Gang violence, chronicled by rappers, became inextricable from the Compton legacy — and its brand. Now, as “Straight Outta Compton” hits movies theaters nationwide, telling the story of the ...

From that popular meme to skywriting overhead, Universal Pictures, Interscope and Beats by Dre all had a hand in making 'Compton' come alive. By Rebecca Ford Straight_Outta_Compton_Marketing_Split ...

The cover photo for Straight Outta Compton says it all. It's taken from the viewpoint of a man who's likely caught an official N.W.A beat-down. Staring up, he sees a circle of six dead-serious ...

Straight Outta Compton has enjoyed massive success at the box office, earning $200 million worldwide and making its name as the highest-grossing film by a black director. Straight Outta Compton ...

"Straight Outta Compton" has skipped its namesake entirely, because the city has no movie theaters, reports CBS Los Angeles. The film earned the top spot over the weekend and raked in more than $ ...

“Straight Outta Compton” is a musically propulsive mixed blessing of a biopic, made the way these things often get made: with the real-life protagonists breathing down the movie’s neck to ...

The 30th birthday tribute for “Straight Outta Compton” happened a few years early. The famed N.W.A album, which turns 30 on Wednesday, got the biopic treatment in 2015 with a movie of the ...

It’s no surprise that the people who turned out in the largest numbers to see “Straight Outta Compton” mostly were Angelenos, but the list of top 10 theaters for ticket sales nationally has ...

“Straight Outta Compton,” a drama about the rap group N.W.A., boasts instant audience appeal. Longtime admirers of the Los Angeles ensemble, which helped create West Coast gangsta rap with its ...