Cyrus Langhorne
West Coast hip-hop moguls Ice Cube and Dr. Dre‘s legacy continues to live on as their iconic N.W.A. “Straight Outta Compton” hit has resurrected into the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
According to reports, the massive anthem has moved into the Top 40 spot nearly 30 years since its release.
According to the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart, N.W.A. just secured their first top-40 hit with “Straight Outta Compton” coming in at No. 38 this week. The high debut this week comes 27 years after the song was originally released, and is the first time it has appeared on the chart. Their album of the same name also made a strong impression on the charts this week, securing the No. 4 spot on the Billboard 200 chart right behind Dr. Dre’s new album, Compton. (Complex)
The overnight Straight Outta Compton success flick remained atop its box office competition in week two.
Straight Outta Compton continues to feel the love at the box office in its second weekend, on track to take in another $26 million in North American theaters. Universal’s N.W.A biopic earned a huge $60.2 million in its first outing. Three R-rated films — a horror sequel, a video game adaptation and a stoner action-comedy — are off to slower starts this weekend, and will all debut behind the hit holdover. (The Hollywood Reporter)
After only 3 full days in theaters, the flick managed to debut at number 1 and surpassed its $28 million budget.
“Straight Outta Compton” lifted the box office out of its August funk, debuting at No. 1 in the U.S. and Canada with an estimated $56.1 million. The movie posted the biggest August opening ever for an R-rated film, and it has become the No. 1 musical biopic. (Los Angeles Times)
Late N.W.A. leader Eazy-E‘s daughter E.B. Wright talked to SOHH recently about her overall support for Straight Outta Compton.
“We were filming it about a year ago and I spent some time on the set, just getting to know Jason Mitchell, who portrays my dad and he really just did a phenomenal job. I couldn’t be more proud and I don’t think there was anyone that could have played my dad better. The overall film is really good. Dr. Dre and Ice Cube and F. Gary Gary, director, they did a really good job. They were really sensitive with the whole story since my dad isn’t alive. His own personal part of the story, they had to sort of build around that so I’m just proud of it. There’s a lot that I feel was left out of his personal storyline but this movie was about N.W.A. as a collective and their brotherhood and how they started and everything they went through.” (SOHH)
With all the young people getting introduced, and some others are reintroduced, to NWA for the first time ….. yeah, this was bound to happen
G-funk sound didn’t get perfected until the Chronic. Straight outta Compton ain’t smooth and smoked out G-funk sound. It’s just exaggerated west coast hood tales with lots of profanity over tired familiar samples. Back in them days, on the east coast at least, only white people and black people who grew up around white people liked Eazy E’s Eazy Duz It and NWA’s Straight Outta Compton.
NY, NJ and CT cats with the Cameos weren’t fuckin’ with that bama ignorant shit at all. Wasn’t until after the Chronic that cats here started digging west coast rap. West coast jazz always sucked.
Fuck New York you square ass nigga. On the west everyone was with the shit. So we all played every single song. Not everyone banged or sold dope but that’s was what it was here then… Everyone listened to eazy and straight out of Compton. We didn’t fuck with that gay ass New York shirt to be honest. It was whack as fuck.
You need to learn some history son. NIGGAZ4LIFE WAS THE BIRTH OF G-FUNK AND DR DRE’S BEST PRODUCTION EVER.
Kick in the door waving the 4 4, all your heard was Poppa don’t hit me nomore