Straight Outta Compton (CD)

A lone voice sneers a warning about the strength of street knowledge, and Straight Outta Compton begins. What follows is widely considered the album that defined gangsta rap as a genre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, and MC Ren trading wicked, unflinching verses over Dr. Dre's soulful production and DJ Yella's beats, daring the listener to look away from Compton and not be able to. From the anti-police-brutality anthem that gives the second track its title, to the raw realism of Gangsta Gangsta, to the pro-free-speech statement of Express Yourself, this reissue carries all of it, slamming and ruthless as it was in 1988.

CD, Reissue, Explicit Content, Priority Records / Ruthless

1. Straight Outta Compton
2. FNCK Tha Police
3. Gangsta Gangsta
4. If It Ain't Ruff
5. Parental Discretion Iz Advised
6. 8 Ball
7. Something Like That
8. Express Yourself
9. Compton's N the House
10. I Ain't Tha 1
11. Dopeman
12. Quiet on Tha Set
13. Something 2 Dance 2

Priority Records / Ruthless | Original Release: August 8, 1988 | CD, Reissue | UPC: 602547308122