The album’s most notorious offering, “F__ck Tha Police,” may have shaken tender sensibilities and drawn condemnation from the FBI, but NWA reckoned it was the voice of their hood.

Noting that “without him, I don't think you get a fully developed Eazy-E,” and how he was “a huge part of the NWA chemistry.” Eventually getting into his upcoming new album, Man Down ...

Though the more experienced Dr. Dre wanted to produce a Cube solo album, the internal politics of NWA nixed that. But who else could deliver the roughneck, ball-breaking beats like NWA ...