One scene in the film shows Ice Cube at a press conference talking about the group’s constitutional right to free speech. They even received a letter from the FBI, asking them to tone down their lyrics and threats against the police. The police had them under constant scrutiny. Thinking about his father’s music, he said, “They talked about the things others were scared to talk about and shed light on things that people needed to know.”īut the way they talked prompted harsh public reaction outside of Compton. Ice Cube’s son, O'Shea Jackson Jr., portrays him as a young man in the film. We didn’t pick up guns, we didn’t pick up sticks, bottles, you know, we picked up the mike and that was the way we fought back and at the end of the day, we’re still artists.” We took the music and it became our weapon,” he explained. Ice Cube, now a Hollywood mogul, and one of the film’s producers, remembers those times. Heller, portrayed by Paul Giamatti, was a controversial figure who nevertheless recognized the raw talent of the group. NWA was first discovered by music manager Jerry Heller, a big name in the 1960s and 70s, but in decline by the 80s, when he met NWA. So, I got the chance to put on my journalist hat and be a historian,” he said. “One of the most exciting things about making this movie was capturing a snapshot of American popular culture. The filmmaker said he worked hard to keep the story as authentic as possible, actually filming in Compton. Their ‘in your face’ music and graphic lyrics about drugs, violence and poverty took the world by storm. They called themselves NWA, an acronym for N*****z With Attitude. Gary Gray’s film shows Ice Cube teaming up with his buddies - Dre, a genius in music production, and Eazy–E, another charismatic performer, as well as MC Ren and DJ Yella - to create a Rap group. He wrote about the cops who handcuffed him and threatened his parents because he happened to be at the wrong place the wrong time. There was the gangster who got on his bus and put a gun to a classmate’s head for challenging him from the bus window. He would write song lyrics on the school bus about his day. Growing up in Compton was tough for O'Shea Jackson, an aspiring musician who took the stage name Ice Cube. The music expressed the black community's anger and emotions, and Gary Gray’s new movie, "Straight Outta Compton," chronicles the rise and fall of NWA, the group that revolutionized rap and hip hop in the 1980s. Gangsta rap was born in a poor inner city neighborhood of Los Angeles, and grew up nourished by the often violent life on the streets and tense relationship with police there.
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