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🗓️ 19 December 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Rapper, actor and producer Ice Cube long hoped to make a movie about N.W.A., the hip hop group that gave him his start. Straight Outta Compton faced hurdles and backlash but that was no surprise to Cube. He tells us how he finally got the story to the screen.
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0:00.0 | On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail. |
0:05.6 | Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today. |
0:09.9 | It was the dumbest speech I have ever seen in my life of covering politics. |
0:15.0 | When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say, |
0:19.1 | I really should vote for someone smarter than me. |
0:21.7 | I'm Warren Alney. To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. Find the To the Point |
0:26.4 | podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:36.7 | We didn't make the record without controversy, so there's no way. |
0:41.0 | There's no way we can make this movie without controversy. |
0:44.3 | You know, we're talking about dangerous situations at times. |
0:48.9 | Producer Ice Cube was a founder of NWA, whose 1988 Straight Outta Compton, revolutionized hip-hop. |
0:56.8 | 27 years after the album dropped, the story of NWA came to the big screen, breaking box office records for an August release. |
1:05.3 | Straight Outta Compton, The Movie, spent years in development hell. |
1:09.3 | Ice Cube tells us about the struggle to get it made and about |
1:12.2 | casting his son to portray him. But first on the news banter, the Force meets Hateful Eight and Leo |
1:18.8 | DiCaprio loaded for bear. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:27.1 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. |
1:31.0 | Hello, Matt. |
1:31.7 | Hi there. |
1:32.6 | So, inevitably, you know, it's only two things to talk about, I guess, right now, Donald Trump and Star Wars. |
1:38.1 | So let's talk about Star Wars, which I somewhat apologize for because there's a lot of Star Wars out there in the world. |
1:44.3 | But let's just talk about, as we were talking right now, we don't know how huge the opening will be, but we know it will be very huge. |
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