Dre (Hawkins) in ‘Straight Outta Compton.’ A few others are picking around the Caesar salad with grilled chicken at a snack table when suddenly - wham! - there’s a loud popping sound and the place goes completely dark.įrom left: MC Ren ( Aldis Hodge), DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.), Eazy-E (Mitchell), Ice Cube (Jackson Jr.) and Dr. Cube, now a 46-year-old comic action actor-producer ( Ride Along, 21 Jump Street), is leaning against a wall, sipping a cappuccino with extra sugar. Thirty years ago, he was producing N.W.A’s signature song, “F- tha Police” today, he’s a headphones tycoon who lives in Tom Brady‘s former mansion in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. Dre, now 50, is sitting on a comfy sofa, fussing with the cuffs of his designer jeans.
We’re in a photo studio in Hollywood in mid-July, a month before the release of Universal’s $29 million movie telling the (mostly) true story of N.W.A, the groundbreaking hip-hop group that Dre, Cube and three other rappers - Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella - formed during the 1980s. Dreand Ice Cube about the slaying that happened during the shooting of a Straight Outta Compton trailer - about the day in January when Suge Knight turned up on the set and allegedly plowed his pickup truck over two men, including a technical adviser on the film - when the lights go out. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. This story first appeared in the July 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
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