L.A. Times - Entertainment — Dr. Dre may be preoccupied with  some other announcements  Monday concerning his company, Beats, but his old rap group N.W.A has some news of its own. more info

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TMZ — The guy who shot the most iconic image of N.W.A. says the same company keeps ripping off his classic work with the rap legends ... so now he's trying to take 'em down in court.  In the docs, Howard Rosenberg says at least 3 of his shots… more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — "Straight Outta Compton" — and by way of Hollywood — the new trailer has arrived for director F. Gary Gray's film about the rise and fall of the seminal gangsta rap group N.W.A. more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — The first trailer has arrived for "Straight Outta Compton," F. Gary Gray's biopic about the seminal music group N.W.A., and it positions the movie as a gangsta rap origin story with a timely political edge. more info

Stereogum — Straight Outta Compton, the forthcoming N.W.A biopic, has been in the news a lot lately, but it hasn’t been for good reasons. Suge Knight is in prison right now because he allegedly killed someone in a hit-and-run on the movie set. But the movie is... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — On a film set in Leimert Park, an actor playing rap mogul Suge Knight angrily peeled out of a parking lot in a Jeep. The film, "Straight Outta Compton," tells the origin story of N.W.A and its famed members, including Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — During a film shoot last fall in Leimert Park for “Straight Outta Compton,” a Universal Pictures biopic on the seminal Los Angeles rap group N.W.A., the film’s producers and founding group members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube sat behind a monitor, watc... more info

TMZ — "Straight Outta Compton" child actor Joshua Brockington stepped into Warren G's iconic shoes for the new flick about the rise of N.W.A. ... and stacked paper like a G while he was doing it. 17-year-old Brockington was guaranteed $6,500… more info