N.W.A. Biopic: ‘Straight Outta Compton’

[Zacky]

It looks like the Biggie Smalls movie Notorious “has sparked a trend,” said AllHipHop.com. New Line Cinema has announced plans for a biopic about the controversial L.A. gangster rap group N.W.A. (N***** With Attitude), which was active from 1986 to 1991 and featured Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren, and DJ Yella. The movie’s being named after the group’s gritty second album, Straight Outta Compton let’s hope we get the “real” story and not the “sugar coated” one.


“I can't really see the whole N.W.A. narrative being whittled down to a two-hour movie,” said Andrew Winistorfer in PrefixMag.com, “since there is all the in-fighting, radio-bannings, and Eazy's early death to get to.” But apparently Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Tomica Wright (Eazy-E’s widow) are producing the movie, so it has a chance of being something more than “a trite biopic.”

We’ll keep our fingers crossed, said Jess Harvell in Idolator, because “hip-hop biopics have quite the ignoble history.” But whatever happens with the N.W.A. biopic, it just goes to show you that “any cultural phenomenon can now go from ‘destroying the fabric of polite society’ to ‘ready for the multiplex’ in two decades or less.”

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

N.W.A. was already a biopic....it was called CB4.

 

[TNC9852002]

Hmmm...Strange.

I'm not knocking NWA. They have been one of the biggest influences on rap and the hip hop culture, but..A biopic?

Hmmm....strange.

-TNC

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

N.W.A. was a product group. Even though they did represent what was really going on back in the day, none of the member of the group lived the lives they talked about except for dealing a little dope here and there and minor days in jails. No diss to N.W.A., still blast Straight Outta Compton from time to time, hell I can rap GANGSTA GANGSTA off the top of my head. But they were all image...and Dre and Cube have dealt with that since then and still try to live that image in music (Cube however has shown his true colors in the past decade by actually being a decent guy behind the image).

But I swear, a movie about them? Let me guess, Eazy E will be made to look like a saint? HAHAHA...

 

[TNC9852002]

Nah...Why would they have a reason to compromise when so many people already know the truth about them?

-TNC

 

[terry78]

If you want to do one about Easy-E, knock yourself out. But I think a Run DMC biopic would fare much better. Cube and Dre still look like they could play themselves, which shows right there that it's too soon.

 

[scifiwolf]

Agreed about Run DMC. This movie smacks of jumping on a bandwagon, not fufilling a public need to see the story on the big screen. With Ray, Walk the Line, Notorious, I don't know if the public wants to see another music industry biopic.

 

[SolarTiger]

Any progress on this movie? I don't have high hopes for it but N.W.A. is one of the best rap groups of all time and I would go see it in theaters.

 

[Fresh Prince]

All rappers are not real gangsters, just a gimmick like wrestling. Mosto f them are just average guys like you and me. But wonder who they get to play N.W.A.

 

[bullets]

Easy E

 

[SolarTiger]

Would Ice Cube and Dre play themselves?

 

[COAL TIGER]

We don't need anymore negative stereotypes of Blacks in the cinema. But since they're doing the movie anyway. I wonder who they gonna cast as Eazy.

Ryder??????

 

[SolarTiger]

We don't need anymore negative stereotypes of Blacks in the cinema. But since they're doing the movie anyway. I wonder who they gonna cast as Eazy.

Ryder??????

San Andreas is still the best GTA to date.

 

[Fresh Prince]

]We don't need anymore negative stereotypes of Blacks in the cinema.[/B] But since they're doing the movie anyway. I wonder who they gonna cast as Eazy.

Ryder??????

It will not effect how black people are. Not every black person acted like N.W.A. anyways, plus for some guys like Ice Cube it was a gimmick only.

 

[gwynplaine]

NWA was great, but musically I really prefer The Geto Boys.

 

[COAL TIGER]

If MC Eiht was the age he was when he did Menace II Society today, he would make a good Eazy-E. In that movie he sorta fit the appearance except he doesn't have the same skin tone. And besides, he basically played Eazy in San Andreas.

This is the only picture I could find of him when he was younger. I couldn't find one with him in the movie.

 

[COAL TIGER]

It will not effect how black people are. Not every black person acted like N.W.A. anyways, plus for some guys like Ice Cube it was a gimmick only.

It's not that I think this movie will turn Black people into gangbangers or anything. It's just that stupid people will watch movies like this and think it represents all Blacks.

 

[Fresh Prince]

It's not that I think this movie will turn Black people into gangbangers or anything. It's just that stupid people will watch movies like this and think it represents all Blacks.

Well why take them seriously if their stupid. Sure the general audience will not think this way. Hell white people act like that aswell.

 

[COAL TIGER]

If you want to do one about Easy-E, knock yourself out. But I think a Run DMC biopic would fare much better. Cube and Dre still look like they could play themselves, which shows right there that it's too soon.

Dre & Cube look way too old to play younger versions of themselves. Look at the major difference.

 

[COAL TIGER]

Well why take them seriously if their stupid. Sure the general audience will not think this way. Hell white people act like that aswell.

Idiots like that cause trouble in America for Blacks.

 

[Nightmare]

Id see this. I miss the days of the early 90s when rap was good.

 

[JabarR]

Dre & Cube look way too old to play younger versions of themselves. Look at the major difference.

I know who can play Dre and Cube in their younger years:

Anthony Mackie as Dr. Dre

Columbus Short as Ice Cube

As for the others, :

Marc John Jefferies as Eazy-E

Kevin Duhaney as MC Ren

Mel Jackson as DJ Yella

 

[ReTrO JuNkIe 42]

Run dmc had crush groove which is old, but shows how they came to be

 

[MadVillainy]

Mackie as Dre would be great.

Short as Cube...eh I like him but I cant see it. And I definetly cant see John Jeffries as Eazy-E

 

[JabarR]

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