Ice Cube’s Advice to Rappers: Write Your Own Stuff

Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are such legends in the hip-hop world that it’s easy to forget both rappers once sang together in the same group. Allegedly spurred by negative comments made about the group on the show, the beating was co-signed by N.W.A. members Eazy E and MC Ren. “The world is now always looking and watching”. We were actually auditioning a lot of people [for the role of pioneering West Coast DJ Greg Mack] and at the last minute [producers] were like, ‘Why don’t you do it?’ So I tried to knock it out and keep it moving. “You can say something; you don’t have to just sit back and let it happen”. “So it wasn t finished, and now it seems that we get to finish that legacy”, Yella told AFP. Their influence over a young generation was unparalleled. “Some people out there might not know what the letters N.W.A. stands for”, said Fallon.

In another dramatized scene, undercover officers in Detroit push toward the stage to set off a riot after N.W.A. ignored warnings not to perform “F**k Tha Police”.

The movie does not gloss over all the dark sides of N.W.A., especially the intense violence among their entourages as former bandmates became rivals. First, there’s the looming, hulking presence of Suge Knight (R. Marcus Taylor), an ex-con ex-bodyguard who whispers arsenic into Dre’s ear. That label brought out rap giants such as Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.

Aside from “Straight Outta Compton”, Gray is also known for his other works, which include action crime film “The Negotiator”, action thriller “The Italian Job“, and crime thriller film “Law Abiding Citizen“.

The much anticipated biopic of one of hip-hop’s most notorious and influential groups will hit the big screen next weekend in the US – and two weeks later in the UK – and we have a new extended featurette courtesy of Noisey.

He now has a fortune estimated at $700-million.

Weeks prior to the release of the biopic, Jason Mitchell (Eazy-E); Corey Hawkins (Dr. Dre); O’Shea Jackson Jr. I know what I felt before I shot it and I had a vision what it could be. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation.