![]() I still hail 1999’s ‘2001’ as the hip hop icon’s finest effort but ‘Compton’ is still a nice surprise and fine companion piece to one of my most anticipated movies of 2015 – ‘Straight Outta Compton’. He also released an album of the same name that goes along with the project and as creative as this endeavor was, it was. At the end of September, Entergalactic hit Netflix and came from the mind of talented rapper Kid Cudi. Dre has ever released and apparently it’s set to be his final one. Straight Outta Compton, the biopic on rap group N.W.A., has received critical acclaim and broken records at the box office. Kid Cudi recently made Entergalactic, a Netflix project that joins Atlanta, 8 Mile, Bel-Air, and others made by rappers. It’s crazy to think that this is just the third studio album that Dr. The hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton, about the rap group N.W.A., hits theaters Friday, and contains plenty of larger-than-life moments. I like Dre’s material when it enters that darker territory as opposed to the more laid back stuff, which I felt there was a little too much of on ‘Compton’. ![]() The first track ‘Talk About it” is probably the strongest of the bunch while ‘Loose Cannons’ is one of my favourites. ![]() I like the Goodfellas Joe Pesci reference when a guy is burying a body inbetween tracks saying, “You think this the first fucking hole I ever dug?!” Also – what’s with Eminem’s gross rape line about how he makes his victims orgasm? Little much there don’t you think Shady? The flow of ‘Compton’ is an odd one too – seemingly a concept album or even a spiritual soundtrack for the film that’s about to hit theatres, the record tells a story. But when you wait so long for someone to get back into the game it’d be nice to hear them a little more. Gangsta rap doesnt come much purer than this, and it. Sure I welcome the addition of Eminem (you didn’t think he’d be left out did you?), or even lesser known rappers like Cold 187um (who is BADASS). Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the record still sounds tremendously exciting, and strikingly defiant. Upon first listen, ‘Compton’ is absolutely jampacked with a plethora of guest stars and I think at times it would have been nice to hear more from Dre himself. It’s a welcome surprise to finally hear some new music from one of gangster rap’s founding fathers. I didn’t know he was working on his first studio album in 16 years and that he was naming it ‘Compton’. Dre was working on the soundtrack for the film. DJ Yella is the stage name of Antoine Carraby (born December 11, 1967), a DJ, music producer, and film director from Compton, California. Coinciding with the release of the biographical film ‘Straight Outta Compton’, which chronicles the rise of rap icons NWA (which Dre was a founding member of) – this album drops unexpectedly and confuses the hell out of me. Then this movie ‘Straight Outta Compton’ gets scheduled to come out and all of a sudden something new and unexpected happens…ĭre. Years went by and that record seemed to become more mythical than Guns n’ Roses’ ‘Chinese Democracy’. With OShea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr. Kurupt & Snoop Dogg chose one of his tracks for a. Dre had been working on what was supposed to be the most revolutionary rap album of our time – ‘Detox’. This summer’s S traight Outta Compton is the biggest thing in the music world right now along with the release of Dr. Freestyling West Coast rapper Compton Av is named after the southern California street on which he grew up. Wasn’t every writer expected to at least give the, “I know they’re sexist, but” caveat here? At least veteran Rolling Stone writer Peter Travers notes that the film would be better if it didn’t “sidestep the band’s misogyny, gay-bashing and malicious infighting,” but finds the final product to be “an amazement, an electrifying piece of hip-hop history that speaks urgently to right now.Last I heard, Dr. Fad, YoYo, for example.) Variety film critic Scott Foundas hasn’t a word to spare on the group’s misogyny. Except, perhaps, police.” At Vulture, David Edelstein makes an awkward reference to August Wilson’s play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” - he might as well have said, “I know black art, like, really” - and calls it “intensely human and personal in its characterizations and attention to detail,” yet doesn’t mention the many women who somehow just didn’t make it to the story in any meaningful way (J.J. Complex ‘s Cameron Wolf referred to the film as “almost perfect,” short of a historically inaccurate baseball cap choice another hailed it as “rewarding for viewers of any background. ![]() The reviews, penned almost exclusively for large publications by white male writers, are glowing.
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