![]() ![]() Event coordinators scrambled, whispering to one another how they could end on such a negative note.īut no matter: people stood up to leave, but not before giving a standing ovation.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. There is mention of an assault he has to deal with, so it’s not 100% brushed over.) It was the last question. Dre is an executive producer on the film. We made the one we wanted to make.” (Shorter answer: Dr. There are five movies that could have been made about N.W.A. Dre assaulted in 1991, Gray said, “We didn’t omit anything. Responding to a question about the “glaring omission” of Dee Barnes, a TV personality Dr. I needed to tap into the humanity, not just the who and what but the why.” Just put a couple of low-riders and a bunch of braids. album in the other.” (He then recited Ice Cube’s entire verse from “Straight Outta Compton,” a capella.) Bun B, pointing out his wife in the audience, noted the presence of strong women in the film, to which Gray said, “Any director could make money with this movie. During the Q&A, moderated by MC Lyte, Michael Eric Dyson went to the microphone and said how, in 1991 while working at the Chicago Theological Seminary, he held a “Bible in one hand and N.W.A. Justine Skye, Mack Wilds and DJ D-Nice were all there, as were a bunch of Complex contest-winners. It has to be in your heart,” he said.įabolous sat a few rows down from Estelle Jeff Staple walked near Stalley. The response: “Hip-hop is missing from hip-hop,” before shouting out a certain type of artist who could be political with cause: Poor Righteous Teachers, Boogie Down Productions, Kendrick Lamar, J. as a whole and as individuals, and wondered what Cube felt was missing from hip-hop today. MC Lyte, moderating the panel, marveled at the courage of N.W.A. Every “fuck the police,” every “dopeman, dopeman.” but I did go to Julliard.” In just weeks, he went from doing Shakespeare on Broadway to joining his castmates in re-recording the entirety of Straight Outta Compton for the movie. (Put on the spot, he Jheri-curled his lips: “It ain’t so hard now!” Applause, applause.) Hawkins waved off the friendly audience for being a local – “I’m from D.C. ![]() The New Orleans-born Mitchell spoke of having to drop his accent and “learn to be from Los Angeles” to play Eazy E. He gave me my start with Friday, "Today Was a Good Day"…” The director said, “This was extremely personal for me. Gary Gray, the director of the film, sat to Cube’s right on stage, joined by the rest of the cast: Jason Mitchell and Corey Hawkins, who inhabit Eazy-E and Dr. (For anyone wondering whether to spend $13.50, be relieved: this isn’t Notorious.)į. Halfway through, the origin story of “Bye, Felicia!” is as funny as Eazy’s diagnosis is sad. The images of police brutality and racism are as present as ever. As a movie, it luckily, sadly, incredibly feels real. As a story, it’s enthralling, fluid and pointed amazing how history can still manage to surprise. ![]() The movie shows N.W.A.’s rise and fracture, from dope house to Black House and beyond. as “him”) smashing apart the Priority offices with a metal bat and LA Dodgers cap, during a private screening of the new bio-pic Straight Outta Compton. Walk out the door and blow it up." Moments earlier, this audience had seen him (well, his son O’Shea Jackson Jr. “If Hollywood injected bullshit into the film, if it wasn’t all the way correct, me and Dre had an agreement,” Ice Cube said, as he shifted his legs a little further apart on stage at the French Institute Alliance Française. ![]()
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