This has got to be one of my favourite most recent movies, the whole telling the story of the former Rap group N.W.A really shows what the life of the artists was actually like, shows how they lived their life and shows how the band came to an end, the movie also shows how Eazy E lived the last days of his life before dying of Aids.
The movie really does give an insight of how things were when the group first started, it showed how police brutality was a major thing against black males, one scene in the movie when they are stood outside the recording studio enjoying the new lifestyle they were about to endure,The police come and start abusing them like they are criminals and force them to the floor while they wait for backup, this happens because they are black and look like they are causing trouble when in fact they are doing nothing wrong, alls they are doing is talking among each friends. the police brutality continues throughout the movie when they show public domain footage of multiple officers beating a young man for driving violations, Rodney king was left in a coma because of police brutality, when waking up from his coma rodney king was left disabled which happen start one of the biggest riots ever to happen in LA. The riots were so big the 2 biggest gangs in america The Crips and Bloods joined together to form against the police to try and stop police brutality in the black community.
The movie shows the group creating songs, which makes them run into problems with the police, one of the songs they performed, Fuck Da Police came up with a lot of trouble between NWA and the police they even got the FBI involved to try shut the song down so it wouldn't be allowed to be performed by the members of the group.
The casting of this movie was insane, The actors they got to play the characters were much more than they expected when auditioning the remaining members of NWA took it upon themselves to make sure the cast for the show was phenomenal. There is 2 parts of casting which i found really interesting, The first was that o’shea jackson actually had to audition for the role of his own father, the part wasn't just gifted to him because he was his father's son. O’shea jackson actually had to take part in auditions for his father's role, the auditions lasted over 2 years. Ice Cube said in a interview that if his son never got the part he would be massively disappointed not only his son failed to land the part playing his own father, he would of also messed up because has had over 20 years research on the character he was auditioning for.
when writing my review i went and watched some interviews with the original NWA group so i could get a feel on how they felt about the movie. When watching some of the interviews DR.DRE and Ice Cube were talking about how amazing it was for the actor who played Eazy-E, DR.DRE said they would take him everywhere with them for the simple fact it reminded them of having their friend back with them. The major thing that got be about the whole movie was after watching a interview and hearing Ice Cube talk about how hard it was for him to be on set when filming Eazy-Es death, I came across the explanation of this is, the reason he found it so hard was because he was never actually there and never got to see his friends last moments because he couldn't go to the hospital and see him just lying lifeless in a hospital bed.
The Whole movie was perfect it really brought to life how they came from nothin to have everything they have now and how things turned out in their life, it's just a shame that Eazy E never got the chance to live his life to his full potential, as you may know once leaving NWA DR.DRE became the biggest music producer of his time, this i really what made his stardom not the rapping he became what he is today through producing music, i'm not saying he didn't stick with rapping because everybody to this day knows he still raps when the right opportunity comes, if it wasn't for DR.DRE we wouldn't have some of the world's famous rappers we have today such as Eminem, Snoop dogg and 50 cent. After DR.DRE founder his production company Aftermath he then start signing some of the most amazing rappers there is today.
Ice Cube took a different route in his career even though he followed his rap dream for a while, he made his life and fame bigger when he went into acting and became a well known actor, Ice Cube also started writing more or his own movies which became a hit with the younger generation, he written movies such as Friday, The players club and All about the benjamins.
I dont really want to go into too much detail about the soundtracks on this movie because 90% of the music used throughout the movie was music they created, the reason i don't really want to mention it is because it's pretty obvious that the soundtracks would be a song created my NWA.
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