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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