Your birth year
2006
Straight Outta Compton
1988N.W.A.
Straight Outta Compton is 18 years older than you
It's from 1988, before you were born.
- Artist
- N.W.A
- Genre
- Hip-hop
- Released
- 1988
- Note
- landmark West Coast rap album
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About
As of 2026, it's 38 years old.
Straight Outta Compton introduced N.W.A and gangsta rap to the mainstream in 1988 with a record so confrontational it drew a warning letter from the FBI — which, predictably, only made the group more notorious and more essential. Raw, furious, and unfiltered, it gave voice to Compton in a way pop radio had never allowed.
It launched the careers of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Eazy-E, and reshaped hip-hop's center of gravity toward the West Coast.
Explosive, influential, and genuinely dangerous to the establishment, Straight Outta Compton is the album that announced gangsta rap and changed hip-hop forever.
