NWA's landmark album Straight Outta Compton was released on 8 August 1988, bringing the sound of gangsta rap to mainstream America. In History revisits an interview with the young rap crew as they ...

"NWA is the origin story.” The group’s 1988 debut album, also called Straight Outta Compton, promoted hip hop, and specifically a sub-genre dubbed gangsta rap from the underground into the ...

Rubio has always said he had an affinity for hard West Coast rap. He also said that his time on the road has kept him from watching the recent Hollywood biopic of NWA, “Straight Outta Compton.” ...

JEFFREY BROWN: It was music with attitude, aggressive, angry, sometimes funny, always profane. The album "Straight Outta Compton" burst on the hip-hop scene in 1988 from the rap group NWA. It ...

NWA are credited with redefining gangsta rap and west coast hip hop in the Eighties, with some critics calling them the most important group in the history of rap music. Active from 1986 to 1991 ...

NWA revolutionises hip-hop in a new trailer for Straight Outta Compton. Director F Gary Gray's (The Italian Job) biopic dramatises the early years of gangster rap pioneers Eazy-E, Dr Dre and Ice Cube.

Heller co-founded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E, which released N.W.A's seminal album "Straight Outta Compton" in 1988, launching the West Coast gangsta rap movement. Ruthless was also behind such ...