Straight Outta Compton was a blockbuster success in 2015, earning more than $161 million at the box office and becoming the highest-grossing film by a Black filmmaker of all time. It also earned rave reviews, but former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller has called the film’s accuracy – in particular his portrayal in the movie – into question and has sued the filmmakers.
“It’s as accurate as you can be when you’re trying to squeeze 10 years into two hours,’’ Ice Cube says during an interview with The Plain Dealer. “I challenge anyone to make a more accurate movie about N.W.A. It had all four [surviving] members involved in the making of the movie, plus the widow of Eazy-E.
“We were all very vocal about what should be in the movie and what should go down,” he adds. “There have been a few documentaries, but the movie really let people know who we were as people and friends – just five guys trying to make it. The movie let people see what we had to go through to make our music. We had to stand up for freedom of speech against people like Tipper Gore. The group is extremely significant for music all the way around, creatively and when it comes to pushing the envelope for other artists to do what they do. Without N.W.A, there would be no Eminem.’’
N.W.A – whose members are Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella – are scheduled to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York April 8.
Ice Cube knows some are not happy that N.W.A will join the exclusive group of musicians.
“When you put something on people’s radar and plant a seed in their mind, it might take some time for that seed to germinate and grow,” Ice Cube says. “When we did ‘Fuck Tha Police,’ the police could do no wrong in a court of law. Now, after that song, police are held just as accountable. We put this on people’s minds years ago, and now you have a generation of people who are looking very closely at how the police act and work. Nobody values Black life. That’s why we keep revisiting it. Everybody believes a Black life is cheaper than a White life, whether they admit it or not, and that’s really the core. It ain’t looking at the police. It ain’t looking at the man who’s a racist. It’s looking at ourselves. The authorities know it, and they don’t mind taking a life. They’ll take the life of a Black kid a little quicker than they will a White kid. That’s just the history we’ve all grown up with.”
For additional Ice Cube coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
LOL BULLSHIT DRE AND CUBE ARE FRAUDS
Are you an idiot…. Without nwa there is no dre therefore there is no em. Stop commenting nonsense. No one thinks it’s funny
keep posting i’m gonna find you and punch your f*ckin lights out, all your teeth will be missing. belee dat homeboy.
And here comes the backlash from the Eminem stans in 5, 4, 3, 2….
Other than black thought i agree royce is the best out. I remember hearing him in 96 he was killing songs then n that mother is still killing every song that he gets on. Royce has so many lines n slick punches. I love music n iv listened to lots of artists that every now n then they got a dope line n its royce is full of those dope lines..
Don’t nobody cares that wack nigga he sucks can not make a hit song to save his life!
im not too sure about that…I mean, you really think if NWA didn’t exist there would be no eminem…I guess dre would still be dressing in drag with the world class wreckin crue and cube would be flippin burgers at BK.
Without Schoolly D there is NWA…”PSK”
Eminem sucks Fuck him! & Fuck white people for trying to take our culture!
Are you okay?
Ironic that a white guy is the best rapper ever isn’t it
taking cultures? i bet everything you own is white. from your cell phones, to your cloths to your CARS to your favorite sports..you been took our culture..well do the same. fuck u
Fuck white people??
You’re black and you like white women?
hahahahahahahha WTF?????
Eminem was already doing his thing before Dre signed him
And how successful was that?
Denial much?
NWA (and 2LiveCrew) made it possible for Em to say the shit he said on record AND have it released to a mainstream audience. Cube just saying they cleared a path for Em to do what he did as far as content/lyrics and censorship go.
He already won the rap Olympics. Em would have signed with someone else if it wasn’t him as he was shopping for a deal so no matter what EM would have come out. Yes DR. Dray s cosign helped but he made plenty of records without him. Then it’s safe to say 2 live crew cleared the path for n.w.a.
Em didn’t win the rap olympics..he literally tore the kid apart, but he lost cause he’s white…and nwa def helped clear the path. The shit seems tame now but fuck tha police was crazy when it dropped.
I’m not saying he wasn’t talented enough to blow up no matter who he signed with. Em is one of the most intricate rappers I’ve ever heard flow and lyric-wise on a major label, and I haven’t even really fucked with him since 05.
But if the 2LC and NWA lawsuits and media uproar had never happened, or they had lost the cases and mainstream rap had to be censored, Eminem’s style post-Infinite and pre-Curtain Call wouldn’t have been possible. Interscope wouldn’t have wanted to deal with the legal issues.
In the spirit of that same argument though, without NWA/2LC we’d have no Tupac, Biggie, Redman, etc. so idk why he picked Eminem, but I know exactly why DX phrased that headline how they did.
And yeah I thing Mc J.U.Ice won those Rap Olympics. Really dope freestyler, better than Em, but Em is a better songwriter.
I F**K rihanna doggystyle savegly
if you listen to this guy long enough he will have you believing that without nwa there would be no grandmaster flash or hip hop at all……
Ever since I heard that story about how Ice Cube stole B Real’s song from Cypress Hill, I knew this guy was a fraud so who cares what he’s gotta say. Him and Dray are some studio gangsters
I agree Cube been lost my respect hes one of the biggest fraud in rap history, and they screwed over Eazy in that movie up until the day he died he was more finacialy more successuful than cube and dre, they tried to play him like he didnt have anything going on like Bone thugs wasnt going triple and quad platinum they tried to play E down
Or you can the fuck up. FUCK you Fuck Trump
why is he just calling out eminem? lol
without NWA there isnt many many many many rappers.. why just namedrop EM?
because em is the greatest of all time. you know that, i know that, cube know that, dre know that
by just calling eminem out is he subconsciencely saying that. he wouldnt of called out EM if he wasnt atleast top 2
You a Dumbass eminem sucks! Fuck him & you white BOY
Because it gets more attention to the article
im soooo offended 🙁
hiphop is ours now. just like rock n roll. you created it white people took it to lengths black ppl never could. the genre is ours. like basketball created by white man took over by black ppl.. get over it. it is ours now
White people took over ROck N roll and now look where rock N roll is..nobody give shit bout Rock N roll like dat anymore. Rap is what’s most popular now and we now got whites wanting to rap now lol. Us blacks are the most influential people on earth.
I love replying to my own posts . It makes me giggle like a naughty teenage schoolgirl
Me toooo cutie
Get a room guy’s ……Get a room ..Bunch of weirdo loosers
sorry to say but rock and roll still flourishs. rock n rollers still sell more than black rappers.
And Em has acknowledged& said the same thing… Recycled news…
Eminem is Gay he F**K me in the Booty last night!
I like you and would make you my wife . I offer 10 camels for you to be my الكلبة
Eminem is a sucka I pissed on his house in Detroit & he sucks Fuck him!
Thats just like saying without Jerry Heller there would be no Ice Cube. What hes saying is not neccessarily true, Em could have possible blown up without Dre, Just like Bone Thugs could have possibly blown up without Eazy you never Know. Cube fronting on the
accuracy of the movie he full of sh-t
Yep thats def true same way Eazy had the money to fund NWA, but instead of getting the credit for that all we hear is about Ice Cube bitching about what he wasnt getting. I think till this day Cube is still jealous of Eazy, Cube wanted to be that guy from the streets
he wanted Eazy’s image. I truly think thats why they didnt glorify Eazy in that movie when they could have instead they tried to play him IMO
Youre right–to a point. Yes, Em couldve made it without Dre. But, would it have been the same? Who knows? Conversely, who knows how NWAs possibly unavoidable success would have been without Jerry Heller? Who knows? Either way, the idea of Dre simply having the money to fund Em due to successes with NWA.
I actually think Em help dre more than dre helped Em, People werent paying attention to dre anymore before em came along
then all white rap fans starting loving dre, People keep forgetting that dre and aftermath was flopping hard before Em came.
By 96-97-98 nobody cared about dre anymore everybody was bumping Tupac, Biggie, Bone Thugs, Master P, Jay Z. Anybody remember that been there done that
So, Nas and AZs “Phone Tap” meant nothing? Okay.
N.W.A > Breakup > Dr Dre (Aftermath) > Eminem… plain and simple keyboard cowards
Fuck diced boob
I thought Em had said the same thing in past interviews not sure why most of you are being so over sensitive
And no Lench Mob, no Yo-Yo, no Bone Thugs, no Black Eyed Peas, no WC and the MAAD Circle, no Snoop, no Dogg Pound, no Death Row, no Mack 10, no Westside Connection, etc.
All of them are part of NWA’s legacy, including Em.
he’s right in the sense that it lead to the climate where eminem was bullied and harassed by black kids in detroit and that fueled the anger and perseverance it took for him to enter a genre that didn’t want him and become one of the greatest of all time.
Cry me a river wanker
i mean it goes like this…without NWA, no Eminem..no eminem..virtually no other rapper then..between Snoop, Em, JayZ, and Outkast that is A LOT of todays artists influences
Cube was right. Nobody cares about black lives…not even black lives. More blacks kill blacks than police or white people do by a wide margin
Right, but that’s the same as saying more cocks kill each other in cock fights than humans do.
horribly analogy
do you realise how fucking stupid that is? if the animals hurt each other it don’t matter, but if the humans do it’s bad.
you realise you’re equating black people to animals and only white people as humans, right? you fucking racist
The only thing we care about is a NWA performance at the award show and possibly a new album,
damn how many stupid butthurt people in one place? he didnt say nothing wrong about Eminem, he said something that Em has previously admitted in the past, its just influence. And fuck HHDX with this click bait tryna be controversial headlines. The full interview went on… Grandmaster Flash and some more… didnt just stop on Eminem. You people so called “fans” are so fuckin stupid.
Basically without Eazy-E there wouldn’t have been N.W.A. So thank him for Eminem and many legendary rapper’s in between that time.
Why don’t you check out who wrote easy’s lyrics bud
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Without Eazy, Nooooooo Dre, Cube or Ren. And in an ideal world no Em……..’cause we already had Elvis !!!!!!!
Some people only see that I’m white, ignorin skill -EMINEM “Role Model”
At least Macklemore had the balls to adress the issue, while Em is complaining he’s the poor white boy trying to make it, in this hard black world.
but eminem was lol what you want eminem to come out and say he was a surburban dude who had 2 parents and nice cars.. he raps what he knows.. not only black ppl have a struggle get over yourselves..u dont like Ems music then move on..theres 1000000s of black rappers u can choose from
Could you be more off-base?
Could you be more off-base?
“rock bottom” and “if i had” by eminem that’s pure suicide music. suicide gonna be my cause of death. imma still alive but suicide is something which makes me comfortable that only i can end it ya kno what i mean that power over my life. life sucks since 18 and it gets only worse. they don’t want you to successfully commit suicide. but i will. and i can.
Talk shit. Its always the ones who talk most that do least. You dont got the balls to fix your life, no way you’d be able to take it