NWA separated itself from others with hypersexual, high profanity, and straight-up gangsta lyrics that were not seen from artists before. NWA’s debut album, Straight Outta Compton, was a generational movement that brought the acceptance of struggled rappers in the music industry with their own ideas and experiences.
NWA – abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes. Gangsta rap group from Compton, California. Active from 1987 until 1991, this group faced constant controversy for speaking on the hard-knock gangsta life with explicit lyrics while glorifying drugs and crime. Because of this, the group’s music was banned from multiple, big-time radio stations but still sold over 10 million units in the United States. Their hatred towards the polices increased eyes on this new gangsta rap group.
Compton – Compton is one of the oldest cities in Los Angeles County and became the eight-city in California on May 11th, 1888. Since the 2010 US census had the population at 96,456. Compton is only safer than 8% of US cities. 1 in 82 people in Compton becomes a victim of a violent crime. The chances of being a victim of property crime in Compton are 1 in 38 people. With this high rate of crime, police were always around. Policemen would have a prejudiced outlook on the community and only believe a person was up to no good.