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The album received more positive reviews since then, especially for the production. Tom Doggett from Rap Reviews said: "Niggaz4life is a frightening album, jammed with explosive beats, visceral skits, and inciting rhymes. There is an overwhelming sense of sensual stimulation that overcomes the room
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Later DJ Yella said: β€œI do like the second album better than the first. The first one had more hits, but production-wise I like this one better. It would have been great if Cube would have got on that album. But it sounds better, we put more into it.” MC Ren also looks back positively to the album:
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when this album is playing. The eighteen tracks move by effortlessly, jumping from shootout skits to Ice Cube disses to revolting accounts of sexual acts. Even if you are turned off, it is impossible to deny the kinetic force that exudes from this album."
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as "so hateful toward women, and in such a pathetic and sleazy manner, that it's simply tiresome." Mark Blackwell, of Spin magazine, similarly opined in his interview of N.W.A. that
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In a negative review, Newsweek deemed the album "by N.W.A standards, is a mediocre work, a retreat from cinematic storytelling into simple punk bluster."
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wrote, "N.W.A. raps nasty and righteous, with real ghetto heat, and doesn't give an inch," calling the album "incendiary" and "grotesque."
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Jesse Ducker from Albumism also praised the production and said: "Efil4zaggin stands as a very dope, albeit flawed, piece of work."
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generally polarized music critics, as many were divided over its lyrics especially in the 2nd half of the album.
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condemned the album. In a two star review (out of five), Rolling Stone critic Arion Berger attacked
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appended to the end of the original track listing, but one was available with a DVD copy of
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In 1992, several months after the release of the album, N.W.A released a video named
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declared it one of their albums of the year but more mainstream publications like
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Songwriting credits are adapted from the CD liner notes. All songs produced by
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Cocks, J.; Donnelly, S.B. (July 1, 1991). "A nasty jolt for the top pops".
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Sandow, Greg (1995). "N.W.A". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.).
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Batey, Angus (October 2009). "My record collection – Busta Rhymes".
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Leland, J.; Buckley, L. (July 1, 1991). "Number one with a bullet".
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In comparison to its predecessor, the album was also heavier on
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In 2002, the CD was re-released in two formats. Both had the EP
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had already left the group in 1988 and 1989 respectively.
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Efil4zaggin
A crime scene of a homicide with the bodies covered with white sheets near the curb. The members of NWA are seen as ghosts above their respective bodies. The album's title "NIGGAZ4LIFE" is seen in a black rectangle and is horizontally mirrored.
Studio album
N.W.A
Torrance, California
Genre
West Coast hip hop
gangsta rap
horrorcore
G-funk
hardcore hip hop
Label
Ruthless
Priority
Producer
Eazy-E
exec
Dr. Dre
DJ Yella
N.W.A
100 Miles and Runnin'
Greatest Hits
Singles
Alwayz into Somethin'
Appetite for Destruction
The Dayz of Wayback
cover art
all caps
mirrored
gangsta rap

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