Eazy is the star of the movie and that’s just the way it is. “But we really had to put the work in, build each other up and hold each other accountable, because this easily could have become any old biopic, an impersonation flick about N.W.A. It’s easy to find people who look just like these people did, but we wanted to get inside the minds, hearts and souls”.

Ice Cube also segued into Hollywood, acting in such films like “Barbershop”, “21 Jump Street” and “XXX: State of the Union”.

No, it was never in the cards.

The platinum-penned MC then gives insight into his former beef with Common and explained, “Back in the day, me and Common’s beef was also a misunderstanding”.

When you were growing up, were you riding the N.W.A. wave? How do you feel on the popularity it’s gotten?

Ice Cube: I’m proud on a thousand different levels. In speaking to Dr. Dre, Corey Hawkins got the advice “don’t worry about looking like me or sounding like me”. “I’m not a fan of it”, he added. I loved that they were honest.

How did your relationship with Cube and Dre help inform your decisions as a director? The list just goes on and on. The film is named after N.W.A.’s seminal 1988 album of the same name. As it turned out, as soon as Mitchell stepped in front of the camera, he was so spot-on that many told him it was as if they were seeing a ghost – “for me, that was the highest compliment and it meant so much to me”. Whatever it is you’re doing. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.

I have a responsibility to tell the story as accurately as possible. I don’t want to have like volume one, volume two.

O’Shea, Jr. portrayed you in such a great way, what do you think of his performance? I’ve dealt with police brutality, and it’s hard being a Black man in America, but we gotta keep that dialogue open.

“I knew that nobody could play my father like I can”. With somebody taking on his life, how did he feel it? All of them are courtesy of the jokesters in the Unbias Review Facebook group and Twitter.

The meme is pretty lighthearted for a movie based on one of the most feared musical groups of the past 50 years, but isn’t that just 2015 Internet. Check out the film detailing the notorious rap group on August. 14.

I’m not really sure what it’ll do in terms of perspective. “Eazy just always stood out a little bit”.

In a brief conversation I had with director Gray, I was dying to ask him about the film’s obvious villain, Suge Knight and the irony of where he is now and where they are now. “They were like, ‘Why didn’t you come in?’ Because I was doubting myself, sort of the insecurity that actors go through”.

No, not at all.

The marketing machine of Straight Outta Compton is in full effect right now. Meanwhile, Andre “Dr. Dre” Young (Corey Hawkins) is hustling to get his DJ career off of the ground while his pal Ice Cube is busy observing the brutal world around him, a rapper/reporter penning rhymes in a journal.