![]() Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella and followed their controversial rise to fame. The film arrives to the joy of hip-hop fans, many of whom remember Dr. The biopic chronicling the group’s rise, Straight Outta Compton, comes at a precarious time in the national conversation surrounding racial politics and police violence-one year almost to the day since 19-year-old Michael Brown was killed by an officer in Ferguson. struggled to navigate life in Compton amid routine police brutality-not unlike many cities today. In 1986, the five black teens who eventually became the legendary rap group N.W.A. I want to wait until Straight Outta Compton is well in everyone’s minds and see where we go from there.A few decades have changed a lot about hip-hop, but arguably not that much about America. I’m definitely ready to get my foot in as far as the cinema, definitely trying to get my acting career off the ground. Jackson: I’m working on my autobiography (laughs). I just feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book. I don’t want to have like volume one, volume two. Ice Cube, would you ever write an autobiography? I wasn’t surprised that he was so good, because I knew how good he was. So to see him do this on the big screen, it was great. I’ve seen him rap my songs before on stage, with me. … Then at 18, he started to really perform with me. … So he’s been around movies and music his whole life. Ice Cube: We first took him on tour, me and my wife, when he was 1½. To have been looking at his movements and then getting them down. Jackson: I’ve been seeing him rap these words forever, you know? So it’s cool to finally be on the other side of that. How was it rapping your dad’s words, and Ice Cube, how was it watching him do it? He was able to do it in a controlled environment, and not really have these police put their hands on him, because that would hurt me if they did that for real. But in a movie like this, and to understand really what we all went through, I’m glad that he did feel the tone of what we went through so he could understand it a lot more. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn’t have to go through that. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. Ice Cube: Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. Was there anything you didn’t want your son to know about you? Dre for the First Time & Why ‘Detox’ Is Dead ![]() … No pun intended: Ice Cube’s the coolest dad.ĭJ Premier Talks ‘Compton,’ Working With Dr. ![]() O’Shea Jackson Jr.: The only thing that would be remote to that would be the lingo of the ’80s, just the things that they said that were ‘in’. Did you discover anything like that in portraying your dad as a teenager? Kids often think their parents are dorky in some way. I have never been this happy for any project that I’ve ever done. You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth, and he did more than step up. Ice Cube: I’m proud on a thousand different levels. Father and son sat side by side to talk with The Associated Press about bringing Ice Cube to life on-screen.Īssociated Press: What’s it like seeing your story told by your son?
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