Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest ...

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.

Rap group N.W.A. pose with rappers The D.O.C. and Laylaw from Above The Law backstage at the Kemper Arena during their 'Straight Outta Compton' tour in June 1989 in Kansas City, Mo.

In the fall of 2013, as production was gearing up for the Universal Studios biopic about the 1980s rap group N.W.A, the producers needed a screenwriter to help pare down an existing script.

Straight Outta Compton – the PGA Award nominee that was the surprise smash of 2015, covering the rise and fall of rap group N.W.A – has brought relative newcomer Jason Mitchell Critics' Choice ...

Straight Outta Compton – the PGA Award nominee that was the surprise smash of 2015, covering the rise and fall of rap group N.W.A – has brought relative newcomer Jason Mitchell Critics ...

As mentioned earlier, Straight Outta Compton has been the number one film in America for the past three weeks, and, at the time this article went to press, raked in $141.2 million worldwide.

This summer’s Straight Outta Compton is the biggest thing in the music world right now along with the release of Dr. Dre’s new album Compton. Although the rappers and producers that originally started ...

On the eve of the national Australian release of F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton – a biopic about legendary LA rap group NWA that takes its title from one of their most popular albums ...

Straight Outta Compton is the tales of NWA, a Compton born rap group made up of the legendary Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Dj Yella, MC Ren, and the late Eazy-E.

Gray’s Straight Outta Compton gets so much right, establishing the political and social unrest in Compton, California in the mid-1980s that led to the creation of N.W.A. We are introduced to ...