![]() These events are supported by Film Hub South West & West Midlands, part of the Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery. Presented by Come the Revolution in partnership with Ujima Radio as part of Let's go back to the 90s! Before the film join us in the Café/Bar from 22:00 - 23:00 for a session with DJ Style (Ujima Radio/Code of the Streets), taking us on a 90s musical journey spinning straight up hip hop, soul and R&B classics in spirit of N.W.A's 'Express Yourself'. It's a powerful story thrillingly told - and the young actors playing their real life counterparts are all hugely charismatic - but above all, this is an explosive piece of hip hop history that speaks urgently to right now. After the event, Cube writes Fuck Tha Police. Jerry witnesses police brutality first hand. During a break in the recording, the guys go outside and are harassed by the LAPD. With their rise to fame comes all the problems that come with it - meanwhile, their manager goes from friend to enemy and Los Angeles explodes during the 1992 Rodney King riots. The band records ‘Straight Outta Compton’ at a recording studio in Torrance, California. Dre, Easy E and Ice Cube) translated their experiences into brutally honest rhymes that rebelled against abusive authority, they put their anger about life into the most powerful weapon they had: their music.įollowing the meteoric rise and fall of seminal rap group N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of a music and pop culture revolution that ignited a cultural war and gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. In the mid-80s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in America. DJ Style (Ujima Radio/Code of the Streets) The rise of the Crips and Blood gangs in the 1970s coupled with the drug trade and LAPD Chief Daryl Gates' paramilitary approach to handling crime turned South Los Angeles and Compton into the. As a group they took that next generation of mc-ing to another level, individually or as a group they could all hold their own lyrically. What they brought to the game were hardcore reality lyrics delivered over funky beats which you couldn't help but move to no matter how much profanity was in a song: their subject was real life and no matter where you come from you can relate to the lyrics. was doing, ‘cos most hip hop artists were coming out of New York so a lot of people were unaware of the scene going on in L.A. The band records Straight Outta Compton at a recording studio in Torrance, California. ![]() In the UK, there was a lot of admiration for what N.W.A. "Watching Straight Outta Compton felt like reliving the whole scene on screen and my teenage years again. To the side, LONZO chews out Dre - LONZO Im this close to firin your monkey ass You tryin to start a riot up in here You know I dont want that hardcore. ![]()
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