‘Gangsta Rap’ is in the eye of the beholder. The rap group, N.W.A, defined the music sub-genre, “gangsta rap,” for its uncensored look into the inner-city life of gangs, violence and crime. N.W.A., ...

The 30th birthday tribute for “Straight Outta Compton” happened a few years early. The famed N.W.A album, which turns 30 on Wednesday, got the biopic treatment in 2015 with a movie of the same name.

The album that gives this musical biopic its name has been heralded as one of the most important in popular music. Straight Outta Compton (1988), by the Los Angeles rap outfit N.W.A. (“Niggaz Wit ...

Straight Outta Compton was the debut album for the rap group N.W.A., or Niggaz Wit Attitudes. The group consisted of five members, nicknamed Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and Arabian Prince. The ...

'Straight Outta Compton,' starring O'Shea Jackson Jr. and Jason Mitchell, premiered on Aug. 14, 2015 Samantha Stutsman is a writer and surveillance editor at PEOPLE. AJ Pics/alamay; Al Pereira/Michael ...

“The radical and the rich guy make a perfect combination,” says Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston), the outspoken Communist screenwriter at the center of “Trumbo,” opening this week. The line from John ...

Ice Cube and Dr. Dre enlist F. Gary Gray to tell the story of seminal rap group. By THR Staff Biopics about bands consisting of equals are far rarer than those about solo artists, and for good reason: ...