8. F. Gary Gray, Directing
Straight Outta Compton was the hip hop movie of the year that many people were waiting for since the trailer showed its face on YouTube. Many millennials grew up in the 1990s watching NWA on MTV saying the words that even most rappers were afraid to repeat publicly! Whether you learned about the group through friends or on your own, simply turning on the news could lead to you learning about the controversy that the group stirred up.
Gary Gray did an amazing job depicting the reality of living in Compton many of us never knew while telling the story of one of hip hop’s internationally known groups and the hardships they went through to get to the top of the Billboard list. The movie was so well done that I almost forgot Ice Cube was not in the movie! Instead the iconic musician was played by his son O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
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