NWA's Straight Outta Compton was released on 8 August 1988, bringing the sound of gangsta rap to the mainstream US. In History revisits an early interview with the rappers.

NWA didn’t want to make records as radio-friendly as the new-school hip-hop making waves on top 40, but instead, wanted to tell real stories of what was happening outside their front doors.

The real story of NWA goes more like this…”During a period in the late 80’s when rap artists like Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions were succeeding in getting a nation of millions to ...

We’ve seen a lot of rappers take their chances at acting over the years, starting as far back as Marky Mark Wahlberg, whose rapping career now pales in comparison to what he’s done on screen.

At the time this interview took place, there was a raging debate among the Bay Area’s main Hip-Hop shows on KZSU, KALX and KPOO as to whether or not NWA should be played.

New NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton – co-produced by former members Dr Dre and Ice Cube – is an inevitably selective portrait of the pioneering gangsta rappers. Here, with the help of those ...

The release of the NWA biopic this Friday sends a defiant signal that the film genre has become more multiracial.

Jerry Heller, a once-powerful music executive who helped take gangsta rap mainstream as a ­record-company founder and the manager of the group N.W.A., but who was later pilloried as a caricature ...

NWA revolutionises hip-hop in a new trailer for Straight Outta Compton. Director F Gary Gray's (The Italian Job) biopic dramatises the early years of gangster rap pioneers Eazy-E, Dr Dre and Ice ...