{"id":1183,"date":"2015-06-08T02:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T02:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2017-02-18T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T06:30:04","slug":"n-w-a-movie-coming-to-theaters-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"N.W.A.  Movie Coming to Theaters Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes pop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. \u00a0This film is coming soon to a theater near you. \u00a0\u201cCompton hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d Ice Cube\u00a0says of the L.A. suburb where he got his start. \u201cIt\u2019s wack. It\u2019s pretty much the same thing as it\u2019s always been, and that\u2019s fucked up really\u2026. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen from day to day, and it can go from cool, quiet and fun to somebody\u2019s shot, arrested, murdered or whatever. You can die for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related-article\">\n<div class=\"image-holder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.rollingstone.com\/assets\/2015\/article\/dr-dre-talks-nwa-biopic-eazy-e-death-eminem-making-new-music-20150326\/190180\/small_rect\/1427404365\/300x169-drdre.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Dre\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtzqKF0nU74IGyNMzazkpXykYV7VnmxgDK6VuOUawobCtHoHxTyw\" alt=\"Image result for ice cube and nwa\" \/><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Growing up in that environment inspired the rapper \u2013 along with luminaries Dr. Dre, Eazy-E,\u00a0MC Ren and DJ Yella \u2013 to form N.W.A., the controversy-welcoming group responsible for popularizing gangster rap with songs like \u201cFuck tha Police\u201d and \u201cGangsta Gangsta.\u201d This summer, he\u2019s bringing the group\u2019s story to the big screen as one of the producers of \u00a0\u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d, a biopic that covers group\u2019s formation in the mid Eighties through Eazy-E\u2019s death of AIDS in 1995 \u2014 what Ice Cube calls the end of an era.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEbWFnY6mIVWflaBvF6lqjxzdwg1Y6s7ZzYWBFsOLUsUbZP6ysGw\" alt=\"Image result for ice cube and nwa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>N.W.A<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes pop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. \u00a0This film is coming soon to a theater near you. \u00a0\u201cCompton hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d Ice Cube\u00a0says of the L.A. suburb where he got his start. \u201cIt\u2019s wack. It\u2019s pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}