World Class Wreckin' Cru - Turn Off the Lights (KC-006)

Artist: World Class Wreckin' Cru
Title: Turn Off the Lights
Catalog #: KC-006
Label: Kru-Cut Records
Year: 1985
Format: 12" Single
Condition: VG+

Before N.W.A, before Straight Outta Compton, there was the World Class Wreckin' Cru — the Compton-based electro-funk group that gave Dr. Dre his earliest recorded output and helped lay the foundation for West Coast hip-hop. Turn Off the Lights is a quintessential early Wreckin' Cru record: smooth, synth-heavy electro-funk in the tradition of mid-80s West Coast club music, a world away from the gangsta rap that Dre would help define just a few years later. Released on the group's own Kru-Cut imprint, this is an independent artifact of a pivotal moment in hip-hop history. This VG+ copy plays cleanly — essential for the West Coast hip-hop historian, the Dr. Dre completist, or any serious collector of 80s electro and funk.