"Straight Outta Compton" feature film

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CAF doesn’t seem like the target audience.😃
I would venture to say very few few hip-hop fans in here.
 
Some of the black kids talking about it in our Customer Care training class. (We’re all about in our 20s.) They wanted to go see it. I think it’d be interesting, if US History 2 taught me anything.
 
esieffe said:
Ummm… has anyone here ever been to Compton??:eek:
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I have. I had a job about 25 years ago where I had to drive around the L.A. area visiting all our district stores. There was one store in Compton that was brand new, and it had just been robbed by a guy with a hammer. When I told my black boss that I didn’t want to go to the Compton store, he laughed and said, “What’s the matter? You afraid of black people?” I replied, “Yes.” He nodded his head and said, “OK, I’ll send someone else.” He was cool with it. He knew what kind of neighborhood it was.
 
esieffe said:
Ummm… has anyone here ever been to Compton??:eek:
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we drove through it in the 90’s. I had my 11 year old son with me. we were on vacation in the LA area. not a place you want to stop and browse around.

I would like to see the movie though.
 
I want to go see it, mainly since I love hip hop music, but also since it has some significance in music history(in my opinion).

However, may have to wait for it to come to Netflix or something, my friends are unlikely to be allowed to see it(they weren’t even allowed to see Paper Towns).
 
esieffe said:
Ummm… has anyone here ever been to Compton??:eek:
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Yes, I have. Like most neighborhoods in Los Angeles, there are families there trying to live a good life. There is also poverty and crime, but even that is changing, with changing demographics and gentrification.

I find it revealing that the surviving members of NWA have gone from their projected image as menacing street thugs to being successful businessmen and celebrities. Most of them quickly let go of the dangerous, threatening image when they no longer needed it.
 
AtomicB said:
I loved NWA when I was young…still do…lol.
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Same here, I was in first year of high school when all this was popular, while I dont regularly listen to that music nowadays, I still enjoy it if I hear it.

I still remember getting the Dr Dre/ Snoop CD, the chronic, I think that CD stayed in the entire summer of 1995!!
 
mikekle said:
Same here, I was in first year of high school when all this was popular, while I dont regularly listen to that music nowadays, I still enjoy it if I hear it.

I still remember getting the Dr Dre/ Snoop CD, the chronic, I think that CD stayed in the entire summer of 1995!!
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Lol…I came acrosss my Chronic disk a few months ago…it skipped a lot. I have to say, although i still have a soft spot for the music and the poetic flow of the rymes, the content of some of the songs dosent speak to me the same way it used to. The album “straight out of compton” less so then later stuff by dr dre, snoop and slimshady. I generaly think that Ice cube was the best of the bunch in regards to lyrics.
 
Maxirad said:
Um, have any CAF members seen it?
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The school bus scene at the beginning was apparently based on a real incident.

The movie got incredibly melodramatic and VH1 'Behind The Music"-y when the story veered into the whole “contract dispute” story line. I remember when Ice Cube’s debut album came out - it wasn’t as controversial as the movie portrays it. This was the era of 2 Live Crew - anyone remember them? - who drew more cops and lawsuits than N.W.A. ever did.

Not entirely surprisingly (as the women of Dr. Dre’s past continue to get more publicity), there are practically no women in this movie at all. Dre’s mom is barely in a couple scenes. Was she the only potentially sympathetic woman in this movie, or am I missing something?
 
christofirst said:
Yes, I have. Like most neighborhoods in Los Angeles, there are families there trying to live a good life. There is also poverty and crime, but even that is changing, with changing demographics and gentrification.

I find it revealing that the surviving members of NWA have gone from their projected image as menacing street thugs to being successful businessmen and celebrities. Most of them quickly let go of the dangerous, threatening image when they no longer needed it.
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Yeah, the first trailer before the movie started was “Ride Along 2,” with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. The same Ice Cube from the kids movie “Are We There Yet?”

I have to wonder how many people in the theaters caught the irony of that.
 
randomuser said:
Yeah, the first trailer before the movie started was “Ride Along 2,” with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. The same Ice Cube from the kids movie “Are We There Yet?”

I have to wonder how many people in the theaters caught the irony of that.
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Oh yes!

If someone would have told me back in the early 90s, Ice Cube would be in a kids movie, I would not have believed it! LOL He was a very militant man back then, but I guess, in the end, as he got older, and the studios offered him multi million dollar offers for movie, he ‘sold out’.
 
mikekle said:
Oh yes!

If someone would have told me back in the early 90s, Ice Cube would be in a kids movie, I would not have believed it! LOL He was a very militant man back then, but I guess, in the end, as he got older, and the studios offered him multi million dollar offers for movie, he ‘sold out’.
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Ice Cube was always like that. He viewed music as a tool for activism, and when his colleagues started preaching what he viewed as violence for the sake of violence, he went his own way while still keeping close ties to the artistic community.

He’s my favorite member of NWA, and when you listen to his music from the late 80’s to now, you can see how he grew and developed over time.

He’s a big family man. He got married and started having kids in the early 90’s. Fascinating guy really.
 
QuestLove said:
CAF doesn’t seem like the target audience.😃
I would venture to say very few few hip-hop fans in here.
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Looks like you would be wrong.

I loved NWA and early Gangsta Rap. Still Do. I will see the movie but in no way do I expect it to capture the real story.

Dre. Cube, Easy E etc and then later snoop and co.

Man, there is nothing like that now. It was a thing of beauty that we may never see the like of again.
 
esieffe said:
Ummm… has anyone here ever been to Compton??:eek:
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I would think a lot of people have. I have. It’s kind of a thing if you are in the area. Almost like a tourist attraction or to put into terms you can understand, its like going to Detroit just to say you went there…😃

My Uncle Sam. (not kidding, his real name) was an FBI agent IN Compton.

Our previous Bishop was from Compton as well. He even would grin a little when I would say to him “strait outta Compton a Crazy Catholic Bishop named (his name)…”
 
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