![]() But the rappers did more than any group of the era to bring (or return) those cars to national consciousness. The 6-4 Impalas and Benz-O’s celebrated in the group’s lyrics were already fixtures in Compton and Long Beach by the time Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A.’s debut record, was released in 1988. ![]() But now that N.W.A are inductees in the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we at The Drive are looking at the group’s influence specifically on car culture. N.W.As debut studio album, Straight Outta Compton, was released in 1988. Much has been said and written about N.W.A’s influence on pop culture, and the summer’s Straight Outta Compton biopic all but generated a cottage industry of retrospectives, listicles and one particularly craven t-shirt trend. Eric Lynn Wright (Septem March 26, 1995), known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless Records.He is often referred to as the 'Godfather of Gangsta Rap'. Dre and DJ Yella were making a different kind of statement with the same materials, as the photo above demonstrates. ![]() Just a few miles and many worlds removed from that Bubblicious scene, Eazy E, M.C. How coeds with hairstyles inspired by the era’s Koosh Ball would clamber over the doors and spill out onto a southern California beach, ready for volleyball or tormenting the goth, Ally Sheedy-esque loner. ![]() ![]() Think about that tippy fixture of late-Eighties high school rom-coms. ![]()
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