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It’s safe to say Suge Knight has done some pretty awful things in his lifetime. Let’s just briefly get into why he’s currently sitting in jail. Remember when he violently ran someone over at the Straight Outta Compton promo shoot and allegedly killed them? Yeah, about that. Anyway, Knight’s lawyer, Thomas Mesereau, says that Knight’s portrayal in […]

https://instagram.com/p/6alMc-LHVy/?taken-by=sista_dee_barnes While Straight Outta Compton has been met with general acclaim, its most egregious flaw is how it glossed over N.W.A’s explicit misogyny. It disregards the group’s documented transgressions in favor of canonization. Critics aren’t keeping quiet about this, and one of them is Dee Barnes — the journalist who Dr. Dre brutally assaulted in 1991. Barnes opened up about […]

The N.W.A biopic film "Straight Outta Compton" shattered box office records, but unfortunately that didn't make headlines.

As Eazy-E’s legacy begins to ignite, many fans have been reminded that the 31-year-old rapper died in 1995 due to complications from AIDS. As it’s still a sore subject to this day, it’s puzzling as to why Suge Knight thought it was funny to make light of the rapper’s death in an interview in 2004. […]

Straight Outta Compton made history at the box office this weekend. The N.W.A. biopic took in $56.1 million, and had the biggest August opening weekend for an R-rated film since American Pie 2 back in 2001. On Friday, the movie took in close to $25 million alone, and it was projected that it would bring in […]

As expected, Dr. Dre’s first album in 16 years pushed some serious units in its first week. Compton, an iTunes exclusive, sold 295,000 equivalent album units, according to Billboard. Of that number, 276,000 are purely from sales. Compton should reach gold certification this year, assuming there’s no absurd drop-off next week. Compton‘s first week numbers is the third-highest for hip-hop this year behind […]

The Straight Outta Compton movie is already brewing up quite a storm of positive reviews, and it hasn’t even officially hit theaters yet. Ice Cube and Dr. Dre have been on a promotional run for the N.W.A. biopic film, which comes out this Friday, and the two have landed this month’s issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The full […]

Chemistry is such a beautiful thing. For months, Jason Mitchell, O’Shea Jackson, and Corey Hawkins morphed into the polarizing figures that forged the indomitable rap force N.W.A. for F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton. In the ’80s and ’90s, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, and Ice Cube sculpted rap culture with sheer bravado and unforgivable candor. To some, […]

Today is a monumental day for the good ol’ doctor. That’s right, Dr. Dre finally released his first album in 16 years with Compton this past Friday (Aug. 7) with a star-studded line-up at his disposal including Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. To commemorate the release of his new album, his proteges decided to pay homage […]

One day ahead of the official release date, Dr. Dre has blessed the masses with a full preview of his new Compton album. Fans of the west coast rap pioneer…and just fans of hip hop in general….are in for a treat with this long-awaited gem that has finally emerged from the depths of Dre’s lab […]

Dr. Dre dropped a bombshell last week when he revealed that he would be dropping his first album since 2001 with Compton. After causing tremors in the Rap community with the news of his new album, he continued unveiling more surprises, as this week, he decided to drop the album a day earlier on Apple Music […]

Dr. Dre is next up to set the hip hop world ablaze in 2015. Just ahead of the very highly-anticipated N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton hitting theaters in 2 weeks, Dre announced today that he will be releasing his first album since 2001. Dropping the bombshell on his Apple Music Beats 1 show “The Pharmacy,” Dre […]