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Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest. Thanks ...

Criticwire’s Daily Reads brings today’s essential news stories and critical pieces to you. 1. How “Straight Outta Compton” Fails Its Audience. F. Gary Gray‘s N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton” has ...

'Straight Outta Compton,' starring O'Shea Jackson Jr. and Jason Mitchell, premiered on Aug. 14, 2015 Samantha Stutsman is a writer and surveillance editor at PEOPLE. AJ Pics/alamay; Al Pereira/Michael ...

When Straight Outta Compton launched the "Straight Outta Somewhere" campaign, I'm not sure they meant for it to be used as a means of insulting Iggy Azalea, but, as we learned from Bill Cosby, once a ...

The 30th birthday tribute for “Straight Outta Compton” happened a few years early. The famed N.W.A album, which turns 30 on Wednesday, got the biopic treatment in 2015 with a movie of the same name.