You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

Hello and welcome to the New York Times Popcast,

your needless moral panic of music news and criticism.

I'm your host, John Garamonica.

Straight out of Compton is a crazy brother named Ice Cube from the stupid dope game with an attitude

when I'm called off, I got a sword off, kick knowledge and bodies are hard off you two boy if you get with me

the police are gonna have to come and get me off your back that's how I'm doing now

you are listening to straight out of, or at least a redacted version thereof.

Redacted as with all great things sometimes.

I am here to talk about NWA and to talk about straight out of Compton talk about

Dr. Dre's comeback. My guest this week is someone who watched the ride up close

and saw it firsthand. I have Reggie Dennis. What's up Reggie?

Greetings. If you are unaware, Reggie was an early editor at the source from 1990 to 1994, primarily the music editor, and then was

the founding editor of Double XL magazine in the late 90s.

When it came down to talking to NWA, it seemed only right to have you here to kind of shed light

on things that may be straight out of Compton the movie and Dr. Dre's Compton the

album conveniently choose to not shed light on or elide or blur because I think that seems

to be our occurring theme at least in my opinion about how that album and that film

function. Just throwing that out there. It's a hot start.

A case of revision of history?

Yeah, exactly, right?

Hot takes a mound.

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