It’s a harrowing sequence, one of many featuring thuggish cops that resonates with the recent tensions between black citizens and the police in the US. He is also scandalised and repulsed by the ubiquitous police harassment his artists face, and uses his white privilege to defuse a tense situation. Heller is a fascinating character, in that he genuinely respects the group’s talents and is key to getting them their initial exposure. Eazy-E cuts their first independent record, Boyz n the Hood, which gets the attention of a half-angelic, half-sleazebag producer Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti). When the three work together, the formula is magic.įor a while, they’re riding high. There are additional members of the group hanging around, but it’s clear that Eazy-E is the heart, Ice Cube is the head and Dr Dre is the central nervous system. Eazy-E puts up the initial money, Ice Cube writes the lyrics and Dr Dre lays down the tracks. After a series of everyday indignities such as getting pushed around by police and having to work dead-end jobs, they form the collective NWA (Niggaz With Attitude). Also in the mix is a wise-beyond-his-years teen poet O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson (played by producer Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr). He is chums with Andre “Dr Dre” Young (Corey Hawkins), a skilled DJ far more concerned with spinning records than looking after his newborn child. Drug criminality is rampant, and one such low-level runner is young Eric “Eazy-E” Wright (Jason Mitchell). We open in late 1980s, in the economically disadvantaged Los Angeles neighbourhood that will soon become synonymous with this new form of “reality raps”.
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