“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.

“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 ...

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 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… ...

He’s as cold as ice. “Straight Outta Compton,” opening Friday, revisits the early days of gangsta rap and details the rise and fall of N.W.A, the infamous hip-hop collective out of Compton ...

“Straight Outta Compton,” F. Gary Gray’s biopic about the rise of Los Angeles gangsta-rap innovators N.W.A., attempts to fit a complex, 10-year history involving multiple members, label ...

“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 ...