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 вЂњBabyвЂќ Williams (Cash Money Records) to Shawn вЂњJay ZвЂќ Carter (Roc-A-Fella), Curtis вЂњ50 CentвЂќ Jackson (G-Unit) and Anthony вЂњTop DawgвЂќ Tiffith, founder and CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment, the label home of acclaimed hip-hop golden child and Compton native, Kendrick Lamar. Throughout rapвЂ™s 40-plus year run, no one else, for better or worse, personified the genreвЂ™s hustler-gone-legit trope more than Eric Wright. He was the one in the group that really was driving the вЂ64 and hustling drugs in the streets to survive.вЂќ you forget that Cube went to college and that Dre was in an electro funk band called World Class WreckinвЂ™ Cru. вЂњHe never seemed like he was playing a role,вЂќ 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 didnвЂ™t write his own rhymes, still a cardinal sin within hip-hopвЂ“apparently 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.вЂ™s chief wordsmith. вЂњAt any moment I was ready to bounce because it was like, вЂYo, if we canвЂ™t do this right we shouldnвЂ™t do it at all.вЂ™вЂќ 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, EazyвЂ™s widow Tomica Woods-Wright and the filmвЂ™s veteran director F. He is holding court at the Beverly HillsвЂ™ regal Four Seasons Hotel during a manic press day. вЂњI didnвЂ™t think a studio would have the courage to make вЂ¦ not the way I wanted it made,вЂќ 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. DreвЂќ Young, the criminally underrated Lorenzo вЂњMC RenвЂќ Patterson, jovial Antoine вЂњDJ YellaвЂќ Carraby and enterprising visionary Eazy-who in 1995, shockingly died of complications from AIDS-raised a conspicuous middle finger at Ronald ReaganвЂ™s conservative white America that definitely wasnвЂ™t of the belief that #BlackLivesMatter. Lead lyricist OвЂ™Shea вЂњ Ice CubeвЂќ Jackson, groundbreaking producer, Andre вЂњ Dr. in the big screen release of Straight Outta Compton, onlookers witnessed the former drug dealer/unlikely rapper and Ruthless Records impresarioвЂ™s very same impish spirit in all its Jheri curl, Raiders hat glory.Д«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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