Straight Outta Casparity Film Analysis
Straight Outta Compton is a movie about 5 young men back in the 1980’s who portrayed their life in L.A California Compton into rap music. These five young men were known as, Ice cube played by O’Shea Jackson Jr, who was the songwriter of the group. Eazy-E Played by Jason Mitchell, who was the main singer of the group Dr. Dre played by Corey Hawkins who made the beats of the groups song’s, Mc Ren played by Aldis Hodge and Dj Yella played by Neil Brown who was the DJ in NWA’s Group. Their Groups Name was called NWA acronym for “Niggaz with Attitude.” The movie starts off by giving a little bit of each group member’s life as they were separate before they even started their group of NWA. For example, drug dealing, going to school, and being kicked
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but the one that seemed like a huge plus was that these members had gone through police harassment. The first one was when Ice cube was seen walking home from Dj Yella house to his house after school the cops harshly grabbed Ice cube by the arm and forced him onto the hood of the cop's car for doing nothing, According to Ed Rampell from Progressive article “other than being black at the wrong time and the wrong place.” Rodney king’s beating by LAPD officers, which caused a two-day riot for all of Los Angeles was also put in the movie Straight Outta Compton to show how NWA got the idea to write the song “F Tha Police.” One of the questions asked in an interview with Ice Cube on Billboard article by Alex Gale was “Why did the movie use the Rodney King verdict and the L.A. riots as such a prominent backdrop?” Ice cube in response said that “We wanted to show that when we did a song like "Fuck Tha Police" that it wasn't just about us, it wasn't just about what happened to us. It was more of an anthem for people to be able to fight back and to have a song they can all rally around that feels the same way they feel. We wanted to show that our music had an impact on the community as a whole.” They then continue the interview asking if the song F Tha Police means anything now in present terms, I believe that it may still be a voice to those who listened or once knew NWA, especially with
but the one that seemed like a huge plus was that these members had gone through police harassment. The first one was when Ice cube was seen walking home from Dj Yella house to his house after school the cops harshly grabbed Ice cube by the arm and forced him onto the hood of the cop's car for doing nothing, According to Ed Rampell from Progressive article “other than being black at the wrong time and the wrong place.” Rodney king’s beating by LAPD officers, which caused a two-day riot for all of Los Angeles was also put in the movie Straight Outta Compton to show how NWA got the idea to write the song “F Tha Police.” One of the questions asked in an interview with Ice Cube on Billboard article by Alex Gale was “Why did the movie use the Rodney King verdict and the L.A. riots as such a prominent backdrop?” Ice cube in response said that “We wanted to show that when we did a song like "Fuck Tha Police" that it wasn't just about us, it wasn't just about what happened to us. It was more of an anthem for people to be able to fight back and to have a song they can all rally around that feels the same way they feel. We wanted to show that our music had an impact on the community as a whole.” They then continue the interview asking if the song F Tha Police means anything now in present terms, I believe that it may still be a voice to those who listened or once knew NWA, especially with