Released almost two years after the seminal Straight Outta Compton and a little less than a year before the flawed Niggaz4life, 100 Miles and Runnin' effectively...
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Looser and less serious than the celebrated follow-up, nonetheless a fun disc with some stand-out tracks, included "Boyz-N-The Hood," "A Bitch Iz A Bitch" and the...
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Hip-hop was still very much dominated by New York in 1987 when Macola Records (a company that distributed numerous L.A. rap labels in the 1980s, including Eazy-E's Ruthless...
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The band's finale seems forced and half-baked. Without Ice Cube's outrage and rebellion with a message, the raps devolve into shock and offense for their own...
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It couldn't have been easy for N.W.A to succeed Straight Outta Compton, an indisputable landmark moment in rap history. So after three years of enormous controversy, inner...
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Violence-mongering, bitch-bashing, malt liquor-gulping and unapologetic, this is rap music's Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's
The Sex Pistols. It also established the...
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Unapologetically frightening, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton is one of the most seminal albums in the history of rap and greatly influenced countless gangster rappers. N.W.A...
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Straight Outta Compton wasn't quite the first gangsta rap album, but it was the first one to find a popular audience, and its sensibility virtually defined the genre from...
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N.W.A's career isn't necessarily one that lends itself well to anthologies. Though the group had important singles, especially in the underground hip-hop community in the...
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It couldn't have been easy for N.W.A. to succeed after Straight Outta Compton, an indisputable landmark moment in rap history. So after three years of enormous controversy,...
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Straight Outta Compton wasn't quite the first gangsta rap album, but it was the first one to find a popular audience, and its sensibility virtually defined the genre from...
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Straight Outta Compton wasn't quite the first gangsta rap album, but it was the first one to find a popular audience, and its sensibility virtually defined the genre from...
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N.W.A.'s career isn't necessarily one that lends itself well to anthologies. Though they had important singles, especially in the underground hip-hop community in the late...
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