NWAStraight Outta Compton

Menacing, raw, and electrifying, built from heavy basslines, threatening synths, and hard-hitting drums chopped from slowed-down funk. The title track detonates with towering horns over the Amen break, Ice Cube's first verse landing like a bulletin from a war zone. "Fuck tha Police" stages a courtroom drama so pointed the FBI mailed them a warning. "Express Yourself" rides a sunny Charles Wright groove as Dre's nod to sample-based production. Recorded for $12,000 in Torrance so they'd have something to sell out of the trunk. The shot that started everything.