Pretty good, but not great

Rating: 6/10 (6 September 2018)

It's been a while since I've seen this movie, but reading the other reviews, it didn't get a fair treatment in my opinion. It started pretty well, wonderfully highlighting the difficulties these young men went through at the beginning of their careers. The first maybe 45 minutes or so was pretty good. I believe we get to the record deal, but it may have been a little longer.
Then the movie kind of slows down. It seems to take forever, and honestly I kind of forgot what happened in the middle. I think the producer dude sells them out and the group breaks up. I'm not sure what happens, I just remember sitting in the theater wondering how much time has passed.
Near the end, it seems like the writers realized their movie was over 2 hours and they needed to finish it up. It felt like they quickly mentioned that Ice Cube made Friday, and Easy-E contracted AIDS. Then they wrapped it up in the last thirty minutes with Easy-E's death and I was left wondering if I watched an Easy-E documentary.
But all in all, it was a decent movie that was excessively drawn out.