N.W.A and the brilliant fury of “Straight Outta Compton” would change rap forever and provide a foundational text for hip-hop’s growth into the protest music of the 21st century.

New NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton – co-produced by former members Dr Dre and Ice Cube – is an inevitably selective portrait of the pioneering gangsta rappers. Here, with the help of those ...

N.W.A wasn't the world's first gangsta rap act. And it wasn't the baddest. But the group's remarkable debut album Straight Outta Compton, released 20 years ago, convinced many people otherwise.

2. N.W.A almost didn’t make it to Straight Outta Compton. At the conclusion of the group’s autumn 1987 tour opening for Salt-N-Pepa, Ice Cube informed the crew that he would be going to college.

“Straight Outta Compton” is a musically propulsive mixed blessing of a biopic, made the way these things often get made: with the real-life protagonists breathing down the movie’s neck to ...

Straight Outta Compton: How NWA's new biopic reveals simmering tensions. The notorious LA district may be less fraught than it was in the 1980s, but the new film shows how old feuds die hard among ...

Portraying N.W.A. in “Straight Outta Compton,” from left, are Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, Neil Brown Jr. as DJ Yella, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E and O’Shea Jackson Jr. as ...

For years, Ice Cube wanted to make a movie about the seminal gangsta rap group N.W.A. And for years, that movie resisted him, beset by production delays and full-on tragedy.

“Straight Outta Compton,” a drama about the rap group N.W.A., boasts instant audience appeal. Longtime admirers of the Los Angeles ensemble, which helped create West Coast gangsta rap with its ...

The hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton , about the rap group N.W.A., hits theaters Friday, and contains plenty of larger-than-life moments. Here, we separate fact vs. fiction.

Ice Cube and Dr. Dre watched from directors’ chairs as Compton circa 1991 unfolded before their eyes. In a parking lot behind an old, dilapidated theater in Leimert Park, low-rider Impalas ho… ...

New NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton – co-produced by former members Dr Dre and Ice Cube – is an inevitably selective portrait of the pioneering gangsta rappers. Here, with the help of those ...