{"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&#8220;Compton hasn&#8217;t changed,&#8221; Ice Cube\u00a0says of the L.A. suburb where he got his start. &#8220;It&#8217;s wack. It&#8217;s pretty much the same thing as it&#8217;s always been, and that&#8217;s fucked up really&#8230;. You don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen from day to day, and it can go from cool, quiet and fun to somebody&#8217;s shot, arrested, murdered or whatever. You can die for no reason.&#8221;<\/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 &#8220;Fuck tha Police&#8221; and &#8220;Gangsta Gangsta.&#8221; This summer, he&#8217;s bringing the group&#8217;s story to the big screen as one of the producers of \u00a0&#8220;Straight Outta Compton&#8221;, a biopic that covers group&#8217;s formation in the mid Eighties through Eazy-E&#8217;s 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>N.W.A<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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&#8220;Compton hasn&#8217;t changed,&#8221; Ice Cube\u00a0says of the L.A. suburb where he got his start. &#8220;It&#8217;s wack. It&#8217;s 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}]}}