Nwa debut album12/10/2023 So how has a record that outraged the status quo so much gone on to become a bona fide classic? From one angle, it’s the Never Mind the Bollocks mentality-rising to the top at a time of repression simply by having the balls to speak out.Īlso on the musical side of things, however, N.W.A’s iconic beat-smith DJ Yella has to be given a huge amount of credit for teaming head-banging breakbeats with samples taken from 1960s soul, funk, pop and R&B-a factor that made Straight Outta Compton notably more accessible than the output coming from many other budding (and extremely talented) MCs of the time. On the other hand, stuffy-nosed critics might look back on the 27 years since Straight Outta Compton and lay into the overt message being communicated on tracks like ‘I Ain’t Da 1’ and ‘A Bitch is a Bitch’-but like we said, this was a quartet of hip-hop’s finest, but also most honest and real. The story is told expertly by Cube, Dr Dre, MC Ren & Eazy-E (and in part Arabian Prince)-and during moments such as ‘Express Yourself’ there is a demonstration that being part of an underclass can be flipped around and used as a muse for something to aspire to. The album is a lot more than just a verbal assault on the government, however, rather it is a ‘what you hear is what you get’ representation of life in the ghetto. For those struggling to get by in crime-ravaged areas of the state, right under the nose of the apathetic millionaires of Hollywood, the record was musical documentation of a whole class’s searing anger. Barely 60 seconds pass before Ice Cube exclaims “AK-47 is the tool, don’t make me act the motherfuckin’ fool”.
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