Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella cover this month’s issue of Billboard Magazine, and get interviewed by Kendrick Lamar. Read more and watch the interview after the jump.
The movie is Straight Outta Compton, which on Aug. 14 emerges from 13 years in development purgatory. Universal ultimately green-lit the project with a budget of $29 million; a screenwriter, Jonathan Herman; and a director, F. Gary Gray, all orchestrated with close oversight by Cube and Dre. (Cube is played by his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., 24.) The result is a hard-hitting narrative replete with the conviction and turmoil that typified N.W.A in its heyday.
That heyday kicked off in 1988 — the same year Lamar turned 1 — with the release of the movie’s namesake album. No one had yet seen how Los Angeles could contribute to the simmering rap culture. And Compton, a gang stronghold just south of Watts, held no place in the American imagination.
