The N.W.A. Biopic: Will It Surpass Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's "I Tried"? [Now I Can Admit It Took Me Like Six Months To Figure Out What Efil4zaggin Meant]

Because any cultural phenomenon can now go from "destroying the fabric of polite society" to "ready for the multiplex" in two decades or less, the epic journey of gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A. is supposedly being condensed to 120 minutes of fun as I type this post. Hip-hop biopics have quite the ignoble history, with "enjoyably schlocky" being the best thing you can say about 95 percent of them. (Not that musical biopics as whole have a much better strike rate.) But at least Straight Outta Compton...

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