Straight up story based on real life

Rating: 8/10 (30 September 2019)

I should note that having watched for instance also "The Dirt" about Mötley Crüe and checking some of the background story, that not exactly checking out a 100% of the time but touching the truth instead, I don't know what part of this story is real and what part isn't. I can only say how it felt watching this movie...
It didn't feel like Straight Outta Compton sugarcoated anything. It was more like a straight-up kind of experience with people using, abusing, walking into every single pitfall you may imagine no matter what "side" they choose to be on. The choices the based-on-real-life characters make are wrong a lot of the time, undermining the very opportunities presented to them by themselves, which is something they needed to recognize or maybe learn not to ignore.
Pitfalls... Not knowing that as an artist you're the business, not some manager, any manager, that steps up to you saying that say, "Hollywood" or whatever is the business. You have to have produce and you need to sell. That's something they themselves had to figure out. They were doing good, doing better didn't mean signing with a manager, it meant hanging in there. Did they need a manager? If they did, why had the manager already heard of them then?
Acting on impulses, listening to bad advice, that all led to trouble. Some lived to learn, some died, in real life too as we all very well know. I'm sorry to see not all lived to learn, but the movie, even though it can only be partially true to life, I think it's a fair warning. Do the business, enjoy your life but don't live it up beyond, sorry but I have to say it, love, keep working, don't fuck it up.
That's the one thing the movie didn't do that I do : rub morals into your face. Sorry for that. Don't listen to me, watch the movie and draw your own conclusions.