While recording their debut album, Straight Outta Compton (1988), the group is harassed by police due to their race and appearance, prompting Cube to compose a diss track towards the police. It becomes a local hit, and Eazy, Cube, Dre, DJ Yella, and MC Ren form the group N.W.A ('Niggaz Wit Attitude').Įazy accepts Jerry Heller's offer to manage N.W.A and co-run Ruthless, and Priority Records offers N.W.A a record deal. When their song ' Boyz-n-the-Hood' is rejected by a New York rap group, Dre convinces Eazy to perform it instead. Intrigued by Cube's 'reality raps' reflecting on the crime, gang violence, and police harassment that they and other African Americans encounter daily, Dre convinces Eazy to fund a startup record label, Ruthless Records, with Dre as record producer. Dre, is an aspiring disc jockey, and Ice Cube is a young rapper. In Compton, California in 1986, Eazy-E is a drug dealer, Dr. Heller filed a lawsuit against the filmmakers, protesting his depiction and claiming that parts were taken from his autobiography without permission. 1 on the Rap Albums chart and reached no. The soundtrack album, featuring music by N.W.A, debuted at no. 2 on the US Billboard 200 album chart a week prior to the film's release. Dre's third studio album, Compton, which debuted at no.

It was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2015 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film was also a box office success, making over $201 million on a production budget of $28-50 million. Released on August 14, 2015, Straight Outta Compton received positive reviews from critics with praise for its performances (particularly Mitchell's), direction, screenplay and musical sequences though many criticised the historical inaccuracies. The production faced several controversies, including casting call issues and several acts of violence on set. Much of the cast signed on in June 2014 and principal photography began that August, taking place around Los Angeles and Compton, California. Several directors were approached, including Craig Brewer, Peter Berg and John Singleton, before Gray was confirmed in April 2012.

Talks of an N.W.A biopic began in 2010 by New Line Cinema. Paul Giamatti also stars as N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller. Ice Cube is played by his real-life son, O'Shea Jackson Jr., with Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre as producers, as was Eazy-E's widow, Tomica Woods-Wright, while MC Ren and DJ Yella served as creative consultants.

The members of N.W.A were involved in the production of the film, including Ice Cube and Dr. Gary Gray, depicting the rise and fall of the gangsta rap group N.W.A and its members Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Straight Outta Compton is a 2015 American biographical musical crime drama film directed by F.

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