Straight Outta Compton

As the man who partnered with Ice Cube to craft one of the best comedies of the 21st century, Friday, it was only right that F. Gary Gray link with Cube again to create another film, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. Discreetly on board since 2011, Gray and the famed rapper set out this time not to just tell the story of the hoods across America, but to chronicle the personal journey that i

Dr. Dre's third album is finally coming, and it's not called Detox. The Straight Outta Compton-inspired LP will drop on August 7. After weeks of speculation, Dre himself made the album announcement Saturday (August 1) on his Beats 1 radio show, "The Pharmacy." Th...

All over the country, kids from the high school class of 2017 are taking SAT prep courses and sharpening their driving skills to lock down their learners permits. They have a lot in common: they were born in the last full year of Clinton's presidency, the last year of the millennium, when everyone was stockpiling water and flashlights for the Y2K crash...

Yesterday (July 22), it was widely reported that Eminem would replace the late Eazy-E on an upcoming N.W.A. world tour. The swing would serve, in part, as promotion for Straight Outta Compton, the upcoming biopic about the legendary rap group. Unf...

The highly anticipated N.W.A bio pic Straight Outta Compton hits theaters next month and a soundtrack for the film should be dropping around the release. Director F. Gary Gray was recently at Comic Con in San Diego and broke the news to MTV that new music from Dr...

Throwback to a few months ago when I had the flattop. This side by side photo of Tupac and I went viral on the internet, and was the cause of so many great things! The power of social media. A photo posted by Marcc Rose (@marccrose) on Mar 5, 2015 at 12:49pm PST 2Pac will be portrayed in the upcoming N...

MC Ren is not happy right now. The N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton is set to hit theaters Aug 14. In the most recent trailer for the film, Ren was left out completely. This led the Compton rapper to hop on Twitter and vent his frustrations, airing out Universal Pictures and threatening not to promote the film. "Man fuc...

Suge Knight, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are being sued for the wrongful death of Terry Carter. In the lawsuit obtained by TMZ, the Carter family claims that Cube and Dre hired known gang members in the area for security for Straight Outta Compton's film shoots. Apparently, one of...

There's a new trailer for the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. The trailer premiered on MTV and it's just as thrilling as the first trailer. Jason Mitchell plays Eazy-E, O’Shea Jackson Jr. stars as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre is played by Corey Hawkins, MC Ren is played by Aldis Hodge and DJ Yella is played by Neil Brown Jr. The film will ...

Over the past few years, Ice Cube has been hard at work on what may be considered one of the most anticipated biopics ever: the N.W.A. biographical film Straight Outta Compton. The renowned rap veteran has been so focused on the film that we've seen less and less of him since his last two movies, Ride Along and 22 Jump Street, came out in mid-2014. Wit...