His first album, It Takes a Thief ... And the rapper bristled when his song was lumped in with the so-called "gangster rap" scene. "I'm trying to get rid of that jacket that's been put on my ...

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard ... It was around this time that gangster rap faced backlash from ...

N.W.A. were an American hip-hop group from Compton, California, active between 1987 to 1991, specialising in the emergence of Gangsta rap ... and the influential album Straight Outta Compton ...