Straight Outta Compton is straight up brilliant
Director: F. Gary Gray Year: 2015 It starts with Eazy and it ends with Dre. Everything in between is funny, scary, conflicted, fascinating and Straight Outta Compton. I told my wife on the way to see this movie that I almost couldn’t believe it got made. I said that because of how radical and controversial these guys were and what I felt about them when they were doing what they did; it wasn’t just music, it was mind-blowing. For me, a suburban white teen looking for a voice that spoke the rebellion within me - and mind you, there wasn’t a lot to rebel against besides my own teenage nature -- the opening blips of Boyz n the Hood set it off. Eazy E’s voice, impossibly unique, raspy, high and confident, telling a fantastic story that Ice Cube laid down for him and Dre’s ridiculously raw beats, scratches and samples went off like a bomb from the speakers of my friend’s convertible Ambassador. That car was vintage mid-60’s, similar to the vaunted ‘64 Impala, a beast in its own right...