Straight Outta Compton traces the birth of gangsta rap through the story of the group N.W.A., who became the voice of angry ...

Only a few years later, Straight Outta Compton was on Time’s list of all-time great albums. In 1991, the magazine argued that N.W.A.’s commercial success was “raising questions about why ...

Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story ... down and formed the world's most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A new marketing campaign for the bio-pic 'Straight Outta Compton,' a film about the rap group NWA, is taking Facebook and Twitter by storm. Here's how you can get ...

The goal for Straight Outta Compton was to have the actors re-record the classic N.W.A album of the same name, and use their real voices onscreen. Jackson Jr., who was an aspiring rapper before ...

Straight Outta Compton director Gary Gray makes it clear that's he's acutely aware of the historical parallels between the past, present and N.W.A's story. That goes for the music, too ...

Rapper Ice Cube and his son O’Shea Jackson, Jr. discuss their movie “Straight Outta Compton,” N.W.A.’s legacy and more at the WSJ Cafe.

Fast forward 18 years later, the award-winning Straight Outta Compton actor is at the height of his career and ready for his next move — one he’s been planning for five years: to re-propose to ...

Ice Cube was a member of the groundbreaking Compton-based rap group N.W.A. along with Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, MC Ren and and founder Eazy-E. He morphed from hip-hop musician into a mainstream movie and ...

To do full justice to the NWA story you really need a multi-part HBO mini-series, ideally written by Richard Price and directed by David Simon. Instead, we have F Gary Gray’s 150-minute biopic ...