Straight Outta Compton (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Straight Outta Compton


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Artist = N.W.A
from Album = Straight Outta Compton
Released = 1988
Format = CD single
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Gangsta rap
Length = 4:26
Label = Priority/Ruthless
Writer = Ice Cube, MC Ren, Eric Wright
Producer = DJ Yella
Dr. Dre
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Last single = "Dopeman"
(1987)
This single = "Straight Outta Compton"
(1988)
Next single = Gangsta Gangsta
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Name = Straight Outta Compton
Audio file= N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton.ogg

Straight Outta Compton is the lead single off of N.W.A's second album with the same name. It was released in 1988. It also appears on N.W.A.'s "Greatest Hits" with an extended mix and The Best of N.W.A. It was voted number 19 on About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs. [ [http://rap.about.com/od/top10songs/ss/Top100RapSongs_9.htm Top 100 Rap Songs] About.com. Accessed February 28, 2008.] It along with Fuck tha Police are arguably N.W.A.'s most well known singles.

References & Tributes

The song, especially Ice Cube's verse is referenced quite often by rappers, and not infrequently by Cube himself.In the song "Compton" by The Game, he says "Nigga I'ma keep on stompin' comin' straight outta Compton"

Ice Cube

In the N.W.A diss song by Cube, "No Vaseline he says "I kept on stompin' while y'all motherfuckers moved straight outta Compton".On the song "Dead Homiez" he says "It makes me so mad i wanna get my sawed off, and get some bodies hauled" and on "Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) from AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted he says "I told ya last album, when i get my sawed off, bodies are hauled off".

Video

A video was made in 1989 of the song. It features Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren, Krazy Dee, and DJ Yella. The video shows various parts of the city of Compton. During the video police officers are shown arresting the members of N.W.A.. It also shows the members trying to flee but the police eventually catch them. The ending scene shows eazy-e in a low rider driving along the police van trying to communicate but the police instead just look at him while residents of Compton throwing rocks at the police van that is transporting the members to jail. In the clean version of the video, profanities have edited lyrics by rappers voice, including words like "fuck" changed to "get" from time to time with different words as well. The video first aired on May 1989, directed by Rupert Wainwright. [ [http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=20732 Straight Outta Compton.] MVDBase. Accessed December 13 2007.]

Cover versions

*In 1998, Compton rappers, MC Eiht, King Tee and Dresta recorded a tribute remix of the song that appeared on .
*Veruca Salt vocalist Nina Gordon recorded an a cappella "coffeehouse" version of the song at L.A.'s "Largo" in 2005. [ [http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_01.20.05/music/ahl.php Eye Weekly ] ]
*Compton rapper The Game released his own version of this song with the same beat on his 2003 mixtape, "You Know What It Is Vol. 1".

References

External links

* 2nd Official [http://www.nwaworld.com Site] of N.W.A.
* Official [http://www.nwalegacy.com N.W.A.] Legacy site
* The [http://www.youtube.com/w/Straight-Outta-Compton---NWA?v=QkM_N5_otl4& music video] in Youtube.