If F. Gary Grey’s “Straight Outta Compton” does anything right — and for the record, it only errs in soft-pedaling the private lives of its dynamic characters — it’s that it accurately depicts the seismic impact NWA’s music had on the culture of the ’90s.
Brimming with life, energy and anger, the driving beat of the group’s reality raps is the soundtrack of their lives as well as a generation, a time where authority was questioned and words were as dangerous as a loaded pistol. The sense of unaffected emotion that’s so prevalent in NWA’s work serves as the foundation for this effective biopic, one that concentrates on the most important thing in these young men’s lives, their music.
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