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Straight Outta Compton is een album (viermaal platina) van de band N.W.A uit 1988, toen uitgebracht op lp, in 1989 opnieuw verschenen op cd. In 2002 werd er een geremasterde editie uitgebracht met vier extra nummers. Het album is een van de meest controversiële albums ooit, voornamelijk vanwege het nummer Fuck tha Police, en is ook het eerste goedverkopende West Coast-hiphopalbum ooit. Het album van Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren en DJ Yella stond zowel aan het begin van de West Coast-hiphop als de gangstarap.

Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American hip hop group N.W.A, released on January 25, 1989 through Priority and Ruthless Records. It was produced by N.W.A members Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince, with lyrics written by the group's remaining members Eazy-E, Ice Cube and MC Ren along with Ruthless rapper and unofficial member The D.O.C. Not merely depicting Compton's street violence, the lyrics repeatedly threaten to lead it by attacking peers and even police. The track "Fuck tha Police" drew an FBI agent's warning letter, which aided N.W.A's notoriety, with N.W.A calling itself "the world's most dangerous group."

In July 1989, despite its scarce radio play beyond the Los Angeles area, Straight Outta Compton received gangsta rap's first platinum certification, one million copies sold by then. That year, the album peaked at number 9 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and at number 37 on the Billboard 200. Receiving media spotlight, N.W.A's example triggered the rap genre's movement toward hardcore, gangsta rap.

Remastered, the album's September 2000 reissue gained four bonus tracks. Nearing the album's 20th anniversary, another extended version of it arrived in December 2007. In 2015, after an album reissue on red cassettes, theater release of the biographical film Straight Outta Compton reinvigorated sales of the album, which by year's end was certified 3x Multi-Platinum. In 2016, it became the first rap album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The next year, the Library of Congress enshrined Straight Outta Compton in the National Recording Registry, who have deemed it to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".