Straight Outta Compton [VINYL]

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Panic Zone' represented the sound of West Coast electro, as many other Arabian Prince and Egyptian Lover 12"s would before this release, but Dopeman and 8 Ball seemed to revisit Boyz' formula to continue the stream of hits. Highlights are Boyz N the Hood ( love the Marvin Gaye sample ) Dopeman ( full-length version ) Dunk the Funk, and Panic Zone. Fat Girl is a very funny track by the late Easy E, who can't seem to escape the attention of an overweight groupie!

Boyz would instantly become a street classic on the West coast, changing the face of rap music there in a short time. The run outs match up with the 1st press but the cover doesn’t have the parental advisory warning on the bottom right corner. He wasted little time putting together his solo debut, " AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" (1990), but he avoided mentioning his former label mates.After looking in the sleeve a while later, I realized I had the First Press of Straight Outta Compton! I stole it on tape in ‘88 and have owned probably double digit amounts of copies both on tape and CD since. In 1988, rapper MC Ren joined NWA, and later that year the group released their debut album " Straight Outta Compton". Their 1991 follow-up album " Efil4zaggin" (also referred to as "Niggaz4Life") was the first hip-hop full-length album to reach number one on the Billboard 200.

The rest is forgettable rubbish; particularly Drink It Up, which is an ode to getting stinking drunk, set to the tune of Twist and Shout ( itself a pile of horseshit, in my opinion! Dre going solo, and Eazy-E running Ruthless Records and releasing more music, until he died of AIDS in 1995. Around this time is when Macola constructed the NWA debut album, using bits from NWA, Eazy E, and Fila Fresh Crew's 12"s, along with some other Macola fodder. Ice Cube left in December 1989 over royalty disputes; having written almost half of the lyrics on "Straight Outta Compton" himself, he felt he was not getting a fair share of the money and profits.Instead of breaking up, NWA decided to continue without Ice Cube, releasing the EP " 100 Miles And Runnin'" (1990), which went platinum. This is a 1989 re-release of a Macola *compilation* from 1987, which was not intended to be NWA's debut album. A Bitch Iz A Bitch" was already released as a b-side on their 1989 single Express Yourself, and on some reissues of "Straight Outta Compton".