So we went to the studio and created the song.вЂќ Ice Cube, who wrote the lyrics with Ren, remembers it as general social commentary. вЂњThe cops caught us and we were face down on the freeway, with guns pointed at us,вЂќ Dre recalled in 2007, according to Irish Examiner. Dre has recalled a story where he and Eazy-E went around shooting paintball pellets at people waiting for the bus. The inspiration for вЂњFuck tha PoliceвЂќ is up for debate.Дr. вЂњAnd Compton and South Central is two sides of the same coin, so to speak.вЂќД¤. вЂњIt just felt silly yelling вЂSouth CentralвЂ™ when everyone else was yelling вЂCompton,'вЂќ he said, according to the book Original Gangstas. HeвЂ™d met Eazy-E as a teenager and gave him the lyrics to вЂњBoyz-N-the Hood.вЂќ When it came time to write the title track of the groupвЂ™s debut album, he just decided to shout out his friendsвЂ™ home locale. The rapper was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles.

Ice Cube wasnвЂ™t from Compton, but that didnвЂ™t stop him from writing about it. Before he returned in September 1988, heвЂ™d written two new songs for Eazy-EвЂ™s solo debut, Eazy-Duz-It.ДЈ. The emcee went on to get a diploma in architectural drafting and design from ArizonaвЂ™s Phoenix Institute of Technology. вЂњThe rap game wasnвЂ™t looking too solid at that time, so I decided to go ahead and go to school,вЂќ Cube once said, according to the biography Attitude.

At the time, all N.W.A had released was the вЂњPanic ZoneвЂќ 12-inch. N.W.A almost didnвЂ™t make it to Straight Outta Compton.ДЄt the conclusion of the groupвЂ™s autumn 1987 tour opening for Salt-N-Pepa, Ice Cube informed the crew that he would be going to college.

Back then we was calling it вЂreality rapвЂ™ вЂgangsta rapвЂ™ is the name that the media coined.вЂќДў. вЂњTalking about what really led into the style that we ended up doing, which is now called hardcore gangster rap. вЂњWe were trying to make records that can go on the radio, and when we started doing mixtapes - which we knew wasnвЂ™t going on the radio - thatвЂ™s when we really started to talk about the neighborhood,вЂќ Ice Cube told Rolling Stonein 2015. The group didnвЂ™t call their music вЂњgangsta rapвЂќ when it came out. As the LP turns 30, here are 12 things you might not already know about it.ДЎ. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren and Yella on the map, thereвЂ™s still much about this record that didnвЂ™t make it into the movie. The album subsequently surged back up to Number 38 on the Billboard chart and was certified triple-platinum that year.Дespite being one of the biggest gangsta rap albums ever and putting Dr. It was later included in Rolling StoneвЂ™s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and had a second act decades later, after its onscreen counterpart about N.W.A, also called Straight Outta Compton,В came out in 2015 to blockbuster success. Straight Outta Compton was made in a matter of weeks for a reported $12,000, and when it came out on August 8th, 1988, it slowly became a hit without much traditional music-industry support, going gold by the following April and platinum by July as momentum built. Thanks to the notoriety around вЂњFuck tha Police,вЂќ which the FBI condemned, and their single вЂњStraight Outta Compton,вЂќ whose video was banned from MTV, N.W.A quickly became not just the worldвЂ™s most dangerous group but also one of its most intriguing. Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the groupвЂ™s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest.

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