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Watch straight outta compton hd3/18/2024 Comprised of five talented, street-smart young men, N.W.A. This portrayal only fits that of N.W.A.'s music and character. It hits us in the face and stomps on the audience hard, as if its strapped with brass knuckles and decked out in the latest Nikes, portraying the race relations in Los Angeles as they were - ugly and disgraceful. is to get us angry at the injustice that occurred in the 1980's and 1990's and remind us that this kind of hate still frighteningly occurs today. Gary Gray's biopic on the acclaimed, pioneering rap group N.W.A. I may not have ever experienced racial injustice in my life, but I was at least aware of racial double standards at a young age. Songs like "Straight Outta Compton" and "F*** the Police" were ingrained in my head, and I remember especially finding telling social relevance in the line, "searchin' my car, lookin' for the product - thinking' every n**** is sellin' narcotics" from the latter song despite being so young. My mother would play one of her brother's personally mixed CDs, filled with novelty songs, parodies, and vulgar rap songs I probably shouldn't have been heard at such a tender age, in car rides with me. Even as a white kid from suburbia, I remember being exposed to the exhilarating and raucous sound of N.W.A.
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