Video: Straight Outta Compton Red Ban Trailer

I was only 3 years old when NWA “Straight Outta Compton” was released, but during the time I was growing up NWA was huge in the rap game.

Most of the kids these days only know Dr. Dre for his headphones, and Ice Cube for his family movies, but gangster rap is where they started. This biopic, if done right, should be greatly appreciated by today’s youth, as well of those who grew up listening to their music.

In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country.  When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation.  Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these young men revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.

Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E, Straight Outta Compton is directed by F. Gary Gray (Friday, Set It Off, The Italian Job).  The drama is produced by original N.W.A. members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, who are joined by fellow producers Matt Alvarez and Tomica Woods-Wright.  Will Packer serves as executive producer of the film alongside Gray.

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