Ice Cube is Still “Straight Outta Compton (The Roots Remix)” (Listen & Download)

Posted by Nathan S. on 06/03/10 | Filed under Downloads, The Roots, Ice Cube

Last Friday viewers of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" were treated to one hell of a surprise when Ice Cube unexpectedly launched into a live version of his classic "It Was a Good Day". (Yeah, I don't know anyone who watches Jimmy Fallon either.) But what viewers didn't get to see or hear were the rehearsals between Cube and Fallon's house band, the legendary Roots crew. Well thanks to Roots drummer ?uestlove, we now get to hear the highlight of those rehearsals, a live version of N.W.A.'s classic "Straight Outta Compton". Yep, it's true. Everything sounds better with The Roots involved. Hell, I bet they could even make me start enjoying Katy Perry. "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge."

Shout out to Jimmy Fallon for shattering the "White Guy Awkwardly Singing Along to Gangsta Rap" world record.

Download link is below the video:

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Go straight back to Compton right now and listen to the track below.

Play Ice Cube ft. The Roots - Straight Outta Compton

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DJ Critical Hype	really Dope.... cool to hear Black Thought spit with Cube love when the roots do that shit on Jimmy Fallon , like when Black Thought spit with Clipse on Popular Demand a few months back
	Posted on Jun 03, 2010

Nathan S.	Long story short, anything the Roots does is ill. Anything. And I should have mentioned this in the text, but props to guitar player Captian Kirk for spitting Eazy's part. As you can hear, even BlackThought is impressed.
	Posted on Jun 04, 2010