It’s an A-level opening that finds Straight Outta Compton cinematographer Matthew Libatique in grandiose form. Within seconds, police show up with a battering ram as a resourceful Eazy runs like hell, alluding a pitbull and cops as he scampers away over a rooftop.
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After dropping off some coke to a fortified crack house, our anti-hero demands payment only to be threatened at gunpoint. Decades later, he IS the image of Southern California.”Įazy-E kicks off N.W.A.’s cinematic retelling with a bang during a scene ripped right out of Compton’s wild mid-80s drug epidemic. Eazy was what Gangsta Rap and the West Coast looked like. “The line ‘Cruising down the street in my 64’ created gangsta rap,” says Henderson of the sentence Eazy squeezed out on N.W.A.’s bruising 1987 introduction “Boyz-n-The Hood.” “If any other person would have said those words that Ice Cube wrote, history would be completely different. They were saying, ‘We are going to talk about where we are at instead of where we want to be.’ - Chuck DĪccording to Top Dawg president Terrence “Punch” Henderson, Eazy-E cast a mammoth shadow over West Coast rap, its culture and beyond. N.W.A did not cut it in Harlem the first time around, but they definitely got better. His DNA is everywhere: from James Prince (Rap-A-Lot) and Brian “Baby” Williams (Cash Money Records) to Shawn “Jay Z” Carter (Roc-A-Fella), Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (G-Unit) and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, founder and CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment, the label home of acclaimed hip-hop golden child and Compton native, Kendrick Lamar. Throughout rap’s 40-plus year run, no one else, for better or worse, personified the genre’s hustler-gone-legit trope more than Eric Wright. He was the one in the group that really was driving the ‘64 and hustling drugs in the streets to survive.” you forget that Cube went to college and that Dre was in an electro funk band called World Class Wreckin’ Cru. “He never seemed like he was playing a role,” recounts Black Eyed Peas leader Will.i.am, who was discovered and signed to Ruthless Records by Eazy in 1992.
But he had something else just as important: authenticity. And E was totally devoid of the peerless production genius of Dr. He didn’t write his own rhymes, still a cardinal sin within hip-hop–apparently unless your name is Drake. Jackson, Eazy had the lyrical prowess of a mischievous fifth grader who smirked incessantly after being sent to the corner for disrupting class. In fact, compared to the lyrically gifted Mr. Cube gets ample credit (and deservedly so) in Straight Outta Compton for being N.W.A.’s chief wordsmith. “At any moment I was ready to bounce because it was like, ‘Yo, if we can’t do this right we shouldn’t do it at all.’” Gary Gray, the Tinsel Town powerhouse is still getting used to the reality that the hell-raising story of N.W.A.
A primary producer on Straight Outta Compton alongside Dre, Eazy’s widow Tomica Woods-Wright and the film’s veteran director F. He is holding court at the Beverly Hills’ regal Four Seasons Hotel during a manic press day. “I didn’t think a studio would have the courage to make … not the way I wanted it made,” admits an in-a-daze Cube to VIBE. Suddenly, damn near the entire world was put on to Compton, the small yet troubled Los Angeles suburb of which N.W.A. Dre” Young, the criminally underrated Lorenzo “MC Ren” Patterson, jovial Antoine “DJ Yella” Carraby and enterprising visionary Eazy-who in 1995, shockingly died of complications from AIDS-raised a conspicuous middle finger at Ronald Reagan’s conservative white America that definitely wasn’t of the belief that #BlackLivesMatter. Lead lyricist O’Shea “ Ice Cube” Jackson, groundbreaking producer, Andre “ Dr. in the big screen release of Straight Outta Compton, onlookers witnessed the former drug dealer/unlikely rapper and Ruthless Records impresario’s very same impish spirit in all its Jheri curl, Raiders hat glory.īut it was far from all smiles. When fanboys and girls, the curious and skeptics packed theaters to see legendary hip-hop outfit N.W.A.
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