![]() ![]() “Fuck the police comin’ straight from the underground,” Ice Cube raps. In about six minutes, MCs Ice Cube, Ren, and Eazy-E serve as prosecutors against the overzealous LAPD, accusing cops of pulling them over in their cars and raiding their homes, over a hard-hitting beat while the track’s producer, Dr. Enough is enough.”Īlthough N.W.A first raised eyebrows when MTV banned the video for “Straight Outta Compton,” it was “Fuck tha Police” that gave the group its legacy. “A lot of people would be happy that they song gets streamed, but it’s unfortunate, because look how it came about: George Floyd - that was some bullshit. “This shit is unfortunate,” MC Ren says on a call shortly after a memorial for Floyd was televised. Those statistics don’t sit particularly well with one of the song’s cowriters. ![]() They’ve also been playing the 32-year-old track, which appeared on the group’s landmark Straight Outta Compton LP, so much that it experienced a nearly 300 percent uptick in on-demand streams across all platforms, and Pandora reports a nearly 550 percent increase in people building personal stations around the song. Protesters have scrawled the song title on the homemade signs they wave and spray-painted it to walls. But I paid for those mistakes, and there’s no way in hell that I will ever make another mistake like that again.Over the last week, N.W.A’s fierce indictment of racial injustice, “Fuck tha Police,” has become the anthem of a revolution, as thousands all over the world have taken to the streets in outrage over the wrongful killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Those are some of the things that I would like to take back. “I would say all the allegations aren’t true - some of them are. “I was young, fucking stupid,” he continued. Dre confronted abuse allegations during the Straight Outta Compton press tour, telling Rolling Stone, “I made some fucking horrible mistakes in my life. ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Breaks Out With Massive $56.1Mĭr. And he said, ‘I’ll never hit you in that eye again, okay?'” She said in the interview that he kept that promise, but hit her in other places - “I have scars that are just amazing,” she told the show. I don’t know why he was crying, but he said ‘I’m really sorry.’ That was the only time he ever said he was really sorry. Michel’le, who’s currently in the public eye as one of the stars TV One’s reality series R&B Divas: Los Angeles, detailed the abuse in a recent interview with The Breakfast Club. “When he gave me my very first black eye, we laid in the bed and cried,” she said on the morning show. “He was crying and I was crying because I was in shock, hurt and in pain. Dre also executive produced the film, she replied, “Why would Dre put me in it? If they start from where they start from,” she added, “I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up.”īillboard Cover: Kendrick Lamar Interviews N.W.A About Coming ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and Changing the World ![]() In the new interview, Michel’le seems complacent about her omission from the film, telling Vlad the film is “Cube’s version of his life.” ![]()
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