NWA STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON TRACKLIST WHO PRODUCER MOVIE
Dre and Ice Cube-who, despite occasional moments of selfishness or pique, emerge from the movie as decent, likable, hardworking guys. That reportorial notion falls by the wayside in Straight Outta Compton, which was produced, not a little self-protectively by Dr. It was always part of N.W.A.’s deal that, when people said their lyrics were too violent or incendiary, they would insist they were merely reporting on the world they lived in, just like other journalists. While Dre would shepherd the careers of hip-hop superstars ( Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar) and launch the inescapable Beats headphones, Ice Cube wound up starring in movies, everything from dramas like Boyz n the Hood (he wrote the original song lyrics that gave that film its name) to comedies like Friday and Barbershop. Perhaps the filmmakers assume we know all this. Dre and Ice Cube-both brilliant pop minds-fully conquer the mainstream. It dips a bit when you reach the split-up and, in particular, the sad, quick, unexpected death of Eazy-E from AIDS complications at age 31.
Like most music pictures, Straight Outta Compton is most enjoyable when it’s chronicling its heroes’ rise-discovering their message, conquering the public, throwing increasingly debauched parties. What I remember most about the show was the whole crowd (yes, even me) joining in an exultant version of the anthem “Fuck tha Police,” and then, a few minutes later, when a fight broke out near the stage, audience members yelling for the police. Given the group’s reputation, there were extra security guards, metal detectors galore, and everyone had to remove any clothing that flaunted the red and blue “colors” of the warring gangs, the Crips and the Bloods. legend and a national outrage-there was a lot of moralistic clucking about them in the media-and even on a Thursday night in notoriously conservative Orange County, the now defunct Celebrity Theatre was packed with a crowd more racially diverse than you might have expected. Their album Straight Outta Compton had already made them an L.A. Although I’m personally straight outta Omaha, on MaI went to see one of the first big-venue performances by N.W.A., the godfathers of gangsta rap.
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