Straight Outta Compton

Fucking fantastic

I liked the movie better.

Yo Dre, I got something to say: I get that this is a really important and influential album, and it's an interesting historical artefact. I also generally hate the cops. But this level of pointed (not even casual) misogyny and homophobia is really jarring and should be left firmly in the past, along with police brutality (maybe someday).

The production is great, though - has to be said. I'd just rather listen to Public Enemy. As a fan of a lot of hip hop, this rating feels a bit sacrilegious, but I'm not sorry.

Frauenfeindliche, gewaltverherrlichende Kackscheiße.
Auch ein paar nette Beats und funky Samples können diese ekelhaften Lyrics nicht wettmachen.
Krass und traurig, dass so ein Zeug wohl ein ganzes Genre gespawnt hat.
0.5/5 - unhörbar wegen der Lyrics

A few classic hip-hop tracks to start the album, but the rest doesn't do much for me. The misogyny might have been cool at the time but it's pretty cringeworthy these days.

PEDRADA!
pica demais. dos mais importantes do hiphop aí. só pedrada, beats ótimos, bem dançante e limpinho. algumas letras são ótimas e, infelizmente, atuais.
acho que nem tem como não dar 5 estrelas pra esse aqui. é bão demais. PORÉM, vale citar que prefiro wu-tang clan pq acho os beats e produções mais sujos...

This album really is amazing. Eazy E is so sick and Dr Dre might be actually the goat. I love how raw and emotional it is, even if the style is a bit dated

Overall I enjoyed this quite a bit. If it hadn't gone on so long and had had quite so much misogyny it would have been an easy 4 stars.

Several songs haven't aged well, and the misogyny littered throughout doesn't do wonders for my opinion. I know on some levels that it's dramatised and supposed to add to their confrontational personas, but it's not something I can easily look past. However, that doesn't erase the necessary political messaging throughout the album either, and a lot of the songs are still straight bangers (aided by the great production). I don't want to sit atop my high horse too much, and I'm able to respect what an influential album this is to the history of hip hop (and popular culture in general). Fuck the police!

Has any other album aged poorly and also incredibly at this same time?

The beats are a bit middle of the road and consequently it’s hard not to drift off. Still a worthwhile lp though.

OK then, wow. The drum and bass and rapping on this are absolutely relentless and irresistible on this album. The “bitches” stuff is a bit much and is why I bumped this back to 4 stars from the 5 I was considering after the first couple tracks. But then there are other moments that are incredibly funny, and a lot of anger that is real. I am amused that this m-f'ing record has been enshrined in the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

I started off saying "ok we'll just listen to the first 3 tracks of this for now," but ha no I just played the whole thing through. A record quite deserving of its accolades.

4 stars

What a sick opener.. what a boring ending.

This album has a really good sound. Was thinking I'd rate it a 4 at the beginning but because of the offensive and unlistenable lyrics at times I'll compromise at 3

For most of this album I thought it was gonna be a definite 5 star. Up until Express Yourself I was loving it. Unfortunately it dropped off a good bit after that. Dopeman in particular I really didn’t care for.

Top Track - Something Like That

I guess one of the first proper rap albums.

Wowzers. I see why Dionne Warwick called that meeting. Shit bumps tho 🤷🏾

En Tidal falta la canción 2: Fuck tha police.1. Me encanta como suena el rap de esta época. Me he guardado: «Straight Outta Compton», «Fuck tha Police», «Gangsta Gangsta», «Parental Discretion Iz Advised» y «Dopeman», pero podrían ser más. Me han entrado ganas de ver la película.

Looking back it’s so funny how the 808s contrasted the subject manner. This album really set the popular blueprint for the next two decades. (4-4.5)

Me, thinking: Didn't we have this one already? Wait no, that was the movie. I watched the movie.

One thing this album did for me personally was make going to [city of] Compton more exciting. 1988 is downright ancient in hip hop years so I know this was an influential album. But also, some of that influence was negative - the lyrics are the usual violent misogynistic stuff I now expect from popular rap, slurs included (slur count = 75). The prosody and general vibe is impactful and cool, so if those two things could be decoupled (as they of course are in rare cases) that'd be a little music utopia. But so it goes.

Can't escape the Beastie Boys: the "yeah" in "We don't 'just say no' / we're too busy saying 'Yeah!'" is a Beasties sample.

Linguistic intrigue: in 'Fuck tha Police', Ice Cube says he's "brown", which I feel like is now usually used for non-white non-black people, and I wonder if that didn't use to be the case. Also, you know how old-timey insults just read as cutesy and quaint? I'm getting that vibe from "I ain't the one / the one to get played like a pooh butt". I *think* it's intentional, but either way it made me lol.

Highlight: 'Express Yourself'