It’s a strange oversight because aside from a slew of songs from N.W.A. themselves, “Straight Outta Compton” is packed with hip-hop classics, vintage funk tracks and smooth soul gems.

All week, I’ve been doing nothing but bumping MC Ren. I have to thank “Straight Outta Compton” for that one, as the already classic Hip-Hop biopic serves as a reminder of sorts.

"Straight Outta Compton" is a musically propulsive mixed blessing of a biopic, made the way these things often get made: with the real-life protagonists breathing down the movie's neck to make ...

The group's most popular album was one of 25 other pieces of music Originally released in 1988, Straight Outta Compton served as the blueprint to West Coast rap and uncovered the LA/Cali gang ...

Dr. Dre will finally end fans’ 16-year wait for a new album when the rapper releases his Straight Outta Compton soundtrack, which will consist of new music entirely produced by The Chronic ...

N.W.A wasn't the world's first gangsta rap act. And it wasn't the baddest. But the group's remarkable debut album Straight Outta Compton, released 20 years ago, convinced many people otherwise.

N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton was the Jordan that kicked down all the doors — the idea that hip-hop didn't have to come from New York, the hard truths of "reality rap," the waterfall ...

N.W.A.'s 'Straight Outta Compton' album is headed for the Grammy Hall of Fame. N.W.A. was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame seven months ago.

One of the summer’s most entertaining and provocative movies, F. Gary Gray’s “Straight Outta Compton’’ provides timely context to one of the most inflammatory songs of the 20th century ...