Straight Outta Compton

I won't even waste my time reviewing this, other than to say, I recognize it's significance in the history of music.

N.W.1Star

N.W.A. are among the most important pioneers of gangsta rap and certainly deserve respect as such. However, their debut album *Straight Outta Compton* is so raw and unvarying that I find it hard to write anything positive about it. I now have a reasonable understanding of what rap must have meant to people of color in its early days. For me, though, rap tracks remain largely songs for people who don’t like music. But I do like music.

couldn't finish it

This album made me very uncomfortable, it is everything I dislike about rap. A far cry from the lyrical genius of people like Eminem the songs are expletive ridden with heavy racial and misogynistic overtones. It sounds very dated too in terms of the music used. One star

bunch of guys sucking each others dicks for an hour straight is crazy work

This was not for me, however much I endorse some of the sentiments. Did not seem very respectful to women.

I understand how this album is impactful to the overall history of rap and hiphop - it just really was not for me. Some of the lines and aspects of the songs really really slapped but the overall album was a struggle for me to get through. I had to really try and stomach it. It is possible that within the context that this album was released, I would have a completely different mindset and I can acknowledge that. Today however, it feels dated, regressive and there's just so much better rap out there currently.

Big feelings. Rated E does not mean for everyone

Explicitly bad, I understand the cultural significance of the album but it’s not for me

1 - TERRIBLE

Not for me

Lo alejado culturalmente que estoy del gansta rap, no puedo ser objetivo

Oh dear. For some reason a gang of foul-mouthed yobs were let loose in a studio. I had Ice Cube's Predator on this list two days ago, and that was an order of magnitude better than this.

Public enemy ran so they could summersault backwards

my fav is parental discretion iz advised rating 1.5/5

2/10

Girllll I’m way too sensitive for this

Just No!!!

The good: The samples, the flow, the general feel. Top quality. The ugly: The lyrics. The misogyny, the violence, the homophobia. Unacceptable. I don't care if this was autobiographical or whatever, I fucking hate this shit. And yes, my opinion would be the same if they were white before you condescendingly call me racist.

Wasn’t a fan of the language used.. not for me

This isn’t even close to what can be call “music” 🤬

Very repetitive and lyrically uninteresting; not surprisingly extremely misogynistic

Not my thing.

Pour 88 ce devait être quelque chose, mais je me suis fait.e chier sur presque tous les morceaux. Leur rythme est plus lent que les rappeurs modernes et les paroles se répètent tellement que je n'y trouve aucun intérêt, sauf peut-être pour les violences policières. Vu la manière dont il se comportent dans leurs chansons et la fierté qu'ils en retirent, j'ai du mal à les trouver cool alors que c'est bien là dessus que se base toute leur esthétique.

Tem Dr. Dre, então estou surpresa de não ter gostado de nada desse álbum. É importante e tal mas é chato pra caralho. Se ao menos os instrumentais fossem interessantes, eu poderia dar uma nota média. Não ouviria de novo. É possível dar 0? 1/5

Rap is not my favourite genre of Music, especially american, or english in general. I just don't see the art of music in it. The art of words, yes. But the pure sound of music is not given in my eyes in rap-songs.

I was done with this hip-hop crap after just a few moments. What a bunch of pussies. Every time I hear messed-up albums from other genres on this list, I think maybe hip-hop isn't so bad after all. And then I get an album like this that confirms, yes, hip-hop really is shit. 1/5

Didnt even finish the album, music like this set our people back 70 years single handedly. Unnecessarily violent and sexist. IMHO public enemy did a much better job touching this topic. The non-political songs are complete skips. Think they’re all weridos now as well.

Vreselijk.

not my style

No! Rap ist keine Musik!

1/5 Look, I expected to like this a lot, given it's almost mythical status. After listening, I was confused, bored and tired. I guess it is not for me, huh. Fav: Straight Outta Compton Least Fav: Parental Discretion Iz Advised, Gangsta Gangsta, If It Ain't Ruff, Compton's in the House - Remix, I Aint' Tha 1, Dopeman - Remix

Stupid gangsta rap

Uh, influential it may be but not in a good way. Preaching violence and misogyny hardly the way forward.

Definitely not.

eh

Straight outta Compton and right into the trash bin.

This is awful.

1 song added to my favorites. Woul listen again if asked to.

Пошкодувала, що розумію англійську. Яким би важливим цей альбом не вважали, але він надто мізогінний та "показушний". Я розумію, чому для чорного населення Америки такі тексти та музика мають цінність, але точок дотику з українським контекстом gangsta rap майже не має, мені здається. Музично трохи качає, але швидко скочується в монотонність та перестає інтригувати. Ну але я все ж змогла дослухати цілий альбом до кінця, хоча й без задоволення.

Ah, my least favourite sub-genre in one of my least favourite genres. So no surprise, it’s a 1 star. Any worthwhile message is lost on me by the aggression throughout.

Not for mee

I know this album was important and is well thought of, but I couldn't even make it through the whole thing

Still can’t wrap my head around this kind of music. I don’t get why people like it. So vulgar, every other word is either the n-word, or some sort of swearing. Not for me

Fuck this shit

I don’t need this much anger and violence in my life. Next album, please!

Why are you sending me this stuff?

* no music. Merely noise, vulgar language and rap.

Horrible. Anything with ‘n%gger’ in it it f%ck the police in it is a massive turn off for me. Can’t listen to it.

don't like the rhymes, don't like the rythm, don't like the melodies, don't like the content. and it's a looooooong album.

# 584 : Straight Outta Compton. DID NOT LISTEN - Doesn't sound like I would enjoy that.

Schlimm

I gave this album a fair shot, but it goes against everything I believe in. The themes, language, and message don't align with my values. There's a reason I avoided it before, and after listening, I still strongly dislike it

En beat som er etablert etter 5-20 sekunder og forblir uendret er kjedelig. Det samme er tekst innholdet som virker identisk på alle låtene. Selv om en låt starter tøft, blir det fort uinteressant.

Полбалла добавил только за то, что не особо сильно раздражало фоном, когда готовил. А так, ничего не потерял бы, если бы не слушал вообще.

Ugg, my ears hurt.

Hip Hop. 1/5

Nmg escuché 800 "n words" y "f*ck de police"

God this was terrible. Really didn't enjoy this. I generally have an open mind to all music, and that includes rap - I appreciate quite a few rap artists. But listening to this felt like meaningless drivel and I think its one of the few times where I was actively counting down to the end of the album. Just unpleasant. Thought it was fine a few songs in - good listening for the genre(to me) perhaps. Then it just dragged and dragged, nothing felt new and it just wouldn't end. I don't whether this is a particularly influential or appreciated album or not, but it means nothing to me.

Never liked this Gangsta rap shit. And the rest is misogynistic trash.

Definitely not for me.

Shite

Gangsta Rap ist nicht meine Musikrichtung 1/5

Not for me

Urlöjligt.

I cannot deny that this album had a MASSIVE impact on hip hop and still does to this day however the lyrics are fucking disgusting. Wasn’t acceptable then and isn’t now.

Absolutely not for me. Tried to listen to at least 30 seconds - a minute of each track and that was difficult.

I don't like the promotion of violence.

I can’t stand anything about this so-called "music". The language, the ridiculous rhymes, the misogynistic messages, and the endless barrage of expletives. It’s like auditory torture, and I’d rather listen to nails on a chalkboard!

Now I know who to thank for all of the crappy music today. It's like they just learned how to say "Fuck" and couldn't say it enough. Couldn't even get through two songs. Not my thing.

Could not get into it.

This album is... horrible. I don't know how I've listened this entire collection of stupid, repetitive and boring stuff. I hate hip-hop, and that's the perfect example of why. There are nice hip-hop songs, but most of them are the same garbage, and that album is even worse... Almost an hour of... this!!?? Really? I feel like I've lost my time today.

That was a rough listen

Not my thing. I do like some rap, but maybe more refined over the years. Felt too shock for shocks take for my taste

Not for everyone

So my final album is this shit. Thanks for the journey 1001 songs. Far too much Britpop, British electronica and unknown British bands. I've discovered that gangsta rap is stunningly boring and viciously nasty. I've also found that Bjork is brilliant and PJ Harvey is breathtaking. Now I'm off to journey through the albums of my Australian homeland.

There is absolutely nothing to recommend about this, the lyrics are awful, the music (I can barely use that word in this context) is monotonous. Its just obnoxious attitude. Fuck this release.

There is nothing about this album that I liked - just bad in every way possible.

stopped listening.

The lyrics were easier to understand with this group compared to other rap singers. I just don’t enjoy rap.

I HAD to listen to this before I die? Really?

No love for the police, but even less love for graphic descriptions of rape.

no

hell na

I don't know. I'm not really sure how I am suppose to relate to a group that calls themselves 'Niggaz Wit Atitudes' being a white Welshman from sunny Cardiff. My Bampy used to have a saying which I won't repeat here. I'm not saying he was right but sometimes I don't think he was wrong either. Ultimately though, regardless of race I just can't abide music that glorifies being a complete dickhead. As Sgt Harper once said in Sharpe, it's no sin to be born in the gutter but it's a terrible thing to want to stay there.

No.

This album is basically everything I hate about hip hop - misogyny, violence, intolerance, homophobia, self-aggrandizing toxicity. And I suppose this album is where a lot of that originated in the genre. It's juvenile and dumb. But like most of the hip hop albums that followed, I really sympathize with the social commentary on this record. I just hate this kind of music and can hardly stand to make it through the whole album. 1/5

Buh Iih Bäh Aua Aua Bum Bum - dieser Schrott ist Dum Dum

Not my cup of tea. Boring, with a predictable overuse of 'fuck'. Sigh

I cannot listen to any more gangsta rap albums. There's no way I can rate them objectively because I hate them so much.

Bunch of dumb-ass racists and misogynists.

Has not aged well (in 2025) at all. I 'get' the commentry on the police racism but many of the tracks are seriously misogynistic and immature (bravado or insecurity?). MC Ren seems like the only rapper with flow.

Nope. 1* for FtP

I feel dirty (¬_¬)ﾉ

The one bad thing about going through this list is having crap (not music) like this served up on an alarmingly regular basis. Stuff like this brings out the worse in me and makes me angry which is the exact opposite of what music is supposed to do. Yes by all means it should create a reaction but when it is done by glorying all what’s wrong in this world, there is no justification at all in subjecting those outside your grimy little world to it. As if to reinforce my point, there is a report in the UK press today about a gangster who was convicted of killing a young boy in 2009 and released in 2023 (yes I checked my figures - less than 14 years) He’s now making a living and been played on the BBC as a gangster rapper. Some of the lyrics refer to his slaughtering of that innocent child. The rage I feel must be nothing to that of the victim’s parents. This has everything to do with N.W.A who are responsible for promoting violence and not caring one iota for the rule of law. Worse still they are ‘role models’ and big influencers to the brainless moron’s who feel that the world owes them for the poverty and hardship they were born into. Should not appear on this list/5 16/1/25

Embodiment of everything wrong with gangsta rap and why I can never appreciate it as an art form. Completely negative and misogynistic drivel that maligns even the groups it attempts to represent. Offensive in every way. Deficient in musicianship and talent, it substitutes electronics and attitude in their place. I don’t care how “important” anyone thinks it is. I will never be a fan.

All ex

Nope!

2/17 - 4/17 - 23/100

If you need me I'll be over here in the corner clutching my pearls.

This album is a perfect showcase of just about everything wrong with 80s and 90s hip-hop. Listen, I get the main message – the police are racist – but though it still holds true to this day, it's overshadowed by the rampant sexism in nearly every track, including the opener/title track: "I find a good piece o' pussy, I go up in it So if you're at a show in the front row I'ma call you a bitch or dirty-ass ho You'll probably get mad like a bitch is supposed to But that shows me, slut, you're composed to A crazy motherfucker from the street" ...and later in the same song: "So what about the bitch who got shot? Fuck her / You think I give a damn about a bitch? I ain't a sucker" ...Yeah. Pretty disgusting. The following track, Fuck Tha Police, has a near identical percussion section, tempo, and monotonous rapping style to the first track, albeit with a slightly more palatable subject matter. But the sound is bland, unmelodic, and repetitive. Like nearly all hip-hop music of the time, the lyrics here are littered with nods to the same small circle of other hip-hop artists, including Dre, Ice Cube, Ren, and so on. It's just... not enjoyable at all. Do people like listening to this? Track number 3, Gangsta Gangsta, shows that they're committed to being genuinely horrible people: "So we started lookin' for the bitches with the big butts Like her, but she keep cryin' "I got a boyfriend" bitch, stop lyin' Dumb-ass hooker ain't nothin' but a dyke" And just when you thought they were done: "We didn't get no play from the ladies With six nerds in a car are you crazy? She was scared, and it was showin' We all said "Fuck you, bitch!" and kept goin'" The rest of the album is very similar. There are some hip-hop albums on this list I've given 3s, 4s, and 5s to. This isn't one of them. N.W.A.'s Spotify description introduces the group as the "unapologetically violent and sexist pioneers of gangsta rap". If you're violent and sexist, and show it off like it's anywhere near a positive trait, nobody's going to take you seriously. 1/5 Key tracks: Express Yourself

Actually better than I expected but still a 1 - a high 1 possibly for the sound which feels more authentic than some of the later hip hop I’ve listened to for the project, but the lyrics are just too mysogynistic.

Groupe inconnu. Mais dès les premières mesures j'ai su que je n'accrocherais pas ... Comme d'habitude pour ce style de musique (Hip Hop) les morceaux sont terriblement répétitifs et musicalement inintéressants. Après 3 morceaux j'ai arrêté. Et je pense que je vais arrêter d'attendre une révélation ... Après 14 albums découverts dans ce style et détestés, il va rejoindre mes pires styles avec la folk et la country. =>1/5

Yo modafuka yo hip hop

Can’t listen to this!

No

Not a fan of hip hop

I like the beats but I can't with the lyrics.

No

Not a genre I have any familiarity with. I see some of the appeal here but the lyrics are really tough, and that's driving the 1-star rating from me. I'll stay vigilant against dope man but I doubt I'll ever listen to this again.

We face here something of a German Tank Problem with respect to early West Coast gangsta rap: conditional on there being 1001 albums on this list, and having gotten now 3 in the first 111, how many should I expect to be on the list as a whole? If it's really 30 (as one might expect), I've half a mind to stop now, because they've all sucked so far. Mr. Dre (I refuse to employ his honorific, clearly undeserved) has himself appeared on two of these. Oddly, he doesn't appear to be one of the three best rappers in this group, which brings up the question of how he got to be such a big star. Relative to later hip hop (especially East Coast) this CD is pretty basic and raw. The rhymes are slower and more stilted, with less rhythmic variability in the delivery. The beats are extremely repetitive. And it's very, very crude (that's clearly part of their appeal). So the obvious conclusion is that this was chosen because it's influential, because later rappers took it as a template. But my general impression (not an expert) is that the good hip hop is from guys who left this kind of stuff in the dust, and that all the guys who went on to copy this style also kind of suck. I could not listen to "If It Ain't Ruff", there's some sub-sonic bass note they're getting on it that hurt my ears. Aside from this song, the first 1/3 of the CD is actually OK, if extremely crude. Starting with "8 Ball" the wheels just completely fall off. "Express Yourself" is OK, but solely on the basis of music that NWA did not themselves record. "Something 2 Dance 2" isn't unpleasant, but it's also largely just a beat. This isn't the worst thing I've ever heard, but I'm gonna give it a 1 anyway.

Definitivamente não é meu estilo. Álbum de rap e hip-hop dos anos 80. Me lembrou um pouco a música de abertura de "Um Maluco no Pedaço". Duas músicas achei OK: "Something 2 Dance 2" e "Dopeman - Remix", o resto não gostei.

I can't...

Extreme anger and other antisocial rhymes set to a beat. I suppose if I was angry with the deck stacked against me I'd be all in. But as "music," this is DNQ.

Infantile lyrics, too bad talent is used like this.

Why are all rap albums so long? Maybe my rate would be different if this lasted haft its time

Mehhhhh

Their Spotify description quote literally begins with, ‘NWA, the unapologetically violent and sexist pioneers of gangsta rap’. … … … … I finally understand what ‘dated’ production is. And every ‘song’ (out of the three half-things I listened to) has the SAME background. babs. omg shut the fuck up what am i even listening to 0/10

I don’t like rap

Albums get 1 star per song on the album i liked. so an unrated album i didn't like any songs on

Could not get through two songs. Absolutely awful.

Archetypal screaming gangster rap. There is some political content about racism, but it's delivered with the subtlety of a power drill. The rest is repetitive and irritating self-praise and threats of violence, mostly against the police, women. There's not much interesting going in the instrumentation either - just a lot of heavy 808 kick drum and some scratching, gun sounds, police sirens etc. I normally listen to all albums all the way through even if I don't like them, but the first four tracks are enough to tell me this is my first 1 on this site.

HORRIBLE

Album 399 of 1001 N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton Rating : 1 / 5 A bunch of clowns contributing to the ruination of a large swath of society. Hate to sound like an old man yelling at clouds, but there is nothing redeemable about this crap. Any bit of talent or production is overshadowed by the overall end product. Their so-called "message" could have been delivered without encouraging so much of the youth to be total trash.

This is the stuff that ruined hip-hop/rap for years. There is no justifying this, and definitely no justifying this being on this list. It's just violence, misogyny, and drugs. All this album does is glorify the depravity of humanity. There is nothing redeemable about this album. Stuff like this is the reason I stayed away from rap for so long. Gangsta rap is up there for me as a contender for one of the worst genres of music of all time.

was really surprised at the number of Beastie Boys samples on this album. lot of anger and frustration toward police, very low opinion of women.

So inapropro

Inaguantable, envejeció mal o no me gusta el hip hop, duré 2 temas

Not my kind of music

Didn't get into it. 1/5

really couldnt care less not necessarily bad, just boring out of my mind

Vulgar plus promotes racial and sexual violence

Doesn't sound revolutionary to me. Sounds like a rip off of a Bomb Squad production at the start, then by the end it's just 808 beats and rambling rapping. Over the top of that there's the desperate attempt to outrage everyone by doing lots of naughty swear words. I just hope their mummies don't find out. See also horrible misogyny and ridiculous boastful violence. Oooooh I'm scared. This is the album equivalent of one of those video games that the media have a moral panic about every 10 years, oh it's so violent and it's making our kids kill each other. Net result, a lot of people rush out to buy the game to see what the fuss is about and then are disappointed by the lack of gameplay or substance. The absolute towering cynicism of adding the totally harmless and radio-friendly 'Express yourself' deserves an award for sheer bullshittery.

A million words, not a single moment of origin musical cleverness. Feels for me as taken for a ride by loudmouths. What a waste of time.

Crappy people bragging about how crappy they are. The beats were good though.

A few notes: This album was not a pleasant listen to me, musically or lyrically. Lyrics do tackle some important race and political issues that we are unfortunately still dealing with in 2023. I would not enjoy listening to racist lyrics just as I don’t enjoy listening to misogynistic and homophonic lyrics. Some of the lyrics come off as very corny today. Some songs had a beastie boys vibe. The strong language looses all effect if it’s used regularly because it can offer no emphasis. This album began the east coast west coast rivalry that I was very much aware of growing up. And I do think it’s impact was huge, however from a strictly musical standpoint for me, I just don’t enjoy listening.

If you enjoy ever other word being f**ker, motherf**ker, or nigger, then this album is for you. Not me.

a little-known fact: eazy-e would inhale helium gas to create the distinctive vocals for this album and others. this constant abuse of helium led to his untimely demise.

Gangster Rap, 1988 -> 1

Waste of bandwidth

Rap-Kram

No bothering to listen

Ein Klassiker, aber einfach nicht meine Musik. 2.4/10

Lyrics: awful

no

Such a plethora of swearing, and violent images. Again, rap not for me.

Started to listen, liked t he beat. Do not care for cussing in my music

No es mi estilo

I don't like the "explicit content."

Explicit

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demasiado rockera en plan pumba pumba, no es mi tipo, cargante

Don't care for this - the music, the message, the language. Complete bust.

I have a a few words to say about this. Rap / hip-hop isn't something I've ever been into but part of the reason I went into this project was to gain exposure to the best artists of these genres I'd normally avoid. I've had an album by Nas already, which I thought was half-decent, and I'd heard that N.W.A. were the real deal, so I was kinda pumped to spin Straight Outta Compton. I set out on a 12km walk around town with AirPods in ear and openness in my mind, but it was barely a kilometre and three songs before I audibly laughed at its thematic ridiculousness: "Dumb-ass hooker ain't nuttin' but a dyke Suddenly I see, some n****s that I don't like Walked over to em, and said, "Whassup?" The first n**** that I saw, hit em in the jaw" Another laugh came later on in the record: "I think with my ding-a-ling, but I won't bring no Flowers to your doorstep, when we goin' out 'Cause you'll take it for granted, no doubt And after the date, I'ma want to do the wild thing You want lobster, huh? I'm thinking Burger King" I need to make it clear that my laughter was not out of humour, rather at just how foreign, incelious and absurd these concepts are to me. I get that this album tells the story of a lifestyle completely alien to that of my own; it holds historical and cultural significance with this in mind. But honestly, to my ears, N.W.A. sound like wannabe gangsters masquerading as a comedy sextet.

Fürchterlich

Mierda de RAP

complete waste of time

Não estou com sorte na sequência, outro disco de hip hop.

Wasn’t my vibe. I don’t know, but this raw kind of hip hop doesn’t even sound like “music” to me. I’m really not into hip-hop at all.

i... don't like this... it sounds like a free rapping sesh

Imagine a Senior Citizen working on this list of 1,001 albums to listen to before you die. This album might give them a heart attack! I listened to some rap music when I was a teenager 25ish years ago. But I could not make it through this album. It was a bit shocking to see how many people gave this 5 stars, but hey to each their own! I’m ready to move on!

better than expected 1.5

Not my cup of tea!

Not my type of music

Very personal but I don’t like old school rap.

In the early 90s I had a techno CD named The Difference Between Noise and Music. I love the question. Here, we have no human beings playing instruments. No singing. No melodies. No harmonic structure. It is, in fact, all but atonal. We have rhythm and we have poetry. Everything else that defines music is, in reality, missing. And yet it somehow grips people emotionally in the same way that music does. This particular combination of rhythm and poetry didn't grip me when I was 18 and it doesn't now. Dre's beats are the only redeeming aspect of the album. But they're a bit one-note; like a robot army's drums of war. And the lyrics...you gotta give me more than threats of indiscriminate violence and gratuitous mysogeny. "So what about the bitch who got shot? Fuck her! You think I give a damn about a bitch? I ain't a sucker!" Not for me.

Couldn't handle all the misogyny, despite some funky beats. Wouldn't listen again

Hated it. 11/100

29/100

Not my cup of tea, terrible

I enjoyed a few of the songs, but goddamn is this album just incredibly sexist. I cannot get behind it for that reason.

pretty cringe to listen to. elementary and corny rhymes. full of misogyny that should have never been accepted. other aspects of rebel lyrics are understandably appealing to a younger crow, but it no longer holds up.

I cannot listen to, nor rate, this album. I bought it a while ago, cheap on CD because I felt it was one of those records you needed to own and managed to listen to it all the way through once since then. This is not for me, it wasn't made for me, it is not for me to understand. I'm sure we've all blasted a bit of 'Fuck Tha Police' and sung along with abandon, claiming that we are 'Straight Outta Compton', but after that it gets, for me, very uncomfortable. I don't like it, I don't like the themes, I don't like the language, I don't like the attitudes. But then, I'm not supposed to. Did not listen / rate. Oh, and I hate Easy E's voice.

Just not for me

Not my style

just not my taste

Chu pas capable d’écouter ça, sa sonne trop comme d’la bioune fâchée

Being white, middle-class, and British, I guess that I'm not really part of the target audience which is fine with me because all sound the same to me.

no

Not for me

No thanks

This just isn’t my jam. I mean, I can understand some of the frustration behind the lyrics, but it’s just so angry and misogynistic…

Look, I get the context is came out of and why that was important. These guys really cut through to a generation that are looking for a voice. Teenage boys of multicultural backgrounds all check this, Biggie and Tupac, those records speak to them, ours is not to reason why. Every now and then I get a laugh in class when I drop a "Ahmed is his name and he's coming straight out of Lakemba", gets them everytime... So does that make it worthy, no. It's a hard listen, ruthless, motherfucker, I don't give a fuck etc and having listened to so many of these drecky Dimery hip hop records I don't ever want to hear the sound of a machine gun again. I love the PE, same era, different coast and context I know, but those records have the universality we look for in all art, that does not apply here.

Around 1989, Triple J, the Australian public 'yoof' radio network, just recently expanded to a national network, decided that it could establish its cred by putting "Fuck Tha Police" into rotation. It was a national scandal, mentioned in parliament, that the government-funded national broadcaster would play such an 'evil' piece of music. A Triple J journalist was suspended for playing it, which led to industrial action (including a whole day of playing Express Yourself, and nothing else, on repeat). You can read the details here: https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/flashback-triple-j-challenge-authority-nwa-marathon-12171/ As a result of all the attention, NWA became a cause celebre and a way of signaling your rebellious nature, and this album sold a ton of copies in Australia. And a lot of people who bought the album based on "Fuck Tha Police", listened to it, and then decided that this was definitely not for them, and offloaded the CD. At the time I was working at Scratches Records, an alternative record store , that bought and sold second hand CDs. All second hand CDs were test played to make sure they were OK before they hit the shelves, and so I listened to this album a bunch of times in 1990-91. People were constantly coming in to sell their CDs of Straight Outta Compton. So I listened to this album all the way through a number of times when it was a relatively new release. Now, I liked hip hop. But this I couldn't hack. I understood the rebellion and rage of Fuck Tha Police and Straight Outta Compton. Express Yourself is a fair enough song. But the most of it.... violent, misogynist, homophobic, and deeply unpleasant. This is an important album and massively influential. Cube is a charismatic MC with pretty good flow, and Dre's production was the blueprint for West Coast hip hop. But I find this hard to handle, and am still upset that the success of this set the tone for much of hip hop ever since. It's influential, sure, but its influence is largely negative, and, frankly, I wish this album never existed. I do not want to listen to it ever again..

Express yourself

Jag blir förbannad när jag hör så jävla dålig musik.

no

Still not a rap fan

Historically important if you are in the USA, but I'm not and this album doesn't speak to me culturally at all. And it sounds like crass juvenile noise. Express yourself is the only thing slightly decent.

Ugh, I hate this kind of thing. Sampled a few songs to at least give it a chance, but there's no way I'm gonna put myself through a whole album of this.

Sattuu päähän kun vocals nii kaukana mixissä saa pistää volyymiä. Rummut iskoistuu päähän… Kyllä tuottaa korkeita taajuuksia kuullokkeeni… MATALIA MYÖS.. ekstra sub bassot jätkät pistäny…… Heh.. Paskaa kuunnella kuulokkeilla jotka harman + sub bass boost… Oon nyt näitä hip hoppeja kuunnellu ei paljoo hätkäyttäny enää tämä..

Pfff....saai....Muzikaal zal het best prima zijn. Maar ik krijg mijn aandacht hier niet op gevestigd.

For me the Rap is not a interesting music.

A friend I shared a house with listened to this a lot when it came out. Still bobbins.

A collection of lots of things I can't stand about music

Ik ben geen liefhebber van rap en dit album met zijn schreeuwerig gepraat en break-beats bevestigd dit. Ik mis muziek, zoals iets met melodie of zo., of desnoods geinige geluidjes in de beat. Misschien dat de tekst goed is, maar als ik een goed verhaal wil kijk ik de film wel. *

Nope. Zero appeal to me.

Uff. No.

A lot of cussing and things I can't relate to.

Pants

0/5. I can’t put into words how disgusting and irresponsible this “music” is.

Actively disliked this

Odio el rap

Danke, aber nein danke.

rap is boring

sucks

Rock music means you put out in music what you feel...this group have made it clear. it's an experience to listen.

One of those albums that I totally see how important it is for the rap/hiphop genre and the messaging. While I respect it, it's just not for me.

No.

1/5.

Why would I listen to this? (I tried, but no).

F12 ACAB. Are we supposed to forgive the misogyny?

Nope

Uh... not my thing. Old rap and hip-hop always sounds kinda funny to me though.

Nah bruh

Unlistenable

Nah. 3/10

Not as enjoyable as other albums. Songs felt similar and lyrics were not very interesting.

Rap, intragável para mim, apesar de que melhor do que a média de Rap.

no