July 27, 201511 yr Not gonna lie — I've been spinning all the old NWA/Eazy-E records a lot lately thinking about this one. The first trailers have been interesting, but not ridiculously revealing. Wonder if they should've had Chris Rock play Eazy-E?
July 27, 201511 yr Something else I've noticed is the more misogynistic and homophobic lyrics with them haven't aged well.
July 27, 201511 yr A lot of times I find big biopics boring. I'm hoping it won't be the case with this as they might have limited the plot a bit, which would be awesome.
July 27, 201511 yr Have absolutely ZERO desire to see this, not my cup of tea. Vanilla Ice Cream mocks your whiteness.
July 27, 201511 yr Have absolutely ZERO desire to see this, not my cup of tea. That's because you were listening to terrible hair metal when NWA was changing the world of rock music.
July 27, 201511 yr That's because you were listening to terrible hair metal when NWA was changing the world of rock music. :puke: different strokes for different folks.
July 27, 201511 yr :puke: Hey, you're not the first diehard rock'n'roller to have that reaction. But have you looked at the Billboard Top 10 Pop Charts lately? If so, then you know what I say is true.
July 27, 201511 yr I've never been the biggest fan of hip hop, although early on during the Run DMC to the NWA period, with also an assortment of others, I paid pretty close attention while still having a diverse interest in all kinds of music. I could never live completely on a diet of rap. I did however jump on the NWA thing pretty hard and found myself turning it up in the car and rapping along with it, but also feeling pretentious all the while considering I'm really not that street. I can still listen to their "Straight Outta Compton" release and dig it somehow, but I never felt the need to be a completionist about it and collect their entire catalogue. I got the point of what they served on that release, and any more than that would just be overkill. Although rap has proved it's lasting power from it's early day until now, I initially viewed it as a novelty, and when it continued, thought that it was a premise severely worn out, as I still very much look at it that way today. Sure, a rap tune can come along now and again that has the right phat beats and interesting presentation of rhymes, but in general most of the format has been ridiculously over done, and sometimes just downright uninteresting and ignorant. I see the talent involved in writing, remembering, and performing hip hop, but so very often no talent is being displayed in simply copying an overdone formant a million times over that is painfully redundant. With that said, some tunes can hit the right spot, but for me in the world of rap that might've been perhaps 2% of the time. Everyone is of course entitled to dig what they dig, but my view of it on the whole was that it was a dummying down that offered the listener very little challenge to spread their wings outside of the same, same, same. I used to listen to a lot of metal at one time, but even in that genre I began to feel trapped by the formula and had to eventually leave it alone to venture off into other styles. That too became a worn out premise, and especially when actual singing gave way to a trend of an annoying death metal growl, I then knew for certain that I had to move on. Since the 80's until now I feel that there's been largely missed opportunities for soul music to offer us real sing along well crafted tunes as they did in the 60's and 70's. Thankfully there are some artists still interested in writing real songs in that genre, but there's been a large period of 30+ years where hip hop has been the predominant influence, not challenging writers to stray very far from that redundant premise. Regarding this movie, I have a certain limited interest in seeing it, but can't say that I'm overly excited enough to be first in line. I might see it, I might not, but if I do I can patiently wait for it to show up at the cheapies.
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