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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.

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...