N.W.A were also surrounded and succeeded by rappers like Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Nas, and each of the members' solo work after N.W.A disbanded. After all, the film takes its name from the revolutionary N.W.A album released in 1988. But Straight Outta Compton also boasts something of a built-in tracklist: a truly stacked set of songs that relate directly or tangentially to the film. Short answer is, there's no official compilation of the music featured in the film. So is there an official Straight Outta Compton soundtrack?
It stars a number of the biggest names in rap today, but it's still not quite a soundtrack in the traditional sense. Dre, ties into the film, but comprises entirely new material whereas the film quite faithfully reconstructs the west coast rap scene of the late 20th century. Dre release, Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. It's rare that a film nowadays - especially a music biopic - doesn't have some kind of soundtrack, especially during a moment when everyone from Robert Pattinson to Barack Obama has published their own personal soundtrack via iTunes or Spotify, but the recent N.W.A film Straight Outta Compton is an outlier in that regard.
