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Straight Outta Compton (25th Anniversary): Vinyl LP Released This Month - March and a reinvention of theStraight Outta Compton is the debut studio album from American hip hop group N. W. A, released August 8, 1988. The album is widely regarded as the pioneering record of gangsta rap; and with its ever present profanity and violent lyrics, it helped to give birth to the then new sub genre of hip hop. Includes the global smash hit singles Straight Outta Compton, Express Yourself and Gangsta Gangsta.