A sneak peek at F. Gary Gray‘s Straight Outta Compton played during tonight’s Grammy Awards, but now you can watch the film’s red band trailer, which includes an introduction from Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, two of the members of N.W.A., the gangsta rap pioneers at the center of the film.
Here’s the synopsis:
In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.
Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E, Straight Outta Compton is directed by F. Gary Gray (Friday, Set It Off, The Italian Job). The drama is produced by original N.W.A. members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, who are joined by fellow producers Matt Alvarez and Tomica Woods-Wright. Will Packer serves as executive producer of the film alongside Gray.
I personally can’t wait to see this film, but it already has endured its own bit of nastiness with Death Row Records founder Suge Knight involved in an incident on the film’s set that resulted in the death of Terry Carter, who co-founded Heavyweight Records with Ice Cube in 1998. Carter’s funeral took place yesterday, February 7.
Straight Outta Compton hits theaters on August 14, watch the trailer below.
