Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton (2015) is a music biopic from director F. Gary Gray that you can watch online on iFILM. It follows five kids from a rough corner of Los Angeles who built the group N.W.A and forced an entire country to listen.

The setting is Compton in the late 1980s. With nothing but raw lyrics and hard beats, the crew turns frustration over poverty and police harassment into chart-smashing records. O'Shea Jackson Jr. plays his own father, Ice Cube; Corey Hawkins is Dr. Dre; Jason Mitchell is Eazy-E. Their manager Jerry Heller, played by Paul Giamatti, brings money and contracts that slowly tear the friends apart.

This is the real story of N.W.A, told without polish. Expect the firestorm around "Fuck tha Police," FBI letters, and the betrayals that broke up one of hip-hop's most important acts. Running 146 minutes, with a soundtrack that hits hard, it captures the era cold. Stream Straight Outta Compton (2015) online on iFILM.