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(Home Boys Only), but the East Coasters balk at the lyrics and almost come to blows with Dre and his boys in the studio before Dre convinces Eazy to jump in the booth and give the track a stab. MOVIE: вЂњBoyz-n-the-Hood,вЂќ the track that put Eazy-E on the map and started everything for Ruthless Records and N.W.A., almost didnвЂ™t happen: Ice Cube writes it for rap group H.B.O. He paged Eazy to bail him out and to return the favor, agreed to produce a track for a record label Eazy wanted to start.Дў. lore, Dre indeed landed in jail-but it was over unpaid tickets on his Mazda RX7. IN REAL LIFE: According to recorded N.W.A.

HeвЂ™s arrested, Eazy bails him out of jail, and the rest is history. The formation of N.W.A., the film says, happens after Dre punches a guy who attacks his little brother one night. Dre), OвЂ™Shea Jackson (Ice Cube), and Eric Lynn Wright (Eazy-E) as South Central youngsters on their respective hustles-Dre a DJ scratching at a local club with buddy Antoine Carraby (DJ Yella), Cube a teenager writing rhymes on long bus rides to school from Compton to the Valley, Eazy slinging drugs while narrowly escaping brushes with the law. IN THE MOVIE: Straight Outta Compton introduces its key players Andre Young (Dr.

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So what does Straight Outta Compton the movie get right (and romanticize) about gangsta rapвЂ™s O.G. as I was making this movie, because I was on my side of town going through what I was going through, and I didnвЂ™t necessarily know what they were going through until I started to interview them and research and rehearse.вЂќ вЂњThere were things that I discovered making the movie,вЂќ Ice Cube recently told The Daily Beast. Even the players that lived through all the glory, strife, beatdowns, beefs, and brotherhood didnвЂ™t necessarily have the same memories of their shared history. вЂњrealityвЂќ rappers a sheen of glossy Hollywood mythmaking. Leigh Savidge.Д«ut the attempt to lionize subjects Cube, Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, and the late Eazy-E while vilifying its antagonists-manager Jerry Heller, Death Row RecordsвЂ™ Suge Knight, cops, the press-tends to give the saga of the O.G. history into a script credited to Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, Alan Wenkus, and S. Along with a soundtrack loaded with dozens of classic cuts from the dawn of West Coast rap, the film packs plenty of N.W.A. Gary Gray ( Friday, The Italian Job) directs the period biopic with an insiderвЂ™s eye and a nose for emotional gut punches that key into why the story of five young men from South Central rapping about police brutality and hood unrest in 1988 still resonates today, in an era of Trayvon Martins, Michael Browns, and Sandra Blands.ДЄnd Ice Cube, who jumped on an early version of the script back in 2009, is one of Straight Outta ComptonвЂ™s six producers alongside Dre and Tomica Woods-Wright, Eazy-EвЂ™s surviving wife whoвЂ™d inherited Ruthless Records from him after his death in 1995. So itвЂ™s 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 вЂњGangsta Gangsta,вЂќ вЂњStraight Outta Compton,вЂќ and вЂњFuck Tha Police.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s a lot of rap Rashomon to wrangle into one cohesive Hollywood biopic. It took four surviving members, four writers, several scripts, one legacy-wielding widow, and nearly three decades of acrimonious history to bring the story of hip-hop legends N.W.A.

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