Straight Outta Compton traces the birth of gangsta rap through the story of the group N.W.A., who became the voice of angry ...

Only a few years later, Straight Outta Compton was on Time’s list of all-time great albums. In 1991, the magazine argued that N.W.A.’s commercial success was “raising questions about why ...

Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story ... down and formed the world's most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before ...

Straight Outta Compton director Gary Gray makes it clear that's he's acutely aware of the historical parallels between the past, present and N.W.A's story. That goes for the music, too ...

The goal for Straight Outta Compton was to have the actors re-record the classic N.W.A album of the same name, and use their real voices onscreen. Jackson Jr., who was an aspiring rapper before ...

To do full justice to the NWA story you really need a multi-part HBO mini-series, ideally written by Richard Price and directed by David Simon. Instead, we have F Gary Gray’s 150-minute biopic ...

Rapper Ice Cube and his son O’Shea Jackson, Jr. discuss their movie “Straight Outta Compton,” N.W.A.’s legacy and more at the WSJ Cafe.

An curved arrow pointing right. A new marketing campaign for the bio-pic 'Straight Outta Compton,' a film about the rap group NWA, is taking Facebook and Twitter by storm. Here's how you can get ...