He went to New York with his new posse, da Lench Mob, and recorded his first solo album with Public Enemy’s production team, the Bomb Squad. may have been rivalling Public Enemy as the most notorious group in hip-hop, but Cube was having deep conflicts with their management, resulting in him leaving the band in late 1989. Released late in 1988, Straight Outta Compton became an underground hit over the course of 1989, and its extreme lyrical content - which was over-the-top both lyrically and politically - attracted criticism, most notably from the FBI.
He arrived just in time for N.W.A.’s breakthrough album, Straight Outta Compton. Eazy decided to leave CIA, and he, Cube, and Dre formed the first incarnation of N.W.A. Cube left to study architectural drafting at Phoenix, AZ, in 1987, returning the following year after he obtained a one-year degree. Eazy asked Cube to write a rap, and he presented them with ‘Boyz-n-the Hood’, which was rejected. Dre, and he eventually met Eazy-E, then leading a group called HBO, through Dre. With his partner Sir Jinx, Cube began rapping in a duo called CIA at parties hosted by Dr. He began writing raps while in high school, including ‘Boyz-n-the Hood’. Raised in South Central Los Angeles, where both of his parents had jobs at UCLA, Cube didn’t become involved with b-boy culture until his late teens. For such a revolutionary figure, Cube (born O’Shea Jackson) came from a surprisingly straight background.