight Outta Compton And Fuck The Police really are iconic, and I liked Express Yourself. Other than that, this wasn’t for me. I get the significance, but it’s a lot of repetitiveness and misogyny.

Not my thing but I understand why it's on this list.

Hard to separate a few things here. The historical significance is important. But it still sounds like 80s rap...which, okay. I don't think a lot of 80s rap has aged well, and this is right there. I've listened to it before, probably right around the time the movie came out. Haven't listened to it since then and probably won't listen to it again. Maybe a case of where the people that made the music are way more interesting than the music itself.

Not bad

I enjoyed this. It’s a bit aggressive but very influential. Ice Cube really shines.

Life ain't nothin' but bitches and money. Tämän aidommaksi ei hommat mee.

I remember my cousin handing me a tape copy of this. I grew up with Run DMC and when I heard this I realized that music had changed. A lot. This album ushered in an era of hip hop like no other, it spawned so much from it. I would look crazy trying to draw a line from this album out. Yeah some of the lyrics are way too raw for now. Yet that's the way things age. Listen to this with an ear towards history. It's a solid album. Like crazy good.

내가 힙합을 좋아해서 장르 올려치기를 더해 꽤 괜찮은 느낌의 앨범이었다. 들리는 영어가 욕밖에 없기는 했지만 ㅎㅎ Since I’m a fan of hip-hop—which might lead me to give the genre a bit of a boost—I found it to be a pretty solid album. Though, the only English words I could make out were swear words, haha.

Five star always

2/5

Never fails

Yeah this rocked I listened a couple times and felt so cool walking through the streets w this in my ears

A transition album from early rap to gangsta rap that has enough old-school beats to appeal and not too much misogyny, swearing, and gun references to turn me off.

7,5

Rap is not usually my style, out of this album I had only heard Fuck The Police, think it's my favorite so far. After a few tracks, liked Parental Discretion Iz Advised, everything else? meh, to be honest. Also, found out Ice Cube is from this group, only knew him from Law and Order. Something 2 Dance 2 also good. 4/10

This movie soundtrack was the big rave for awhile.

I mean some of the songs are legendary. Mostly in the first half. The rest are often just irritating or cringe. I mean, some of the first half has some of the cringiest shit lyrics ever, too. But they hit hard

Zitten wel bangers in

An album that changed the trajectory of hip hop

Here we go again, another rap album. So today I have taken out my bingo card to keep me in the zone… - Rapping about sex - The word nigger - Name checking - ⁠skits - ⁠samples of other tracks - ⁠gunshots - ⁠sirens - ⁠lyrics bragging - ⁠lyrics about been poor - ⁠lyrics about hometown - ⁠misogynistic views - ⁠swear words And BINGO 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Look Rap is not for me but I appreciate what they are doing in this album. The production is very good and the little snippets of sound and samples are clever. This didn’t make me change my mind on actually liking rap music though. But it’s not the worst rap album I’ve heard so far- or am I mellowing to it? Best track- ‘quiet on the set’ Worst track- ‘dopeman’ 3/10

NWA - Straight Outta Compton Starts like a riot in your ears. As had been said elsewhere the album suffers because of the intensity set up in those first three outstanding tracks. There is one more gem surfaces later on but nothing approaches this opening run. I won't pretend to be able to empathise as to why this album is/was so important. But I enjoyed it from a listening perspective. A little long perhaps, but I appreciated the carefully selected samples which kept the sound clean and almost funky, and the way the lyrics bounced off and around each other. Best Track - that opening salvo but then there is the brilliantly put together Express Yourself. A protest song about freedom of speech that resolutely remains radio friendly. In peaceful protest there is power! Worst Track - the only one I cam close to skipping was 8 Ball. So we'll go for that. 7/10

Favourite Songs: If It Ain't Ruff

Impressive production, but rap has come a long way since this dropped

I mean this is a strong album, no contest. It may not have had that much influence on me in terms of my taste, but it's a force to reckon with.

I like it

I appreciate the cultural significance this had, and the beats are pretty incredible, especially for the time. There are some pretty mid tracks in the middle there though. 8 Ball is just Boys in the Hood, but less good.

Someone’s momma didn’t wash out their kid’s mouth with soap. It’s just too much filthy bravado for me.

lmao these guys are lowkey butthurt about being milked by girls for money. I didn’t mind this tbh like I understand why a lot of people like it and the guys had really good flow and chemistry and some of the beats were pretty good too. I liked the commentary on fuck tha police and how they talked about the struggles black people have to face with racism from the people who are supposed to protect us. What I didn’t like was all the misogynist lyrics about women and seeing them as bitches and sex objects basically. Like if I don’t get what I want I’m kicking them to the curb and oh all these women are just scheming to get my money. I didn’t really like that. Overall 2.221/5, not something I would return to, not my style of music.

I love it.

appreciate the importance of this album but it has aged

Very obviously a 1980s album. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's distractingly obvious. This album has the same problem that Master of Puppets has, which is lyrics chosen just to sound cool rather than actual good songwriting (with the additional problem of pronouncing things weird to fit the song, also misogyny). That's typical of popular music at the time but that's not a good excuse. The beats still hold up pretty well, I could imagine a newer hip-hop act like Joey Valence & Brae on one of these tracks and it would sound perfectly natural (although sounding like older rap is kind of their whole thing). The first 3 tracks are probably the best on the album, they're great even though the lyrics are pretty cheesy. :3

Really great album. The lyrics are classic and in a lot of songs explains what it's like growing up black in Compton. There are some iconic lyrics and songs on this album that have survived the test of time. I also hear so much influence in the later 90s rap that I grew up listening to and love.

damn rightttt

Maybe not a perfect album but such great singles and high points not to mention inventing/popularizing gangster rap and launching the careers of Dr.Dre AND Ice Cube....so iconic.

This is not for me.

I think if I could get past the misogny this would be 5 stars. A hiphop staple, particularly a west coast staple and a frank take on saying I hate cops and honestly if you pull up on me we're fighting. Rapping was well done, great storytelling just a little too anti-woman/misogynoir.

This album, similar to many other hip hop/rap albums is just so overly vulgar for the sake of being vulgar which just makes it annoying to listen to I didn’t totally mind this album and the beats were pretty good on a handful of songs Most of this album was pretty mid though 2.5/5 Favorites: gangsta gangsta, express yourself, fuck tha police

THE record that made gangsta rap. Still one of the greatest hip hop records of all time, dated or not (musically and lyrically). Beyond influential and still an aggressive good time 40 years later.

One of the critically important albums in music history. It put gangsta rap and the West coast on the map, as most of hip-hop's significant culture was coming out of the east coast lyricism at the time. Does it hold up over time? Not so much. However, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E set the stage for west coast rap and hip-hop to come, and for that they get the utmost respect. Favorite Song: I Ain't That 1 Score: 75/100

Classic rap album, Ice cube and MC Ren are particular highlights for me.

Raw powerful and hard. Lots of hits you can tell its a classic

Straight Outta Compton

Is hate too strong a word? I don’t know but I intensely dislike this genre of music. Aggressive, angry, sexist and exhausting.

I struggle with this type of "music".

Starts out better than it ends.

I like it, but I am more of an east coast kind of guy

Hate rap. Hate n**** m********* b**** rap even more. Did this help the black cause? It’s horrible.

Kind of dated, iconic thiugh

This was a fun listen

Toto nie je pre mňa... Plno zvukov pripomína beastie boys... Nebavi ma to...

This is so cartoonish and OTT, but really fun with it and has some of the most quotable lines in hip hop

A landmark but very novel album, obvious standouts, some surprises, and a lot of similarity.

Musically quite good. Lyrically mostly awful. Simplistic and forced rhymes, juvenile and sometimes laughable lyrics.

Fuck the police...

This one is like the Marshall Mathers LP. I like it despite how horrible it is. I appreciate what it is and find it entertaining, while I am horrified by it. I also love how they bite The Beastie Boys throughout, including their basic re-do of Brass Monkey into 8-Ball. It holds with exactly their sentiments on the album as a whole. And, of course, so does the way their lives played out. It’s especially pedagogical to hear Eazy. He’s so young. And in the next turn he’ll be in a bitter rivalry with Dre and Ice Cube, and then dead from HIV/ AIDS in less than a decade. He’ll make it past 27, but only barely, dying at the ancient age of 30. 4 Boolean: True

Crazy energy. Some of flows are much better than i expected. On the other hand some of the lyrical topics can be pretty juvenile.

A fun entry point into rap, I guess. Taken seriously because it was transgressive and begged to be taken seriously. Musically, it’s just kind of outclassed by other hip hop records of the same era… I’d rather listen to De La Soul, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, or Eric B. and Rakim than go back to this one. Certainly influential, though!

Never liked gangsta rap and probably never will. After the first two songs it's all downhill. Just too much violence and misogyny for my taste. I only gave it two stars because I know it was so influential but still couldn't finish it.

Decent

Important album. Ice Cube really stressing the attitude.

Jag kan se att detta är en pelare inom musiken, men det är inget för mig. Ska dock erkänna att det är mycket bättre än annan skit i generen från de senaste åren.

Vaya clasicazo del hip hop. Brutal desde la primera canción. Canciones favoritas: Fuck The Police, Straight Outta Compton, Quiet On Tha Set

I don’t think I’d ever listened all the way through and am glad I did!

it's old rap alright. good in small doses. the rhyme schemes and beat repetition gets old. but you certainly cannot deny this album's impact. i like their contemporaries in public enemy more, however. guess that makes me east coast.

3/10 This is my third day in a row of 80s/90s gangsta rap, and yesterday's was by Ice Cube. Unfortunately, I still don't like the genre; it is full of tropes/topics that enrage me (misogyny, homophobia, racism, etc) and it simply hasn't aged well. This album's beats are a little too dated for me, so I don't even have that to enjoy. The only positive thing is that I find the album better than Ice Cube's, which I gave 1 star to, so I guess this one gets 2 stars.

"Straight Outta Compton" and "Fuck Tha Police" are classics. Lots of songs with funky and groovy beats 3.5/5 Favorite Songs: Straight Outta Compton Fuck Tha Police Gangsta Gangsta Parental Discretion Iz Advised Express Yourself Quiet on The Set

Great album, 90s hip hop and rap, some of the songs are a little different from the others but al have a good beat to them.

Sounds like kids pretending to be men

ok

Hard. Raw. Unflinching. This album brought West Coast to the forefront. It's big and boastful, and not afraid to go to dark places. Cube, Ren, Eazy-E, and Dre (who spent most of the album as producer) tell stories of crime, drugs, police brutality, and street life. It scared the politicians, it scared the cops, it scared the parents. They have a little slower flow, Eazy-E notwithstanding, and sampled funk to give a different groove that eventually became West Coast G-Funk. It still hits like a Mike Tyson haymaker, 35 years forward. And hip-hop was forever changed.

A classic for a reason. Enjoyed the listen, but some tracks dragged.

This is the album that got labels on CDs. This album is definitely important and affected rap music for the next decade+. While I appreciate music that reflects the reality of living in Compton in the 80s, I have problems with a lot of the misogyny in the music. My little feminist heart can't rate it over a 3 because of that.

Classic🔥

It started off strong but got repetitive. The songs tend to cover the same subject matter in the exact same way, and, with the way women are brought up especially, it drags. Some tracks feel way too long. That said, they are good rappers and the instrumentals aren’t bad

I always love how hip hop groups introduce everyone. It's such a goofy convention that's entirely a part of this genre alone. Imagine Weezer getting out there and introducing every band member at the start of the song, it'd be goofy as hell. But I digress, this is a very important album for hip hop and really set it on a direction, for better or worse, that influenced a lot of music for years to come. The hard gang banging, gun slinging, women bashing doesn't age well. Particularly the part where a bunch of women want to sleep with Eazy-E. Not to mention Ice Cube's jarring turn to a dad in family friendly comedy movies. Musically, it's a great album. The sampling and beats are top notch and it's very well produced. The lyrics are clever and really well composed with a special shout out to Express Yourself. The subject matter I could take or leave, aside from the fuck the police part. That one is bang on, all the way. It hasn't aged well in many respects, but it's hard to ignore the talent and impact it left along the way.

I'm listening to this on headphones while sitting in the lobby of a car repair shop, somewhere in White America, where the TV is blaring a channel that shows nothing but *COPS* episodes. I hate *COPS*. It exists solely to stoke the viewer's sense of righteousness - to allow you to feel superior to whoever is shown getting arrested. Maybe it's just this setting but I can't help thinking about this album as a sociopolitical object - not just a source of social commentary ("Fuck tha Police") but also a signifier of "Blackness" (scare quotes intentional). Because yeah, Ice Cube in particular is cartoonishly belligerent - I lost track of how many times he brags about murder but *it's a lot* - and that raises all kinds of questions about the kayfabe of gangsta rap and about Black music as perceived by a White audience in general. Like, it's hard to claim you're being racially profiled one minute when you're boasting about all the illegal shit you do on the entire rest of the album. And yet Ice absolutely nails the sociopolitics of pairing White and Black cops together among other observations. He may be full of shit but he's also telling the truth. The more practical issue is that, beyond not having much of a sense of humor about himself (Eazy and Ren do much better on that front) Ice's over-the-top need to posture seems to slow the proceedings down; the tracks flow better when he steps back (as on the propulsive "It Ain't Ruff," which showcases Ren's prowess). In fact, once the bravado gets out of the way this is some damn good party rap; "Express Yourself" is of course a classic, and "8-Ball" sees Eazy leaning hard into his drunken-master persona (somewhere on Staten Island a future Clan were taking notes). Even the more conventional tough-guy tales on the back half of the album don't carry with them the same sort of tension present on the first few tracks. And yet even on the back half of the album there's "Dopeman," which can't decide whether it wants to glorify or decry the dope game - and which just ends up making the whole thing sound horrifying. It's hard to listen to this and not hear the echoes of all those Just Say No ads I was inundated with as a kid. And I guess maybe that's where I come down on this as a whole; I respect it greatly and will play it occasionally while simultaneously acknowledging that perhaps I'm not the target audience.

Some good stuff.

What a way to start Straight Out of Compton by N.W.A with the title track and FTP. But after that, it gets harder to keep the pace. Express Yourself reminds me of playing THPS, but the second half can’t hit as hard as the first. Low 3/5. But the title track is maybe one of the greatest entry song of that decade. Straight Outta Compton: 5 Fuck Tha Police: 5 Gangsta Gangsta: 4 If It Ain’t Ruff: 3 Parental Discretion Iz Advised: 3 8-Ball - Remix: 3 Something Like That: 3 Express Yourself: 5 Compton’s N The House: 2 I Ain’t Like Tha 1: 2 Dopeman - Remix: 2 Quiet On Tha Set: 2 Something 2 Dance : 2

#255/1001 🇺🇸 The only time that i ever DJ'd a wedding, we ended the night on Fuck Tha Police at the bride's request. Enjoyed this record so much but it loses a point for the misoginy in some of the lyrics. It has a much rawer sound than some of the other Hip Hop records that i've been introduced to on here, which i prefer. The production is clean and the samples are relavant to the sound. Best Tracks: Parental Discretion Iz Advised, Express Yourself, Fuck Tha Police, 8 Ball, Quiet On Tha Set.

These guys have some attitude!!

Very direct. Great beats and loads of attitude.

Can we go back to reviewing in danish?(as much as I can): Jeg troede det ville være dårligt, fordi jeg hader rap.... men jeg tog det ikke alvorligt , derfor var det sjovt. Måske er gammel rap bedre? "Life aint nothin but bitches and money" "Say some shit to make some bitches suck some dick" "Silly games played by women. Im only happy when Im going up in em" "Bitch on the tip for the dick Im holding" Jeg kunne fortsætte...Lidt sexiskt???

Jeg har det lidt svært med hip hop for tiden. Som Juan sagde, det lyder cool når de siger det, men det de siger lyder ikke cool når man lytter til det. Tiden løber hurtigt fra NWA i den forstand. Express Yourself holder stadig, sammen med et par andre, men jeg synes ved gennemlytning, der er mangler. Den kan få en tre'er, bang in the middle. Sætter pris på betydningen, men plejer ikke at lade det vægte så meget...

Such a banger, although there are a bit too many filler tracks imho 4.0

Pretty good, I liked “if it ain’t ruff a lot” and it’s got classics like straight outa Compton and f the police.

Classic old school rap. Love the beats, love the rhymes but the misogyny is a negative one star.

Straight Outta Compton is arguably the most important hip hop record ever. This was the record that dragged the genre from the fun, dance party days of the late 70s-80s beginnings to the 90s and the golden age of hip hop and the ugly truth. It’s coming out whether America, politics and media, was ready or not. NWA was going to expose the charade by bringing the hood to the suburbs. Your kids are gonna love it! Gritty, street level journalism. Pushed into the mainstream with rapid gunfire beats, police sirens, more truth than you can handle and still keeping the party bumpin’. Straight Outta Compton, Fuck Tha Police and Gangsta Gangsta are relentless declarations and a battle cry for west coast rappers to represent. This record became the thing every young person who had an ear out had to get their hands on. It was a grassroots campaign. Triple platinum without major label support or traditional commercial radio airplay, and completely ignored by MTV, but it was instantly essential. Along with Public Enemy in New York, NWA created the blueprint and gangsta rap was being born in Southern California and spawning architects Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. 4.8^

So many fun memories bumping this record at the back of the bus in 9th grade. The driver hated when we played music. We felt so rebellious. There’s just this charm that I can’t entirely place my finger on here. This is one of those rap albums that I’ve got no choice but to drop everything I’m doing and get hype. Young Dr Dre is so fire. The production is on point, the spitting spits. Just so many GOATS trading bars n shit. Rip Eazy E the GOAT.

This is a fantastic intro to the West Coast. Ice Cube truly is one of the greatest hip hop artists of our time. The reason is that he sounds so seamless; there is not a bone in his body that isn't flowing when he raps. It is crazy; Eazy-E is a crazy guy, dude. I hear him rap about his gang banging and crime, and it scares me that a guy like that really exists. This album is the first true instance, in my eyes, of Hip hop being the new counterculture, a song that literally is talking about how terrible the police were back in the day, and hell, the song rings true now. I Ain't the 1 is a funny and silly song about gold diggers but while is has its tasteless moments you can feel the unseriousness that they rap with. I think there is no other song than Express yourself though. That song showed that Hip hop can still be fun and funky while also being poignant. I love the beats I love the deep cuts this is awesome.

Finally, an old school gangsta rap album that doesn’t feature a cringe-inducing sexual interlude with moaning. I appreciate how unapologetically brutal this album is. You don’t ever get the feeling that these guys aren’t really about this life. Great rhymes and beats.

I agree with others that say if you think this hasn't aged well, then you should feel the same about a lot of other artists going all the way back to the 50s, and right through the 80s and 90s. I didn't have an appreciation for this album when it came out - I was a bit too young and too into classic/hard rock. But it looms large in my cultural memory and do think it is an incredibly important album in the genre. What does hold up over time is its anger, energy, urgency and brutal honesty. This gave a voice to millions of people - maybe some whose voices where mistaken on some topics but certainly not on others. Listening to it now, you can feel the emotion and it definitely changed the trajectory of rap/hip hop and pop music.

I liked the movie better.