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      • Straight Outta Compton is as accurate as a Hollywood music biopic can be. Here are some moments in the movie that stay true (for the most part) to what happened in the real story of N.W.A. Eazy-E Couldn't Rap
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      'Straight Outta Compton' Sticks Close To The Truth - Bustle

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  3. mixmag.net › feature › how-nwa-changed-hip-hop-foreverHow N.W.A 's Powerful Hip Hop Changed The Genre Forever - Mixmag

    Sep 25, 2015 · The release of Straight Outta Compton, the new N.W.A biopic, is an explosive trip back to a time when 'the world's most dangerous group' wreaked havoc on the global consciousness with their searingly honest lyrics about growing up in South Central LA at the height of the city's crack cocaine epidemic in the late 80s.

  4. www.rollingstone.com › feature › n-w-as-straightN.W.A’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’: 12 Things You Didn’t Know

    • The group didn’t call their music “gangsta rap” when it came out. “We were trying to make records that can go on the radio, and when we started doing mixtapes — which we knew wasn’t going on the radio — that’s when we really started to talk about the neighborhood,” Ice Cube told Rolling Stone in 2015.
    • N.W.A almost didn’t make it to Straight Outta Compton. At the conclusion of the group’s autumn 1987 tour opening for Salt-N-Pepa, Ice Cube informed the crew that he would be going to college.
    • Ice Cube wasn’t from Compton, but that didn’t stop him from writing about it. The rapper was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. He’d met Eazy-E as a teenager and gave him the lyrics to “Boyz-N-the Hood.”
    • The inspiration for “Fuck tha Police” is up for debate. Dr. Dre has recalled a story where he and Eazy-E went around shooting paintball pellets at people waiting for the bus.

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  6. consequence.net › 2017 › 08How N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton Made Gangsta Rap the New ...

    Aug 5, 2017 · This is how Ice Cube launches into the first track off N.W.A’s 1988 album, Straight Outta Compton. The subject matter was unprecedented. “Back then we was calling it reality rap,” Ice Cube told Rolling Stone in 2015. “It was the media that called it gangsta rap.” It’s not hard to see why.

  7. beatcrave.com › the-meaning-behind-the-songThe Meaning Behind The Song: Straight outta compton by N.W.A ...

    Nov 3, 2023 · Straight Outta Compton revolutionized the music industry by introducing the world to a new genre known as gangsta rap. The unfiltered and gritty storytelling approach of N.W.A paved the way for future artists to address social and political issues through their music.

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  8. www.mprnews.org › story › 2015/08/14'Straight Outta Compton' tells epic story of NWA - MPR News

    Aug 14, 2015 · In the late 1980s, Los Angeles hip-hop group N.W.A created a sensation and controversy with their music, which was labeled gangsta rap. Like the group's story, the making of their...

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  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Straight_Outta_Compton_(song)Straight Outta Compton (song) - Wikipedia

    "Straight Outta Compton" is a song by American hip hop group N.W.A. It was released on July 10, 1988 as the lead single from their debut album of the same name. It also appears on N.W.A's Greatest Hits with an extended mix and The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge.

  10. thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu › 2015 › 08‘Straight Outta Compton’’s Message Comes Across Loud and ...

    Aug 18, 2015 · Straight Outta Compton’s seething depictions of the group’s experiences with police brutality casts a different light on N.W.A.’s music than the traditional media narrative of glorifying crime and gang violence. Instead, the provocative, anti-law enforcement lyrics are shown as a bold rebellion against oppressive tyranny, as action more ...