Released: May 28, 1991

Songwriter: Dr. Dre

Producer: DJ Yella Dr. Dre

[Intro: Dr. Dre]
A message to Benedict Arnold: No matter how hard you try to be, here's what they think about you!

[Answering Machine Messages]

[Female caller 1]
Hello? I was at The Celebrity... and I was wonderin' how that punk Ice Cube got his ass beat by ATL!
[Beep]

[Male caller 1]
Yo! Dat nigga was sayin' he from Compton? He ain't from Compton, he from a planet called: "Punk!" It is full of pussy protein and pearl tongue!
[Beep]

[Female caller 2]
All I wanna know is why y'all let his punk-ass in the group in the first place, when you knew what kinda bitch he was?
[Beep]

[Male caller 2]
Yeah, I was in the New Music Seminar in New York!
And I watched that punk muthafucka run... while the rest of his homeboys got they ass beat!
[Beep]

[Female caller 3]
Hello? I'm callin' to say since Ice Cube was suckin' so much New York dick...can he come and eat sum of this Chicago pussy?
[Beep]

[Men]
I smell... [3 sniffs] PUSSY!
[Beep]

[MC Ren]
Yeah, nigga; when we see yo' ass, we gon' cut your hair off and fuck you with' a broomstick!
[Beep]

[Outro: Dr. Dre]
Think about it, punk muthafucka!

N.W.A

Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince initially formed the collective known as “the world’s most dangerous group,” N.W.A.—Niggaz With Attitudes.

Following Ice Cube’s stint in C.I.A. and Dre and Yella’s departure from the World Class Wreckin Cru, they got together with Compton hustler Eric “Eazy-E” Wright, who formed Ruthless Records and released Eazy’s single “Boyz n the Hood,” written by Cube and produced by Dre. A compilation entitled N.W.A. and the Posse was released in 1987 but the group’s seminal debut, Straight Outta Compton, was released on August 8, 1988. It led to the rise of gangsta rap and West Coast hip-hop in general with their tales of “reality rap” from the streets of Compton and South Central Los Angeles. Their song “Fuck tha Police” even put the group on the hit list of the FBI.

Arabian Prince was the first to leave the group in 1988 over a financial dispute. Ice Cube left N.W.A. in 1989 after his own financial dispute, leading to the other members to diss him on their subsequent the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin' and EFIL4ZAGGIN, which was released in 1991 and peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The D.O.C., who contributed to Straight Outta Compton and was still recovering from a car accident that severly altered his strong voice, wrote more rhymes for Dr. Dre and Eazy-E on the EFIL4ZAGGIN album in attempt to fill the void left by Cube.