Straight Outta Compton Fact-Check: How True Is the Explosive N.W.A. Biopic? - Daily Beast
It took four surviving members, four writers, several scripts, one legacy-wielding widow, and nearly three decades of acrimonious history to bring the story of hip-hop legends N. W. A. to the big screen. So it’s no wonder the ambitious and sprawling Straight Outta Compton plays a little fast and loose with details as it recounts the explosive rise, bitter breakup, and enduring impact of the seminal gangsta rap group behind incendiary 1988 anthems... Ice Cube and Dr. Dre’s buddy F. Gary Gray ( Friday, The Italian Job ) directs the period biopic with an insider’s eye and a nose for emotional gut punches that key into why the story of five young men from South Central rapping about police... And Ice Cube , who jumped on an early version of the script back in 2009, is one of Straight Outta Compton ’s six producers alongside Dre and Tomica Woods-Wright, Eazy-E’s surviving wife who’d inherited Ruthless Records from him after his death in... Source: www.thedailybeast.com
