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When N.W.A. Terrified White America

‘Frankly Offensive’

The seminal ’80s gangsta rap group will get the Hollywood biopic treatment this summer. How far it’s come since it was banned from public libraries and riling up the police.

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You’ll have to wait ’til August to see Straight Outta Compton, the biopic on N.W.A, the groundbreaking gangsta rap group that rose to fame in the late Reagan era.

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