Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Music Film: “Straight Outta Compton” – Neue Zürcher Zeitung

F. Gary Gray’s film recapitulates the history of NWA, the most famous orchestra of the West Coast hip hop, which was also marked by bloody gang wars.

the end of the eighties was the golden era of gangsta rap and the bling-bling. Groups like Public Enemy and N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) dominated not only the hip hop charts. “Straight Outta Compton” tells the story of rapper Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), MC Ren and DJ Yella and died of AIDS Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), the protagonists of band NWA Their second album, “Straight Outta Compton” proposed in 1988 like a bomb, the title “Fuck Tha Police” called the FBI on the plan. More than a quarter of a century later white police brutality against blacks is more relevant than ever. The film directed by F. Gary Gray recapitulates the history of the most famous band of the West Coast hip hop, which was also marked by bloody gang wars.

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