The EP's five songs included Eazy and Cube on "Dopeman", Eazy on "8 ball", and Arabian's production "Panic Zone." Īfter the release of the EP, N.W.A left Macola and signed to Priority. The success of Eazy’s single "Boyz-n-the-Hood" prompted Eazy's call for an N.W.A EP, distributed by Macola. Dre and DJ Yella, led by Grandmaster Lonzo, were signed to Lonzo's label Kru-Cut Records, a sublabel of Macola Records, the area's leading distributor of rap records. The World Class Wreckin' Cru', including Dr. These four tracks had previously been released by Ruthless Records. Rock, had invited him to perform at a nightclub, where the Fila Fresh Crew was performing. Dre discovered them in Texas, where a DJ friend of his, Dr. Dre and DJ Yella.įour of the Posse album's tracks are from the Fila Fresh Crew, a rap crew including Doc-T, who soon renamed himself The D.O.C. One track is of Microphone Mike, later called Myka 9, along with Rappinstine, a traveling faction of the DJ crew World Class Wreckin' Cru, whose core had yielded N.W.A's Dr. MC Ren and DJ Yella were not yet in N.W.A, however Ren does appear on the cover photograph. Six of the 11 tracks on the Posse album are from then-N.W.A members: Eazy-E, Dr. Months after Straight Outta Compton was released the new Ruthless distributor, Priority Records, re-issued the Posse album with the "Bitch" track replacing "Scream". Macola omitted the N.W.A track "A Bitch iz a Bitch" which was recorded around the same time but not included on the EP either to favor party, electro sounds, like the "Panic Zone" track, that led the Los Angeles rap scene until N.W.A's Straight album hit. Originally not N.W.A's intended album release, the Posse album was released by Macola Records-which was then the Los Angeles hip hop scene's main distributor-by collecting songs, mainly N.W.A's EP titled N.W.A, that Macola had distributed for N.W.A's record label, Ruthless Records. Whereas the Straight album was certified platinum, one million copies sold in July 1989, the Posse album was certified gold, half as many copies sold, in April 1994. It is regarded as American rap group N.W.A's first but neglected album N.W.A's authorized debut studio album, rather, is Straight Outta Compton, released in August 1988. ![]() and the Posse is a compilation album, re-releasing N.W.A and associated groups' underground rap songs from the Los Angeles area's rap scene on November 6, 1987.
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