The N.W.A. biopic (produced by Ice Cube and Dr. Dre) has gone through fits and starts of being made for years; now it's being released during a time when cops might arrest you for playing "Fuck That ...

*A new TV spot for “Straight Outta Compton” has surfaced ahead of its August 14 arrival in theaters. Per Universal Pictures: In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most ...

At the height of gangster culture and crime in South Central Los Angeles, a group of “kids from Compton” channeled their frustration through music. Those “kids” became NWA—a platinum-selling hip hop ...

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Years after the Watts Riots, the City of Compton became synonymous with poverty, street gangs and rampant violence. It has changed, too. But Friday is the opening day of the new film, Straight Outta ...

LOS ANGELES — To turn three unknown actors into Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E, they’d have to become friends for real. “Straight Outta Compton” director F. Gary Gray was looking for chemistry when he ...

A little acknowledgment would’ve been nice. But nice doesn’t make for a good story of five hard-core gangster rappers from Compton, which seems to be why one important early chapter in their lives ...

When he died of AIDS in April 1995, Wright reportedly had seven children from six women. This is in keeping with the movie’s vagueness about the consequences of unprotected sex. Even after Eazy-E’s ...

NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton has debuted its first trailer. Two of the film's subjects, Ice Cube and Dr Dre, recorded an introduction for the first look at the movie. The film will star Marcus ...

Former hip hop mogul Suge Knight was indicted by a Los Angeles County grand jury on a charge of threatening the life of Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray. The 52-year-old Death Row Records ...

Gray beat out contenders John Singleton, George Tillman and Elgin James for the gig. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer F. Gary Gray is in talks to direct Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A biopic set up ...