“Straight Outta Compton,” the R-rated biopic about N.W.A, the founders of hip hop/gangsta rap, opens with a violent FBI drug bust inside a graffiti-strewn crack house in a run-down Compton ...

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.

We set up some classic rap verses by the likes of Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Wu-Tang Clan, and A Tribe Called Quest — and saw if the young Straight Outta Compton stars could finish the rest of the ...

The rags-to-riches story of rap group N.W.A. and its iconic members, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren; directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Corey Hawkins, Lisa Renee Pitts, O’Shea ...

The new trailer for “Straight Outta Compton” shows the West Coast rap group N.W.A’s rise and fall from fame. The F. Gary Gray-directed biopic set in Compton, Calif., tells the sto… ...

“Straight Outta Compton” is as powerfully ambitious as N.W.A., the groundbreaking rap group it portrays, was in 1988. It”s not so much a music biopic as a loud, bass-thumping explosion to ...

I wasn’t surprised that Dr. Dre’s infamous 1991 attack on journalist Dee Barnes wouldn’t be seen or acknowledged in “Straight Outta Compton.” That a film produced by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube ...

"Straight Outta Compton" has skipped its namesake entirely, because the city has no movie theaters, ... The movie depicts the late 1980s rise of gangsta rap group N.W.A.

Straight Outta Compton also happens to be straight outta current headlines. Opening the same week as more inner-city civil unrest unfolds on the first anniversary of the riots in Ferguson, MO that ...

“Straight Outta Compton” is as powerfully ambitious as N.W.A., the groundbreaking rap group it portrays, was in 1988. It’s not so much a music biopic as a loud, bass-thumping explosion for ...

Review: 'Straight Outta Compton' a powerful look at rap, racial history ...