On this day in 1988, N.W.A. released their single “Straight Outta Compton”

@SVG__Collection This song was a true turn in song and in life! ✊🫶

@SVG__Collection Changed the game forever

@SVG__Collection We were blasting that cassette everywhere 😂

@SVG__Collection Another shitty milestone in the degradation of our culture.

@SVG__Collection That was the downfall of rap music, everything after began to collapse. The message slowly choked out 😔

@SVG__Collection Changed things forever.

@SVG__Collection As a So Cal girl, my secret pleasure will always be old school West Coast rap and hip hop. I love it 💙

@SVG__Collection And music was never the same again

@SVG__Collection In 1988 this scared a lot of people. Mostly the whites. It's amazing how prescient this song was. Even some of us "whites" get it now. Power to the people 👊✌️

@SVG__Collection Game Changer, and Cube gave us the most iconic verse of all time.

@SVG__Collection Generations of people's minds destroyed by this. Crime against humanity.

@SVG__Collection MC Ren is criminally underrated. It's like the streets of Lower Hutt...

@SVG__Collection The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. – Harold Rosenberg

@SVG__Collection RIP Eazy E

@SVG__Collection 🧡💙🫡🎶🎵🎶🎵👍

@SVG__Collection studio gangstas

@SVG__Collection One of the best rap tunes of all times. I prefer Tim Dogs ‘Fuck Compton‘ though.

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@SVG__Collection if you’ve posted this to demonstrate how music has regressed as an art form, mission accomplished

@SVG__Collection Best rap group from the Bronx of all time.

@SVG__Collection Psyop

@SVG__Collection Banger about black on black murder.

@SVG__Collection what a banger

@SVG__Collection They sure did.

@SVG__Collection The peak of rap.

@SVG__Collection Bludsos No longer in Compton, tho

@SVG__Collection When music was real and told stories, and then record labels decided to push the rap industry into this gang rap purposely to keep people in that prison mindset.

@SVG__Collection I was 13 years old and had the cassette.

@SVG__Collection All hail the amen 🤙🏼

@SVG__Collection Though there was no single specifically released for the "Straight Outta Compton" song, an extended mix did appear on the B-side of the "Express Yourself" 12" vinyl and cassette maxi-single.

@SVG__Collection More's the pity.

@SVG__Collection I have "Express Yourself" from that album on my mix of favorite jams from that epic year in between "My Philosophy" by Boogie Down Productions and EPMD's "Strictly Business" along w/ songs from Eric B and Rakim, Slick Rick, Run DMC and Public Enemy: open.spotify.com/playlist/3osbC…

@SVG__Collection All the black people left Compton.