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Films like “Pitch ideal 2” and “Straight Outta Compton” found audiences from groups that aren’t always represented at the cineplexes – and those films exceeded box office projections.

Generally, these kinds of box office achievements usually happens with “tentpole movies” – like superhero or action flicks – but this is new territory for a hip-hop-based film.

When N.W.A.’s first single hits big, Eazy is wooed by manager Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti), who, for reasons that are never made clear, only signs a contract with Eazy, leaving the other members of the group in indefinite limbo, even as they grow into a national phenomenon,...

The story of the pioneering hip-hop group N.W.A. has soared straight to the top of the box office charts, but a costume blooper is the talk of the film in Chicago.

“He picked her up by her hair and “began slamming her head and the right side of her body repeatedly against a brick wall near the stairway” as his bodyguard held off the crowd with a gun”, wrote Rolling Stone.

In efforts to promote the “Straight Outta Compton” N.W.A. biopic set to hit theaters next week, Beats gave the public a #StraightOutta meme generator to celebrate the occasion.

The upbeat, raucous sound of Straight Outta Compton is subbed out for the laid-back side-stick-snares and slinky synth leads of the “G-Funk” style that would rise to prominence on the backs of Dre’s 1992 The Chronic and his protégé Snoop Doggy Dogg’s...

Speaking during a live YouTube chat about the film on Tuesday (August 11), Dre explained that the album’s creation was an impromptu decision. “I just wasn’t feeling it”.

NWA members included Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella and Eazy-E. When asked if the film’s score will include any new music or just revamped and reworked classics, Cube shares that Dr. Dre himself is working on a few new material, set to drop in the near future (August 1, to...