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But it would not work if we didnРІР‚в„ўt believe the story of the forward-thinking Eazy-E, who at the age of 23 saved up a little over $250,000 from dealing drugs and flipped some of that cash to build Ruthless Records. ItРІР‚в„ўs 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.

#GENIUS GANGSTA RAP MADE ME DO IT CRACK#

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.РІР‚СњР”В®azy-E kicks off N.W.A.РІР‚в„ўs cinematic retelling with a bang during a scene ripped right out of ComptonРІР‚в„ўs wild mid-80s drug epidemic. Eazy was what Gangsta Rap and the West Coast looked like. РІР‚СљThe line РІР‚ВCruising down the street in my 64РІР‚в„ў created gangsta rap,РІР‚Сњ says Henderson of the sentence Eazy squeezed out on N.W.A.РІР‚в„ўs bruising 1987 introduction РІР‚СљBoyz-n-The Hood.РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљIf any other person would have said those words that Ice Cube wrote, history would be completely different. They were saying, РІР‚ВWe are going to talk about where we are at instead of where we want to be.РІР‚в„ў - Chuck DР”Р„ccording to Top Dawg president Terrence РІР‚СљPunchРІР‚Сњ 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 РІР‚СљBabyРІР‚Сњ Williams (Cash Money Records) to Shawn РІР‚СљJay ZРІР‚Сњ Carter (Roc-A-Fella), Curtis РІР‚Сљ50 CentРІР‚Сњ Jackson (G-Unit) and Anthony РІР‚СљTop DawgРІР‚Сњ Tiffith, founder and CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment, the label home of acclaimed hip-hop golden child and Compton native, Kendrick Lamar. Throughout rapРІР‚в„ўs 40-plus year run, no one else, for better or worse, personified the genreРІР‚в„ўs hustler-gone-legit trope more than Eric Wright. He was the one in the group that really was driving the РІР‚В64 and hustling drugs in the streets to survive.РІР‚Сњ you forget that Cube went to college and that Dre was in an electro funk band called World Class WreckinРІР‚в„ў Cru.

РІР‚СљHe never seemed like he was playing a role,РІР‚Сњ 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 didnРІР‚в„ўt write his own rhymes, still a cardinal sin within hip-hopРІР‚вЂњapparently 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.РІР‚в„ўs chief wordsmith. РІР‚СљAt any moment I was ready to bounce because it was like, РІР‚ВYo, if we canРІР‚в„ўt do this right we shouldnРІР‚в„ўt do it at all.РІР‚в„ўРІР‚Сњ 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, EazyРІР‚в„ўs widow Tomica Woods-Wright and the filmРІР‚в„ўs veteran director F. He is holding court at the Beverly HillsРІР‚в„ў regal Four Seasons Hotel during a manic press day. РІР‚СљI didnРІР‚в„ўt think a studio would have the courage to make РІР‚В¦ not the way I wanted it made,РІР‚Сњ 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. DreРІР‚Сњ Young, the criminally underrated Lorenzo РІР‚СљMC RenРІР‚Сњ Patterson, jovial Antoine РІР‚СљDJ YellaРІР‚Сњ Carraby and enterprising visionary Eazy-who in 1995, shockingly died of complications from AIDS-raised a conspicuous middle finger at Ronald ReaganРІР‚в„ўs conservative white America that definitely wasnРІР‚в„ўt of the belief that #BlackLivesMatter.

Lead lyricist OРІР‚в„ўShea РІР‚Сљ Ice CubeРІР‚Сњ Jackson, groundbreaking producer, Andre РІР‚Сљ Dr. in the big screen release of Straight Outta Compton, onlookers witnessed the former drug dealer/unlikely rapper and Ruthless Records impresarioРІР‚в„ўs very same impish spirit in all its Jheri curl, Raiders hat glory.Р”В«ut 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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