Dre as producers, as was eazyes widow, tomica woodswright, while mc ren and dj yella served as. How accurate are the events of straight outta compton to real life. The film showed the origins of the group while also diving into the personal lives of ice cube, eazye, dr. Gary grays confident direction and engaging performances from a solid cast. The height of their popularity occurs here actually pretty funny. The bands earliest days and their childhood are depicted here the 90s.
Nwa were a successful and controversial hiphop act from compton in california, active from 1986 to 1991. Home 4 tha sick and was shown off in interviews and publicity photos. A movie, the true story reveals that ice cube left the group in 1989 over a royalty dispute with the groups manager, jerry heller portrayed by paul giamatti in the movie, who cube felt had cheated him out of royalties. Jerry has given e his contract, but no one else has gotten theirs. Like most biopics, straight outta compton mixes facts with fiction in. Straight outta compton is confused as to whether we want to see nwa as the socially conscious group holding a mirror to society, or the string of debauched solo artists they became. Creative struggle leading to financial success leading to division and strife. The song straight outta compton is the title track from the debut album of n. Straight outta compton, an exultant raptoriches story about the group n. The straight outta compton we have here is a sprawling rap epic, a 147minute no good movie is too long journey into the genre from the late 1980s to mid1990s that charts the music and the culture of its time very well. Many theaters were packed overnight when the new hiphop movie straight outta compton opened. Why straight outta compton is historically accurate. In real life, eazye did in fact own a hk94a3 with a sdstyle forend that appeared on the cover of his 1992 album 5150.
More than a decade in development, the rise and split of west coast hiphop group n. Straight outta compton debuts amidst security concerns. Cube and dre s first show together takes place at a cramped local club called dootos. A produced the film, which opens nationwide friday. She is currently working on a memoir, as is dee barnes.
In some ways, straight outta compton is what its titular album was almost 30 years ago. The band records straight outta compton at a recording studio in torrance, california. Straight outta compton 2015 straight outta compton. Cube says hes down if jerry heller isnt involved, and eazy. Straight outta compton doesnt play like a biographical look at the most consequential moment in music history since elvis presley appeared on the ed sullivan show. They enjoy their perversion and rejoice in being angry and ruthless thugs. With that in mind, we unearthed eight bits of straight outta compton trivia and tried to sort some fact from fiction along the way. Gary gray treats straight outta compton as an epicsized take on approaching the american dream from an askew angle that draws straight outta compton and straight into capitalism. The hiphop biopic straight outta compton, about the rap group n. Straight outta compton internet movie firearms database. Parents need to know that straight outta compton is a biopic about groundbreaking, incendiary rap group n. See more ideas about hip hop art, straight outta compton movie and rapper art. Like most biopics, straight outta compton mixes facts with fiction in order to create a more coherent and cinematic experience.
Usa today examines how five biopics and documentaries stack up against the history books. It raps to its readers about being black, being born and raised in the l. But the purpose of this blog isnt to throw stones at the ones who have yet to see the hit movie, though that could be fun, its to share some of the little known facts about the movie. After hearing ice cubes absolutely scathing diss track no vaseline, yella laughs and admits that shits kinda funny. Little of this makes narrative sense, and cortez cruz isnt really. For the ones living under rocks who havent seen the movie, straight outta compton, you are missing out on a film like no other. Just a few years earlier, tipper gore was incensed when she heard the sexually explicit lyrics of princes darling nikki floating out of her young daughters bedroom.
But they quickly warm to the performers as cube raps gangsta gangsta. In some ways, soc traffics in some quite traditional story themes. Tairrie bs new album, vintage curses, is available as a paywhatyoulike or free download. Straight outta compton is about living large, living in the fast lane. Like the groups story, the making of straight outta compton. As with his classic caper film, set it off, gray briskly handles the films 147minute running time. Straight outta compton is a 2015 american biographical drama film directed by f. Eight facts that moviegoersprobably dont know about the. Club about his first drafts, major facts about nwas story that universal omitted, and the original ending he envisioned for the acclaimed movie. Fiction, according to phyllis pollack, the publicist for the straight outta compton album. Our town 2002 the song straight outta compton can be heard for a moment in the below trailer for this documentary because its a. Kansas gives the real history behind nwa and the film straight outta compton. Underneath the gunshots and the battle raps, straight outta compton is a fairly conventional movie about a music group, somewhere between heromaking and the honest truth.
The members were involved in the production, including ice cube and dr. In the film, while recording their iconic album straight outta compton in torrance, california with heller, the group steps outside only to be harassed by police because of the way they look. Straight outta compton tells the bad way of life about nwa corrupt artists who seem so happy to be bad,aggressive,violent and depraved. What a great shame the music in straight outta compton is completely disgusting just like this nonsense movie. If you have seen straight outta compton, i invite you to join me in breaking down and analyzing the movie. He disputed the accuracy of the scenes where he forbade gangsta rap from being played at his club, saying that the members of n. Straight outta compton is in uk cinemas from friday. Mc ren comments on the accuracy of straight outta compton. On one hand, the group blazed many new trails in music and is still highly acclaimed today, but on the other hand, their behavior doesnt exactly qualify them as positive role models. Cube had written nearly half of the lyrics on the straight outta compton album.
Biopic straight outta compton tells the epic story of. Straight outta compton was one of the first albums to feature a parental advisory sticker. Billy may or may not be in a hollywood movie about his gang life. Gary gray, depicting the rise and fall of the gangsta rap group n. Straight outta compton is a biopic thats built to last, thanks to f. During a break in the recording, the guys go outside and are harassed by the racist lapd. Straight outta compton is most successful at showing the human realities behind a kind of music that, as soon as it was exposed to the. One of those kids was a young chris rock, who brought a. Straight outta comptons writer on meeting suge knight.
Subscribe to screencrush you think you know movies. Dres already a regular there djing in a puffy, lavender jacket and warns cube that the crowd will be tough. Fandango said more than 70 percent of the tickets it sold for this weekend were for the film. There have been dozens of biopics about bands, but in 2015 a film was. Shortly after, she cofounded the parents music resource center on a mission to help parents keep tabs on inappropriate. With the release of straight outta compton, savidgewhose aforementioned projects serve as the foundation for f. It focuses on the lives of two black men, rooster and clivenem, who grow up together in compton. So its no wonder the ambitious and sprawling straight outta compton plays a little fast and loose with details as it recounts the explosive rise, bitter breakup, and enduring impact of the seminal gangsta rap group behind incendiary 1988 anthems like gangsta gangsta, straight outta compton, and fuck tha police. American cultural zeitgeist, into a twoandahalf hour feature film.
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