Straight Outta Compton is a classic movie and it's realer than you think

[Tommy Gibbs]

Temptations movie was also a three-part miniseries that runs almost 5 hrs. long. If it was movie-length, at almost 2 1/2 hours, half the stuff in the Temps movie wouldn't have been in it.

Even in the Bryant situation, his departure was what caused Ruffin to be added to the group. Did Arabian Prince's departure affect NWA to any effect?

actually it was a 4 hour miniseries covering about 35 years and damn near all of the main members(except the 80s members like Olli Oli Woodson and Ron Tyson) Nwa film was 2 and a half hours covering about 8 years but 2 members got more screentime than everyone else. You're telling me 2pac was more important to the NWA story than Arabian prince? There can be a 4 or 6 minute scene with 2pac in the film(which was bullshyt) but not even a mention of Arabian Prince? That's like Making a public enemy movie without Griff or Johnny juice.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Dre was a raging alcoholic

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

A lotta nikkas just nitpicked the hell outta the movie, which I knew was gonna happen.

For one, there ain't a biopic in existence that pinpoints every single major and minor moment of an artist's career... so I don't know why anybody got surprised about stuff like Arabian Prince not being in the movie, or that there wasn't enough focus on Ren's career after NWA, etc... those things not being included doesn't toss the whole 3-hr movie under the bus. If we keepin' it 100, did anyone care about Arabian Prince being part of the group until this movie came out and he wasn't in it? I figured goin' in that the main focus of the movie was gonna be the three main members of the group, so I wasn't surprised when that's what happened.

To me, the movie has enough good shyt in it, most of the shyt that's "missing" ain't really that missed. If I had a choice to decide whether to keep the 'No Vaseline' scene or devote those three minutes to JJ Fad, I know what I'm goin' with.

Far as the Eazy shyt, the dude probably wasn't about to go broke, but he didn't fire Heller for no reason. Let's be for real- a business partner you made money with for years (while fukkin' others over in the process), and suddenly you fire him... and nikkas don't think money had somethin' to do with that? Everyone close to Eazy said that he knew Heller was doin' some dirt and fired him because of it. I'd guesstimate that it had somethin' to do with Heller fukkin' with his money.

there's no "probably" about it. He was not broke. matter of fact, Tomica right just moved out of the house he bought some years ago. So he never had to downsize his house. I just think they played Eazy out like a sucka man. And he was a shady business man, but damn that shyt was foul.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Temptations movie was also a three-part miniseries that runs almost 5 hrs. long. If it was movie-length, at almost 2 1/2 hours, half the stuff in the Temps movie wouldn't have been in it.

Even in the Bryant situation, his departure was what caused Ruffin to be added to the group. Did Arabian Prince's departure affect NWA to any effect?

actually it is effect them becasue then Cube started looking at the money situation and then Cube left. I thought you dudes knew the history of the group. Why are you debating shyt you have no clue about? haha

 

[Taadow]

Temptations movie was also a three-part miniseries that runs almost 5 hrs. long. If it was movie-length, at almost 2 1/2 hours, half the stuff in the Temps movie wouldn't have been in it.

Even in the Bryant situation, his departure was what caused Ruffin to be added to the group. Did Arabian Prince's departure affect NWA to any effect?

Yes, Cube replaced Arabian Prince in the group.

 

[Bugsmoran]

dropped in 94. Platinum out the gate nationwide. Eazy even rapped a verse on "for the love of money"(which was a ruthless artist song initially and bone just used the instrumental over".) I aint saying he didn't sell drugs, but he wasn't selling drugs to make ends meet. Mike Vick had a $100 million contract and was still fighting dogs for wagers. So let's get that straight. i'm not saying he never sold drugs!!. Even if you take bone's platinum debut and platinum singles away(that he was alive for) Rutheless Records was one of the most successful hip hop labels at the time. Ren gold, Above the law platinum and gold, eazy's albums platinum, nwa albums platinum, jj fad platinum, eating off Chronic. Explain to us how this man was broke selling weed to make ends meet..

I didn't say he was selling weed because he was broke I said he was probably doing that because he was having money troubles. Money troubles Meaning he ain't broke but he don't have enough money to do everything a CEO does to keep a successful label running smoothly and properly pay all them artist

Album sales don't mean much if the business ain't handled right. Look at how many records the group TLC sold and they went broke.

Who knows how much Jerry was stealing from Eazy. Remember Eazy didn't know nothing about the music business when he came in the game Jerry was schooling him on everything so there was probably a lot of stuff he hid from E

 

[Taadow]

actually it was a 4 hour miniseries covering about 35 years and damn near all of the main members(except the 80s members like Olli Oli Woodson and Ron Tyson) Nwa film was 2 and a half hours covering about 8 years but 2 members got more screentime than everyone else. You're telling me 2pac was more important to the NWA story than Arabian prince? There can be a 4 or 6 minute scene with 2pac in the film(which was bullshyt) but not even a mention of Arabian Prince? That's like Making a public enemy movie without Griff or Johnny juice.

Not to mention the fact that Sir Jinx and D.O.C. got screen time and they weren't in the group.

Hell, Arabian Prince on the damn cover of Straight Outta Compton!
If you hand that CD to the average muffucca on the street and ask him to name everybody on there, how many people would know Arabian Prince? That's a gottdamn shame, and that's something this movie could've remedied...

But it was still a decent movie.

 

[DANJ!]

Yes, Cube replaced Arabian Prince in the group.

Prince was still in the group by the time they shot the album cover, so how? He didn't get swapped out for Cube.

actually it was a 4 hour miniseries covering about 35 years and damn near all of the main members(except the 80s members like Olli Oli Woodson and Ron Tyson) Nwa film was 2 and a half hours covering about 8 years but 2 members got more screentime than everyone else. You're telling me 2pac was more important to the NWA story than Arabian prince? There can be a 4 or 6 minute scene with 2pac in the film(which was bullshyt) but not even a mention of Arabian Prince? That's like Making a public enemy movie without Griff or Johnny juice.

If there was a PE movie, Griff would def. have to be in it because he was at the center of one of their biggest controversies, breh.

Besides that, I'm talkin' about time-wise. Almost half the Temptation movie wouldn't exist if it was done for the movies... so there woulda been a gang of shyt missing from it. If Straight Outta Compton ran 4 hours long, it probably woulda had more of the stuff that people felt was so crucial to it. And ultimately, it's a movie, not a documentary... most biopics don't pack every single fact and person into the story because time wouldn't even allow it.

 

[Boonapalist]

I feel that they did a injustice to Eazy’s character by the way they portrayed his personality. Eazy was known as a quiet, laidback, kinda shy, mild mannered dude. But in the movie they portrayed him as the Eazy E character he played on his albums. It was almost like he was a caricature of himself.

 

[Taadow]

Prince was still in the group by the time they shot the album cover, so how? He didn't get swapped out for Cube.

He left while they were recording the album.

 

[ILLMMORTAL]

Ren definitely wasn’t portrayed correctly in this movie! If u don’t believe these facts just go listen to nikkaz4Life! Seemed like every time they had a performance IceCube got all the shine,like in the scene when they were in concert at the Summit in Houston, I was at the actual concert in 1989 in Houston and it didn’t happen like it was portrayed in the movie! D.O.C. hit the stage before anybody with his set followed up by ice cube performing Dopeman and I ain’t tha one,then Ren and Dre hit the stage and got plenty of stage time performing,Ruthless Villian,Compton’s in the House,If it ain’t Rough and Express your self and Eazy was last with We want Eazy,Eazier Said Than Done, Radio and Boyz N the Hood and they closed it out with Straight Outta Compton! TRUE shyt, U nikkaz should of been there! Second Best concert of my life and that’s only because I saw RUN-DMC in 1986 on the Raising Hell tour! Both shows EPIC! It’ll never be like that again!

 

[Bugsmoran]

I feel that they did a injustice to Eazy’s character by the way they portrayed his personality. Eazy was known as a quiet, laidback, kinda shy, mild mannered dude. But in the movie they portrayed him as the Eazy E character he played on his albums. It was almost like he was a caricature of himself.

Movie portrayed him the way I hear people that was close to him describe him. Funny, gangsta, emotional at times

In the Defiant Ones It was funny when they showed Eazy recording Radio and he was cussing Yella out and acting goofy lol

Reminded me of the scene in Straight Outta Compton he was recording Boyz N The Hood

You don't get to see this side of him often


In front of the camera he was laid back and kind of shy but There's other sides to Eazy we don't get to see

 

[FeloniousMonk]

The movie is almost 3 hours long. They had to leave some things out

The things they chose to put in the movie is what made it so entertaining

Nobody don't wanna hear about Arabian Prince and JJ Fads story

I knew you was gone bring up JJ fad



Yet the focus was on the people who had more of a impact-Dre. Cube and Eazy.

With 3 hours, people could have been properly written into the storyline..

 

[Boonapalist]

Movie portrayed him the way I hear people that was close to him describe him. Funny, gangsta, emotional at times

In the Defiant Ones It was funny when they showed Eazy recording Radio and he was cussing Yella out lol

Reminded me of the scene in Straight Outta Compton he was recording Boyz N The Hood

You don't get to see this side of him often


In front of the camera he was laid back and kind of shy but There's other sides to Eazy we don't get to see

Uh yeah breh I’ve never heard anybody describe him as anywhere near as emotional as the movie had him, they did say he was funny and liked to pull practical jokes. And the way the movie had him was like an ignorant gangster, which goes against what people have said about him

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I didn't say he was selling weed because he was broke I said he was probably doing that because he was having money troubles. Money troubles Meaning he ain't broke but he don't have enough money to do everything a CEO does to keep a successful label running smoothly and properly pay all them artist

Album sales don't mean much if the business ain't handled right. Look at how many records the group TLC sold and they went broke.

Who knows how much Jerry was stealing from Eazy. Remember Eazy didn't know nothing about the music business when he came in the game Jerry was schooling him on everything so there was probably a lot of stuff he hid from E

Eazy was a lable OWNER. He was not an artist. Jerry was skimming off the books, but when an album sells platinum(and we're talking 20+ years ago) the label gets paid. For example, Rutheless sold millions of records. They're getting at least $6 a unit. And I'm being generous with that number because this was a time in wich tapes were $9.99 and cds $15.99. Eazy wasn't having money problems man. I know you want to believe what Cube put in that movie, but it's just not true. Especially when he was writing advances for 6 figures to bullshyt acts left and right. Look at a kid Frost video and see what he says about his Ruthless advance in the early 90s. Eazy was bout his business. Now he wasnt paying his artists worth shyt, but that man was a multi millionaire many times over. He wasn't struggling, hurting, or any other word you want to come up with. tony Draper wasn't even selling half as many records as Eazy with Suave House and he was eating lovely. It's just hard to debate how a label owner that's selling millions of records is hurting for cash. NO way to to debate it. And this was pre-streaming era btw. I'm talking about early 90s. I know it's hard to believe there was a time in which you actually had to go to the store and BUY music if you wanted to hear it, but it was actually like that hahah