On August 8, 1988, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Eazy-E, and the legendary Dr. Dre, fresh from the World Class Wreckin’ Cru, unleashed their second N.W.A. project, Straight Outta Compton. Arriving on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a music journalist from New York City, living in Nashville. Before NWA changed the music world with its 1988 record Straight ...

Last June, when Ice Cube visited Fusion’s Miami studios on a press trip for 22 Jump Street, he casually dropped the fact that a NWA biopic was in the works. The official Red Band trailer dropped last ...

WATCH ICE CUBE, DR. DRE, GAME & KENDRICK LAMAR REFLECT ON N.W.A’S CULTURAL IMPACT The 3½ minute clip opens with Cube and Dr. Dre heading back to their old neighborhood of Compton. The two Hip Hop ...

In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that ...

NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton has debuted its first trailer. Two of the film's subjects, Ice Cube and Dr Dre, recorded an introduction for the first look at the movie. The film will star Marcus ...

Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of N.W.A.'s notorious album "Straight Outta Compton" but if you had never listened to "Straight Outta Compton" until now you would never know the America N.W.A.

An N.W.A. album award is being auctioned off as an NFT. The winning bidder will walk away with the double-platinum sales plaque for the Straight Outta Compton. Auctioned with an NFT that verifies ...

On 8/8/88, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Eazy E, along with the legendary Dr. Dre from the World Class Wreckin’ Crew put together the second N.W.A. album called Straight Outta Compton. This album came ...