Matt Connarton Unleashed: Erich Pilcher reviews Straight Outta Compton (2015)

I heard your but spending a lot of time on your auntie house as a

capitalize, got my woman and my baby living there is hard man. You

know everybody can't do what you do. Really, what I do is getting

played out right? What the money? You're gonna be so ruthless because I'll

make the few changes. Where do you think you're going to get back in

the house ruined? Got to talk to my mind's like that. You got

to change change the situation? Would you take it? Just hit that first?

Be hard? Are you cruising down the street all right? Cruising down

the street in my sixth foot Hey, I was dope. You listening to

competents very own ice Q easy and doctor dre. I gotta tell you you

are witnessing history. People are scared at you, guys. You have a

unique voice. The world needs to hear. They're going in w A that's

kill him in w way, stand out of your mother. This is only

the tip of the iceberg. Gentlemen, what's going on? We ain't having

that bag? You can't even you can't take that in the bus. I

gotta the songs, Glamori gangs. Our art is a reflection of our reality.

You guys are supposed to be somewhere. These are artists. Rap is

not an art You cannot come down here and wrap my clients because of what

they look like. The promister. That's gonna be different coming up. Listen.

To be honest with you, I don't know anything about hip hop,

but I know that you're special. You want to be involved with these gangs

in life. Here we go speaking of the truth and people use their mind.

This isn't the crips and blood. This is a threat from the federal

government. Want to come up? Plus what a I got some messay so

we can keep going. Man, we can take over the guy Dawn who

Believe Believe the Top. In nineteen eighty seven, a music group was formed

when five men had a vision of bringing the reality of their life in Compton,

California to the masses. These men, Easy E, Doctor dre Ice

Cube, mc wren, and DJ Yella used their lyrics and beats to rise

to the top of the American music scene. Although their run together was only

two years, they created a timeless, an enduring legacy that is the subject

of this week's film review. Released in twenty fifteen, directed by f Gary

Gray, Straight Out of Compton tells the story of the rise and fall and

legacy of the rap group NWA. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Jason Mitchell,

Corey Hawkins, n O'Shea Jackson, who portrays his father Ice Cube.

The best way to start this review is with the beginnings of this group,

and who better to tell that tale than the producer Doctor Dre. In this

interview, he talks about how the group started, the film him and Ice

Cube were executive producers, and the telling of the tale of the late Easye,

who died in nineteen ninety five due to HIV AIDS related complications. I

was living with my mom and you know, at that time, her idea

of what my future was gonna be didn't agree with my ideas. So I

decided to leave and go spend some time at my aunt's house, which happened

to live two houses down from Cube, and that's how we met. And

you know, we used to make mixtapes and do different things in the garage

and what have you. And what we would do was take popular songs at

the time and Cube would change the lyrics and make them dirty. The craziest

part about this revolution that we started is this album Straight out of Compton was

only done in six weeks five days a week's studio time, you know what

I mean, at three hours a day, you know. So it was

crazy how this happened, and it just let me know how powerful I could

be. I'm like, damn, if people are buying this, wait till

I really get a chance to get in the studio and some real equipment,

with some real time. It was one of eighteen kids picked out of three

thousand to go to Juilliard, so that tells you a little bit about what

his talent is and what his capabilities are. But he's doing an amazing job.

But overall the movie is just freaking me out sometimes, you know what

I mean. It's just it's just weird watching watching my character being portrayed.

But it's a really cool thing. Around the set, it's just been all

love. We've been in some really really rough areas in Compton and it's South

Central and it's just been nothing beloved, nothing beloved man. And I'm you

know, and I really appreciate that, you know. And we're gonna make

the city proud because this movie is gonna be something that's incredible, and I'm

excited about it with Easy. It was really important to me that we got

his story right and we made and we represented him in the right way,

you know what I mean. It's you know, I've read some things where

people were saying that we might be attacking or something like that. It's just

that's just stupid, you know what I mean. Easy was a very close

friend of ours, where we've gotten comments from his family that and they've actually

been on set. You know, I actually wanted to be here to make

sure I gave it the right energy, to make sure everybody knew that I

was serious and I'm really behind what we're doing here. I also wanted to

make sure that these certain intricacies don't get missed a skip, because no matter

how many stories we tell, and no matter what the script is, when

you start shooting it, there might be like small little things that you would

only know if you were there that matters in the movie. So I was

here for that as well. Where NWA excelled was their ability to paint a

picture of their life. They dealt with firsthand police brutality, gentrification, the

horrible effects of Reaganomics, and racial profiling. Our next two clips are examples

of this. First, the group, while recording the album Straight Out of

Compton, are harassed by local police and torrents just for simply standing outside the

recording studio until they are passionately defended by their manager, Jerry Heller played by

Paul Giamani, And then, in a brief clip, the group answers questions

at a press conference following their arrest for performing the song at the police at

a concert in Detroit. You guys lost, supposed to be somewhere. Yeah?

Here we working? Oh? You working? Yeah? I bet what

we do we'll find out in a minute. When you group, get your

ass on the ground. Now, get on the ground, on the ground.

We're supposed to do with this ground? What we do? Hey,

get out, get on the ground. Now you get your podcast on the

ground. Let's go ends behind your back, interlock your fingers. You got

us on the ground like this for Officer, partexture seventy four of us sit

tight and let us do our tail. Officer. I'm sorry, what is

going on? Can you stay right there? Please? We're trying to check

these bangers. Make sure they're cleaning all right. I'm sorry. These are

not bangers, okay, these are artists. Excuse me. Artists? Yeah,

out seriously, Yeah, what kind of artists? Rappers? And they're

working with me in the studio right now. Well, see, rapping is

not an art And I'm sorry, who are you? I'm the manager.

Well you're wasting your time, mister manager, you're wasting your time. These

clients are yours, these rappers, they look like gang members. You can't

come down here and arrest people just because of what they look like. Are

you crazy? But that's police harassment. You said you're a manager, right,

yeah, does that matter? You cannot come down here and harass these

guys because they're black. Back, I'll step back. You let them up.

Get up, guys, come you don't kill them, just get up.

Have no idea. The people ain't. Now I'm gonna call the mayor's

off. Step back now, get up, get up now. Okay,

you your people in line now. The press conference and y'all just got a

snapshot of how Americans really feel. We gave the people a voyage, We

gave the people truth. Yeah, but your songs, they glamorized the lifestyle

of gangs, guns, drugs. Our art is a reflection about reality.

What you see when you go outside your doing. I know what I see

and it ain't glamorous. You get ak's from Russia and cocaine from Columbia and

ain't None of us got a passport, so might won't check the shus.

Next question, will you be more careful about what you say how you say?

Freedom of speech includes rap music right when we exercise in our first Amendment.

As far as of concern in the government wrote that bite the involvement of

the estate of Ease and the other surviving members of nw A. The film

had controversy upon release. This was mainly due to the alleged depiction of manager

Jerry Heller. Heller himself felt it was a false, stereotypical depiction of white

managers of African American groups. He also accused the group of lifting stories from

his autobiography Ruthless to put in the film. He filed the lawsuit two months

after the release of the film. In two years after Heller's death, the

lawsuit was dismissed. Our last two clips are the start of the downfall of

NWA. First, Ice Cube goes to sign his contract with Ruthless Records and

learns the evil side of the record business, and then Dre confronts Eazye regarding

Heller's practices. Good to see Cube, I could barely see you. Jerry,

Okay, I know that you have been very eager to sign a contract

with Eric's company, Ruthless Records Company, NHL Company too. It's incorrect.

It's not my company. I work for you. You work for me.

Uh huh. I've made that clear from the beginning. All right, cool,

So I could take this to a lawyer or somebody, right, cub.

Those guys are paid to make trouble. They're gonna create problems where no

problems exist. Jerry, you know, I don't know what none of his

lead, all right, none of us do. We're gonna need a lawyer

before we sign an everybody else has already signed. I thought you knew this.

You're the only one who hasn't. There's also this seventy five thousand dollars

to sign the contract, and all this money is yours. That's my money

anyway, Jerry. I earned that money now. I wrote a lot of

his songs. We've been performing on this tour for months, selling out shows,

selling records. I know it's plenty of money. Really, Jesus Christ,

give me my money, Jared, how the hell do you think this

works? How the hell do you think all of this gets paid for?

The hotel rooms, the tour buses, security, the parties, all this

You think it gets paid for. You think it's free. Why are you

doing this now? If we were so good, why didn't you give us

contracts in the beginning? Because nothing is a sure thank yoube, Even a

great talent can crash and burn. Too much ego, too much access,

too many expectations, intends to own things. You want to keep that in

mind. It's Eric's company, right by Jerry. Now, doctor dre leaves

the group he helped create. So what's up? He talked to me.

Sounded pretty worked out. Yeah, no, you don't like hearing it's about

Jerry. We gotta get rid of that. That's really why you came here.

That's really been happening since the beginning. I had some people look into

this. I ain't been getting my fair shit. Do you even know why

you're rich? Though? Do you know why you got a big ass house

and you ain't sleeping on your auntie couch no more? Because Jerry made that

possible for us. He kicked down the door for that happened for us,

and you just gonna turn your back on it. What you killed? Now,

you was right, fool. You look at the papers man and you'll

see what they're talking about. And forget about Jerry Man. You keep talking

about Jerry, this Jerry that we didn't make it because of Jerry. We

made it because I don't. And we keep going. We can own the

goddamn world. We just can't with him no more. Man. We started

this NW eight. It's wanted to be right, that's what you think,

right, turning your back on somebody after all he'd done for us, You

mean all he done for you? Right? Look at me, Look at

me. When tar He died, you said we was always going to be

brothers. I guess you forgot about that. Let me start my own company

with sug Nighty. I thought we were brothers man music. Biopics are nothing

new in film, but this film shifted how they are viewed. They are

mostly looked at as fictional accounts. The broader picture is true, however,

dramatic liberties are taken, but this film is the exception because it was done

by those that lived it, Unlike Notorious in All Eyes on Me biopics about

the late rappers Notorious Big and Tupac Shakur, respectively. These are not secondhand

accounts. They are first hand tales of the rise and fall of the first

rap supergroup, and the story is masterfully told, and it's told by those

that lived it. The mere fact that even today the lyrics, visuals,

and ideas NWA still presented are a part of the fabric of popular culture are

a testament to the influence and sheer greatness they exude. They change not just

rap music, but music in general by presenting a reality that we didn't know

outside of after school's specials or articles in local newspapers. It wasn't bubblegum pop

or cookie cutter rhymes that dominate did the rap scene at that time. It

helped launch the rap careers a Doctor dre Ice Cube Easy into the stratosphere.

The film is the afterward of their success, and it's our privilege that they

are the ones that were able to share it with us. I hope you

join me next week when we look at the much maligned, however lately appreciated

David Lynch film Dune. You are now about to witness the strength of streaming.

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