9 Truths Cut From Straight Outta Compton - L.A. Weekly
That's director F. Gary Gray during an audience Q&A after a recent screening of Straight Outta Compton , the long-awaited N. W. A movie. At the beginning of the film, Dr. Dre is arrested in the parking lot of the Dooto's for defending his younger brother Tyree. In reality, Dre was arrested for thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets for his Mazda RX7. This happened often enough that Dre was already in debt to Dooto owner Lonzo Williams , who typically helped Dre pay bail. Finally, Williams refused to help Dre come up with another $900. Instead, Dre called Eazy-E. At least the next scene of Straight Outta Compton is true enough: Eazy-E bailed Dre out of jail and the two agreed Dre would produce tracks for Eazy-E to work off what he owed him. As part of his repayment, Dre produced, along with DJ Yella, “ Boyz-n-the-Hood ,” Eazy-E’s debut single. Eric Wright’s headstone at Rose Hill cemetery is hard to find , but at his funeral so were members of N. W. A. Only Antoine Carraby, aka DJ Yella, reportedly attended, and was a pallbearer for Wright’s casket. Straight Outta Compton is careful to suggest that the members of N. W. A had mostly reconciled by the time of Eazy-E’s AIDS diagnosis, much less his death. Source: www.laweekly.com
