In 1989, having gained rapper MC Ren and producer DJ Yella, N.W.A released its official debut album, Straight Outta Compton.

After N.W.A's disbanding in 1991, Eazy's EP titled It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, released in 1993, brings another remix, "Boyz N tha Hood (G-Mix)".

[citation needed] The song was released in August 2015, the film Straight Outta Compton had renewed interest in N.W.A when, on September 5, "Boyz-n-the-Hood" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100.

That week, at #50, it was the chart's third-highest debut, behind the 1989 title track "Straight Outta Compton" (the other song being "Hit the Quan"),[3] originally too incendiary for wide radio play.

With a rough instrumental draft already recorded by Dr. Dre, assisted by Arabian Prince, H.B.O., appraising the lyrics still on paper, rejected the song and walked out.

Left sitting in the studio without Ice Cube present to start with, Dre encouraged Wright to rap the song himself.

At the code word “fire” which KeyLow-G yelled out, Suzy entered the court room with a "sub machine Uzi".

Jeff Chang describes "Boyz-n-the-Hood" as "an anthem for the fatherless, brotherless, state-assaulted, heavily armed West Coast urban youth" and Eazy-E's rap style as "a deadpan singsong...perhaps as much a result of self-conscious nervousness as hardcore fronting.

Critic David Drake commented: "It was a day-in-the-life record that was less concerned with commentary or critique than simply conveying a lifestyle.

Hispanic rap group Brownside did a remake to the song called "Vatos in the Barrio" on their 1999 album Payback.

Underground Memphis rapper Koopsta Knicca of Three 6 Mafia made his own version called "Back in da Hood".

),[18] "My 64" by Mike Jones (featuring Bun B, Snoop Dogg and Lil' Eazy-E),[19] "Pojat On Huudeilla" by Eurocrack, "Them Boys Down South" by Big Chance.

Yelawolf made a song called "Boyz-n-the-Woodz" for his 2008 mixtape, Ball of Flames: the Ballad of Slick Rick E. Bobby.