Straight Outta Compton Screenwriter Andrea Berloff on N.W.A.’s Story

They invented gangsta rap and put West Coast hip hop on the map, and in the process triggered a tectonic shift across an entire cultural landscape. N.W.A. was the baddest, boldest, most influential rap band of their era. Coming from South Central Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, N.W.A.'s members—Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella and MC Ren ...