Shyt there is no way when this came out that anyone would believe Cube would be making ANY movies or even have a long career. This album was groundbreaking when it hit in 1988. All that cursing and using the N word. No way we could have seen mainstream change to accept this.
@@spyzmusic hahaha, mama did I mic drop & took out her own son. When I read yr comment I had no idea I knew all the words to L L, let alone all this time later. Suddenly I burst outta the bedroom door spitting rhymes like I wrote em. Gotta say I impressed myself but partner just looked at me for a few secs & then told me to go back to bed😞 then he called out "when U can do that with Slipknot get back to me" 😩 I was waiting for the adoration but it's ok, I'll get mine....😇
Each of them say their name in their verse sometimes multiple times I'm still shocked to see young people never heard of NWA Eazy-E and the beat you like was produced by Dre
I watched a reaction video a few weeks ago and one of the kids paused and said wait a minute, ice cube was a rapper?? Immediately old, i felt. Lol. And it makes me sad that Eazy E isn't remembered. Not even sure how that's possible with how much NWA influenced our generation. His son lil eazy has a version of Boyz n the hood on youtube, it's actually really good imo.
I highly enjoy watchin most these young cats learn about music, from the days where people actually put their heart n soul into their work, but 1 thing that's fairly consistent, they be hearing but they aint listening. 🤣Ren, dead said his name 4x and spelled it
There's still alot to learn about the West Coast, NWA, Dr Dre, Eazy-E, The DOC, Ice Cube, Death Row, Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dogg, Daz, Kurupt, The Lady of Rage, DJ Quik, Sam Sneed, Tupac, all connected in some way ... NWA is just the tip of the iceberg...
Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. and Rakim, Digital Underground, Biz Markie... this can become a serious rabbit hole to journey down if you wish to venture there. So much great music.
@@RichieTaylor No queen Latifah was not part of that group I No because I was 20 Something in the 90s she’s from that era yes but she was not in the group
25 years ago I was an Aussie tourist in America and after a few drinks with friends decided to take a taxi ride into Compton @2am, let’s just say it was one of the scariest/stupidest things I’ve ever done.
I was in L.A watching the city burn..and my white ass went to Compton and survived...that shit makes the storming of the capital look like a joke...be safe and happy new year.
Ice Cube was writing lyrics for Dre and Eazy. They had the nerve to release a diss track about Ice Cube. He destroyed them with “No Vaseline”. IMO the best diss song ever written.
@@salwashabazz7329 which is fucking stupid because the movie was just an ego trip for Cube and Dre. Ren basically wrote there whole 2nd album with some help from the DOC and overall he wrote more songs for NWA then Cube songs like Straight outta compton and Fuck the Police were co written between Cube Ren and The DOC but noone gives them credit
The original lineup, formed in early 1987, consisted of Arabian Prince, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, and Ice Cube. DJ Yella and MC Ren joined later that year. They released their first compilation album as a group in 1987 called N.W.A. and the Posse
The second guy is MC Ren, to me one of the most underrated rappers ever. He was part of NWA and started a solo career after NWA no longer existed, but he never really got the credits he deserved. Like Ice Cube, Ren was a razor sharp lyricist, he had a great flow and - to me - the best rapping voice in the group.
I wish I still had it! I'm an idiot for not keeping it, I was young but pretty aware of it's historical significance SMH... And my dad had no idea what it was but he did question the name. I just laughed and said "it's just another metal band dad" totally underplaying it lol, so he said fine. After some news segments he came back to my room, looked at me and just said "really?" I laughed because I knew exactly what he was talking about. I wasn't a bad or violent kid, and I didn't become a violent kid after listening to it so he let me keep it. If nothing else I learned about the pain and suffering and the resulting anger black people and immigrants felt because I listened to it. It expanded my horizons and I didn't become violent, but instead smarter and wiser than before. It really was an educational experience for me, seeing everything that happened at the time with the LA Riots combined with the lyrics on the tape... I grew as a person and I'm thankful for it. My dad even admitted that he would feel the same damn way if he were subjected to the same racism and violence...we both were able to learn from it.
@@loribernardisunwell9663 it's always happens when we're young, we don't cherish material things. Not till we get older, we then realize the significance of certain items or exsperience's. And wish we held on or taken more attention of them. Like you said you gained knowledge from the music, from such a truthful group. So much music today, has no soul. It's mass produced dribble all about the $$$.
Check out the movie "Straight Outta Compton", it tells the history of NWA and is a great movie to watch. And I'm saying this being someone who grew up listening new wave, punk and metal and hating rap and hip hop at that time. Now, decades later, I found a lot of respect for a lot of rappers and hip hop artists and NWA are on the top of that list for me.
I remember this changing my life when I first heard the album. Talk about reach, I was a young blonde haired, blue eyed boy in Manchester UK. I grew up in Moss Side where it didn't matter what colour you were the police hated you simply because of your post code and these guys were our heroes. They truly were a worldwide smash
Somewhere in my brain resides every bar from every track on this album. This was a big part of the soundtrack to my life in high school. I lived a little ways south of Compton in a whole other white suburban world. The impact of this music rocked my white generation and opened our eyes to a world we really had no idea existed. This is one of those seminal albums that needs to be raised up.
I'm a 61, almost 62 year old rocker from the 70s. But even I love it when the rap and hip-hop bands are talking about something with some substance like these guys did. Also, here's hoping that dr. Dre is doing better. Peace and love!
There "Gangsta rap" conservatives spend so much time whining about is very sociopolitical, and says a lot of stuff about race that white people don't want to hear.
My cousins and I would listen to this entire album over and over...Our parents would've grounded us our entire teenage lives if they had known! 🤣✌🏼 Get well soon, Dre! 🖤
@Salem Eazy was a drug dealer before NWA and funded the NWA and The posse album and founded ruthless records off money he had got from drug dealing and Ren was in the Compton Crips with Eazy for a bit too but ye sure defo middle class👍
Rosebud, they weren't lairs. They rapped about things they seen. They've talked about it in interviews. That's how real hip hop should be. Not fake rappers today who rap about living it but aren't and don't even acknowledge it.
@@JayveeTV For Public Enemy some songs to check out are Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Fight the Power, Welcome to the Terrordome, Shut em Down, 911 is a joke, Don't Believe the Hype. For NWA: Express Yourself, F**k the Police, 100 miles and runnin
I only knew MTV Rap. In basic training a kid from Detroit started rapping...Cruisin' down the street my six four... My jaw hit the floor. I had never heard anything like that before.
The opening verse is rapped by Ice Cube. MC Ren delivers the second, and Eazy-E the third verse. Dr. Dre does the intro as well as introducing Eazy E's verse. Eazy-E also introduces MC Ren's verse
i first heard nwa and easy e in the summer of 88, and i can honestly tell you, this is the soundtrack to my youth, every single time i hear easy e or nwa, it takes me right back to a specific time-frame in my life....ice cube is literally EASILY top 5 rappers of all time, not just rapping it, but writing it like Eminem, Too Short, Eric B and Rakim, LL, Biggy, Pac
Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It Eazy-E - Still talkin' (written by Ice Cube & The D.O.C) Eazy-E - Nobody move (written by MC Ren) Eazy-E - Ruthless villain (written by MC Ren) Eazy-E - 2 hard mutha's (written by MC Ren) Eazy-E - Boyz-n-the-hood (Remix) (written by Ice Cube) Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It (written by MC Ren) Eazy-E - We want Eazy (written by The D.O.C) Eazy-E - Eazy-Er said than dunn (written by The D.O.C) Eazy-E - Radio (written by MC Ren) Eazy-E - No More Questions (written by Ice Cube) Eazy-E - I'mma break it down (written by MC Ren) N.W.A - Straight outta Compton (Ice Cube wrote his own lyrics, MC Ren wrote his own lyrics, The D.O.C wrote Eazy-E's lyrics) N.W.A - Fuck tha police (Ice Cube wrote his own lyrics, MC Ren wrote his own lyrics, The D.O.C wrote Eazy-E's lyrics) N.W.A - Gangsta Gangsta (Ice Cube his own lyrics, Ice Cube also wrote Eazy-E's lyrics) N.W.A - If it ain't ruff (MC Ren wrote his own lyrics) N.W.A - Parental discretion iz advised (Ice Cube wrote his own lyrics, MC Ren wrote his own lyrics, The D.O.C wrote his own lyrics, Ice Cube and The D.O.C wrote Eazy-E's and Dr. Dre's lyrics) N.W.A - 8 Ball (Remix) (Ice Cube wrote Eazy-E's lyrics) N.W.A - Something like that (MC Ren wrote his own lyrics, MC Ren also wrote Dr. Dre's lyrics) N.W.A - Express Yourself (Ice Cube wrote Dr. Dre's lyrics) N.W.A - Compton's N the house (Remix) (MC Ren wrote his own lyrics, MC Ren also wrote Dr. Dre's lyrics) N.W.A - I ain't tha 1 (Ice Cube wrote his own lyrics) N.W.A - Dopeman (Remix) (Ice Cube wrote his own lyrics, Ice Cube also wrote Eazy-E's lyrics) N.W.A - Quiet on tha set (MC Ren wrote his own lyrics) N.W.A - Something 2 dance 2 (Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and Arabian Prince)
I grew up in a hotass hood. Crack central in the 80s. When N.W.A. came out, I was only about 10, but it was like 'Ohhhh, shit- somebody went and made music about OUR neighborhoods!?'. It was crazy. And we were all about it, in Brockton, MA. You gotta check out their boy, D.O.C. The whole album, 'No One Can Do It Better'. Bars upon bars, and these guys are all on it. ENJOYABLE REVIEW, THANKS!!
and so... gangster rap was born.. NWA was the reason 'parental advisory' needed to be printed on the album covers with lyrics like this.. ever played GTA San Andreas?? is about NWA . like 2 years after this song.. Easy E passed away in a past viral pandemic called Aids. The drumloop they used is the most sampled drumloop of all time called Amen Brother...
you should check out the documentary "The Defiant Ones", primarily about Dre. you get a lot of the background of this whole scene. it's pretty recent, you should be able to find it online :)
Its on Netflix,the part about the DOCs crash where it shows him sitting in a room while his isolated vocals from 'Its funky enough' plays in the backround really got me he looks like hes about to burst into tears ive no doubt he would of been one of the greatest rappers had that accident not happened
When this group broke up they all made diss songs about each other. Ice cube- no Vaseline Dr. Dre- Dre day Eazy E- real muthaphukin g’s Check those out
N.W.A. They made gangsta rap popular and is most of the soundtrack of my youth. Check out these other great gangsta rappers of the same era: Too Short (Life is Too Short) DJ Quik (almost anything from his first album "Quik is the Name") Kid Frost (La Raza & No Sunshine)
With Attitude or Activator? When Cube left the group, N.W.A made the mistake of releasing a diss track ‘100 Miles & Runnin’. Essentially 4 vs 1. So Cube wrote and released ‘No Vaseline’ 1 vs 4. Safety in numbers? Not always. No Vaseline is considered one of, if not the best dis track ever recorded. In my opinion, No Vaseline is 1a with Nas’ Ether #1 but...... Nas was only dissing one dude in Ether. Some guy named J something but Cube ripped 4 dudes apart in No Vaseline. Check it out and you be the judge.
@@ferdiahunt9899 it was a combination of all of them but now that I think about it, the “I was speaking to yo’ bitch O’Shea” line is probably the one that cut the deepest.
@@thetextpistols7354 apologys i thought u meant the song 100 miles and running not the ep and i personally dont think the disstrack is as bad as many make it out to be its just Cubes reply was so good
I was a white, 25 year old cop in a rough, predominately black city, with lots of gang bangers when this album came out. This shit was so good I went out and bought it, and I'm typically a rocker.
I am loving all the reactions to this by the youngsters. I remember being in HS in the 80's and before NWA hit, 2 Live Crew was being banned everywhere for Me So Horny. It was when Rap went from entry level to having a real message.
