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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, late 30s AA woman here. I had no intention on seeing this movie because the casting call notice pissed me off, and I have a real problem with Dre, despite his contribution to hip hop and pop culture in general. LOVE me some Cube though.

Ultimately, I saw the film because my husband and I are both from the South Bay LA area (Compton, Carson, Long Beach, etc) and we just couldn't not pass up the opportunity to see such an iconic story with music that was the dominant soundtrack of our youths. Everything we saw is pretty accurate So Cal lore, although the portrayal of Suge Knight was LOL funny, the only thing he was missing was a mustache twirling scene. Such a villain, he is. Interesting his downfall happened during the filming of this movie, right in Compton. Good riddance.

It was fun revisiting fashion and slang from our youth! Calling cops "One Time", "baggin'" on people, etc.

The film was heavily sanitized, and I think they really tried hard to show Eazy some respect and not villainize him when he's not here to defend himself, but the money and contract situation was shady, and he obviously had full knowledge of it. They were gentle with Heller's portrayal too. I remember when Cube released "No Vaselline" and I'm surprised that ANY of them recovered after that, he completely humiliated them in the streets. Eazy had a response diss track, and then another diss track directed at Dre, Dre and Snoop had an Eazy diss track, and for about three years, they were all just beefing at each other on wax. Again, not shown in the film just how antagonistic the relationships had gotten, but they only had so much time to tell the story.

I enjoyed it, but I would probably enjoy an unauthorized biopic even more.

One more thing, this was as close as we'll ever get to seeing all of the members performing live. Really wish Eazy had taken better care of himself. :-([/quote]

Great review!  I have family in LA and I lived in Gardena for a few years so I could relate to a lot of what you mentioned.  [b]I wished they would have mentioned Michl'le[/b] because she was more of a piece of NWA history than Dre's wife Nicole.  I also heard the way Dre talked to Suge was totally fictitious.
Dre clowns his World Class Wrecking Crew days but I thought Before You Turn Off The Lights was kinda hot.  [/quote]

It was ridiculous that Tomika Wright was featured prominently in the second half, but not Miche'le. This woman with kids by both Dre AND Suge! lol

I liked the WCWC too! At least he wore the jacket in the film!

There's no way in hell that any of those Dre/Suge scenes were anything but pure fantasy. I do remember though that Dre always looked vaguely embarrassed whenever he was around Suge in public.

I mean really. They were all hood, but Suge was thug to his very core. They gave a BODYGUARD free reign! [/quote]

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