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WATCH Straight Outta Compton (2015)

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Straight Outta Compton is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by F. Gary Gray about the rise and fall of the Compton, California hip hop group N.W.A.  The film borrows its title from the name of their 1988 debut studio album as well as the song. Straight Outta Compton stars O'Shea Jackson, Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey  Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, and Paul Giamatti as N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller. Among the film's producers are Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E‍ '​s widow, Tomica Woods-Wright.

Straight Outta Compton sequel will focus on Tupac and Snoop Dogg

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Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray's biopic about N.W.A., has been a monstrous film industry achievement.  With its $60.2 million opening, the film not just set the record for the best August introduction for a R-evaluated motion picture, yet is the fifth-most noteworthy earning August opener for any film ever.  And wouldn't you know it, there's now rumors for a spin-off.  As indicated by TMZ, Dogg Pound 4 Life will allegedly concentrate on another noticeable West Coast rap aggregate, Death Row Records, particularly the professions of Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G, and Kurupt, and also Death Row head Suge Knight.  Music will be the plot's principally center, as indicated by TMZ, yet it "likewise won't whitewash group savagery and its effect on the rap business."  As far as throwing, TMZ reports that none of the performing artists highlighted in Straight Outta Compton are required to repeat their parts. Rather, ...

Here's What's Missing From Straight Outta Compton:

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Me and the Other Women Dr. Dre Beat Up On January 27, 1991, at a record-release party for the rap duo Bytches With Problems in Hollywood, producer/rapper/then-N.W.A.  member Dr. Dre brutally attacked Dee Barnes, the host of a well-known Fox show about hip-hop called Pump It Up!  Dre was reportedly angry about a Pump It Up! segment hosted by Barnes that aired in November 1990.  The report focused on N.W.A., and concluded with a clip of Ice Cube, who had recently left the group, insulting his former colleagues. Soon after the attack, Barnes described it in interviews: She said Dre attempted to throw her down a flight of stairs, slammed her head against a wall, kicked her, and stomped on her fingers. Dre later told  Rolling Stone, “It ain’t no big thing – I just threw her through a door.”  He pleaded no contest to assault charges. Barnes’s civil suit against Dre was settled out of court. Barnes agreed to watch F. Gary Gra...