History Film / StraightOuttaCompton

''Straight Outta Compton'' is a 2015 biopic detailing the rise and fall of the groundbreaking, and equally controversial, rap group {{Music/NWA}}, directed by Creator/FGaryGray and starring Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Creator/PaulGiamatti, and Creator/OSheaJacksonJr, the son of group member Music/IceCube in his debut leading role. Group members Ice Cube and Music/DrDre served as executive producers and consultants alongside MC Ren, DJ Yella and Tomica Woods-Wright, the widow of Eazy-E.

''Straight Outta Compton'' is a 2015 biopic detailing the rise and fall of the groundbreaking, and equally controversial, rap group {{Music/NWA}}, starring Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Creator/PaulGiamatti, and Creator/OSheaJacksonJr, the son of group member Music/IceCube in his debut leading role. Group members Ice Cube and Music/DrDre served as executive producers and consultants alongside MC Ren, DJ Yella and Tomica Woods-Wright, the widow of Eazy-E.

** May be yet another memetic ad lib or may have been part of the script, but Ice Cube mutters "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas ah, shit, here we go again]]" right before the police incident outside the Torrance studio.

* AngryBlackMan: Ice Cube made a career playing these and certainly lives up to the role in this movie, at one point [[spoiler:taking a bat to a CorruptCorporateExecutive's office.]] Subverted with the rest of the N.W.A who are portrayed as a great deal more mellow, with the exception of MC Ren, as his lyrics were fiercely against the police and the white racist establishment, and who was often hot-tempered and willing to fight oppression. His reaction to the cops who harassed them was just as violent as Ice Cube's. It should be noted as a solo artist, in real life (although not shown in the movie), MC Ren released a very politically-charged rap album called "Shock of the Hour" which was Afrocentric and was accused of being anti-white.

** Also the scene at the Death Row offices where Suge and several of his friends bully a man in his underwear by threatening to sic a pit bull on him.

** This also applies to Ice Cube, but to a slightly lesser degree than Knight. While we may never know how much his FreakOut inside [[spoiler:Bryan Turner's office]] was dramatized for the movie, he shows up there again a few scenes later with his wife, and is strongly implied to have not gotten any jail time whatsoever for [[spoiler:destroying everything inside the office weeks (presumably) earlier.]]
** WordOfGod says the CEO basically made Bryan give Cube what he promised almost immediately after the incident.

** So did the Suge Knight incidents like the parking lot scene.

* AngryBlackMan: Ice Cube made a career playing these and certainly lives up to the role in this movie, at one point [[spoiler:taking a bat to a CorruptCorporateExecutive's office.]] Subverted with the rest of the N.W.A who are portrayed as a great deal more mellow.

''Straight Outta Compton'' is a 2015 biopic detailing the rise and fall of the groundbreaking, and equally controversial, rap group {{Music/NWA}}, starring Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Creator/PaulGiamatti, and Creator/OSheaJacksonJr, the son of group member Music/IceCube. Group members Ice Cube and Music/DrDre served as executive producers and consultants alongside MC Ren, DJ Yella and Tomica Woods-Wright, the widow of Eazy-E.

''Straight Outta Compton'' is a 2015 biopic detailing the rise and fall of the groundbreaking, and equally controversial, rap group {{Music/NWA}}, starring Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Creator/PaulGiamatti, and O'Shea Jackson, Jr., the son of group member Music/IceCube. Group members Ice Cube and Music/DrDre served as executive producers and consultants alongside MC Ren, DJ Yella and Tomica Woods-Wright, the widow of Eazy-E.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The band's fame doesn't protect them from police harrassment at the beginning of their career until the authorities realize this just increases their popularity and influence.

* AnachronismStew: [[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac]] is seen at [[Creator/DeathRowRecords Death Row studios]] recording "Hail Mary" with Dre present near the end of the movie, and Eazy [[spoiler: is still alive]]. In real life, Dre had already left Death Row before the ''Don Killuminati'' sessions, and Eazy [[spoiler: already died from complications caused by AIDS.]]
** Music/EazyE is shown wearing his iconic White Sox cap in 1986. Unfortunately, said cap design [[http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/55/Chicago_White_Sox/ didn't exist before]] '''[[http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/-straight-outta-compton--makes-a-big-blunder-involving-eazy-e-s-white-sox-cap-181108933.html 1991]]'''. Eazy DID sport that hat in RealLife, but it was [[spoiler: after NWA's breakup and shortly before his death]].

* BattleRapping: After Ice Cube leaves the group, and outsells them with ''[=AmeriKKKa's=] Most Wanted'', the remaining members of NWA attack him on the track "100 Miles And Runnin'". Cube took exception to this, as he made a conscious decision not to attack the group, and releases "No Vaseline". The end result? [[spoiler: Ice Cube singlehandedly destroys NWA, exposes Jerry Heller's corruption, and causes Dre to leave Ruthless Records because of said corruption.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Not only was Dre close to his younger brother, Tyree, he was also there to punch the living daylights out of someone who would harm his younger sibling. This brotherly love shown between the two makes a future scene more devastating when [[spoiler: Dre breaks down crying after hearing the news of Tyree being killed.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: After a bad break up, all of the members of NWA manage to reconcile shortly before Eazy dies from AIDS. Dre leaves Death Row to form Aftermath. Although his first album on his own (also titled ''Aftermath'') would fail to capture the magic of ''The Chronic'' to say the least, [[Music/{{Eminem}} he gets]] [[Music/FiftyCent better.]]]]

** '''Ice Cube:''' [[spoiler: Continued solo and has appeared in movies such as ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'', ''Film/{{Friday}}'', ''Film/XXXStateOfTheUnion'', and ''Film/RideAlong''.]]
** '''Dr. Dre:''' [[spoiler: Formed Aftermath records, signed Music/{{Eminem}} and Music/FiftyCent to his label, and had his headphones Dr. Dre Beats be bought by [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Apple]].]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: When Suge Knight sees someone park in his spot, even though the guy quickly apologizes and offers to park somewhere else, his reaction is to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pistol-whip the guy over and over until he's got him on the ground]], then demand that he park Knight's car, also warning him not to get any bloodstains on it. It's around this point that Dre's initial doubts about working with him start to come back in force.
** Jerry threatens to sue Ice Cube and tries to get the group riled up after "No Vaseline", which all of them just shrug off.
* DownerEnding: The movie ends with Eazy-E dying of AIDS.

* FreakOut: Ice Cube's reaction to Priority withholding royalties from ''[=AmeriKKKa=]'s Most Wanted'' is [[spoiler: to take a baseball bat to Bryan Turner's office.]]

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: Eazy-E]] comes down with one of these about halfway through the film, foreshadowing his [[spoiler: contraction of HIV]].

** More than a few are shed by Dre and Eazy when [[spoiler: Dre's brother Tyree dies.]]

** Additionally, at the end, when [[spoiler: Eazy is in the hospital, gradually slipping away]] everybody except for Ice Cube is seen crying.

* OnlySaneMan: Ice Cube, the group's principal writer, is the very first to notice Jerry Heller's shady dealings with the group, and his focus on Eazy. He confides in Dre about his suspicions, but he tells Cube to not let their momentum stop over royalties. Ice Cube's suspicions are confirmed when Jerry tells him [[spoiler: the rest of the group signs the contracts without getting a lawyer looking over the fine print. Ice Cube immediately jumps ship, knowing Heller would screw him further if he signed. It took the release of [[TakeThat "No Vaseline"]] for Dre to look into his own funds and leave, and Eazy wouldn't realize Jerry was playing him until it was almost too late]].

* RevengeBeforeReason: Subverted. After getting beaten within an inch of his life by [[spoiler: Suge Knight and his men, in an effort to get Dre released from Ruthless]], Eazy tells Jerry that he plans on killing [[spoiler: Suge.]] Jerry reminds Eazy that it will not only get him killed or in prison, but may also shut down Ruthless permanently, which causes Eazy to (reluctantly) back off of [[spoiler: Suge]]. After the movie came out, Jerry himself confirmed that scene actually happened, and regretted that he didn't let Eazy go through with it.

* ScaryBlackMan: Suge Knight. Ice Cube also qualifies to a lesser extent, especially when he [[spoiler: destroys Bryan Turner's office with a baseball bat for not getting paid.]]

---> '''Ice Cube''': "You got knocked the fuck out!"

---> '''Ice Cube''': "Bye Felicia."
** At one of the hotel parties, the group [[Film/BoyzNTheHood is seen playing dominos.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: While Ice Cube and Dr. Dre find much success after the NWA break-up, things get worse for Eazy E as the film progresses. From financial problems to eventually [[spoiler: dying of AIDS]], things are not so [[IncrediblyLamePun "easy"]] for Eazy E.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Jerry Heller]], after finally being confronted and fired by Eazy over [[spoiler: Heller's corrupt handling of NWA's and Ruthless' money]], begs him to change his mind, and is all but in tears when Eazy storms out of his house.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:At the end, Eazy-E is told he has months to live after contracting HIV.]]

** Jerry Heller maintained the scene where Eazy-E was beaten up by Suge Knight's goons was inaccurate... mostly because they didn't beat him up since they would have **killed** him if he didn't sign over Dre's contract.

* {{Bowdlerized}}: '''AVERTED'''! When the movie premiered on Creator/{{FX}} on March 1, 2018 as a world broadcast premiere, the entire movie was ''completely uncut'' with the following disclaimer at the beginning, and abridged disclaimers coming out of every commercial break. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpfYPX3Cjns Check out the warning to see for yourself.]]

* GenreSavvy: Ice Cube, the group's principal writer, is the very first to notice Jerry Heller's shady dealings with the group, and his focus on Eazy. He confides in Dre about his suspicions, but he tells Cube to not let their momentum stop over royalties. Ice Cube's suspicions are confirmed when Jerry tells him [[spoiler: the rest of the group signs the contracts without getting a lawyer looking over the fine print. Ice Cube immediately jumps ship, knowing Heller would screw him further if he signed. It took the release of [[TakeThat "No Vaseline"]] for Dre to look into his own funds and leave, and Eazy wouldn't realize Jerry was playing him until it was almost too late]].

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: An out-of-universe example. The real-life Jerry Heller complained the movie depicted him as a fraud who cheated his clients, that Eazy-E fired him for financial impropriety, [[AndThatsTerrible and showed him eating a lobster brunch]]. The last one, apparently, really fired him up, most likely because Heller is a kosher-abiding Jew.

** The portrayal of Eazy-E's life after the NWA breakup was rather undermined. Significant events of Eazy-E's life was left out, such as his "Real Muthaphuckkin G's" diss track towards Dr. Dre and his successful lawsuit against Death Row Records for publishing Dre-produced songs while he was still signed to Eazy-E's Ruthless records. Although there were a few mentions of them in the movie (including a tape being shown in Eazy's hospital room when Dre enters near the end of the film), Grammy-award winning group Music/BoneThugsNHarmony being signed by Eazy-E was not shown.

** The memetic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SYdjRVCR0 "Damn!"]] clip from ''{{Film/Friday}}'' is used in the film's closing montage.

* FreakOut: Ice Cube's reaction to Priority withholding royalties from [=AmeriKKKa=]'s Most Wanted is [[spoiler: to take a baseball bat to Bryan Turner's office.]]

** The film makes no mention of several high profile cases of Dr. Dre beating women(his beating of Dee Barnes was in the original script, but had to be cut for time).

** The portrayal of Eazy-E's life after the NWA breakup was rather undermined. Significant events of Eazy-E's life was left out, such as his "Real Muthaphuckkin G's" diss track towards Dr. Dre and his successful lawsuit against Death Row Records for publishing Dre-produced songs while he was still signed to Eazy-E's Ruthless records. Although there were a few mentions of them in the movie (including a tape being shown in Eazy's hospital room when Dre enters near the end of the film), Grammy-award winning group BoneThugsNHarmony being signed by Eazy-E was not shown.