The Vidiot Reviews....

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2016)

Straight Outta Compton
Being a roadie for a rapper is easy because you only have to carry around a milk crate of old funk albums.
However, as per this biography, personal baggage counts as sound equipment.
In 1986 drug-dealer Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell) and MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) enter the studio of producer Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins) who pairs them with DJ Yella (Neil Brown, Jr.) and Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson, Jr.). They subsequently release a hit single under the acronym N.W.A.
But when Eazy-E hires businessman Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti) to be their manger, his misappropriation of their revenue tears the group asunder.
Spanning the social and racial issues of the early nineties with great aplomb, this O.G. origin tale may whitewash some harsher realities of the real-life situation but is ultimately a well-acted, keenly directed hip-hop masterpiece.
However, not surprising is the fact that all East Coast film critics dissed this movie.
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