It's hard not to shiver as Priority's N.W.A Family Tree compilation opens with the iconic line "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge." One quick scan down the track list and the hip-hop faithful know there are more unforgiving and/or provocative gangster rap masterpieces to come, but the concept here is more the stuff of historical magazine articles than it is something on which to build a mixtape.
Sure, Warren G and Nate Dogg are from the West Coast and their "Regulate" is filled with California street knowledge, but past that, the track owes as much to N.W.A as thousands of other gangster rap songs, and a couple hundred of those are better choices for the concept at hand.
If this set really wanted to follow the evolution from "Straight Outta Compton" to Snoop Dogg's "Lay Low," there would be more of Dr.
Dre's work for the Death Row label included.
Instead, there's the forgotten G-Funk of Bad Azz.
Looks and sounds like Priority made do with what was at hand rather than pay the high licensing fees, so put this poorly sequenced West Coast party on shuffle, give thanks the label has so much prime material to play with, and then ponder why such a rich catalog repeatedly gets shoe horned into thematically unsound collections that don't even include liner notes.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight Outta Compton | N.W.A | Play | 04:15 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 2 | Dopeman | N.W.A | Play | 05:46 | 13 MB | 43 MB |
| 3 | We Want Eazy | N.W.A, Eazy-E | Play | 05:01 | 11 MB | 37 MB |
| 4 | Express Yourself | N.W.A | Play | 03:57 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 5 | It Was a Good Day | N.W.A, Ice Cube | Play | 04:19 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 6 | V.S.O.P.Cold 187um, Go Mack | N.W.A, Above the Law | Play | 04:48 | 11 MB | 33 MB |
| 7 | You Can't Play with My Yo-Yo | N.W.A, Ice Cube, Yo-Yo | Play | 03:53 | 8 MB | 29 MB |
| 8 | Foe Life | N.W.A, Mack 10 | Play | 04:13 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 9 | It's Funky Enough | N.W.A, The D.O.C. | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 33 MB |
| 10 | Final FrontierP. Brown, George Clinton | N.W.A, MC Ren | Play | 04:09 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 11 | Regulate | N.W.A, Nate Dogg, Warren G | Play | 04:08 | 9 MB | 26 MB |
| 12 | Bow Down | N.W.A, Westside Connection | Play | 03:26 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 13 | Gangstas Make the World Go Round | N.W.A, Westside Connection | Play | 04:32 | 10 MB | 28 MB |
| 14 | Lay Low | N.W.A, Butch Cassidy, Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Tha Eastsidaz, Master P | Play | 03:42 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 15 | We Be Puttin' It Down | N.W.A, Bad Azz, Snoop Dogg | Play | 04:21 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 16 | Boyz-N-The-Hood | N.W.A | Play | 05:14 | 11 MB | 37 MB |
| 17 | Fuck Tha Police | N.W.A | Play | 05:14 | 12 MB | 38 MB |
| 18 | Bitch Please | Nhiều Ca Sĩ | Play | 03:46 | 8 MB | 24 MB |
| 79 mins | 181 MB | |||||
| 79 mins | 554 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Above the Law | Primary Artist |
| 2 | Bad Azz | Primary Artist |
| 3 | Kevin Bartley | Audio Engineer, Mastering |
| 4 | P. Brown | Composer |
| 5 | Bud'da | Audio Production |
| 6 | C. Samson | Audio Production |
| 7 | Butch Cassidy | Primary Artist |
| 8 | Paul Chesley | Photography |
| 9 | George Clinton | Composer |
| 10 | Cold 187um | Composer, Producer |
| 11 | Frank Collura | Compilation Producer |
| 12 | The D.O.C. | Primary Artist |
| 13 | DJ Pooh | Audio Production, Main Personnel, Producer |
| 14 | Dr. Dre | Audio Production, Main Personnel, Producer, Rap |
| 15 | Nate Dogg | Primary Artist |
| 16 | Tha Eastsidaz | Primary Artist |
| 17 | Eazy-E | Primary Artist |
| 18 | Michael Elizondo | Audio Production |
| 19 | Mike Elizondo | Producer |
| 20 | Bobby Ervin | Producer |
| 21 | Bobby "Bobcat" Erwin | Audio Production |
| 22 | Warren G | Audio Production, Main Personnel, Primary Artist, Producer, Rap |
| 23 | Go Mack | Composer |
| 24 | Rayshon E. Harris | Product Manager |
| 25 | Ice Cube | Audio Production, Main Personnel, Primary Artist, Rap |
| 26 | Shuji Kobayashi | Photography |
| 27 | Susan Lavoie | Art Direction |
| 28 | Mack 10 | Primary Artist |
| 29 | Master P | Primary Artist |
| 30 | MC Ren | Primary Artist |
| 31 | N.W.A | Primary Artist |
| 32 | Sir Jinx | Producer |
| 33 | Snoop Dogg | Primary Artist |
| 34 | Westside Connection | Primary Artist |
| 35 | Xzibit | Primary Artist |
| 36 | Yella | Producer |
| 37 | Yo-Yo | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |