Straight Checkn 'Em

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Straight Checkn 'em
Studio album by Compton's Most Wanted
Released	July 16, 1991
Recorded	1991
Genre	West Coast hip hop Gangsta rap
Label	Orpheus Records
Producer	DJ Slip, The Unknown DJ
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Compton's Most Wanted chronology
It's a Compton Thang (1990) Straight Checkn 'Em (1991) Music To Driveby (1992)

Straight Checkn 'Em is the second album by West Coast rap group, Compton's Most Wanted. It was released in 1991 and contained one of the groups most successful songs, "Growin' Up In tha Hood". The first part for the famous "Def Wish" series (I-IV) appeared in Straight Checkn 'Em. Just like their previous album It's a Compton Thang, this album was entirely produced by DJ Slip and The Unknown DJ. MC Chill missed to appear in this album because he was sentenced to prison some month before the recording.

[edit] Track listing

1. Intro
2. They Still Gafflin
3. Growin Up In Tha Hood
4. Wanted
5. Straight Checkn 'em
6. I Dont Dance
7. Raised In Compton
8. Driveby Miss Daisy
9. Def Wish
10. Comptons Lynchin'
11. Mike T's Funky Scratch
12. Can I Kill It
13. Gangsta Shout Out

v • d • e Compton's Most Wanted MC Chill · MC Eiht · DJ Slip · DJ Mike T · Ant Capone Albums It's a Compton Thang · Straight Checkn 'Em · Music to Driveby · Represent · Music to Gang Bang Other albums We Come Strapped · Death Threatz · Compton's O.G. · When We Wuz Bangin' 1989-1999: The Hitz Singles "It's a Compton Thang" · "Growin' Up In tha Hood" · "Def Wish" · "Hood Took Me Under" · "Def Wish II" · "This Is Compton 2000" · "Music to Gang Bang"