N.W.A. changed the face of music when their debut album “Straight Outta Compton” dropped in 1988. It was one of the first albums ever to be labelled with a parental advisory label thanks to the group’s brand of “Reality Rap!”;
Flash forward 27 years and surviving members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are producing the big screen depiction of their biopic. Jason Mitchell plays deceased rapper Eazy-E; Corey Hawkins steps in as Dr. Dre and O’Shea Jackson Jr. portrays his real life father, Ice Cube.
Mitchell tells ET Canada, “It’s super intimidating to do this. But when somebody of that calibre tells you, that you’re the man for the job, you have to believe them!” O’shea adds, “I’ve been studying for my role for over 20 plus years… three different acting coaches. I worked for two years doing auditions, coming back… it was all in preparation to make sure that in my head I knew I was the perfect man for the job.”
Hopefully audiences will feel the same way when the movie hits theatres this weekend.
