Straight Outta Compton

“The world's most dangerous times created the world's most dangerous group.”

In mid-1980s Compton, Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Jr.), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), and Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell) form N.W.A, a rap group that turns their street lives into music too raw for radio. Manager Jerry Heller sees their hunger and danger as marketable, pushing them toward fame while the group fractures under ego and money. F. Gary Gray shoots the rise and splintering with the texture of documentary, letting the music and the conflicts speak without pause.