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Straight outta Compton
2016
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"Straight Outta Compton tells the riveting and critically-acclaimed true story of five young men - Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren - who, as N.W.A , forged their anger and inner-city frustrations into the most potent weapon imaginable: their music. ""Straight Outta Compton is epic. An explosively entertaining hip-hop biopic that raps home truths about race and police brutality as timely now as they were during the 1980s in Compton. What stands is an amazement, an electrifying piece of hip-hop history that speaks urgently to right now."" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)" - (Alert)

A true story of how five young black men from the dangerous streets of Compton in Los Angeles formed N.W.A., a musical group that revolutionized the American music industry and pop culture. - (Baker & Taylor)

In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war. - (Universal Studios Home Entert.)

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