Movies
“Straight Outta Compton,” Universal’s biopic chronicling the rise of the groundbreaking gangsta-rap group N.W.A, has cast Aldis Hodge as MC Ren and Neil Brown Jr. as DJ Yella, the studio announced Tuesday.
July 29, 2014
Music
Dec. 9, 2017
Eazy-E, Dr.
In 1983, KDAY-AM became the first radio station to play wall-to-wall rap music, thanks to an ambitious new music director and some soon-to-be famous DJs.
Aug. 7, 2023
Just days after Ice Cube announced that an N.W.A reunion (well, most of a reunion) would land at the BET Experience festival, one member of the group is lambasting the major, soon-to-be-released biopic about the pioneering hip-hop act.
June 10, 2015
What seemed like the impossible finally happened: The surviving members of N.W.A performed together for the first time in nearly 30 years.
April 24, 2016
“Can I keep it gangsta tonight?” Ice Cube asked as he took the stage Saturday at Coachella.
April 17, 2016
No One Was Ready for N.W.A’s ‘Straight Outta Compton.’ But It Sold 3 Million Records and Transformed the Music Industry.
April 14, 2002
The omnipresence of N.W.A shirts before Saturday night’s West Coast hip-hop focused bill at Staples Center was the most telling of what fans who packed the concert, the final night of headlining acts for the 2015 BET Experience, came to see.
June 28, 2015
When O’Shea Jackson Jr. was preparing to play his father in “Straight Outta Compton,” the N.W.A founding member gave him one big tip on set: Don’t frown in every scene.
Aug. 11, 2015