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View ArticleJerry Heller Expresses Himself
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View ArticleAnd the Dudes Playing Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Eazy-E in the N.W.A Movie Are…
… People you’ve never heard of. As Billboard reports, the N.W.A project Straight Outta Compton has cast actors for its three most infamous members, and they are O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Marcus...
View ArticleStraight Outta Casting Hell: A Refresher Course on the Possibly Reignited...
The N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton hasn’t started filming yet, but it’s already reopening some old wounds. The recently announced casting for the F. Gary Gray–helmed movie features relative...
View Article‘Straight Outta Compton’ Trailer: Saving Private Eazy?
So far, at least, Straight Outta Compton is like the no-limit Texas Hold’em of rap biopics. Because some people, pros even, won’t play no-limit. They can’t handle the swings. And, my goodness, the...
View ArticleLet’s Celebrate the Greatness of ‘Anaconda’ by Giving Out the Man vs. Animal...
Sometimes when you’re writing about a thing, you learn stuff you weren’t expecting to learn. More times than not, it’s just minor facts that are fun to know for a second but are mostly inconsequential....
View ArticleBragging Rights: 20 Years Later, Who Owns ‘Friday’?
Bragging Rights is a new Grantland series with a single goal: to determine which member of a cast, a team, a band, or a presidential cabinet is killing it the most, years later. Grantland writers will...
View ArticleSophomore Sensations: Our Favorite Second Rap Albums
With the arrival of At.Long.Last.A$AP this week, New York rapper A$AP Rocky has finally released his second album. They say you wait your whole life to make your first album, then you have nine months...
View ArticleJerry Heller Expresses Himself
At age 8, Jerry Heller was dodging beatings by the Polish kids on the west side of Cleveland. At age 11, he had his first gun: a .26 caliber Mauser a family member had taken off a German soldier in the...
View ArticleStraight Outta Compton, Here Comes the World’s Most Dangerous N.W.A Activity...
The N.W.A movie, Straight Outta Compton, FINALLY is in theaters today. Did you know N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton was the first album to go platinum without having been played on the radio? That’s a...
View ArticleAge of ‘Compton’: N.W.A With Artificial Sweeteners
How helpful of Straight Outta Compton to let us know where in South Los Angeles we are, and in which year, and the names of the various characters. We see a guy chilling, prone, on a carpet of LPs...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: ‘Compton’ Goes Straight Outta the Record...
Just a week after flaming out at the hands of Reed Richards and the Human Torch, the box office came roaring back. Considering how deep into August we are — and no one projected this — the top 12 films...
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