Many people tied to N.W.A. found discrepancies with the 2015 hit film, "Straight Outta Compton," which Ice Cube addressed during a recent interview with Variety.
The legendary West Coast emcee spoke openly about deciding what to put in the film out of the group's ten year history, and he acknowledged that there was no way to fit everything into two and a half hours. Cube explained, "I believe trying to put 10 years or more into two-and-a-half hours, there's no way in the world you're going to be able to tell everybody's story. I didn't put this together by myself. I put this together with the blessing of [MC] Ren, [DJ] Yella, Easy[-E]'s widow Tomica [Woods], Dr. Dre — and Gary wasn't going to just take my version of what happened. He did his own research and his own interviews."
He added, "So to me, the movie is an accurate account of N.W.A, the rise and fall of the group. I'm pretty sure you can probably make nine, 10 different versions of the N.W.A movie. They've done about seven Elvis movies. So I'm pretty sure there's a lot of different versions of what this movie could have been, and everybody is more than welcome to have a crack at it. But to me, we put together the best N.W.A movie that's ever going to be put together, and if we left some people out, we left some stories out, there's just too much to tell in two hours and 20 minutes."
One of the original members of N.W.A., Arabian Prince, spoke to VladTV earlier this year and he shared his thoughts on the biopic. The West Coast artist told us that he felt like MC Ren could have been depicted better, and you can check out more of what he had to say here.
Source: Variety
