• Film Review – Straight Outta Compton

    Biopics are the most awkward of genres. We all live our own lives and we know from them that unlike movies they aren’t neat; the overarching themes don’t become obvious until years after the fact and things happen by chance and luck that in a movie would be nothing...
  • Album Review: Dr. Dre – Compton, A Soundtrack

    16 Years?! 16 Years Dre?! What have you been doing?! Oh yeah: becoming the richest black musician in the world, mentoring the world’s most famous rapper Eminem, the world’s best Kendrick Lamar, and the world’s most broke; 50 Cent – jumping on the Apple Music rocket ship before it...
  • Trailer Watch – Straight Outta Compton

    “Our art is a reflection of our reality.” – Ice Cube (Jackson Sr.) N.W.A. rose to prominence as a bookend to the eclectic 80’s in Los Angeles – and to say that is an understatement. The rap group’s meteoric influence in the early 90’s was truly more than a...