"And I'm like, 'We're not messing it up, we're gonna enhance it.' I just told him that we're not gonna be wack."ĭr. "He was like, 'Don't touch our history, don't mess with our legacy, don't mess it up,'" Ice Cube recalls. Now a Hollywood actor and screenwriter, Cube says he also had to convince Dr. "Then you had calls and threats from Jerry Heller to Suge Knight, so it just was a mountain."
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"It was hard to get the financing that we needed, to license all the music we needed, to also get a studio behind the movie that wouldn't treat it like a typical hip-hop biopic," he says. Ice Cube, who is also one of the movie's producers, says getting Straight Outta Compton made was rough. The film also includes the group's musical beefs, their business dealings with manager Jerry Heller and menacing incidents involving former bodyguard Suge Knight, who co-founded Death Row Records with Dr. The movie includes vulnerable moments of brotherhood and friendship, and a moment during the 1992 LA riots depicting the truce between the Bloods and the Crips gangs. "We just wasn't five guys crying wolf or complaining about our little incidents with the officers, but that it was an epidemic and it was everywhere." "This song was bigger than N.W.A at that point - it was an anthem," Ice Cube says.
"We always saw ourselves as street reporters," he told NPR, noting that "F** tha Police" continues to be used during protests against the police, from Los Angeles to Ferguson, Mo. Ice Cube, born O'Shea Jackson, was just 16 when he joined N.W.A to write what he called reality raps. And Charnas says their songs are still relevant today. The former writer for The Source magazine says N.W.A's diatribes against police brutality put West Coast rap on the map. "This kind of counter-cop resistance music existed before N.W.A, but N.W.A gave it its name," says Dan Charnas, author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop. The song had earlier prompted the FBI to write an angry letter to N.W.A's label, Ruthless Records, which in turn used it to generate publicity. One scene re-enacts a 1989 concert in Detroit as the band performs their song "F*** tha Police." The scene shows the cops descending onto the stage, inciting the audience to protest. After years of getting racially profiled and harassed by the police, N.W.A obscenely defied the cops on vinyl and onstage. The movie depicts how their attitudes were shaped in the badlands of Compton, a city in south-central Los Angeles County with a reputation for drugs, crime and street gangs and a shocking murder rate. Dre and DJ Yella, rappers MC Ren, Ice Cube and Eazy-E, whose character in the film explains to their manager what N.W.A stands for: "Niggaz Wit Attitudes." Like the group's story, the making of their much-anticipated biopic, Straight Outta Compton, is filled with drama.įrom the jump, the movie is a raw look at the rise of N.W.A - five tough, talented boyz-n-the-hood who became provocative hip-hop icons. In the late 1980s, Los Angeles hip-hop group N.W.A created a sensation and controversy with their music, which was labeled gangsta rap. Movie Reviews In 'Straight Outta Compton,' Hip-Hop Legends Get The Biopic Treatment
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