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He’s more interested in listening to Marvin Gaye records and becoming a club DJ. His girlfriend is nagging him to help take care of their baby. Dre is dealing with his mom nagging him to get a job.

Eazy-E was selling drugs and made enough money (some reports have it as a quarter of a million dollars), that he could fund the band.

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The movie started with us getting to learn about the three core members and how they started. His lines were cliché, Behind-the-Music material. It was the exact same character, with a different (and more distracting) hairpiece. He’s played by Paul Giamatti, who just came off a role as Brian Wilson’s manager and doctor. Dre ends up becoming a billionaire, Ice Cube embarks on a successful solo career, and Eazy-E…I won’t say, in case you aren’t familiar with his story but if you’re going to show us how they all got to this place, show us how the other bandmates got here. Now, in the later part of the movie, that’s fine. This movie ends up telling nothing about their story. The next problem arises when we look at the other members of N.W.A. Jason Mitchell and his Jheri curls, play E. Dre is played by Corey Hawkins, who has his eyes. Ice Cube’s real life son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., plays him wonderfully. The performances from this largely unknown cast are stellar. Even Eazy-E comes off easy in this telling of their story. That means that the only bad guys are the cops, the Jewish manager, and Suge Knight. The problems start with two of the main members – Ice Cube and Dr. That might’ve been fine if this were about Run D.M.C or Fresh Prince, but this was the birth of gangsta rap! That being said, I was looking forward to this movie, but quickly found it was going to be a conventional biopic. I seriously doubted people would hear this song and go after the cops (although who would’ve guessed that a thug could rob a liquor store, beat up a cop and be shot dead…and that would be what rallies crowds in Ferguson against the cops). I was hoping the censorship machine wouldn’t stop this band, just as I felt it was unfair that Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest had to answer for fans that killed themselves after listen to certain songs they wrote. It wasn’t until their controversial song “F*** the Police” that they started making the news. song “Dope Man.” I couldn’t believe lyrics could be this raunchy. My friend Kevin Baynard taught me to break dance, and we’d often recite our favorite rap lyrics after basketball games. Eazy-E was singing about his ’64 Impala and I’d look over and think…well, they have a lowered ’84 Buick Cutlass.

Loved the music, and it was interesting to see the gangbangers sitting under the shady trees at the rec center blasting it out as the smell of pot wafted into the air. was first played on the courts, I was hearing Boyz-n-the Hood. I heard Kurtis Blow and a few years later, my entire basketball team at Mira Mesa High would be blasting Run DMC from boom boxes. Their songs had great grooves and interesting lyrics. I was in 8 th grade when I heard Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. I liked the vibe it created on the courts. As a longtime basketball player, I was always exposed to rap music on the courts. There are a few complaints I have with this movie, but I’ll get to those later in the review. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.