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How in the world did cops get the name "One Time"? What did that mean?

I think they were pretty fair in their portrayal of Eazy. He wasn't a villian although he did stay in bed with Heller, which they made clear. And I thought that if they villianized anybody it was Heller (and Suge--then again, given all the stories, he was probably made to look good). Surprised you thought they were easy on him.

Growing up on the East coast, and not really being into NWA, I wasn't aware of their beef. I'm not sure No Vaseline or Eazy's diss raps were in heavy rotation here. However, I do remember "Dre Day" and couldn't understand what their issue was with Eazy. As I watched the money/contract thing unfold in the move, I was sitting there thinking, "Ohh so that's why Dre & Snoop made that song where they ethered Eazy." I had no idea that was just one record in a diss series.[/quote]

You could only look at a cop "one time" before getting your ass beat, thrown in the back of a cop car, or worse. LAPD of the 70s, 80s, and 90s pretty much had unchecked power and terrorized the entire county.

Heller was supposedly Satan in a meat suit, no one ever has anything good to say about him at all--even artists who were associated with him peripherally, like Bone Thugs in Harmony pretty much confirmed that he was a terrible human being. Like I said, CONSIDERING the amount of animosity that went down between all of them in the 90s, his portrayal here was pretty tame. But then again, time heals wounds and Dre and Cube are more wildly successful than any of them could have ever imagined. It's probably easier for them not to hold grudges when they are probably sitting on almost a billion dollars between them.

It's funny that you mentioned "Ether", because that is exactly what I was thinking as the scene played out in the film--the phrase didn't exist back then because this beef predated the Nas/Jay beef, but Cube completely ethered the remaining members of NWA. I hadn't listened to that song in about twenty years, but I was almost embarrassed for all of them listening to it again, Cube had no chill at all. They didn't even try to come back at him, they just let it go ... lol because Cube was THE talent in the group. Whatever they came at him with, he would go twice as hard. It was just better for all of them that they bowed out of the Cube beef gracefully.

All of the other diss tracks were between Eazy/Ruthless and Dre/Deathrow.

I really can't believe Tomika Wright got as much screen time as she did. Being Eric's widow, I guess she had some sort of script approval. But really, that was too much.

The rise and fall of Deathrow really can be its own film. [/quote]

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