 The title is a takeoff on "Straight Outta Compton," an album by N.W.A.Lynwood, California, Yankovic's home town, is a neighboring community to Compton, California.The cover art, inspired by "gangsta imagery", depicts Yankovic, wearing a Lynwood, California, letterman's jacket and holding a pit bull on a leash, in front of a 1967 Chevrolet Impala Convertible Lowrider.