Do yall think the "Straight Outta Compton" movie did Ren justice?

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Its clear Eazy, Dre, and Cube were always the main guys of NWA and the most notable. But Ren put in that work on the first album too. He seems kind of overlooked as a solid contributor until Ice Cube leaves but even they its played off like "Well, Ice Cube is becoming bigger than us." As far as character goes, hes not given much either outside of being Eazy's homeboy.

What do you guys think?
 
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Yea but at least they gave him more lines Than dj yella in the movie.
 
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It was cool. They all had a part. tbh when i think about stories i've heard, ice cube, eazy n dre stories are more known and bigger. so i feel they all got their due.
 
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he was reduced to backup singer status, nikka was a hypeman to cube during the nwa concerts.. they showed 5 bars from quiet on tha set and 5 bars from real nikkas and that was only to segway into no vaseline and we all know about that song:mjpls:

if im a 15 year old just learning about NWA from the movie my takeaway is this, Cube wrote everything, Dre produced everything by himself.. Ren spit from time to time but not as much as Cube, Yella was comedic relief

Fact is Ren wrote the vast majority of Eazy's debut album, he appeared on more Straight Outta Compton songs than Cube, and he carried the superior nikkaz4Life album.. got a platinum and gold plaque on his first 2 solo efforts, changed his life and fell the fukk off the face of the Earth.. but as it pertains to his time in NWA, he was arguably the best rapper and obviously the best rapper on their best album so its fukked up how history will look at him as the original Michelle Williams/Tony Yayo
 
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SpacelySprockets said:
he was reduced to backup singer status, nikka was a hypeman to cube during the nwa concerts.. they showed 5 bars from quiet on tha set and 5 bars from real nikkas and that was only to segway into no vaseline and we all know about that song:mjpls:

if im a 15 year old just learning about NWA from the movie my takeaway is this, Cube wrote everything, Dre produced everything by himself.. Ren spit from time to time but not as much as Cube, Yella was comedic relief

Fact is Ren wrote the vast majority of Eazy's debut album, he appeared on more Straight Outta Compton songs than Cube, and he carried the superior nikkaz4Life album.. got a platinum and gold plaque on his first 2 solo efforts, changed his life and fell the fukk off the face of the Earth:mjpls:
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Only thing superior about the album was the production. Content wise it was half buffoonery, major lack of direction without Cube.
 
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I feel that they at least gave Yella a personality in the film. He was a comedian who loved the women.

Ren got less props than Spliff Starr,a hypeman on stage Instead of Cubes verses for everything, they could've had some Ren verses in there, or at least showed them both writing. He had like 4 bars of Real Nigg@z (which lead to No Vaseline) and like 5 lines, with a drop that he was also a writer. I went with a friend and I had to explain to her who MC Ren was, and tell her that after Cube left he was the head writer, DOC was 2nd writer. TheVillain in Black didn't deserve this
 
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