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The new Red Band trailer for the N.W.A biopic is out and it couldn’t be more resonant.
A new Red Band trailer for Straight Outta Compton — an upcoming film about the '80s hip-hop group N.W.A — was just released, and given the events of this past year, the movie could not feel any more timely.
The story of N.W.A mirrors what's been going on in America today in terms of civil unrest.
Made up of five young men from Compton, California — Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), MC Ren (Aldis Hodge), and DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) — N.W.A's music became the anthem for rebellion against police brutality and racial profiling.
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Through brutally honest gangsta rap lyrics, N.W.A was infamously marked as controversial, leading to many clashes with the police.
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The culmination of which ultimately collided with the beating of Rodney King.
And the acquittal of the four officers charged with beating King spawned the '92 L.A. riots.
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