NWA Movie: Dr. Dre, Ice Cube on 'Straight Outta Compton', Suge Knight's Murder Charge and a Reunion Tour (With Eminem)This story first appeared in the July 3. The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. I'm mustering the nerve to ask Dr. Dre and Ice Cube about the slaying that happened during the shooting of a Straight Outta Compton trailer — about the day in January when Suge Knight turned up on the set and allegedly plowed his pickup truck over two men, including a technical adviser on the film — when the lights go out. We're in a photo studio in Hollywood in mid- July, a month before the release of Universal's $2. N. W. A, the groundbreaking hip- hop group that Dre, Cube and three other rappers — Eazy- E, MC Ren and DJ Yella — formed during the 1.

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Dre, now 5. 0, is sitting on a comfy sofa, fussing with the cuffs of his designer jeans. Thirty years ago, he was producing N. W. A's signature song, "F— tha Police"; today, he's a headphones tycoon who lives in Tom Brady's former mansion in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. Cube, now a 4. 6- year- old comic action actor- producer (Ride Along, 2. Jump Street), is leaning against a wall, sipping a cappuccino with extra sugar. A few others are picking around the Caesar salad with grilled chicken at a snack table when suddenly — wham!

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From left: MC Ren (Aldis Hodge), DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.), Eazy- E (Mitchell), Ice Cube (Jackson Jr.) and Dr. Dre (Hawkins) in 'Straight Outta Compton.'"What the f— just happened?" asks a voice that sounds like Dre's."This is the zombie apocalypse," says another. It's The Walking Dead: The N. W. A Edition."It turns out a transformer has blown on nearby Cole Street, and the whole block is without power. It will remain so for the better part of an hour.

Which is how my interview with Dre and Cube and some of the actors who star in Straight Outta Compton — Corey Hawkins (who plays young Dre), O'Shea Jackson Jr. Cube's son) and Jason Mitchell (as Eazy- E) — takes place entirely in the dark.

With the only flicker of light coming from Dre's gleaming Rolex, the producers and stars of the film talk thoughtfully — sometimes angrily — about the difficult 1. Straight Outta Compton to get to the screen. How it went through two studios, overcame decades- old feuds, underwent countless rewrites — not to mention an alleged vehicular homicide ("a really tragic incident," says Dre) — and still was filming in North Hollywood as little as three weeks ago to finally emerge intact for its Aug. It's crazy how we were getting criticized for this years ago," says Dre of N.

W. A's provocative songs about inner- city life. And now, it's just like, 'OK, we understand.' This movie will keep shining a light on the problem, especially because of all the situations that are happening in Ferguson and here in Los Angeles. It’s definitely going to keep this situation in people’s minds and make sure that everyone out there knows that this is a problem that keeps happening still today."The seminal 'Straight Outta Compton' album cover. In 1. 98. 6, it was morning in America. Ronald Reagan was in the middle of his second term.

Top Gun was breaking box- office records. Bill Cosby was the most beloved TV star in the country. But in Compton, Calif., five black kids, including Andre Young (Dre), O'Shea Jackson Sr. Cube) and Eric Wright (Eazy- E), were inventing gangsta rap in South Central clubs, creating a wholly new form of music made up of shockingly raw stories of police brutality and other urban blights. Their incendiary lyrics ("a young n—a on the warpath, and when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath of cops, dyin' in L. A.") landed N. W.

A (which stands for "N—az With Attitude") on FBI watch lists, incurred the moral wrath of media crusaders like Tipper Gore and got their music banned from scores of radio stations and record stores. Still, their first album, 1.

Straight Outta Compton, managed to sell 3 million copies and go triple platinum. If hip- hop had one Big Bang- like birth, an explosive moment when it first emerged as a serious, sustainable art form, this was it."It was always about free speech, being able to express yourself, whether people like it or not," recalls Cube of N. W. A's early raps (the group made four albums before they broke up in 1. That's the great thing about being in this country, is to be able to speak your mind and not be censored."Clockwise from top left: N. W. A’s Dr. Dre, Laylaw from Above the Law, The D. O. C., DJ Yella, MC Ren, Eazy- E and Ice Cube posed for a photo before their performance during the Straight Outta Compton tour in Kansas City in 1. Of course, a lot has changed in three decades.

America has an African- American president; Cosby no longer is so beloved (nor lecturing rap stars on how to behave). Watch Largo Winch Online Free HD. Yet a lot has stayed the same. There's still police brutality and race riots; Tom Cruise is developing a Top Gun sequel. But the world has changed enough, it seems, that a major Hollywood studio could decide to spend $2. One Less Bitch." Somewhere between the '8. N. W. A went from being public enemy No.

I've always been very intrigued by the [N. W. A] story," says Universal chief Donna Langley. It was really just about finding a rational business model with which to greenlight it."Long before Universal was on board, one of the obstacles to a rational business model was the fact that the N.

W. A members aren't always on speaking terms, let alone willing to collaborate. They've been involved in feuds upon feuds, the biggest dating back to 1. Dre walked away from his ownership stake in Death Row Records at the height of its ascent, leaving a reported $5. Death Row partner Suge Knight — bad blood that clearly lingers today. N. W. A founding member Eazy- E, who started the group's label, Ruthless Records, and controlled the rights to N. W. A's music, died in 1. AIDS. He left his wife, Tomica Woods- Wright, in charge of the group's musical legacy as well as his own life rights.

Anybody inter­ested in making an N. W. A movie would have to get her on board first, then the rest of the gang. Ultimately, I’m very pleased with the film,” says Woods- Wright, who is a producer on Compton.)Tipper Gore spoke at a Washington hearing aiming to put warning labels on content with explicit lyrics.

The first ones to try were a writer named Alan Wenkus and documentarian named S. Leigh Savidge. They began writing a Straight Outta Compton screenplay together in 2. Eazy- E's story, got Woods- Wright to sign on and sold it to New Line in 2. Cube joined the project in 2. Cube hired a new writer (Andrea Berloff, who wrote Oliver Stone's World Trade Center), brought Dre aboard and turned it into a drama with three equal leads — Eazy- E, Dre and himself. DJ Yella and MC Ren, the fourth and fifth members of the group, are in the film but only as peripheral characters.) F. Gary Gray, director of The Italian Job — and a South Central native who had been collaborating with Cube since his 1.

True to the Game" — was hired to direct. It looked for sure as if a green light was imminent."I sat with Dre for hours, sometimes days, going over what happened," says Gray.

Tell me the story again. Tell me who was there. Tell me why this happened and what were you thinking and what was your motivation and what do you think Eazy was thinking.' I didn't want people to watch the movie and feel like they didn't learn anything beyond what they could find on Google."But just as it was all coming together, New Line ceased to exist as an autonomous studio. In 2. 00. 8, its distribution operations were absorbed by parent company Warner Bros.

And the guy who was then running Warners, Jeff Robinov, didn't want to make an N. W. A movie for more than $1. The prevailing wisdom at that time was that movies about African- Americans didn't play well overseas. Cube told Robinov where he could put his $1. It wouldn't be worth doing," he says of New Line's budget. We wouldn't be giving the project the justice it needs."Eazy- E died of AIDS in 1.