Ice Cube: Producer and Subject of 'Straight Outta Compton'

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Rapper, actor and producer Ice Cube long hoped to make a movie about N.W.A., the hip hop group that gave him his start. Straight Outta Compton faced hurdles and backlash but that was no surprise to Cube. He tells us how he finally got the story to the screen.

Producer Ice Cube was a founder of N.W.A., whose 1988 album Straight Outta Compton revolutionized hip hop. Twenty-seven years after the album dropped, the story of N.W.A came to the big screen, breaking box office records for an August release. Straight Outta Compton, the movie, spent years in development hell. Ice Cube tells us about the struggle to get it made, and about casting his son to portray him.

PHOTO: Producers Ice Cube and Dr. Dre on the set of Straight Outta Compton (Jaimie Trueblood/Universal Pictures)

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Kim Masters

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Kaitlin Parker