Dre, while still a rap impresario, is as well-known today for his lucrative foray into the headphone business as for his work on a mixing board. ![]() Ice Cube is now a pitchman for Coors Light and an able player of the put-upon dad in children’s entertainment. Eric Lynn Wright (born Septemdied March 26, 1995) known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and rap mogul who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless Records, pushing the boundaries of lyrical content. Both men have long since settled into a very comfortable middle age. The film is produced by Dre and Cube (along with Eazy’s widow Tomica Woods-Wright, among others), and even fans of those two might justifiably worry that they’re in for little more than legend-burnishing from a pair of aging stars eager to relive their halcyon days as gun-toting, eight-ball–swilling rebels. Their first album, also called Straight Outta Compton, touched off a revolution that put West Coast hip-hop on the map, and in a very specific corner of it: the blighted bungalows of Compton, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the strength of “Boyz-n-the-Hood”-which Ice Cube wrote and Dre produced-the three would go on to form the supergroup NWA. The origins of this no-holds-barred style of rap is the subject of Straight Outta Compton, which recounts the rise of Eazy and his compatriots Ice Cube and Dr.
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