Ice Cube's role in classic movie Friday may have been responsible for popular phrases like "Bye Felicia," but his new film Straight Outta Compton, is aimed to give viewers an inside into the formation of the rap group N.W.A. The rapper talks about the new film and Eazy-E.
Ice Cube joined N.W.A that included rappers Dr. Dre, the late Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella in Compton. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the rapper expressed his disappointment that a lot hasn't changed in his hometown since the mid Eighties.
"Compton hasn't changed," Ice Cube told Rolling Stone."It's wack. It's pretty much the same thing as it's always been, and that's f**ked up really...You don't know what's going to happen from day to day, and it can go from cool, quiet and fun to somebody's shot, arrested, murdered or whatever. You can die for no reason."
The biopic Straight Outta Compton is set to release August 14. The film was co-produced by Eazy-E's widow Tomica Woods-Wright and Dr. Dre, among others, Rolling Stone reported.
As for Ice Cube's character, who better to take it on that his son, O'Shea Jackson Jr. also known as rapper OMG.
Ice Cube reminisced on what it was like to create music with N.W.A with the magazine.
"We was just talking about sh*t that we was going through," Ice Cube told them. "Me and Dre started off making the first mixtapes: He would do the mixes, and I would rap at the beginning of them. We'd talk about sh*t you couldn't talk about on a record, that we didn't think you could until Eazy-E came into the picture and said, 'No these are the kind of records I want to make, not just mixtapes, not just for the 'hood. Let's do these kinds of records for everybody."
Eazy-E, born Eric Wright, was born in 1964 according to the Eazy-E site dedicated to the late rapper. Shortly after announcing his contraction of HIV, the rapper died at age 31.
Ice Cube shared what he misses most of Eazy-E,
"His sense of humor, his sense of marketing and just how he knew what people wanted all the time. He was just a smart cat," he told Rolling Stone.
Check out the Straight Outta Compton trailer below:
